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my cousin returns, (which I now hope he will 

 ere it be long) Intus existens py^ohibebit alienum. 

 Yet our contentment here is as great, and I 

 should be unthankful, should I not acknow- 

 ledge that our health is rather better than else- 

 where ; our food plainer, but eaten with a 

 better appetite ; our course of employment and 

 action the very same, only not scened so illus- 

 triously, nor set off with so good company and 

 conversation. The trouble of visits is well 

 abated; and the hard weather and ill ways, 

 which are at hand, will put an end to them; 

 and we shall be in as great retirement and soli- 

 tude as our enemies or we ourselves can wish. 

 We make shift to say our prayers together 

 daily, though not in so much company, nor in 

 so proper a place, as at Lambeth : but God, I 

 trust, will accept us. Since I began to 'drink 

 of your diet drink, I have not failed to take of 

 it every day, and that with very good effect. 

 My usual pill I have taken but once, and that 

 at my first coming hither; and yet (God be 

 praised) I have no complaint, unless it be my 

 old pain in my right shoulder, which gives me 

 the strappada sometimes when I put on my 

 doublet. My native air hath been very kind 

 to me, yet I stir no further nor oftener into it, 

 than I did into a w^orse. I have of late three 

 or four times a week swallowed three or four 



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