I have enquired concerning perspectives after the manner of De Cartes. Mydorgius tells me there is none that goes about them, as a thing too hard to do. And I believe it. For here is one Mons^r de Bosne in towne, that dwells at Bloys, an excellent workman, but by profession a lawier, and is counsellor of Bloys, and a better philosopher in my opinion then De Cartes, and not inferior to him in the analytiques. I have his acquaintance by Pere Mersenne. He tells me he hath tryed De Cartes his way, but cannot do it: and now he workes upon a crooked line of his owne invention. He sayes he shall have made one w^{th}in a moneth after he shall returne to Bloys: after that he will see what he can discover in the heavens himselfe, and then if he discover any new thing he will let his way be publique together w^{th} the effects. This is all the hope I can give you yet. So w^{th} my prayers to God to keepe you in prosperity this troublesome time, I rest Your most humble and obedient servant TH. HOBBES. _Paris, Feb. 8, stile no. 1641._ To the Right Honorable Sr CHARLES CAVENDYSSHE present these / / / / at Wellinger. ----- Footnote 5: Harleian MS. 6796. ----- V. LETTER TO MR. BEALE.[6] SIR, The young woman at Over-Haddon hath been visited by divers persons of this house. My Lord himself hunting the hare one day at the Town’s end, with other gentlemen and some of his servants, went to see her on purpose: and they all agree with the relation you say was made to yourself. They further say on their own knowledge, that part of her Belly touches her Back-bone. She began (as her Mother says) to loose her appetite in December last, and had lost it quite in March following: insomuch as that since that time she has not eaten nor drunk any thing at all, but only wetts her lips with a feather dipt in water. They were told also that her gutts (she alwayes keeps her bed) lye out by her at her fundament shrunken. Some of the neighbouring ministers visit her often: others that see her for curiosity give her mony, sixpence or a shilling, which she refuseth, and her mother taketh. But it does not appear they gain by it so much as to breed a suspition of a cheat. The woman is manifestly sick, and ’tis thought she cannot last much longer. Her talk (as the gentlewoman that went from this house told me) is most heavenly. To know the certainty, there bee many things necessary which cannot honestly be pryed into by a man. First, whether her gutts (as ’tis said) lye out. Secondly, whether any excrement pass that way, or none at all. For if it pass, though in small quantity, yet it argues food proportionable, which may, being little, bee given her secretly and pass through the shrunken intestine, which may easily be kept clean.