ANTHONY: I do not mean, cousin, that every fool should at
adventure fall in hand with him, for so might it happen to do harm
indeed.
But, cousin, if a learned physician have a man in hand, he can
well discern when and how long some certain medicine is necessary
which, if administered at another time or at that time over-long
continued, might put the patient in peril. If he have his patient
in an ague, for the cure of which he needeth his medicines in
their working cold, yet he may hap, ere that fever be full cured,
to fall into some other disease such that, unless it were helped
with hot medicine, would be likely to kill the body before the
fever could be cured. The physician then would for the while have
his most care to the cure of that thing in which would be the most
present peril. And when that were once out of jeopardy, he would
do then the more exact diligence afterward about the further cure
of the fever.
And likewise, if a ship be in peril to fall into Scilla, the fear
of falling into Charibdis on the other side shall never hinder any
wise master thereof from drawing himself from Scilla toward
Charibdis first, in all that ever he can. But when he hath himself
once so far away from Scilla that he seeth himself safe out of
that danger, then will he begin to take good heed to keep himself
well from the other.
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