SIgnorSignorImmerito, after as many gentle
Godmorrowes, as your
self, and your
your Maistershippe
to
poore Oratour of yours, for breaking
one principall
graund
Rule of our olde
wing himselfe
somewhat too pleasura
bly disposed in a sad
purpose, to
meete with A coople of shrewde wittie new marryed
Gentlewomen,
which
were more
will
report you a prettie conceited
discourse, that I had with
them
no longer
agoe, than yesternight, in a
Gentlemans
house, here in Essex. Where
being in the
company of cer
taine curteous Gentlemen, and those two
Gentlewomen, it
was my chaunce to be
well occupyed, I warrant you,
at
the house shaked
where wee
sat.
ly
beene wrangling with all the rest, and
especially with my
selfe, and
much
woonderful straunge that
the delicate voyces of two so prop
per fine Gentlewoomen, shoulde make
such a suddayne ter
rible Earthquake? Imagining in good fayth, nothing
in
the worlde lesse, than that it shoulde be any Earthquake in
deede,
and imputing that shaking to the suddayne sturring,
and
of some cumberous thing or
other, in the
per
per
which onely in effect most
of
beeing so
closely
and eagerly set at our game, and some of
on, as
they did. But beholde,
all on the suddayne there commeth
stumbling
into the Parlour, the Gentleman of the
house,
somewhat straungely affrighted,
and in a manner all agast,
and telleth
Tongue woulde
shaking there was of all things in his
Hall: sensibly and
visibly
seene, as well of his owne selfe, as of many of his
Neighbours there. I
straite wayes be
ginnyng to thinke somewhat more
seriously of the matter:
Then I pray you, good Syr, quoth I,
send presently
one of
your
like
hath happened there, as most likely is,
and then must it
needes be
some Earthquake. Whereat the good fearefull
Gentleman
being a little
and
dreading before, I knowe not what
in
his owne House,
as many others
his man
into the Towne, wee had by and by certayne woord, that it
was
generall
quarter of
an
howre after, that the very like
behappened the
next Towne too, being
a farre greater
and goodlyer Towne.
The Gentlewoomens hartes nothing
acquaynted with any
such Accidentes, were
they, that
immediately before were so eagerly, and greedily praying
on
to pray
nowe
and fall
was
Me
thinkes it
What good Partener? Cannot you
pray to your
selfe, quoth one of the
Gentlemen, but all the House must
heare you, and ring
men
are
was liker
nowe, to make a fraye, than
to pray: and will
you nowe needes in all
hast bee on both your knees? Let
and you say it, first dispute
the matter, what daunger, and
terror it
carryeth with it. God be praysed,
it is
already cea
sed, and heere be some present, that are able cunningly,
and
clearkly to argue the case. I
beseeche you master, or
your zealous and
that turning to
me, and smiling a little at the first:
Nowe I
pray you, Master
what say you
this suddayne Earthquake?
May
there not be some
of the Earth it self,
as some forcible and violent
or the like?
Yes no
doubt, sir, may there, quoth I, as well, as an
Intel
ligible Supernaturall: and
Natures of
things
most
heere, it were a
peece of woorke to laye open the Reason
to
ones Capacitie.
I know well, it is we that you meane, quoth one of
tlewomen
(whom for distinction sake,
and bicause I imagine
loath to
be named, I will hereafter call, My
stresse
and
the other,
Madame
now I
beseeche you, learned
Syr, try our wittes a little, and let
heare a peece of your deepe
Gentlewomen will allgates
with a good will,
quoth I: and then forsooth, very solemnly pawsing
most
The Earth you knowe, is a mightie great huge
body, and
consisteth of
many
and arteries, and
ditie of Vacuum,
be very great store of
Which
ly in the partes, and malitiously
encountering the
good, for
cibly tosseth, and
cruelly disturbeth the
whole: Which con
flict indureth so long, and
of cor
rupt
mat
ter, that it must needes (as well, or rather as ill, as in mens
and womens bodyes) brust out in the ende into one
perillous
disease
or
other, and sometime, for want of Naturall voyding
such
and flatuous Spirites, as lurke within,
into
such a
you see the Earth
Which Ague, or rather
thereof, we schollers call grossely,
and homely, Terræ motus, a
that
Terræ metus
a feare, and agony of the Earth: we being onely
not
you being onely in a manner
therewith. Nowe
poynt, and quidditie
of the Motus,
or your Metus, be
the better,
ples and Maximes of Philosophy? the
one being manly, and
wofully
to
dissemble with Gentlewoomen:
Nowe, I beseeche you, what thinke ye, Gentlewomen, by
this
Reason?
