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1 Health is precious,¹ Cara est cuique salus, Every mans health is dear to him. Exclude from this comparison the gifts of the mind, which are truly of a more pure and changeless condition, and then what earthly benefit will not give place to health? It is one of the positive virtues, grafted in mans nature with the creation. Weigh it in the balance with some rivals.

1 Health is precious,¹ Cara est cuique salus, Euery mans health is deare to him. Exclude from this comparison the gifts of the minde, which are truely of a more pure and changelesse condition, and then what earthly benefite will not giue place to health? It is one of the positiue vertues, grafted in mans nature with the creation. Weigh it in the ballance with some riuals.

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1 Riches are the desire of many hearts, the special fruit which their hands reach to gather (passing by all the better trees in Gods orchard) the object of most endeavours: How vain, how tedious, how odious are they without health? Let them bind gold to their a king head, drink Cleopatras draught, (precious stones dissolved) to ease their rasping stomach, involve and wrap their convulsed joints in furs and silks, empty their coffers in the Physicians study; if (nature and her Ordinatour) God deny health, how unvaluable are their riches, how unavailable their projects! How complain they (after all experimented succours) their unabated anguish! Therefore the son of Sirach truly saith;¹ Better is the poor being sound and strong of constitution, then a rich man that is afflicted in his body. Health and good state of body are above all gold, a strong body above infinite wealth. There is no riches above a sound body, and no joy above the joy of the heart. The poor man well, only admireth wealth, The rich man sick, only commendeth health.