3, 3.] She is then become sovereign of all her lusts and passions, mistress of necessity, shame, poverty, and all the other injuries of fortune.

Let us, therefore, as many of us as can, get this advantage; 'tis the true and sovereign liberty here on earth, that fortifies us wherewithal to defy violence and injustice, and to contemn prisons and chains: "In manicis et Compedibus saevo te sub custode tenebo.
Ipse Deus, simul atque volam, me solvet.

Opinor, Hoc sentit; moriar; mors ultima linea rerum est." ["I will keep thee in fetters and chains, in custody of a savage keeper .-- A god will when I ask Him, set me free.
This god I think is death.

Death is the term of all things." -- Hor., Ep., i.

16, 76.] Our very religion itself has no surer human foundation than the contempt of death.