Reason, quoth Madame Incredula: By my
truly, I can
neither picke out
Rime, nor Reason,
out of any
thing I
all should be
Gospell, that commeth from you Doctors of
Cambridge.
But I see
well, all is not Gould, that glistereth. In deede,
quoth
Mistresse
, heere is much adooe, I trowe, and
But it pleaseth Master H.
(to delight himselfe,
and these Gentlemen)
to tell
Trust me truly, Syr your
Eloquence farre passeth my
Intelligence.
Did I not tell you
aforehand, quoth I, as muche? And yet
Philosophie,
and
thinking
happily it be per fidem implicitam,
in
And saying, It is so, by
cause it is so) is nighe
enough, to caste
you both into a
fitte, or
two, of a daungerous shaking
you presently
if ye
wyll
and Intrinsecall Physiognomie,
the
money in my poore purse to a pottle of Hyppocrase, you
shall
both
this night, within somwhat
lesse than two howers
and a halfe, after
ye be layed,
Dreame of terrible straunge
Agues, and Agonyes as well
in your owne prettie bodyes,
as in the mightie
great body of the Earth.
You are very me
rily disposed, God be praysed, quoth Mistresse
Inquisitiua,Inquisitiva,Inquisitiua;Inquisitiva;
I
am glad to
see you so pleasurable. No doubt,
but you are
uellous
vellous
now in a lit
tle good earnest, doo you
Schollers thinke,
the very
reason
in deede, which you spake of
be ma
ny of
defend this
(a very
e
taken in
uer
ver
hath sensibly done in a maner all this
Winter
and that way,
a drunken man,
or wooman
(when their
this forcible sort,
you lately sawe, payneth it selfe to vomit
and disquieteth the
whole body
within. And, forsoothe, a fewe new
Contradictorie
fellowes
make no more of it, but a certaine vehement, and
passionate
neesing, or sobbing, or coffing,
wherewithall they say, and
as
they
say, say
with great Physicall, and Naturall
Reason,
The Earth in some
place, or other,
great, and suddayne alteration
of
weather, or
dingly troubled, and payned, as
namely
this very Time of
the yeare, after the extreeme pynching colde of Winter,
and
agayne in Autumne,
after the extreeme parching heate of
Sommer.
But shall I tell you, Mistresse
The
soundest Philosophers
in deede, and very deepest
it please you, an other
Assertion, and
maintayne this for
at the leastwise, of all o
ther seemeth
and is
thest off from
many stately, and boysterous
name
ly, Men and Women, and
is in maner
continually at variaunce and fewde
with an o
ther,
to be
eft soones breaketh forth into
professed and open Hostilitie:
and then consequently followe set battels,
wherin the one partie bendeth all
the force of
his Ordinance
and other Martiall furniture against the other: so likewise
within it too, it hath also some, as
vengibly and frowardly
bent, as
for Example, Woormes, and Moules, and Cunnyes,
and such
other
highminded Creatures,
and daughters of Mars, Bellona
that nurrish
and
contrarie factions amongst them
which are sel
dome, or
and
deadly warre: and then
the
one
dischargeth his Peece couragiously
at the other: and
there is suche
a Generall dub a
dubbe amongst them, and
such horrible Thundering
on
strous cruell shaking of one
that the whole Earth agayne, or
at the
least, so muche of
the Earth, as is
hoysed,
and — No more Ands, or Ifs, for Gods sake,
quoth the
Madame,
and this be your great
Doctorly lear
ning. Wee
alreadie for our Money:
and if you shoulde goe a little farther, I
feare mee, you
woulde make
woulde bee a great disgrace to the
whitte, gentle
Madame, quoth I, there be of
greater store in our bowgets,
than we can well
occupie our
see, when by the
uourable,
vourable,
and spe
cially
Venus, it is our good Fortune,
Gentlewoomen
be, that take pleasure,
things. Wherat Mistresse
laughing right out,
and beginning to
demaunde I know
not what, (me
thought,
shee
made, as if it shoulde
plausible
well, Master
quoth the Gentleman of the house, now
you
(as I
warrant you shall be
remembred of
when
you are gone, and
may happely forget her: which I hope,
Mistresse Incredula will do
sometyme
too, by hir
pray you in earnest, let
of you
too:
and especially I would gladly heare your
resolution, whether you counte of
Earthquakes, as
better. To whom
I made
answere, in effect, as followeth:
TRuelyTruely
The
Earthquakes
Naturall: as I veryly
which the Logicians
call, the Materiall, and the Formall:
Marry, the Externall Causes,
which are
the Efficient and
Finall, I take rather of the two, to be
supernaturall. I must
The
saye, emprysoned
in the
violently rush out, and as it were, breake
cible Eruption, and strong breath, causeth an Earthquake.
