cure

When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.

Past hope! past cure!

Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure.

vicarages of great cure, but small value

This worke devysed is

For suche as do amys,

And specyally to controule

Such as have cure of soule, […]

No good priest to offende,

But suche dawes to amend, […]