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638 TWO OTHER VERY
Hoc bene qui collet, (st quts tamen hoc bene
collet)
Scribe, vel invito sapntem hunc Socrate solum
Vis facit vna pios: luslos facit altera: et altra
Egegte cordata, ac forita peclora verum
Omne tulit punclum, qui miscuit vtile dulci
Dij miht dulce diu dederant verum vtile nun
quam.
Vtile nunc etiam, vtinamquoque dulce dedissent.
Dij mht, (quippe Dijs œquiualia maxima
paruis)
Ni ntmts inuideant tnorlaltbus esse bea]tis,
Dulce simul tribuisse queant, simul vtile, tanta
Sed Fortuna iua est. pariter quceque vtile,
quœque
Dulce dal ad placitum' sœuo nos sydere nati
Qwœsitum mus earn per tnhospita Caucasa
longe,
Perque Pyrenœos monies, Bahlonaque turpem,
Qudd si quasitum nee tbt tnvenermus, mgens
Æquor inexhaustis permensi erroribus, vllrd
Fluctibus in medys soctj quœremus Vlyssis
Passibus inde Deam fessts comttabmur agram,
Nobile cuifurium qucerenti defuit orbis
Namque sinu pudet in patrto, tenebnsque pu
dendis
Non nimis ingento Iuuenem infœlice, virentes
Offiajs fruslra deperdere utlibus Annos,
Frugibus el vacuus speralis cernere spicas
Ibimus ergo staltm. (qms eunti fausia prece
tur?)
El pede Clivosas jesso calcabimus Alpes
Quis dabit tnterea conditas rore Bntanno,
Quis tibi litterulas? quis carmen amore pelul
cum?
Musa sub Oebahj desueta cacumine monlis,
Flebit inexhausto tarn longa silenlia tlanclu,
Lugebitque sacrum hchrymis Helicona tacentem
Harueiusque bonus, (chorus licet omnibus idem,
ldque suo merito, prope suauior omnibus mus)
Angelus et Gabriel, (quamuis comitatus amias
hnumens, gtmumque choro slipalus amamo)
Immento tamen mum absentem sape requirel,
Oplabilque, Vtinam meus he Edmundus adesset,
Qui noua scripsisset, nee Amores conticuisset
Ipse suos, el sape ammo, verbisque benipnts
Fausta precarelur: Deus ilium aliquando re
ducat , etc.
Plura vellem per Charlies, sed non licet per
Musas
Vale, Vale plunmum, Mi amabilisstme
Harueie, meo cordi, meorum omnium longe
charusime.
I was minded also to haue sent you some
English verses or Rymes, for a farewell. but
by my Troth, I haue no spare time in the world,
to thmke on such Toyes, that you knowe will
demaund a freer head, than mine is presently.
I beseecheyou by all yourCurtesies,and Graces,
let me be answered, ere I goe: which will be,
(I hope, I feare, I thinke) the next weeke, if
1 can be dispatched of my Lorde I goe thither,
as sent by him, and maintained most what of
him. and there am to employ my time, my
body, my mmde, to his Honours seruice Thus
with many superhartie Commendations, and
Recommendations to your selfe, and all my
friendes with you, I ende my last Farewell, not
thinking any more to write vnto you, before
I goe and withall committing to your faith
full Credence the eternall Memone of our euer
lasting friendship, the muiolable Memone of
our vnspotted friendshippe, the sacred Memone
of our vowed friendship which I beseech you
Continue with vsuall writings, as you may, and
of all things let me heare some Newes from
you As gentle M Sidney, I thanke his good
Worship, hath required of me, and so promised
to doe againe Qui monet, vt facias, quod lam
jaas, you knowe the rest You may alwayes
send them most saftly to me by Mistress
Kerke, and by none other Soonce againe,
and yet once more, Farewell most hartily,
mine owne good Master H and loue me, as
I loue you, and thinke vpon poore lmmerito,
as he thmketh vppon you.
Leycester House. This 5 of October 1579.
Per mare, per terras,
Vmus, mortuusque,
Tuus lmmerito,