V. Thofechat aré troubled with the Gout may hkewite comfort themfelvés with

this, that thofe higher faculciesof their Souls and the operations of their minds are not corrupted and huccin this asthey ardinmoft of the other Difeafes; but for the moft parc chefe continue fafe and founds And the very truth is €hat for moft of the Monuments of the Leatnedy we owe them unto the Goitt 5 for had thefe men al- Waies had cheir healch, chey had never publithed fo many voluminotis and learned works, And.(as Gardanus in the place alleadged Writeth) Erafniiw; dividh of -extra™
ordinaty great parts, and leariting; 1 our oven age; pobile be lay difeafed of the Gout, and by Keafon of 1b hepe bis bed; wrote and publifbed whatfoever of bis is Worth onr reading.
Vid. Ehere is likewife another great beneficand commodity that the Gout bring= ethalong with it, co.wit, chat it. {ceérh a nian ofcentimes fron many other troubles 5 and keeps off much Vain dnd fruiciefs labor, as.alfo Mahy grievous and difquieting Cates, (thac 1 may ute Cadans own words) fo thatif a mati be required to ferve a Tumulcuous Common-wealth, or co ¢ive hie attendance upon a pettifi and froward Prince, or fomeimprudent friend, how cawhe beccer éxcufe himfelf, them By‘his having the Gout? Hechathath ché Gout hach che greaveft part of the year at his own command :- and there is no berter nor honefter excufine ones fel fromt’w ork,
hen by the Gout. And when there is oceafion of a! mais going’ abredd in publick to ferve his own turn; ic is: butt faying , that the Goue! hat’ Yefr him. ;