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omnes, qui vntuersam Fcemmistarum sectam, friendes, his owne credite and preferment, tell
Respice finem And I shal then be content to me, he muste haue a moste speciall care, and
appeale to your owne learned experience, good regarde of employing his trauaile to the
whether it be, or be not, too too true quod best And therfore I am studying all this
did solet a nu, scepe a te ipso nonnunquam fortnight, to reade him suche a lecture in
ab expertis omnibus quolidie Atnare amarum Homers Odysses, and Virgib Æneads, that I
Nee deus, vt perkibent, Amor est, sed amaror, el dare vndertake he shall not neede any further
error et quicquid in eandem solet sentenltam instruction, m Mauler Turlers Trauayler, or
Empiriws aggregari Ac sate tnihi qmdem Maister Zumgers Meihodus Apodemica but
Agnppa Ouidtanam illam, de Arte Amandi, m his whole trauaile abroade, and euer aftei
videtur correxisse, meritoque, de at home, shall shewe himselfe a verie huelye
Arte Mereiruandi, inscnpsisse Nee vero mepte and absolute picture of Vlvsses and Æneas
alms, Amatores Alchumistis eomparauit, aureos, Wherof I haue the stronger hope he muste
argenteosque montes, atque fontes lepide som needes proue a most capable and apt subiecte
niantibus, sed interim misere immambus Car (I speake to a Logician) hauing the selfe same
bonum jumis propemodum occœcatis, atquel Goddesses and Graces attendant vpon his body
edam suffocatis prceterquam celebratum ilium and mind, that euermore guided them, and their
Adami Paradtsum, ahum esse quendatn prœ actions especially the ones Minerua, and the
dicauit, stullorum quoque Amatorumque mira others Venus that is (as one Doctor ex
hlem Paradisum ilium vere, hunc phantastio, poundeth it) the polhtique head, and wise
janaticeque beatorum Sed hœc alias, fortassis gouernement of the one and the amiable
vberius Credite me, I will neuer linne baityng behauiour, and gratious courtesie of the other
at vou, til I haue rid you quite of this yonkerly, , the two verye prmcipall, and moste singular
and womanly humor And as for your speedy Companions, of a right Trauailer and as per­
and hasty traueil me thinks I dare stil wager haps one of oure subtile Logicians woulde
al the Books and writings m my study, which saye, the two inseparable, and indivisible
you know, I esteeme of greater value, than al accidents of the foresaide Subiects De quibus
the golde and siluer in my purse, or chest, that ipsis, cceterisque omnibus artificis Apodemici
you wil not, (and yet I muste take heede, how instruments mpnmisque de Homerica ilia,
I make my bargame with so subtile and in diuinaque herba , «
trici?te a Sophister) that you shall not, I saye, \qua Vltssem suum Mercurius, adser
bte gone ouer Sea, for al your saying, neither sus Cyrcca et pocula, et carmma, et venena,
the next nor the nexte weeke And then per Imorbosque omnes prremunimt et coram, vti
aduenture I may personally performe your spero, breui et longe, vti soleo, copiosius • et
request, and bestowe the sweetest Farewell, fortasse etiam, aliquanlh, quam soleo, cum sub
vpon your sweetmouthed Mastershippe, that Ulius cum vero Polhhce, Praymaltceque maps
so vnsweete a Tong, and so sowre a paire of Interim tnbus ens syVahs contentus, ac valebis
Lippes can affoorde And, thinke you I will Trinitie Hall, Stilin my Gallerie 23 Octob 1579
leaue my Il Pellegrino so? No I trowe In histe
Mv Lords Honor, the expectation of his
Yours, as you knowe G H
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