I Have received from London the favourable lines wherewith you honoured me then near your departure; which you have somewhat allayed, with the promise of your return at the beginning of the next Term, which consorteth well with a change of my purpose to Christmas in Kent, born in me as I was reading your Letter: For what should I do there in such hast after the Nuptials, when I shall come so as well in Lent? Much ado there hath been towards the point of conclusion; like that Aphorism of Hyppocrates: Nox ante Chris•… est molestissima. Loves being in this like Feavers, Page  441 as well as in the rest; for one definition will serve them both: Cordis accensio.

Iack Dinely is not yet arrived, but we expect him daily as Messenger from the Queen his Mistress, of her late happy delivery, after a foul report that had been maliciously thrown abroad of her miscar∣riage by a fall. The Doctor likewise as yet hath given me no answer; but I will quicken him, and put life I hope into the business.

Now, let me tell you, That the noble Sir Ger∣•…se Clifton (as in good faith he is in ipsis visceribus) hath been lately here with us, at a time when he hath been content to be entertained with the pa∣stimes of children; a Latin and a Greek Hyppolitus. How often you were remembred between us, is harder for me to tell you, then I hope for you to believe. Among other discourse he shewed me a little excrescence that he hath beginning upon the uttermost ball of his eyes, a filmy matter, like the rudiment of a Pin and Web as they call it. Where∣upon fell into my memory a secret that Mr. Bohan had told me his Mother knew: How to take away that evil in growth, and perchance much more in the infancy, with a Medicine applyed only to the Wrists. And I have heard your self likewise speak of a rare thing for that part. I beseech you (Sir) be pleased with all possible speed to entreat that re∣ceipt from Mr. Bohan, to whom we shall both be much beholden for it. And Sir Gervase Clifton is already so possessed, that he both sayes and thinks, that nothing will cure him better then that which any way shall come through your hand unto him. No peace as yet with either of the Kings: The more wished I think with France, the likelier per∣chance with Spain. No Offices disposed in Court. Page  442 No Favourite but the Lord Treasurer. More news in my next. For the present, God keep you in his dear love.