'  [Father  Paul,  the  celebrated  Ve-  '  [This  was  Peter  Du  Moulin  the

netian  controversialist.]  elder.    He  had  not  at  this  time  come

'  [Casaubon  was  preparing  for  the  to  England,  though  he  had  been  in

press   his  '  ExercitationeB   in    Baro-  correspondence  with  the  King.     Ca-

nium.']  sanbon  in  several  passages  of  his  let-

'  [Erycius  Puteanus  had  just  pub-  ters  speaks  of  him  very  unfavourably,

lished    his    '  Stricturse    in  Casaubo-  (See  Epistt.  dccxliii.  dccxliv.  p.  433.
num.']  Koter.  1709.)]


xliv  LETTERS.
Servet  autem  Begi  nostro  optimo  mentem  Deus,  quana  jam
ante  dedit,  ne  se  velit  et  nos  his  litibus  imtniscere.  Sat  enim
nobis  litium,  nee  opus  sie  indies  serere  novas.  Quod  si
autem  Numen  non  intercedat,  res  mihi  eruptura  videtur  in
morbura.  Tu  vero,  qui  superiori  anno  discessisti  bine  D.  Au-
gustine (si  meministi)  infenso  (dies  enim  discessus  tui  dies  in
Fastis  notutus  illius  nomine*)  qui  pluviis  testatus  abitum  sibi
hinc  tuum  minus  placuisse,  redi  hoc  anno,  si  placet  propitio
eodem  Scto.  Patre.  Redi  et  vide  nundinas  tota  Anglia  cele-
berrimas  "  ;  vel  si  minus  nundinse  te  capiunt,  vide  manuscrip-
tum  illud  S.  INIatthsei  exemplar  Hebraicum,  quod  hie  asser-
vatur  in  Bibliotheca  Corp.  Cbristi.  Sine  te  exorem  ut  redeas.
Viso  te,  convalescam  iUico.  Pauculos  tan  turn  hie  dies  laxabis
animum  nobiscum.  Figes  damam,  et  trimestres  tuos  labores
pauUisper  intermittes.  Reverteris  ubi  voles.  Haec  memento
a  febricitante  esse.  At  te  Deus  nobis  valentem  atque  incolu-
mem  servet  magnum  rei  literariae  ornamentum.  Vigilia  D.
Bartholomaei ;  Dunamise.  Omni  studio  atque  officio  semper
tuus  Eliensis.  [1612.]

ClariBgimo  Viro  Dno.  ac  amico  mihi
plurimum  serrando  Bno.  Isaaco  Ca-
saubono,  Londinum.
LETTER  V.
TO   ISAAC   CASAUBON.
