The allusion to the illness of Sir Edward Herbert, afterward Lord Herbert
of Cherbury, fixes the date of this letter. He sailed from Dieppe for
Dover in February, 1609, and came at once to London. In his
_Autobiography_ (ed. Sidney Lee, 2d edition, London, n. d., p. 60) Herbert
writes,
"I had not been long in London, when a violent burning fever seized
upon me, which brought me almost to my death, though at last I did by
slow degrees recover my health."
This and the preceding letter appear to have been written on the same day.