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He may temper the Feavers, and cure the Dropsie of their Bodies; the pride and anger of whose hearts, and the drought of whose coveteousness he could never allay or quench; he may ease their Bodies, whose minds he could never please. And 'tis possible (My Lord) that when he has been thus new calcined, he may be afterwards wrought up to a capacity of giving your Lordship thanks, becoming the Nobleness of your Patronage, which I also on the behalf of him my old friend shall endeavour, thinking my self extreamly happy, that I can find any occasion to express, how much I am,
My Lord,
Your Lordships, &c.
Fearing least my own great provocations might have carried me into insufficient Arguments as to the Vindication of my self, or forced me into lesse becoming expressions, as to the Authors of my Sufferings: I shewed what I had written to severall friends, one whereof writ me the following Letter.