Possible Clues:

• Attacked by a case of shingles, suffered
• For a start, 1 across got sick when had an attack of this
• The fool suffered, and was attacked
• As he was out in the yacht, the silly one was sick
• How silly to have got sick just as the ship started out!
• How silly, having had an attack, to have got so sick!
• Silly, sick and set upon
• The fool was sick with an attack of something or other
• Attacked finding a ship needed a doctor
• Being troubled, a seaman at first left port