92 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF 



'^ ' Since it is my lot to be here [Stockholm], where 

 I have been ever since I did come from England, by 

 that act of banishment, and resolve, God willing, to 

 stay here, till it please God to send better times ; out 

 of the acquaintance I have formerly had with you, I 

 am bold to entreat you to acquaint me with what effect 

 those three treatises have taken ; and if they be prac- 

 ticable, communicate your knowledge with your old 

 friend. But if, for lack of patrons, such talents lie so 

 long hid [1651-1654], if the gentleman that writes to 

 you, or any instructed or taught by him, will do me the 

 favour to come hither to Sweden, I will find him 

 patrons, that will afford him a plentiful maintenance/ 



^^The letter is dated Stockholm , the 21st of January, 

 1654. I should be wilKng to part with him into Swe- 

 den, or any other place which he could fancy : as to his 

 invention of motion, of which I am no more so fond as 

 I was wont to be. Not that there is any defect in the 

 said invention, but, according to the saying of Terence, 

 Tcsdit harum quotidianarum formarum, there appearing 

 a far greater beauty and perfection in some other in- 

 ventions of the same kind, which are going through my 

 hands at this present j of which I shall be able to give 

 you a more particular account shortly, there being 

 already a reference made by his Highness, for a patent 

 for 14 years. But that other part of his public and private 

 usefulness, as to all the parts of husbandry (I speak 

 still of Mr. Dymock), is now the more to be regarded. 