As is excellently, and very
as I re
member,
thus:
Tendere vesicam solet,
The formall Cause, is nothing but the very manner of
this
same Motion,
and shaking of the Earth
without: and
the violent kinde of
and wrastling of the
windes,
and Exhalations within: which is, and
must needes be done
in
this, or that sort, after one fashion, or other.
Nowe, syr,
touching the other two
Causes, which I named Externall:
himselfe,
the
Creatour, and Continuer, and Corrector of Na
ture, and therefore
Supernaturall:
whose onely voyce
car
rieth such a
and terrible
very Earth againe, and
Mountaines quake
ble at the sounde and noyse thereof: the
text is rife in
mans mouth:
Terra:
beit, it is not to be gainesayd, that is holden
of all the aunci
ent Naturall Philosophers, and Astronomers,
The finall, not onely that the wynde shoulde
Naturall place,
than which a
no farther, no not our excellentest
profoundest Philosophers
testifie and de
nounce the secrete wrathe, and indignation
of God, or his
or,
a
threatning
the
like, depending
and tending
to a supernaturall Morall End.
Which End, (for that I knowe is the very poynt, where
on you
stande) albeit it be acknowledged
Supernaturall
and purposed, as I
sayd, of a
supernaturall Cause, to whom
nothing at all is impossible,
and that can worke supernatu
rally, and myraculously without ordinarie
meanes, and in
feriour causes: yet
see, commonly perfor
med, by the qualifying, and
conforming of Nature,
and Na
turall things, to the accomplishment of his
comprehensible
determination. For being, as
the olde Phi
losophers call him,
our later schoolemen to terme him,
by
way of distinction,
Na -tura Naturans, he
hath all these
secondarie inferiour
the foure Elementes, all sensible, and
and
worlde,
and
soeuer
soever
the
workmanship of his owne hands, and,
as they call them,
Na -tura naturata,
to put in execution such
Effectes, either
ordinarie or extraordinarie,
as shall seeme most requisite to
his eternall
seldome, or in manner
so myracu
lously, and extraordinarily, but it may sensibly appeare,
he
cheeuing
cheeving
thereof. I denie not, but Earthquakes
(as well as
many other fearefull
Accidentes in the
same
terrible signes, and, as
it were certaine manacing
forerun
ners, and forewarners of the great
latter day; and
therefore
out of
pon:
pon:
queles, according to the
and discourse of mans Rea
son, they
and
and that Citie,
to
such a
Coun
place, the
death of
some mightie Potentate or great Prince: to some
other Realme or Kingdome, some cruell
imminent warres:
and sundry the
like dreadfull and particular Incidentes, as
is notoriously
by many olde and newe, very
famous
and notable Histories to that effect.
