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Chap. 18. cast off and relinquish their patients; but apply some gentle somentations, and other remedies to asswage their pains: So will I deal with you; whom (because I have enough followed with the sharper methods of wisdom) I will now cherish with milder discourses, and handle (as they say) with a Ladies hand. I shall descend from that steep hill of Philosophy; and take a turn or two with you, in the pleasant plains of your Philology, and that not so much to recreate you as to compleat your cure. As they say Demochares the Physitian did to the Lady Considia since she refused all harsher prescriptions he caused her to drink the Milk of Goats; but yet such as he had fed with the Branches of the Lentisk Tree: So I will administer to you, Historical and pleasing things, which yet shall have a secret tincture of the juice of Wisdom. What matter is it how we cure our patient, so we make a perfect cure of it. Rh