Ge. That's true, for when the Disease is known, it is half cured. Have you had the Advice of any Doctor?
Li. Ay, of a great many.
Ge. What do they say to your Case?
Li. What the Lawyers of Demiphon (in the Play) said to him. One says one Thing, another he says another, and the third he'll consider of it. But they all agree in this, that I am in a sad Condition.
Ge. How long have you been taken with this Illness? How long have you been ill of this Distemper? How long has this Illness seiz'd you?
Li. About twenty Days more or less, almost a Month. It's now near three Months. It seems an Age to me since I was first taken ill.
Ge. But I think you ought to take care that the Distemper don't grow upon you.
Li. It has grown too much upon me already.
Ge. Is it a Dropsy?
Li. They say it is not.