I Burne with Agues.

This heat wyl ende in pro∣cesse of tyme, or els with colde: whiche euer of the twayne it be, it is well.

I am greeued with agues.

All this motion agaynst nature, is of more vehemencie then continuance, and of these twayne it alwayes doth the one, eyther it clenseth the body, or setteth the soule at libertie.

I am holden with Agues.

Stay a whyle, thou shalt not long be holden: for eyther thou shalt soone be discharged thereof, or set at libertie: and eyther of them is very good.

I am sicke of an Ague.

Thou shalt be at quiet anon: nature striueth with death, attend the ende of the battayle, for the houre draweth nygh, which shal eyther free thee from thy sickensse, or discharge thee from al.

I burne with the Ague.

It is lesse harme for the bodye to burne then the foule, whereof thou madest thy last seuen complayntes: and howe yf the scort∣ching of the one, be medicinable for the other? Finally, how much more better is it by a short cast of the euyles of this present lyfe, to be put in mynde of the euerlastyng punishment, to the ende that Page  302men may study to auoyde infinite bitternesse, who so greeuously susteyne the sharpenesse of a fewe houres, and by these troubles learne to flye them, from whiche neyther the Phisition, nor her∣bes, nor the critical day, nor death can delyuer them?

I trye with the Feuer.

The woormes meate is ro∣sted: suffer thy selfe to be burned for other, for whom other meates haue been so often tymes burned, and take aduisement of the pu∣nishment. Many euyles haue stoode in steede of remedies: a smal greefe in the present tyme hath often geuen men occasion to pro∣uide for greater to come, and that whiche was paineful becom∣meth profitable. Happie is that short burnyng, whiche is the cause of eternal ioy.

I am molested with the Ague.

Nowe shalt thou be an vpryght iudge of prosperous health. For you men beyng an vnthankeful generation, cannot acknow∣ledg the giftes of God, vnlesse they be lost, or surceasse.

I am sore vexed with a greiuous ague.

Ye cannot long continue togither. No man can burne long: For either thou wilt shortly forsake thine ague, or else thine ague wil leaue thee.