Sir Ken. D. to Mr. Iacob Boeve. Epist. 45.

Your most obliging Letter of the 30. of Sept. had a long Journy about: for it went first to Paris, & after some delay there it was sent me hither. So that I received it not till yesterday. I have written twice to you since my arrivall here: As being confident you were restored safe to your owne home, since both Windes, & Seas & all the Elements, & whole Nature her selfe have an interest in preseruing so excellent a person, a. borne for an vniuersall good. But now that I reade vnder your owne hand the difficultyes & dangers that God delivered you from in your passage, I must againe con∣gratulate & rejoice with you for so signall a deliverance. And I do pray God you may enjoy long life for the comfort of your freinds, & the benefit of all mankind: for they are not narrow circumscribed thoughts, that fill your noble breast. I would I had the soule of Ae••ulapius in me, to contribute the better to that wished end. But such poore knowledge as I have acquired by Long experience (& cheifely vpon my selfe) I shall always most readily Sacrifice vnto you. Page  101 Now to what you enquire of me in your Letter.

Now Sir concerning the deafenes b. of the person you write of contracted some yeares since by a great cold. I con∣ceive it likely to be some flegmaticke & viscus humour, that is congealed & hardned in the passage of the eare, and so hindreth the perception there of the ayres motion. I will tell you an easy & familiar remedy for this: of which I have seene admirable & suddain effects, even in persons of 20. or 30. yeares deafenesse. Make a posset drinké with one part of a pretty good spirit of wine & two parts of new milke, throwing away the curde. Before you vse it, droppe a little oyle of sweete Almends into the deafe eare, & let it soake in, for halfe an hour or an hour, laying that eare in a fit posture for that effect. Then with a siringe without a little long pipe at the end; but blunt, so as to fill the orifice of the eare, to keepe the liquour from rebounding too easily out, inject some of the posset drinke luke-warme, do this as often as you shall see cause (not aboue twice at a time; but inter∣mitting halfe aday between) & always when you have done, stop the eare with blacke wool dipped in a little civet, dis∣tempered with oyle of sweete Almonds. If both eares needeth cure, apply it to the second when the first hath received its injection. I have seen at the first syringing a hard substance two Inches long (not vnlike the pith of Elder) start out of the eare.

I would be glad to see an act of Oblivion, or forgetting the molestation of persons that have never bin delinquents: c. for this is my case, as I doubt not of making it appear assoon as it shall be heard, which is all I Labour for, asking no favour, but only justice. The act to take away laws against Papists, concerneth me not, for there never was any proceeding against me, as a Papist, so that in that regard I stand rectus in curia. Vpon the whole matter I am confident it will not be long before I be allowed to returne home, when one of my greatest contentment will be the happinesse of enjoying Page  102 often your excellent d. Conuersation. I wrote to you from hence the 5. of this month, by Mr. Ayliffe: & the 7. by Iohn Lee. And I have with my tediousnesse trespassed too long vpon you now. And I cannot of a suddaine breake off the conuersation of a person I esteeme, & honor so much, as I do you. I now committ you to Gods blessed Protection, & with all respect do take leave of you & rest