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 to learn, how with silence and smiles to elude the sharpest Provocations, and without troublesome Menstruums to digest the toughest Injuries that ever a poor man was crammed with.

Now, as for the matter of my pecuniary gain, I say, that what my Estate in Lands revenue, and otherwise, is, I do not well know, much of my Land being doubtfull and incumbred; for which my Adversaries hinder as yet, my having Reprizals.

2. Though I know what Rents I should have, yet how farr the Encouragements which my Adversaries give my Tenants to pay none will prevail to that purpose, I know not.

And lastly, the frequent frights and disheartnings wherewith I have been for these three or four years distracted, hath been the cause why my other Estate is there, where perhaps I shall never meet it. So that my Estate being thus uncertain, I cannot tell what I have got or lost by my aforementioned Diversion. Wherefore I can only say, that, if I had trusted to my Faculty of Physick only for the advancement of my Fortune, that my