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READ Sir! may I beg your attention to the following example? Hippocrates, famous phyſician, took to aſſiſt him his couſin Galenius, who ſoon became more expert than he, whereat, he endeavoured to from him his art, though in vain, for  prompt wit ſupplied other defects: So  ſending him to viſit great perſons in  ſickneſs, he ever cured them; which  ſuch jealouſies in Hippocrates, that he  and buried him. But he falling ſick, his ſcholars to fill a caſk of water, which they did, and, though an hundred  were bored in it, yet none would iſſue hence; whereupon, he ſaid he was a dead man, for, as no water came out of the caſk, ſo no virtues came out of the herbs  cure his diſeaſe; but, if his couſin had been alive, he could have cured him; thus complaining, he died. For this example the Emperor, my ſon ſhall not die.

The Empreſs hearing of this reprieve, came and ſaid: Great Sir, when the King of the Goths invaded Rome, he had a ſteward named Goadus, when one evening, being merry with wine, he ordered him to