And you have even showed me an example of patience, in
bearing my folly so long. And yet I shall be so bold as to seek
some time to talk further of the rest of this most profitable
matter of tribulation, which you said you reserved to treat of last
of all.
ANTHONY: Let that be surely very shortly, cousin, while this is
fresh in mind.
VINCENT: I trust, good uncle, so to put this in remembrance that
it shall never be forgotten with me. Our Lord send you such comfort
as he knoweth to be best!
ANTHONY: This is well said, good cousin, and I pray the same for
you and for all our other friends who have need of comfort--for
whom, I think, more than for yourself, you needed some counsel.
VINCENT: I shall, with this good counsel that I have heard from
you, do them some comfort, I trust in God--to whose keeping I
commit you!
ANTHONY: And I you, also. Farewell, mine own good cousin.
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BOOK TWO
VINCENT: It is no little comfort to me, good uncle, that as I came
in here I heard from your folk that since my last being here you
have had meetly good rest (God be thanked), and your stomach
somewhat more come to you. For verily, albeit I had heard before
that, in respect of the great pain that for a month's space had
held you, you were, a little before my last coming to you, somewhat
eased and relieved--for otherwise would I not for any good cause
have put you to the pain of talking so much as you then did--yet
after my departing from you, remembering how long we tarried
together, and that we were all that while talking, and that all the
labour was yours, in talking so long together without interpausing
between (and that of matter studious and displeasant, all of
disease and sickness and other pain and tribulation), I was in good
faith very sorry and not a little wroth with myself for mine own
oversight, that I had so little considered your pain.
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