224 LETTERS FROM THE BACOMANA. 



Nisi forte speciatim tuo nomine suggerere libet, isti loco 

 inserenda in cautelam, et ne quid gloria celeberrimi viri de- 

 trahat vel malignitas, vel inconsideratum studium. Si me 

 fata meis pateretttur ducere vitam auspiciis, in Angliam 

 evolarem, ut quicquid Verulamianse ofticinae servas in scri- 

 niis tuis ineditum, coram inspicerem, et oculos saltern habe- 

 rem arbitros, si possessio negetur mercis nondum publicee. 

 Nunc vota impatientis desiderii sustentabo spe aliquando 

 videndi, qua? fidiis mandata latebris occasionem exspectant 

 ut tut6 in lucem educantur, non enecentur suffocato partu. 

 Utinam interim videre liceat apographum epistolae ad Hen- 

 ricum Savilium circa adjumenta facultatum intellectualium ; 

 cetera enim Latina3 monetae persuadeor statione sua mo- 

 veri non posse in temporarium usum. Vale. 



Trajecti ad Mosam, 

 Martii 20, S. N. Cl^ I^C LV. 



The same in English, by the Publisher. 



To the Reverend William Rawley, D. D. Isaac Gruter 



wisheth much health. 

 Reverend Sir, 



It is not just to complain of the slowness of your answer, 

 seeing that the difficulty of the passage, in the season in 

 which you wrote, which was towards winter, might easily 

 cause it to come no faster ; seeing likewise there is so much 

 to be found in it which may gratify desire, and perhaps so 

 much the more the longer it was ere it came to my hands. 

 And although I had little to send back, besides my thanks 

 for the little index,* yet that seemed to me of such moment 

 that I would no longer suppress them : especially because I 

 acounted it a crime to have suffered Mr. Smithf to have 



* A note of some papers of the Lord Bacon s in D. R/s 

 hands. 



t Of Christ s College, in Cambridge, and keeper of the 

 public library there. 



