LIberalissimoLiberalissimoSignor Immerito, in good soothe my poore Store
house will
presently affourd me
nothing, either to recom
pence, or
your gentle
Letters
name, when did I
but, belike, theres no remedie,
I must needes be
you once in my
of
Recommendations, and a running Coppie
of the
closed. Which
(extra
iocum)iocum),Lat -in
by two Doctors,
and so well
Translated into English by
one odde Gentleman, and generally
so well allowed of
that
chaunced to
that
trust mee,
G.H. was at the first hardly intreated, to shame
himselfe,
and truely,
now blusheth, to see the first Letters of his
name,
stande so neere their Names, as of
necessitie they must. You
know Greeke
and many
that
y
nough, beyng compared, and
ters, are
disgraced, and as it were,
dashed quite
oute of Countenaunce. I am
at this instant, very busilye,
and hotly employed in certaine greate
and serious affayres:
whereof,
notwithstanding (for all youre vowed,
and long ex
perimented secrecie) you are not like to heare a worde
more
at the moste, till I my selfe see a World more at the
leaste.
And
therefore, for this once I beseech you (notwithstanding
your
greate
expectation of I knowe not
what
an aunsweare) content your
good selfe, with
(pardon me, I came lately out
of
a
lieu of many gentle Farewels,
Godbewyes, at your
departure:
Master
shippes, Nostri Cato maxime sæcli:
and I
Contents
of the
good, and bad
Spirites, that attende
selues,
selves,
the contemplation thereof, to aban
don all other fooleries, and honour
As I strongly presume, so
good a Texte,
or two,
to your large,
time, Adieu.
it striketh
mee to the hearte, I dare
not come neare to strike it:
but manye a good manne is fayne to tarry
the Tyde.
And
I knowe some, whyche coulde be content to
sie:
Your new-founded
I honoure more, than
you will or can
suppose: and make greater accompte of
than of two hundreth
Senatours, that A -thens
dydde affourde of that number.
Your Englishe Trimetra I lyke better, than perhappes
you
will easily
ter, or worse, at more
leysure.
hathe a foote more than a Lowce
(a wonde
rous
deformitie
in a righte and
pure Senarie) and
whiche is
also in the
same Predicament,
of the feete be sawed off wyth
a payre of Syncopes: and then
shoulde the Orthographie
so muche: and in
steade of Hēauēnlĭ Vīrgĭnals,
you should
Heaūnlĭ Virgnāls:
Virgnāls againe in the ninth,
made
a Immĕrĭtō in the laste: being all notwithstandyng
Iambicke:
Spon -dee.
Then me thinketh, you Spondees beside:
and whereas Trochee
sometyme
presumeth in the firste place, as namely
in the second
Make thy, whyche
to supplye the
office of the
in minde of
a
pretty Fable in Abstemio the Italian,
implying thus much,
or
rather thus little in effect.
A certaine lame man beyng invited to a solempne Nup
tiall Feaste, made
no more adoe,
but sate me hym round
lye downe foremoste at
the hyghest ende of the Table.
Pauca
spying his presumption,
and hansomely
me this
haulting Gentleman belowe at the nether end of the bourd:
alledging
for his defence the common
verse: Sedes nulla da -tur, præterquam sexta
Trochæo: and pleasantly
alluding to this
foote, which standing
other
a like, his guestes
thrust downe to the last place,
in a true Hexameter, and Senarie. Nowe Syr,
what thinke you, I began to thinke
with
my selfe, when I
began to reade your warrant first: so boldly, and
venterous
ly set downe in so formall, and autentique wordes, as these,
Precisely perfit, and not an inch from the Rule?
Ah Syrrha,
and
Lord, thought I,
whom his olde
friendes
and Companions may
and that is yet more ex
acte, and precise in his English Comicall Iambickes,
than
M. Watson himselfe was in his Lattin Tragicall Iam
bickes,
to this day suffer
his
famous Absolon to come abrode, onely
because Anapæstus
in Locis paribus, is twice, or thrice
steade of Iambus? A small fault,
ywisse, and such a one
beene espyed, no neither in Italy, nor in Fraunce. But
when I
came to the curious scanning, and fingering of
syllable:
M. Immerito
doth, but as M. Watson,
Iambici
before him: marry he
might
his preface,
or at
that same
terme, Precisely, and all
had been
well enough: and I assure
you, of my selfe, I
no peece of a fault
marked at all.
But this is the Effect of warrantes,
and perhappes the Er
rour may rather proceede of his Master,
than of
himselfe.
and
I alwayes was, and will
Pauca multis condonanda vitia
Virtutibus, especially these being
no
Vitia
neither,
in a common and licencious
Iambicke.
them before:
and
therefore will neither praise them, nor dis
praise them nowe: but
ther
which I
one mans opinion
selfe
remember, I was
wonte to
maine a
Marry in these poyntes, you knowe, Partialitie
in no case,
may
a foote: and you remember
mine olde Stoicall ex
clamation:
Fie on childish
affection, in the discoursing, and deciding of schoole
matters. This
I say, because
you charge
me
with an
aught
I know
yet, may as wel be either
other
wise: and I dare more than halfe
you shall
finde me nighe
hande answerable in
mine owne defence.
Re -liqua omnia,
quæ de hac
supersunt Anglicorum versuum ratione, in aliud tempus
Youre Latine Fare
well is a goodly
of work, and
Goddilge
yee, I am alwayes
you, for
sident
a yeare or twoo in , I shall be better
qualifyed in
this kind,
and more able to requite your
nificent liberalitie
that way. But to
let Titles and
toucheth my lusty
quicke, and is
Youths: Respice finem. And I shal then
be content to appeale to your owne learned experience, whe
ther it
be, or be not, too too
true:
tyng at you, til I
quite of this
yonkerly,
manly
hasty
thinks I dare stil wager al the Books
in my stu
dy, which you know, I esteeme of greater value, than al the
golde
I muste take heede, how I make
my bargaine with so sub
tile and intricate
a
gone
your saying,
neither the next, nor the
nexte weeke. And then
I may personally per
forme
on
on
and
so sowre a paire of Lippes can affoorde. And, thinke
you I
will
my Il Pellegrino
so? No I trowe.
And therfore I am studying all this
fortnight, to reade him
suche a Lecture
in Homers Odysses, and Virgils Æneads,
that I dare
ction,
in Maister Turlers
or Maister Zuingers
67
Cer-
I.ij.
Methodus Apodemica:
but in his whole
and
himselfe a verie
and absolute
picture of
and Æneas.
principall, and moste
singular
Companions, of a right
as perhaps one of
oure subtile Logicians woulde saye, the two inseparable,
and
indivisible
accidents of the foresaide
Trinitie Hall,