Part I.

that he do, every morning, touch this little ftone, thou feeft, with the top of his tongue ; for after three weeks from thence, let him wafh the painful and unpainful knots with his own urine, and thou lhalt foon afterwards fee him cured, and foundly walking. Go thy ways, and tell him, with joy, what I have faid.’
“ I, therefore, being glad, returned to Bruffels, and told him what Butler had faid.
“ But the Potentate anfwered — ‘ Go, tell Butler that if he lhall reftore me as thou haft faid, I will give him as much as he fhall require ; — demand the price, and I will willingly fequefter that which is depofited for his fecurity.’— And when I declared that thing to Butler, on the day following, he was very i^rath, and faid — ‘ That Prince is mad, or witlefs and miferable, and there- fore will I never help him : for neither do I ftand in need of his money — neither do I yield — nor am I inferior to him.’— Nor could I ever induce him, afterwards, to perform what before he had promifed ; wherefore I began to doubt whether the things I had before feen were dreams.
“ It happened, in the mean time, that a friend, overfeer and mafter of the glafs-furnace at Antwerp, being exceeding fat, moft earneftly requefted of Butler that he might be freed from his fatnefs ; unto whom Butler offered a fmall piece of that little ftone, that he might once every morning lick, or fpeedily touch it with the top of his tongue : and, within three weeks, I faw his breaft made more ftrait, or narrow, by one fpan, and him to have lived no lefs whole afterwards. Wherefore I began again to believe that the afore- faid gouty Prince might have been cured, according to the manner Butler had promifed.
“ In the mean time, I fent to Vilvord, to Butler, for a remedy, in the cafe of poifon given me by a fecret enemy 5 for I miferably languifhed — all my joints were pained •, and my pulfe, vehement, being at length become an in- termitting one, did accompany the faintings of my mind, and extinguifh- ment of my ftrength.
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