'I would have sent this bladder and pipe in my letter unto you but that I feare it might be an occasion that my letter might not come into your hands.—This is the rude figure of it which I do here set down because I thinke it the most convenient for this purpose:—
'a = the necke of the craw which goeth to the mouth.
'b = the other necke which goeth from the craw to the gissar. Another pipe may be tied to this end and put into the veine of another living creature at the same time.
'd = a little crooked ivory pipe, fastened (as a clister pipe is) to a bladder.
'e = the capacity of the craw or bladder.'
'Sir,
'I received that oyle in a little glasse which you had from Mr. Decreet and a receipt in another letter, and I desire you not to impute it to my unthankefulnes that I did not thanke you for it in my last letter. I have most times such sorrow and discontents in my breast which make me forget my selfe and my best friends and such things as I most delight in.
'If I should have occasion to write anything unto you in characters you may be pleased to remember this key, that the three first letters and every other three letters doe quiescere and that a comma is placed at the end of every word. As for example this writing:—
'Sed cæssat ar, otracci elusus, subest:—
'that is,
'cæsar occisus est,
'You need but cancell or make a line under every other three letters, and then you may easily and speedily read it, as this example:—