Sympathetic Theater

the circumstances concurrent therein, which are most worthy of note, but also because of the strenuous and, above all others, distinguished hands by whose mutual cooperation the whole business was performed. For a sufficiently dangerous wound was healed by this sympathetic powder in a certain gentleman, whom elegant literature as well as deeds done well and laudably raised to the highest pinnacle of honor. Moreover, all the circumstances were diligently investigated and examined, as if at a Lydian stone, by James, King of England—a man in his age both the greatest and most wise—who had been adorned by nature with the rarest gifts of intellect, to which he later joined an industry for ingeniously discussing and truly searching natural things to the very bottom, which is truly admirable. Furthermore, this matter was weighed by His Son, the late King Charles, as well as by the Duke of Buckingham—now among the saints—the primary minister of both States. And finally, this whole business was inserted into the memorial books of that Great Chancellor, Bacon, so that it might be annexed to the monuments of his natural history as a kind of appendix. And truly, I believe, Auditors, that if you have understood the whole matter well, you will by no means accuse me of ambitious temerity, when I attribute this glory to myself, namely, that I was the first to introduce this mode of healing into our regions.