The next business [in the English Parliament of 1626] was the case of Richard Montagu [a religious writer who some thought propounded popery]. He had been bound over to attend the Oxford session, but excused himself on the ground that he was 'sick of the passion hypochondriacal.'
—Conrad Russell, Parliaments and English Politics, 1621–1629 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979), 240.
This is an excellent tactic. "Sorry, boss, but I can't come in to work today. I've come down with something nasty: hypochondria."
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