Cicero to his Tiro. Epist. 18.
WHat now? must it not bee so? I know it must, and it's neces∣sarie, that To his should bee added. Yet if you haue a desire vnto it, let vs, to shunne that enuie you speake of, leaue it out; though I alwayes contem∣ned such like enuie. I am verie glad, your breathing did you so much good. And if the ayre of Tusculanum would bee also helpefull, O Gods! How it would content me. But if you loue me, (which surely you doe, or at least after a cunning manner, you dissemble: yet howsoeuer) attend your recouerie. You know the best Physicke to bee, light meats, moderate exercise, a chear∣full mind, and a soluble bodie. Labour to returne, with your vsuall alacritie: I shall thinke the better, not onely of you, but euen of our Tusculanum. Try vnderhand if you can get Parhedrus to hire my garden; for, that's the way to make the gardener desperate. See the fume of this glutton, that dares venture fiue and twentie thousand Crownes,