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Updated: June 28, 2025
The king Anasayindhu, in his progress through his city, regrets to find everything subverted: that Chandals, not Brahmans, make shoes; that wives are chaste and husbands constant; and that respect is paid to the respectable, not to the vile; and that Vyadhisindhu, the doctor, cures the cholic by applying a heated needle to the palate, and perforates the pupils of the eyes in order to restore vision.
Yet it may be doubted whether the reports of these Grecian envoys might not in truth, be almost as much to the purpose as the despatches of the diplomatic pedant, with his Virgil and his cholic, into whose hands grave matters of peace and war were entrusted in what seemed the day of England's doom. "What a lecture I could make with Mr. Cecil on the subject!
Nevertheless, although he was unable as will be seen to report an entirely satisfactory answer from Farnese to the Queen upon the momentous questions entrusted to him, he, at least, thought of a choice passage in 'The AEneid, so very apt to the circumstances, as almost to console him for the "pangs of his cholic" and the terrors of the approaching invasion.
For all the Jesuits had got the cholic and to that degree, as never was known in the memory of the oldest practitioner.
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