[Footnote 2:  ‘abroun’ (i.e. auburn) written above ’browne’.]

[Footnote 3:  ‘exceeding’ above ’very’.]

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He was an early riser:  Sc:  at 4 a clock mane. yea, after he lost his sight:  He had a man read to him:  The first thing he read was the Hebrew bible, and that was at 4’h. mane 1/2’h.+.  Then he contemplated.  At 7 his man came to him again & then read to him and wrote till dinner:  the writing was as much as the reading.  His daughter Deborah 2[1] could read to him Latin, Italian, & French, & Greeke; married in Dublin to one M’r Clarke [sells silke &c[2]] very like her father.  The other sister is Mary 1[1], more like her mother.  After dinner he usd to walke 3 or 4 houres at a time, he alwayes had a Garden where he lived:  went to bed about 9.  Temperate, rarely drank between meales.  Extreme pleasant in his conversation, & at dinner, supper &c:  but Satyricall.  He pronounced the letter R very hard. a certaine signe of a Satyricall Witt. from Jo.  Dreyden.

[Footnote 1:  ‘2’ and ‘1’, marking seniority, above the names.]

[Footnote 2:  ‘sells silke &c’ above ’a Mercer’.]

[Sidenote:  Litera Canina.]

He had a delicate tuneable Voice & had good skill:  his father instructed him:  he had an Organ in his house:  he played on that most.  His exercise was chiefly walking.

He was visited much by learned[1]:  more then he did desire.

[Footnote 1:  ‘by learned’ added above the line.]

He was mightily importuned to goe into France & Italie.  Foraigners came much to see him, and much admired him, & offered to him great preferments to come over to them, & the only inducement of severall foreigners that came over into England, was chifly to see O. Protector & M’r J. Milton, and would see the house and chamber wher he was borne:  he was much more admired abrode then at home.

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His harmonicall, and ingeniose soule did lodge[1] in a beautifull and well proportioned body—­In toto nusquam corpore menda fuit.  Ovid.

[Footnote 1:  ‘did lodge’ above ’dwelt’.]

He had a very good memory:  but I believe that his excellent Method of thinking, & disposing did much helpe his memorie.

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Of a very cheerfull humour.

He was very healthy, & free from all diseases, seldome tooke any Physique, only sometimes he tooke Manna[1], and only towards his later end he was visited with the Gowte—­Spring & Fall:  he would be chearfull even in his Gowte-fitts:  & sing.

[Footnote 1:  ‘seldome ...  Manna’ added above the line.]

He died of the gowt struck in the 9th or 10th of Novemb 1674, as appeares by his Apothecaryes Booke.

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Note by EDWARD PHILLIPS.