Axiochus.
woont to confirme thy ſelfe and ſtrengthen others: for like as a cowardly champion, which at the firſt comming forth as to the skirmiſh with ſtately ſteps and a vaunting viſage, dooth ſoone after caſt away his Target, and taketh him to flight: euen ſo ſeemeſt thou now, when there is need moſt of al to flinch. Haſt thou no more regarde of thy diuine and excellent nature, that ſometime waſt a man of ſo good life and calling, ſo obedient to reaſons rule? and if there were nothing els, yet ſhou'd it be ſufficient to mooue thee, that thou art an Athenian borne: and laſtly ſhould mooue thee that common ſaying, which is worne in all mens mouths; That this our life is a Pilgrimage, which when we haue ended with perfect meaſure and ſtedfaſt trauell: it behoueth vs with like conſtancy of minde, and ioyfulnes of ſpirit, and as it were ſinging a merry Pæan, to enter into the purpoſed place of reſt. But thus to languiſh in diſpaire and tenderharted out-cries, behauing thy ſelfe like a froward Babe, in thee is neither regard of thy wiſedome, nor reſpect of thy age.
Axiochus.
True indeed O Socrates, and that which thou ſayeſt, me ſeemeth right: But it commeth to paſſe I knowe not how, that when I drawe neere vnto preſent daunger, than thoſe great
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