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How few shalt thou meet, if their tongues would be true to their griefs, without some disturbance or affliction? There lies one groaning of a sick heart; another shakes his aching head: a third roars for the torments of his reins: a fourth for the racking of his gouty joints: a fifth grovels with the Falling-sickness: a last lies half dead of a Palsy. Here is work for the Physicians. They ruffle in the robes of preferment, and ride in the Foot-clothes of reverence. Early and devout suppliants stand at their study doors, quaking, with ready money in their hands, and glad it will be accepted. The body, if it be sick, is content sometimes to buy (unguentum areum, with unguentum aureum) leaden trash, with golden cash. But it is sick, and needs Physic; let it have it.

How few shalt thou meete, if their tongues would be true to their griefes, without some disturbance or affliction? There lyes one groning of a sicke heart; another shakes his aking head: a third roares for the torments of his reines: a fourth for the racking of his gowty ioynts: a fift grouels with the Falling-sicknesse: a last lyes halfe dead of a Palsie. Here is worke for the Physitians. They ruffle in the roabes of preferment, and ride in the Foote-clothes of reuerence. Early and deuout suppliants stand at their study dores, quaking, with ready mony in their hands, and glad it will be accepted. The body, if it be sicke, is content sometimes to buy (vnguentum areum, with vnguentum aureum) leaden trash, with golden cash. But it is sicke, and needes Phisicke; let it haue it.

There is another Physician, that thrives well too, if not best; and that's the Lawyer. For men go not to the Physician till their bodies be sick; but to the Lawyer when they be well, to make them sick. Thus whil•s they fear an Ague, they fall into a Consumption. He that scapes his disease, and falls into the hands of his Physician; or from his trouble of suites, lights into the fingers of his Lawyer, fulfils the old verse, Incidit in Scyllam, dumb vult vitare Charibdim. ⟨p. 206⟩Or is in the poor Birds case, that flying in fear from the Cuckoo, lighted into the tallon of the Hawk. These are a couple of thriving Physicians: Alter tuetur agros, alter tuetur agros: One looks to the state of the person; the other of the purse so the old verse testifies. Dat Galenus opes, dat Justinianus honours. Physic gives wealth, and Law Honour. I speak not against due reward, for just deserts in both these faculties.