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HOw easilie the healthfull can giue counsel to the sicke, & how hardly they can take it, I woulde I were not in case to proue, but I see patience need not bee perswaded, for where paine is, ••hee will be entertained, I know there is no re∣••••sting of Gods power, nor muttering against it: but yet think
that flesh and blood in many things hath much adoe to bear it: & though fortune be a fiction, yet it troubleth many fine wits, and the triall of patience, puts the best spirits to a hard point: neuer to haue had, is little woe to want, but to loese, hopeles of recouerie, wil sting the heart of a good mind: a sorrow is sooner taken then put off, & death is comfortable to the afflicted: fooles cannot take thought, & knaues will not: but ye honest & carefull vnderstand the plague of misery: if death be this waie ordained me, I cannot auoid it, & if hell come vnlooked for, I shal be glad of it, but I am too weak, too rude, & too full of grief to go: but if you will take the pains to make me trie the cōfort of your com∣pany, my cell shall haue some ••••ome to entertain a friende for such a need: & knowing your loue, can account no lesse▪ I pray you therefore without further ceremonies, let mee see you very shortly, if I liue you shal knowe my kindnes, if I dye you shall find my loue, so drawing towards a feuers fit, I am forced thus to conclude: in the spight of fortune, in the grace of god I wil digest what I can, & praie for patience for the rest, & so hoping speedilie to see you, till then and alwaies I rest.
In sicknes and in health, thine vvhat mine, R.H.