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To Monsieur Cytois, Physitian to M. the Cardinall. LETTER V.
SIR, my curiofitie were undiscreet, if I should aske you newes of occurrents in the Armie; but you cannot take it ill, that I aske you newes of my Lord the Cardinals health. I learne the progresse of his glorious actions by the mouth of Fame: but I must learn from you how he fares in his continual a∣gitation; and whether the temper of his bo∣die feele no alteration by the violent moti∣ons of his spirit. I conceive that God doubles his force when there is need; and that hee hath regard to the necessitie of so many people that cannot misse him: but I know also, that hee makes use of the second causes, and that your cares and industrie concurre with his pro∣vidence. The services you doe to one particu∣lar man, are obligations to all the world. Ne∣ver had any Science a more worthie or more profitable imployment than yours hath: And if the Romanes erected a statue to Antonius Musa, for healing of him who oppressed their libertie, why may not you justly expect a pub∣licke