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 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)