+ filant ofthe Citie of Seuill.&c.the Doctor Monardu: 
: your Phiſition wifheth health g 
Oſtexcellent Lordi thefaire & white ſno w/ 
94 &'\ doth complaine vnto mee, faying that ſne 
N being fo ancient, and of fo many ages,cele- 
YN J brated offo many Princes, Kinges, wife & 
ESD valiant mé;& being had in fo great eftimi- 
tion, and price, that with greate care they — 
ſieeke after her; & with greater care they do conſerue her, 
for to giue health and contentment to all perfons: yet for 
all this, many people with little conſideration, & not kno- 
wing what they fay ,dooe perſecute her putting vndecent 
names to her: and that which dooeth moſt grieue her, is 
that ſome Phiſitions, either for ignorance or for malice, do 
ſpeake euil of her, not perceiving what fo many learned me 
haue treated and faid ofthe great vtility & profit which ſne 
doth to many. as experience doth fhew, and all people doe 
vnderſtand . chiefly when they doe drinke their drink moſt 
cold with the benefit which doth remaine to them there 
of, they do pray fe & extol her. Moreouer the faith,thatfhe 
forceth no parſon to vſe her, but if any will vſe her, ſne can 
giue ſuch order and maner to make cold the drinke as is cõ- 
uenient for all perſons, giuing the degrees of coldneſſe 
which euerie one would haue and which dothbeft apper- 
taine to them, and this with al aſſurance with onely leauing 
or placing the veſſell wherein the drinke is ioyned neere to 
her, the which none of the olde writers nor of the late did 
ſpeake againſt, orforbid. And eſpecially let this manner 
of making could not be done with ſtinking water ofa well, 
nor with the moſt burning faltpeeter, but with pure water 
bs is rg intsand many other 
the fi | 
hire lilly white Snow hath vrrered vito mee,Scinthe 
end fheelaf y faid to mee, that fince that I had praifed her 5 
„ fauour her, that Iſtioulde 