Which of all
auncient Romaines, long before the
of Christ,
did most religiously or rather superstitiously
not
without
a number of solemne Ceremonies, and Holly
dayes for the
nonce,
full account of some
such
great rufull casualtie or
other, as
otherwhyles fell out in very deede:
and namely, as I re
member, the yeare Ante bellum
Sociale, which was
one of
the lamentablest, and myserablest warres, that Italy
uer
ver
and Plinie, or I knowe not well who, hath such
a saying:
But yet, notwithstanding, dare not I aforehand presume
thus
farre,
or arrogate so much
mine precisely and peremptorily
of this, or
gular Earthquake, to be necessarily,
and
pernaturall, and immediate fatall Action of God,
for this, or
that singular intent, when
as I am sure, there may be
a
sufficient Naturall, eyther necessarie or contingent Cause
in the
very Earth it
selfe: and there is no question, but the
selfe same
Operation
in Genere, or in specie, may at one
tyme, proceeding of one
be
tyme, pro
ceeding of an other, or the same Cause, and referred to an
other End, but Ordinarie, and
Naturall. To make shorte, I
cannot see,
and would gladly learne, howe a man on Earth,
should be of so great
authoritie, and so familiar acquaintance
with God in
haply for the nonce he hath
lately intertained some few choice singular
ones of
without any
fyable
fyable
hensible
and inscrutable
purposes. As if they had a
key for all the lockes in
and resolute
a case, as the
in so much that
Dio -nisius Areopagita, or some
other graunde Philosopher,
the suddayne contemplation thereof,
is reported in a certaine
Patheticall Ecstasie to
Aut rerum Natura pa -titur, aut Mundi machina destruetur: as my minde
some
of the simpler, and
sort, will goe nye to doe
Earthquake. Mar
ry
though per
happes it be
presumptuous Errour in deede, standing only
weake and
deceitfull groundes, Credulitie and Ignoraunce:
and amendment, and seeme to preache
Pænitentiam
(as
in some respect
straunge and rare Accident may
how Ordinarie, and
Naturall so
to the
best learned:
touching the quantitie
of Tyme, and Place, after I had a lit
tle more fully prosecuted,
alledging
certaine particuler Ex
amples thereof, howe in some places huge Castels,
in some
Townes, in some great and
mightie Cities, in some Shires
and
Seigniories, and
and Regions
been perillously
with: in one place, a long
time
together: in an other place,
not so long, or at
times: in
another, very
short, as, God be thanked here
finally by the
of
well for
the present or imminent terrour and daunger,
as
therwise)species,
and formes which Aristotle,
Plinie,
and other
Meteorologicians
rience,
as they
to
sturre,
and hoyse
Churches,
Minsters,
whole Townes, whole
Cities, whole
to
ruinate and
throwe,
throwe,
open lyke
a
and
sometime also to drinke
bigge running
waters withall, or to chaunge and alter their
common
woonted course
some other way: to
sinke and fall
downewardes: to cast out and vomitte
heapes, as it were Mountaines of
Earth, or large
Ilandes
in the mayne Sea,
phurous lakes:
or burning sparkles
and flames of fire: to
make a horrible hissing,
gnashing, ratling, or some like woon
derfull straunge
all
Effectes are credibly re
ported, and constantly
most famous
allowed
and di
stinctions, compendiously and familiarly coursed
good
Gentleman
thankes, and
tolde me plainly, he
halfe so much of
Earthquakes
before: confessing
withall,
that he yeelded resolutely to my opinion:
that an Earth
quake might as well be supposed a Naturall Motion of
the
Earth, as a preternaturall, or
supernaturall ominous worke
of God:
and that he
thought it hard, and almost impossible,
for any man,
either
by Philosophie, or
to determine flatly the very
certaintie
either way. Which
also in conclusion was the verdit, and
finall resolution of the
greater and
sager part of the Gentlemen present:
of an
duate,
and fellow of a Colledge in
Cambridge, in Queene
Maries dayes.
Who tooke
as he said, determine
the
all the naturall
Philosophers,
old or newe, Heathen
or Chri
stian, Catholique or Protestant, that
tell of. There Physickes quoth
he, are in
mans hands:
they are olde enough to speake for them
are
young enough to turne our Bookes.
They that
and Tongues,
let them see, and reade. But what say you
nowe, quoth I, to the staying
and
quieting of the Earthe,
beeing once a
a more myracu
lous woorke, and greater woonderment, that it shoulde
so
suddainely staye
againe, being
so suddainely
or shake me a thing in
lyke order, be it
lesse than a pynnes Head, in
comparison of the great migh
tie circuite of the Earth, and see if
you shall not
more
sturred, than
to sturre it at the very
Whereat the Gentleman
smyling, and looking merrily on the Gentlewoomen,
heere
is a schoole
poynt, quoth he,
that by your
will poase the
better
scholler of you both. But is
it not
more than tyme, thynke ye, wee
were at Supper? And if
you be a
hungered, Maister
you shall thanke
no body
but your selfe, that
founde
and clerkly discourses,
whereas our manner is to
suppe at the least
a long howre before this tyme.
