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judgment you display in your observations. Go on, therefore, 

 as you are doing, and grace the republic of letters with the 

 fruits of your genius, for thus will you render a grateful ser- 

 vice to all the learned, and especially to 



Your loving 



WILLIAM HARVEY. 



Written in London, this 26th of March, 1651. 



LETTER III. 



To the very excellent John Nardi, of Florence. 



I should have sent letters to you sooner, but our public 

 troubles in part, and in part the labour of putting to press my 

 work ' On the Generation of Animals/ have hindered me from 

 writing. And indeed I, who receive your works on the sig- 

 nal success of which I congratulate you from my heart and 

 along with them most kind letters, do but very little to one so 

 distinguished as yourself in replying by a very short epistle. I only 

 write at this time that I may tell you how constantly I think 

 of you, and how truly I store up in my memory the grateful 

 remembrance of all your kindnesses and good offices to my- 

 self and to my nephew, when we were each of us severally in 

 Florence. I would wish, illustrious sir, to have your news as 

 soon as convenient : what you are about yourself, and what you 

 think of this work of mine; for I make no case of the opinions and 

 criticisms of our pretenders to scholarship, who have nothing but 

 levity in their judgments, and indeed are wont to praise none 

 but their own productions. As soon as I know that you are 

 well, however, and that you live not unmindful of us here, I 

 propose to myself frequently to enjoy this intercourse by letter, 

 and I shall take care to transmit other books to you. I pray 

 for many and prosperous years to your Duke ; and for yourself 

 a long EU jtyiEfua. Farewell, most learned sir, and love in return. 

 Yours, most truly, 



WILLIAM HARVEY. 



The 15th of July, 1651. 



