Not w^{th} standing, the best vse that I can make of it, is to preesent you w^{th} it, especially at this time when you ar in Physick, that you may sweeten your tast after the Rhewbarb. I have been a little distracted w^{th} vnexpected busines these two or three last dayes, that I cold not performe my officious promise to visit you in this voluntary sicknes of yours; but [erased] now I am faine to make my hands to excuse my feet from travayling vnto you, because being the servant of the multitude I am not mine owne man. Make much of your self, & make y^{r} self speedily well, that I may have your company towards Cambridge, from whence I will go w^{th} you to see the ancient Seat of Robt. le Bruis; so wishing you a prosperous operation of your Phisick, at least that you may Imagine so, for it is the Imagination that doth good, & not the Physick, w^{ch} I ever thought a meere imposture; I cease to troble you least the intention of to much Reading hinder the working of those vertuous drugs. Y^{rs} all & ever J. Dauis. (Endorsed) To my worthy friend Rob: Cotton esquier. A second letter runs thus, from MSS. Cotton: Julius C. III., p. 32:-- Noble S^{r} Robert: the ordinary subject of letters is, newes, whereof this kingdome since the warres, hath been very barren; therefore I must write vnto you that w^{ch} is no newes, that is, that I love you, & hold a kind & dear memory of you. according to my promise to y^{r} self & Mr. Solliciter of England who is now, I hear, a Judge, I have caused this bearer to draw some Mapps of o^{r} principal Cittyes of Ireland; & he having occasion to go for England, I have thought fitt to direct him vnto you. he is an honest ingenuous yong m[=a] & of y^{r} owne Name. I hear not yet of y^{e} Antiquities out of Cumberland; if they be brought hither I will take care to transmitt th[=e] to London, & so in speciall hast, being ready to go my circuit ov^{r} all Munster I leave you to y^{e} divine p'servation. Y^{s} to do you Service, Io: Dauys. Dublin 4 Martij 1607. I desire to be affectionately remembred to Mr. Justice Doddridge & Mr. Clarencieux. His Poems, as finally collected by him, appeared in a thin octavo in 1622. His Prose Works he never collected, but allowed them to be re-published separately. His "True Cause" passed through several editions during his own life-time. One of his most important prose-books after the "True Cause" brings us to the closing event of his busy and various-coloured life. It is entitled in the first issue, which was posthumous[42]--"The Question concerning Impositions, Tonnage, Poundage, Prizage, Customs, &c. Fully stated and argued, from Reason, Law, and Policy. Dedicated to King James in the latter end of his Reign." (1656.) [Footnote 42: Woolrych, as before, splits the one work into several, and mistakes MSS. of it for distinct works. Vol. I., pp. 209-10.]