way of learning is all-waits underpropped wt the name of soe
worthie a Maister.

The Comet being spent, the talke of it still runnes current
here; The Kings ma before mycumming spake w' one of Cambridge
called Olarentia, (a name able to beget beleefe of some
extraordinarie qualities) but what satisfaction he gave, I
cannot yet learne; here are papers out of Spayne about it, yea
and fro Roome, wc I will endevor to gett, and meane yt yo
shall partake of the newes as tyme serves.

Cura ut valeas et me ames, who am ever trulie and unfaynedlyr
yors att Commaund. THO: AYLESBURIE.

Newmarkett. 19, Jan. 1618/1619

_Addressed:_ To my right woorthie frend Mr. THOMAS HARRIOT

att Syon, theise, fro Newmarkett.

Between 1615 and 1620 there are evidences of Hariot's failing health. He
was greatly troubled with a cancerous ulcer on the lip. How early this
began is not apparent. In 1610 his friend Lower cautions him to be
careful of his health. There is in the British Museum among the Hariot
papers the drafts of three beautiful letters in Latin written from Sion
in 1615 and 1616 to a friend of distinction, name not mentioned, who had
been recently appointed to some medical office at court, in which he
describes himself and his disease.

These letters show great resignation and Christian fortitude. He seemed