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<heading:edcomment:LETTER_THE_EARL_OF_SHREWSBURY_TO_THE_LORD_BU
RGHLEY,_WITH_A_CURE_FOR_THE_GOUT>

My especiall good Lord , at this present I have no particuler matter
wherwith to trouble your Lordship , (TALBOT-E2-P2,1.3,38.3)

and yet I $can $not {TEXT:cannot} satisfye myself with silence , but
hereby to recommend myself to your Lordship in all <P_1.3,39> trew
affection of harte , being allway more ready and desirous to express
the same by any other means if it lay in my power .
(TALBOT-E2-P2,1.3,39.4)

I heard your Lordship was , of late , somewhat visited with the Goute ;
(TALBOT-E2-P2,1.3,39.5)

I hope before this you are well ryd thereof , as I most heartily wish .
(TALBOT-E2-P2,1.3,39.6)

I would your Lordship woude once make trial of my Oyle of Stags Blud ,
(TALBOT-E2-P2,1.3,39.7)

for I am strongly persuaded of the rare and great vertu thereof .
(TALBOT-E2-P2,1.3,39.8)

In the beginninge of this Wynter I was touched with the Goute in the
joynte of my great toe , (TALBOT-E2-P2,1.3,39.9)

and it began somwhat sharpely , (TALBOT-E2-P2,1.3,39.10)

and yet was I spedely eased , and for that tyme cured by that oyle only
. (TALBOT-E2-P2,1.3,39.11)

I know it to be a moste safe thynge . (TALBOT-E2-P2,1.3,39.12)

Some offence there is in the smell thereof ; (TALBOT-E2-P2,1.3,39.13)

and yet it is wrytten of it that the very smell therof is comfortable
and yeldeth streyngeth to the brayne . (TALBOT-E2-P2,1.3,39.14)

I am afrayd to troble your Lordship over longe ,
(TALBOT-E2-P2,1.3,39.15)

therfore with the remembrance of my Wyves truble and moste harty
commendacions to your Lordship , and with bothe our prayers for your
Lordship's perfite health , honor , and happiness , I will for this
tyme take my leave . (TALBOT-E2-P2,1.3,39.16)

At Handsworth (TALBOT-E2-P2,1.3,39.17)

this 23=th= of January 1593 . (TALBOT-E2-P2,1.3,39.18)

Yo=r= Lordships ever most assured at your commandement Gilb. Shrewsbury
. (TALBOT-E2-P2,1.3,39.19)

To the right honorable and my espetiall good Lorde the Lord Burghley
Lord High Thresurer of England . (TALBOT-E2-P2,1.3,39.20)

