The amount of a small turkey-bean, swallowed daily for a week, fortifies the heart against those black vapours which arise from solitude, melancholy, unrequited affection, disappointed hope--" "Are you a fool, friend ?" said the Countess sharply; "or do you think, because I have good-naturedly purchased your trumpery goods at your roguish prices, that you may put any gullery you will on me?
Who ever heard that affections of the heart were cured by medicines given to the body ?" "Under your honourable favour," said Wayland, "I am an honest man, and I have sold my goods at an honest price.

As to this most precious medicine, when I told its qualities, I asked you not to purchase it, so why should I lie to you?
I say not it will cure a rooted affection of the mind, which only God and time can do; but I say that this restorative relieves the black vapours which are engendered in the body of that melancholy which broodeth on the mind.

I have relieved many with it, both in court and city, and of late one Master Edmund Tressilian, a worshipful gentleman in Cornwall, who, on some slight received, it was told me, where he had set his affections, was brought into that state of melancholy which made his friends alarmed for his life." He paused, and the lady remained silent for some time, and then asked, with a voice which she strove in vain to render firm and indifferent in its tone, "Is the gentleman you have mentioned perfectly recovered ?" "Passably, madam," answered Wayland; "he hath at least no bodily complaint." "I will take some of the medicine, Janet," said the Countess.

"I too have sometimes that dark melancholy which overclouds the brain." "You shall not do so, madam," said Janet; "who shall answer that this fellow vends what is wholesome ?" "I will myself warrant my good faith," said Wayland; and taking a part of the medicine, he swallowed it before them.

The Countess now bought what remained, a step to which Janet, by further objections, only determined her the more obstinately.