hall come of it, his
soul shall not fail to feel then that strange state which my body
felt once in a great fever.

VINCENT: What strange state was that, uncle?

ANTHONY: Forsooth, cousin, even in this same bed, it is now more
than fifteen years ago, I lay in a tertian fever. And I had
passed, I believe, three or four fits, when afterward there fell
on me one fit out of course, so strange and so marvellous that I
would in good faith have thought it impossible. For I suddenly
felt myself verily both hot and cold throughout all my body; not
in one part the one and in another part the other--for it would
have been, you know, no very strange thing to feel the head hot
while the hands were cold--but the selfsame parts, I say, so God
save my soul, I sensibly felt (and right painfully, too) all in
one instant both hot and cold at once.

VINCENT: By my faith, uncle, this was a wonderful thing, and such
as I never heard happen to any other man in my days. And few men
are there out of whose mouths I could have believed it.

ANTHONY: Courtesy, cousin, peradventure hindereth you from saying
that you believe it not yet of my mouth, neither! And surely, for
fear of that, you should not have heard it of me neither, had
there not another thing happed me soon thereafter.

VINCENT: I pray you, what was that, good uncle?

ANTHONY: Forsooth, cousin, this: I asked a physician or twain,
who then considered how this should be possible, and they both
twain told me that it could not be so, but that I was fallen into
some slumber and dreamed that I felt it so.

VINCENT: This hap, hold I, little caused you to tell that tale
more boldly!

ANTHONY: No, cousin, that is true, lo. But then happed there
another: A young girl here in this town, whom a kinsman of hers
had begun to teach physic, told me that there was such a kind of
fever indeed.

VINCENT: By our Lady, uncle, save for the credence of you, the
tale would I not yet tell again upon that hap of the maid! For
though I know her now for such that I durst well believe her, it
might hap her very well at that time to lie, because she would
that you should take her for learned.

ANTHONY: Yea, but then happed there yet another hap thereon,
cousin, that a work of Galen, _"De differentiis febrium,"_ is
ready to be sold in the booksellers' shops, in which work she
showed me then the chapter where Galen saith the same.

VINCENT: Marry, uncle, as you say, that hap happed well. A