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was detained a day or two in this place by my indisposition, which
increased; but, nevertheless, proceeded to Paris, to make interest
for a protection from the king of France, which that monarch
graciously accorded me, in three days after my first application,
and his minister sent orders to all the governors and intendants
of the province towns, to protect me against the efforts of Lord
--, in whatever place I should choose to reside.
"Having returned my thanks at Versailles for this favour, and tarried
a few days at Paris, which was a place altogether unsuitable to
the low ebb of my fortune, I repaired to Lisle, where I intended
to fix my habitation; and there my disorder recurred with such
violence, that I was obliged to send for a physician, who seemed to
have been a disciple of Sangrado; for he scarce left a drop of blood
in my body, and yet I found myself never a whit the better. Indeed,
I was so much exhausted by these evacuations, and my constitution
so much impaired by fatigue and perturbation of mind, that I had no
other hope of recovering but that of reaching England, and putting
myself under the direction of a physician on whose ability I could
depend.
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