Beyng
set, and newe occasion of speeche
ministered, our Supper
put the Earthquake in
manner out of our myndes,
or
at
the leastwise, out of our Tongues:
tlewoomen,
nowe and then pleasauntly tyhyhing betweene
them
Mystresse
Inquiſitiua,
did still runne of the drinking,
and Neesing of the
repeated here, and there, a broken peece
of that, which had
been already sayde
before Supper. With deepe
no doubt, and to
after the manner of woomen Philosophers, and
And this summarily in Effect was our yesternyghtes
Conference,
touching our Earth
quake here in the Country: which being
in so many neigh
bour Townes, and
of
this morning, maketh me presuppose, the like was wyth
you also at
London, and
elsewhere farther
forsoothe, must I desire
Maister Immerito, to send me with
in a weeke or two, some odde fresh
paulting
threehalfepen
nie Pamphlet for newes: or some Balductum Tragicall
Ballet in Ryme, and without
Reason, setting out the right
myserable,
and most wofull estate of the wicked, and dam
nable worlde at these
perillous
dayes, after the
best manner: or
shall first take some
of
your
earnest, I
could wishe some learned, and well
woulde
deede
so famous and materiall an argument. The
generall Nature of Earthquakes
by definition, and the
speciall
beyng perfectly
of
many credible and autenticall, both
olde and newe,
and prophane,
Greeke,
Lattine, and other
discretion, and
compyled and compared
ther)
(a thing not so
easily
fro, to
terrifie or pacifie
generall
Experience, and the foresayde
Historicall In
duction of particulars,
that
Earthquakes,
sine omni
ex -ceptione, are ominous,
and
they saye of Comets, and
carrie
horrible matter with or after
them:
as eyther destructi
on of Townes and Cities, or decay of some mightie
Prince, or some particular, or
generall plague, warre, or
the
mall cause be, Natural,
or
owne part I am
Matter and Fourme, are ra
ther Naturall in both, than
concerneth
the vewe of so Effectuall and substaunciall
to
ceiue
ceive
first, supreme Efficient, whose Omnipotent
nature self,
and all naturall
Creatures at commaundement:
and the last finall, which
we are to
by the
consideration,
parison of
the place
the qualities, and
whom
through
,
and sophistically be entrapped
Truely, I suppose,
he had neede be an excellent Philosopher,
a reasonable good Historian,
a
learned
man, and generally, such a one
as
our Doctor
Byng
are in Cambridge, that shoulde
shew
himselfe accor
dingly in this argument, and to the
conten
tation
of the wisest, perfourme it exactly. My
selfe remem
ber
nothing to the contrarie, either in Philosophie, or
in Hi
stories, or in
fully subscribe to the Italian
Philoso
pher,
and most famous learned Gentleman,
whilest he
in
my opinion, very
considerately, and part
ly Philosophically, partly
Theologically set downe, in the
sixt Chapter of his sixt
Booke, against
Cogging deceitfull A
strologers, and Southsayers,
De rerum Prænotione, pro verita -te
Relligionis, contra Superstitiosas vanitates.
In which
ter,
shall finde
many, but specially these three notable places,
most effectuall
and
directly pertinent to the very purpose. The first more
Naturæ opere fieri non potest,
Ignoratio causarum, are no doubt
uellous
vellous
worthy
bothe presentlye to bee
noted nowe, and more fully to be discussed
hereafter: appea
ring
so manye
erroneous opinions, and
fantasticall superstitious dreames
in this, and the like behalfe.
The seconde more speciall, as it were hitting the white
in deede, and
And then shortly after, the thirde, moste agreeable to the
seconde,
as flatlye determining on my side, and as directlye
concluding the
same
position as may be.
Nec sanè Orpheus ille, si tamen
Orpheus fuit,
A moste excellent sounde
ful wel beseeming
so Honorable and admirable a Witte,
as
out of Question,
Phœnix, as the odde,
and in effecte the onely
singular learned man
of
Europe: and
to make shorte: suche a one, in moste respectes,
as
I woulde
wishe
nowe to be
dent:
staying my selfe in the meane while
Allegations, and surmises,
that oure
counterfaite, and reasonlesse
Orphei oppose to the contrarye.
But,
Immerito? For soothe I
knowe not
by what mischaunce, these miserable
balde odious
three
halfepenny fellowes, alas, a company of silly
Asses, came into my minde,
that wil needes be sturring,
and taking
on in
as if they
sides, whereas
hathe but halfe an
eye in his
head, seeth them to be more blinde, than
anye Buzzarde, or
Scribimus
indocti,
and surely,
as
the worlde goeth nowe in Englande, rather
O interim miseras Musas,
Where the faulte shoulde rest, viderint Oculi,
Commende mee
to thine owne good selfe,
and tell
dreaming any longer
of them, til with these eyes I see them forth
indeede: And then
againe, I imagine your Magnificenza, will holde
in sus
pense as long for your nine Englishe Commœdies, and your
Latine
Stemmata Dudleiana: whiche two
ney, when all is done:
especiallye if you woulde but bestow
one
Whiche I praye thee hartily doe, for my
pleasure,
if not for
Reconcilement of contraries, is
hadde
purposed to
ere this:
but,
no remedie, hitherto it hath
alwayes gone thus
with me: Some newe occasion,
or other,
from one matter to another,
suffer me to finishe
eyther one or other. And truly,
Experto crede,
it is as true a
made:
Pluribus intentus minor est ad singula sensus: whiche
my
But the Birde that will not sing in Aprill, nor
in May, maye
sing in September: and yet
me
thinkes, , if
I
coulde steale but one poore
fortnight, to peruse him
and coppy him out a
newe. Whiche I hope in God to compasse shortly.
