John Trapp on Matthew 8:6

Verse 6. Lord, my servant lyeth at home, &c.] Not thrown out of doors, not cast sick into a corner, to sink or swim, for any care his master would take of him: No, [illegible: 1 word] left to be cured at his own charges. The good Centurion was not a better man then a master. So was that renowned [illegible: 1 word] Thomas Lucy late of Charlecott in Abners funeral by M. [illegible: 1 word], [illegible: 2 words] in vulta gravitas & [illegible: 4 words], sed [illegible: 1 word] mitius ore. Warwick shire; to whose singular commendation it was in mine hearing preached at his Funerall, and is now since published, by my much honoured friend, Mr Robert Harris, that (among many others that would dearly misse him) a housefull of servants had lost not a Master, but a Physitian, who made their sicknesse his, and his cost and physick theirs. Or (as mine Alter Ego, mine intire beloved kinsman, [illegible: 1 word] Thomas Dugard In quo [illegible: 1 word] ing [illegible: 1 word] a [illegible: 2 words] modest [illegible: 2 words]. (expresseth it in his eligant Epitaph.) His servants sicknesse was his sympathy, and their recovery his cost.