text:  It had pleased Heaven in the year 1672 when I had finished my studies in Magdalen College Oxford whereof I was a Demy and had taken my degree of bachelor of arts in the preceding term to visit me with so severe an affliction of fever which many took at first for the commencement of the small-pox that I was recommended by the physicians when the malady had abated to return to my father's house and recover my strength by diet and exercise