162 JEROME CARDAN. 



your excellency, from my heart, that if I can be of use 

 to you in anything, with aid, service, or money, you will 

 send word to me by him; he will, without delay, send 

 me intelligence, and the moment I have tidings of it 

 consider the thing done. 



" Besides, Master William Cassanate, the physician, 

 went home last year to his father's house, and has not yet 

 returned. A man certainly worthy of great name and 

 honour, whose daily offices and house companionship are 

 very pleasant to me. I would much urge and beg your 

 excellency not to fall short of your usual kindness in 

 writing to me, that the separation of our bodies may not 

 be a separation of our minds, but that we may be always 

 present to each other. I wish you, in my name, to salute 

 those who are of your household. Farewell. From our 

 metropolitan seat of St. Andrew's. October, 1554." 



Michael was the archbishop's first chamberlain, and he 

 came privately authorised to offer to Cardan large pay- 

 ments if he would take office as Hamilton's physician. 

 But those offers were refused 1 . 



Though rude of speech, Jerome, as has been seen, was 



not rude with the pen; his just and high notion of the 



dignity of letters, and of the courtesies due by literary 



men to one another, not only kept all anger out of his 



i Geniturarum Exemplar, p. 193, 



