in it for your own sake, if your health be so ill as you make me apprehend, though you tell me nothing particular besides what you said a good while since of your eyes. 'Tis too much to know you are in the physician's hands, and in an air that it seems does not use you so well as I could wish, but you will be revived by the spring, which is nowhere more beautiful than at the Hague for the two next months, and till about the middle of June; by that time, I fancy 'tis possible the Prince may be content you should come over, if you desire it, and the world continue likely to be quiet, at least on this side. For my part, I know not how it goes, having not so much as read a gazette since I came down, and finding (in this sense, as well as in the common one,) a kind of sweetness in being in the dark, when one is at ease.
Whenever you come over, and your business with your brother is ended, which I reckon upon, I shall be pressing you to marry, because I think it will be the best for the rest of your life; and, having made some enquiries against my son's coming over, I shall tell you of some I have heard of, who may be in your reach, though they may
