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S^r I must acknowledg my self to be one of your costly frends, and such an one as yow might well spare but I can not spare yow. Therfore I pray yow geue me leave to entreat your furtherance for my pore wyfes health who is now extremely payned both in her head and stomack. This your gentle recepte w^ch of your grete kyndnes yow have bestowed on her hath \a litle/ already loosed her body. but now her stomack is soe Nyce y^t she can not keepe y^e last draught. / Her breasts are still very full and panefull and out of her greeffs she hartely cōmendeth her vnto yow and w^th many thanks for all your favours we both crave your comfortꝭ for her help. The lo. p|a|lmighty prosper yow in all your paynfull endevours. Co{v}esgrave \Calend./ Iulij              1602.

post Scriptū.

My wyfes feete at this p^rsent are exceeding could and {illeg}