port, wherever he ſhall land, till he ſhall receive further orders, yet you muſt be ſenſible Donna Leonora's ſituation is ſomewhat delicate: it will be your buſineſs to take the ſpeedieſt meaſures for her recovery; but as it ſeems ſhe has had a dangerous and painful labour, this may be a work of more time than could be wiſhed, unleſs ſome medicines more efficacious than common are adminiſtred: Art thou acquainted with any ſuch, friend Nicolas?"———“So pleaſe your excellency," quoth Nicolas, "my proceſſes have been tolerably ſucceſsful, I have bandages and cataplaſms, with oils and conſerves; that I have no cauſe to complain of; they will reſtore nature to its proper ſtate in all decent time.”———"Thou talkeſt like a fool, friend Nicolas," ſaid the Inluiſdor, interrupting him; "What telleſt thou me of thy ſwathings and ſwaddlings? quick work muſt be wrought by quick medicines: Haſt thou none ſuch in thy botica? I'll anſwer for it thou haſt not; therefore look you, ſirrah, here is a little vial compounded by a famous chymiſt; ſee that you mix it in the next apozem you adminiſter to Donna Leonora; it is the moſt capital ſedative in nature; give her the whole of it, and let her huſband return when he will, depend upon it, he will make no diſcoveries from her.”——— "Humph!" quoth Nicolas within himſelf, “Well ſaid Inquiſidor!" He took the phial with all poſſible reſpect, and was not wanting in profeſſions of the moſt inviolable fidelity and ſecrecy.———"No more words, friend Nicolas," quoth the Inquiſidor, “upon that ſcore; I do not believe thee one jot the more for all thy promiſes, my dependence is on thy fears, and not thy faith; I fancy thou haſt ſeen enough of this place not to be willing to return to it once for all."———Having ſo
