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fold : from me and through me. For myself, I will take 

 care that you shall have your full income, for I promised 

 you a moiety of the present year's receipts, and I will 

 give you the same share in the coming year; now also I 

 permit you to obtain supplies at once for your immediate 

 support. If I can beg anything at court, you shall share 

 it, and have half the income it may bring; and so, how- 

 ever the matter may be, you will have more than I, who 

 from the first had to support my family. Let it be your 

 business to arrange with your father-in-law that when, in 

 a future year, the letting shall expire, the woods be after- 

 wards separated into as many lots as possible, either by 

 sales or by the letting of the trees, for either half of this 

 will come to you with a stipend from the court, or the 

 whole without a stipend, should fortune oppose my en- 

 deavours. But what will be done through me you know 

 already; all receipts from the common people, or those 

 inhabiting the many-storied houses, and those who, 

 having shown their excretions, ask to be visited, shall 

 become yours. Whatever I can beg from friends, to 

 your advantage, you shall have. The Venetian ambas- 

 sador gave me five ells of silk; he will either give the 

 same to you, or you shall have the half of what he sent 

 me. So much concerning help. 



" As for the books on Consolation, your mind is in want 

 of moderation. In the first place, do not cherish sorrow 



