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Wit in a poor mans head, and mosse in a mountain, avails nothing. Weil is that weil does. Well good-mother-daughter. Whatrax of the seed, where the frendship dow not. Wood in wildernesse, & strength in a fool. Weapons bodes peace. Wiles help weak folk. Waken not sleeping dogs. Women and bairns keep counsell of that they ken not. We hounds flew the Hare, quoth the messoun.

"We tawked of manny things, and she was more than ordinnary kind and gentel. I had a mind to tell her about M, and aske her frendship for C; but she seemed not to cair to here my sekrets, and I think wou'd be offended if she new the trooth. So I cou'd not finde courrage to tell her. Before I die I shal speek planely for the saik of C. and M. and ye little one.

These fears were only early flutterings of that hypochondriacal disorder which preyed in secret on his comfort during many years, and which, though apparently subdued by the cheering exhortations of frendship and great professional prosperity, failed not to show itself more formidably when he was exhausted by labour in the decline of life. His trepidation was quite groundless, however.

Sir, I thought my thankes herein had chiefly appertaind to the humanity of the Governour, & that your especiall care had bene in providing these necessary shackles to keepe me from running into further danger: these I tooke to be the strong bonds of your frendship. Jay. Sir, I hope they fitt you as well as if they had bene made for you.

Nay, slight it not: the dismall ravens noate Or mandrakes screches, to a long-sick man Is not so ominous as the heareing of it Will be to you; 'twill like a frost congeale Your lively heate, yet it must out, our frendship Forbids concealment. Bon. Do not torture me; Ime resolute to heare it. Tho. Your soe admired Mistress Who parted from you now, Belisea, Bon.