60 MEMOIR OF 



stringe are the ligaments and the tubes belonging 

 to it. I shall be glad to see what yow call 

 Echinus Cordatus Major, or the Marmaid's Box, 

 I suppose it is so tender it must be sent in a small 

 buiste. I take it to be a sort of the Echinus 

 Spatagus, however it is fitt to know the names 

 the vulgar give, and their opinion of these things, 

 tho* they mistake oftine. I shall intreat I may 

 not be named in the edition of the Christian poet, 

 it will be tyme enough to mention that when it is 

 a printing. Sedulius will be first published as 

 being thought to be the better poet and a Scotch 

 Man, and any proposall yow think fitt to make 

 may be, for a new edition of Sedulius Scotus, his 

 Mirabilia Dei, corrected from ane excellent 

 Manuscript copie in parchment of betuixt six 

 hundred and seeven hundred years old, done 

 about the tenth age. This to be printed by Mr 

 Andrew Simpson, on good paper, and a fine 

 letter, in Octavo, with choice notes and prolego- 

 mena concerning the author and the learned's 

 opinion of his work. It may take neer a quair of 

 paper in print : the subscrivers to have it in sheets 

 for twenty shillings Scots, they advancing pre- 

 sently at their subscription the half, ten shillings 

 Scots. If yow can gett about ane hundred sub- 

 scrivers, Master Sympson will, upon your paying 

 in fiftie pounds Scots, give yow socuritie to 

 deliver a hundred copies upon the payment of the 



