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Canterburies potion wherein is shewed the great art of his doctor in finding out the nature of his disease : together with the medicines hee applied, and the strange effects they wrought in him, to the great ease of his surcharged body / collected from the doctors owne hand.
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Canterburies Potion WHEREIN Is shewed the great Art of his Doctor in finding out the nature of his Disease TOGETHER With the Medicines hee applied and the strange effects they wrought in him To the great ease of his surcharged Body Collected from the Doctors owne hand Printed in the yeare 1641. CANTERBVRIES POTION Canterbury GOod Mr. Doctor you are welcome Doct. I understand by your Gentleman your Grace was pleased to send for me Cant. Yes good Mr. Doctor and not before I had occasion for I finde my selfe diseased in all parts insomuch that without some speedy remedy I cannot long continue I have a great desire to take Physicke me thinkes Mr. Doctor in case the time of the yeare be seasonable Doct. Yes if it please your grace the time of the yeare may be seasonable but we must have a due care to the constitution of your Lordships body the nature of the Malady and the quality of the Medicine Our cordiall potions Electuaries Pills Losinges Oyles Unguents Emplasters Seare cloathes Clysters Vomits Supposiâ—ores and such like must bee applied according to the state of the Patients body and withall we must bee circumspect what Planet is predominant Cant. Now by St. Augustine Mr. Doctor I approve your learned skill in having respect to the constellations for I am opinion though the brethren forsooth call it superstition that when the signe is in Taurus if I bee let bloud in the head I shall bleed to the death Doct. That 's without question my Lord unlesse your Graces Chyrurgians have a more saving skill then the Lord Deputies had But I beseech your Grace that I may see your water for by it I shall easily see the state of your body and my Physicke accordingly Cant. Reach Mr. Doctor that Urinall looke Sir this water I made after my first sleepe the last night what doe you thinke of it Faith my Lord your water is very grosse heavie blacke dense solid and a most impure putrified and rotten urine In my opinion my Lord your Grace hath kept a very bad diet There are severall raw humours and unwholesome things that lye heavie and indigested upon your stomacke and if they be not removed and that speedily they will daily offâ—nd untill they stiâ—fle and suffocate your Grace Cant. Good Mr. Doctor I beseech you make experience of your approved Art For although I owe a death I have no minde to pay it before it be due If in your power it lieth to prolong my life let not any cost be spared for the effecting of it Doct. My Lord it is within the power of my Art to prolong your life if it happen not to be cut off untimely Wherefore I doubt not but to remove these crudities from your stomacke to which purpose I have here a costly vomit which will undoubtedly remove all the grosse matter that is uncocted Cant. When shall I take it Mr. Doctor Doct. Out of hand my Lord for your Grace is fasting Cant. First swallow these three Pills and then drinke this potion I doubt not but it will worke immediatly Well done my Lord your grace shall feele the operation of it instantly Cant. Oh Mr. Doctor your Physicke workes most violently I must vomit already Doct. Into this Bason my Lord up with it Well done my Lord see what 's here A great peece of Parchment and a great Seale to it I cannot read it What 's this that comes next A great Roll of Tobacco pure Spanish I protest now I know what the writing was it was the Patent for it Had your Grace ever a hand in the Tobacco Patent Cant. Yes Master Doctor I had but I could never digest it it hath stucke in my stomack almost this foure yeares I am glad I am so rid of it but stay hold the bason Doct. What 's here a booke let me see those that have been at Church may have liberty to exercise lawfull Recreations upon the Sunday what 's the meaning of this my Lord Cant. T is a booke I made to tolerate pastimes on that day I am glad t is off my stomacke for me thinkes I am much eased Doct I protest another booke the Title is Sunday is no Sabbath did your Grace cause this booke to bee made for t is something like the other in matter Cant. I licenc'd it but Doctor Pocklington made it Doct. What he that lookes so like a Negromancer he that for his paines was preferr'd besides his benefices up with it my Lord what is that a paper O t is a Starchamber order against Mr. Prinne Mr. Burton and Doctor Bastweek what 's the meaning of this my Lord Cant. Why I had a great hand in their businesse which is sufficiently apparant to all England I need not mention it O here 's some other indigested substance which makes my very backe ake if it were up once I should be at great ease Doct. Here t is my Lord I doe not blame you to be troubled what a bundle of Papers are here what are these my Lord Cant. Severall papers as presentations institutions inductions licences suspensions degradations and such like Doct. I understand you my Lord these were the instruments wherewith you created your tongue had Doctors that preacht twice a yeare at least and in their places hired journey men Curates who would read a Sermon in the forenoone and be drunke with their neighbours after dinner for company and with some of them you silenced the long winded Ministers as you called them who would preach twice on a Sunday may chance at Thursday and Friday Lectures and hoysed into New England But what in the name of wonder is this that stickes so strong in your stomack you labour extreamely heavens send it choake not your Grace O t is up as I live the new Canons themselves with that ill favoured monster and I am heartily glad this is come up how doth your Grace finde your selfe me thinkes you looke pretty well Cant. Truely Mr. Doctor thanks to your great Art I am something better but stay here is a greater thing then all the rest what is it Mr. Doctor it is up Doct. As I am here a Drum I believe this is the Drum that was beaten by the Apprentices in Saint Georges fields Cant. The very same but I pray Mr. Doctor what was this vomit made of Doct. There were three scruples of Pillory powder halfe a scruple of his braines that lookes over London Bridge three handfulls of the hearbes that were gathered by the said Apprentices wrapped up in a High Commission Roll and boiled in a Pottle of Holy-water to the third part and then strained through a paire of Lawne sleeves Cant. Well if this be your physicke Mr. Doctor I will no more of it I feare it will make me vomit my heart up O something comes against my stomacke O it is a Miter I had rather have vomitted out my heart Doct. Nay I must be gone if the Miter come the Divell is not farre off Farewell FINIS