But I
beseech you, what Newes al this
while at Cambridge? That
was
wont to be
Mater ipsa bonam
veniam, eius
cuidam de eodem
gremio obsequentissimo filio,
cis
habeto. Nam aliàs
fortasse pluribus: nunc non placet, non va
cat,
molestum esset. Tully, and Demosthenes nothing so much
studyed, as
they were wonte:
Salust possiblye ra
ther more, than
lesse: Aristotle muche
named, but
little
read: Xenophon and Plato,
reckned amon
gest
and conceited Superficiall fellowes: much
disputing:
Italian when so highlye
re
garded of Schollers?
The Latine and Greeke, when so light
ly?
Queene
mother at the
beginning,
or ende of
conference: many
bargaines of :
a no
ble gallant fellowe: all
kes,
newe Fashions, newe Lawes, newe Officers, and some
after
familiarly knowen: Castels
builded in the Ayre: muche adoe,
and little
helpe:
would faine be a Gentlemanne: in no age so little
so muche
made of,
no
mans penny, so good
Nothing,
in spite of Nature:
spite of Arte:
The Gospell taughte, not learned: Chari
tie
Fidelitie, Equitie, newe Abridgementes:
span newe
Opinions: Heresie in
in
grounded muche
Doctors contemned: the Text
knowen of
moste,
of fewe, magnified
of all, practised of none: the
not
so hated, as the Pope:
many
Skill they say controlled of
Will: and Goodnesse mastered
of Goods:
but Surplesses: Maister
Cartwright nighe forgotten:
and yet
Non -residents
of our prea
chers
soonest
ripe Wits,
ced
selues
selves
as fledge as the
the rest:
yonker to speake of as politique, and as great
a Commonwealths man
as Wutton
at the least: as if
man nowe adayes
and Solons: and would goe nigh to
ceiue
ceive
and best
experienced
in
a country: It is
pity faire weather should
know what peace and
quietnes hath done with some melan
choly
pickstrawes in the world:
as good
ded.
ded.
ded.
ded.
of youre olde
sto
ny breast: a factious and
of
a confounder of his owne, and his friends good
gifts: a mor
ning bookeworm, an afternoone maltworm: a right
zes, as
his skin can holde. He
often telleth me, he
as himselfe,
but out lyar out, thou lyest
abhominably in thy
throate.
I had nigh hand forgotten one thing, that
ywis
somtime I think often
ynough Tutors, and
by your
some too, because forsooth
they be Gentlemen,
or great heires, or
a little neater and gayer than their
wes,
shame?
very own
Ah mala
Licentia,
ab initio
Doctrina,
sine virili quadam
Disciplina.
Quasi verò
pauperioribus duntaxat pueris, ac
non multò magis generosæ,
sapere oportet:
id erit telum acerrimum. Cætera
færè,
publicis defensa scholis,
Scire tuum
nihil est, nisi te scire, hoc sciat
alter. Plurimi
passim sit Pecunia, Pudor
Literæ:
Mihi crede, credendum nulli:
O amice, amicus nemo.
Quid tu interim? Quomodo te inquies
geris? Quomodo? Optimum est ali -ena frui insania. Video:
taceo, rideo: Dixi. Et tamem addam, quod ait Satyricus ille:
E meo municipio, Postridie quàm
superiores de
Terræmotu
ser -mones haberentur, id est, ni
fallor, Aprilis septimo, Vesperi.
as manye
gentle Goodnightes, as be letters in this tedious
Letter.
Nosti manum tanquam tuam.
This Letter may only be shewed to
Marry I would
Non multis dormio: non multis scribo: non cupio
placere multis:
Trinitatem.
Verbum sapienti sat: nosti cætera: