5, De Sanitate tuenda, that physician will hardly be thought very careful of the health of others who neglects his own.

Asclepiades boasted yet more than this; for he said that he had articled with fortune not to be reputed a physician if he could be said to have been sick since he began to practise physic to his latter age, which he reached, lusty in all his members and victorious over fortune; till at last the old gentleman unluckily tumbled down from the top of a certain ill-propped and rotten staircase, and so there was an end of him.
If by some disaster health is fled from your worships to the right or to the left, above or below, before or behind, within or without, far or near, on this side or the other side, wheresoever it be, may you presently, with the help of the Lord, meet with it.

Having found it, may you immediately claim it, seize it, and secure it.

The law allows it; the king would have it so; nay, you have my advice for it.

Neither more nor less than the law-makers of old did fully empower a master to claim and seize his runaway servant wherever he might be found.