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620 THREE PROPER AND WITTIE
Idem in Terra mottbus etiam, quod m Jul
gunbusjulminibusquc tnlerpretandis, obseruautt
Anttquitas Cuius Rei liber, Grœco eloquio,
nuper ad manus peruemt, tn Orpheum relatus
Autorem sed per absurdum nmis, vt quod
frequentissimt fit, pro vario terra anhelitu, pro
ventorum wolenlia, vaporumque conductione,
(marke you that ? Scrtbtmus indocti, docttque Poemata passim,
and surely, as the worlde goeth nowe in Eng
lande, rather the firste, for aught I see, than
the laste 0 interim mtseras Musas, et misera
biles Where the faulte shoulde rest, vtdertnt
Ocuh, atque capita Retp Mtht quidem tsthtc,
nequt seriiur admodum, neque metitur Non
) ex eo rerum futurarum vakU mea nouos Biblwtheca libros desiderat,
sigmficationem petere, quorum nee effectus esse setpsa, id est, quos habet, veleribus contenta est
possunt, nee causa, praterquam forle mortis Quid plura ? Tu vale, mi lmmertto, atque tta
mferenda tilts, qui fulmen exceperit, aut qui tibi persuade, Aliquid esse eum, qui tstorum
terrarum hiatu penerit Sed nee ab eadem longi est dissimilhmus, quos Typographi nostri
proxima deduct causa possunt, a qua et futura habent venales maxime Commende mee to
pendeant res, vt supra deductum est
thine owne good selfe, and tell thy dying Pelh
And then shortly after, the thirde, moste cane, and thy Dreames from me, I wil nowe
agreeable to the seconde, as flatlye determm leaue dreaming any longer of them, til with
ing on my side, and as directl) e concluding the these eyes I see them forth indeede And then
same position as may be
againe, I imagine your Magmficenza, will holde
Nee sane Orpheus ille, si iamen Orpheus juit, vs in suspense as long for your nine Enghshe
vllam ajffert ommnd causam, cur quispiam ex Commcedies, and your Latine Stemmata Dud
terra motibus, vrbium, hominum, regionum leiana whiche two shal go for my money,
euenia prasagire possit Solum vano narrat when all is done especiallye if you woulde but
arbitno si terra continent motus noctu, st bestow one seuennights polhshing and trim
astate, si hyeme, si aurora, si interdiu, qutd mmg vppon eyther Whiche I praye thee
portettdatur Qua certt, et santore possunt hartily doe, for my pleasure, if not for their
arbiirw refelit, et Expertentta testimomo, vt sake, nor thine owne profite My Schollers
arbttror, non secus imderi, ac supra Tagts por Loue, of Reconcilement 0f contraries, is shrunke
tenta tmsimus, Harusptdna Autorts
m the wetting I hadde purposed to haue
A moste excellent sounde Iudgement in my dispatched you a Coppie thereof, long ere this
conceit and ful wel beseeming so Honorable but, no remedie, hitherto it hath alwayes gone
and admirable a Witte, as out of Question, thus with me Some newe occasion, or other,
Picus Mirandula had who being yet scarcely euer carneth me from one matter to another,
thirty yeres of age, for his singularity in al and will neuer suffer me to finishe eyther one or
kind of knowleege, as wel diuine as prophane, other And truly, Experto crede, it is as true
was in Italy and France, as Paulus Ioutus a Verse as euer was made, since the first Verse,
reporteth, surnamed Phamix, as the odde, and that euer was made Plunbus tntentus minor
in effecte the onely singular learned man of est ad singula sensus whiche my Anticosmo
Europe and to make shorte suche a one, in poltia, thoughe it greeue him, can beste testifye,
moste respectes, as I wouide wishe nowe to be remaymng still as we saye, in statu, quo, and
tempering with this newe notorious incident neither an mche more forward, nor backe
staying my selfe in the meane while vpon this warde, than he was fully a twduemonth since
probable and reasonable Interim of his and in the Courte, at his laste attendaunce vpon
preferring it before at the fnuolous coniecturall my Lorde there But the Birde that will not
Allegations, and surmises, that oure counter sing in Aprill, nor in May, maye peraduenture
faite, and reasonless Orphei oppose to the con sing in September and yet me thinkes, Sat
trarye But, Iesu, what is all this to Master aid, si sat bene, if I coulde stealc but one poore
lmmento ? Forsoothe I knowe not by what fortnight, to peruse him oucr afreshe, and
mischaunce, these miserable balde odious three coppy him out anewe Whiche I hope in God
halfepenny fellowes, alas, a company of silly to compasse shortly But I beseech you, what
beetleheaded Asses, came into my minde, that Newes al this while at Cambridge ? That was
wil needes be sturnng, and taking on in euerye wont to be euer one great Question What?
suche rare and vnaccustomed euent, as if they Det mihi Mater ipsa bonam vemam, etus vt
sawe farther in a Milstone, than all the worlde aliqua mihi hceat Secrela, vni cutdam de eodem
besides, whereas euene man, that hathe but gremio obsequenttsstmo filio, reuelare et sic
halfe an eye in his head, seeth them to be more paucis habelo Nam alths fortasse plurtbus:
bhnde, than anye Buzzarde, or Bayarde,' nunc non placet, non vacat, mokstum esset.