y Son took. He may be at
_Bristol_ long e're this, (return'd _Lewis_.) That was the Road they
took (added the Servant.) I thank you, my worthy, my kind Friend! (said
the afflicted Father) I will study to deserve this Kindness of you. How
do you find your self now? that I may send him an Account by my Servant,
if he is to be found in that City? Pretty hearty, (return'd _Lewis_) if
the Wounds your adorable Daughter here has given me, do not prove more
fatal than my Friend's your Son's. She blush'd, and he persu'd, My
Servant has sent for the best Physician and Surgeon in all these Parts;
I expect them every Minute, and then I shall be rightly inform'd in the
State of my Body. I will defer my Messenger 'till then (said Sir
_Henry_.) I will leave that to your Discretion, Sir, (return'd
_Constance_.) As they were discoursing of 'em, in came the learned Sons
of Art: The Surgeon prob'd his Wound afresh, which he found very large,
but not mortal, his Loss of Blood being the most dangerous of all his
Circumstances. The Country-_AEsculapius_ approv'd of his first Intention,
and of his Application; so dressing it once himself, he left the Cure of
Health to the Physician, who prescrib'd some particular Remedy against
Fevers, and a Cordial or two; took his Fee without any Scruples, as the
Surgeon had done before, and then took both their Leaves. Sir _Henry_
was as joyful as _Lewis's_ Sister, or as his own Daughter _Lucretia_,
who lov'd him perfectly, to hear the Wound was not mortal; and
immediately dispatch'd a Man and Horse to _Bristol_, in Search of his
Son: The Messenger return'd in a short Time with this Account only, that
such a kind of a Gentleman and his Servant took Shipping the Day before,
as 'twas suppos'd, for _London_. This put the old Gentleman into a
perfect Frenzy. He ask'd the Fellow, Why the Devil he did not give his
Son the Letter he sent to him? Why he did not tell him, that his poor
old forsaken Father would receive him with all the Tenderness of an
indulgent Parent? And why he did not assure his Son, from him, that on
his Return, he should be bless'd with the Lady _Diana_? And a thousand
other extravagant Questions, which no body could reply to any better
than the Messenger, who told him, trembling; First, That he could not
deliver the Letter to his Son, because he could not find him: And
Secondly and Lastly, being an Answer in full to all his Demands, That he
could not, nor durst tell the young Gentleman any of