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MADAM,
THe Lady S.K. Presents her Service to you; Truly she is not Well, although not so Sick, as Forced to keep her Bed; I know not how to Judg of her Disease, for she is both Lean and Fat, like as the Idol mentioned in the Holy Scripture, which was partly Clay, partly Stone, and partly Metal, onely, as I remember, its Feet and Legs were made of Clay, whereas her Feet and Legs are all Bone, for they are so Wasted, 〈1 page duplicate〉〈1 page duplicate〉
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as they have no Flesh on them, but her Hips, Body, and Breast are so Fleshy, and Fat, as one may think she had no Bones, by reason none can be Seen, or Felt; and her Arms, Hands, Neck, and Face are so Pale and Lean, that they appear White as Silver, and for want of Blood and Flesh, they are so Dry, as they are so Rough as Unpolished Stone, and with her Sickness she is become so Melancholy as she appears like a Dead Image, or Senseless Idol; but her Real Virtue, and Noble Soul, and Honourable Life, hath made her more Worthy of Human Wor∣ship, than the Signifying fore-mentioned Idol, or Image, his Idolatrous, Divine Worship, and she is more Worthy to be set up on an Al∣tar of Fame, than such Idols on an Altar of Re∣ligion, and to have Praises, though not Prayers, Offer'd to her. Thus she may be Worshipped as a Goddess, without Superstitious Idolatry, and have Virtuous Devouts; but yet she de∣sires she may have the best Doctors Advice for her Health, wherefore she Intreats you to send her the most Renowned Doctors of Physick that are in your City, she will not spare Cost, if they have Skill, but Pay them for their Ad∣vice; for Doctors sell their Knowledge, and Patients Buy Healths, and their Knowledge is a Staple-Commodity, for the more Know∣ledg Doctors of Physick sell, the more Know∣ledg they get for Experience of Diseases; and so all things come in more by Practice than by Study, and Health gains more by Temperance,
Exercise, and Air, than by Physick; And so Adding my Prayers to her Temperance, the Doctors Skill, and Physick, I rest,
Madam,
Your faithful Friend and Servant.