wish to be so too, as to hear how he will behave himself. Farther news from hence there is none, and so I take my leave of you, wishing you a thousand happinesses.
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE TO MR. SIDNEY.
Since I writ last to you, I have had two or three letters from you, and the last, upon your return from Amsterdam. I do not think you have had any loss by my failing you so long together, though I expect you should complain, for there has been little to be said to you from hence of late upon any other subject than that of the King's illness, which you could only receive a good account of from those of your friends, who have been constantly near him. However, I will tell you, because I am just now come from Windsor, that he was today much better than I expected to find him, after having passed a very ill day on Wednesday: though I had given the Prince of Orange an account of his health the night before, with good hopes of the worst being over, and will now be confident it is, since all the physicians are so, and he has missed his fit both yesterday and to-day, and seems to
