2 LETTERS ON SCIENTIFIC SUBJECTS. 



honours favour to speake playnelye as I thinke, I suppose 

 that here aliquid latet quod non apparet. For as this sute, 

 for dyvers consyderations, at the first dyd not greatly like 

 me, yet perceavinge his ernestnesse therein, for the safe- 

 garde of his kinsmans life and gratifying his frendes, I, no 

 lesse willing therin to do hym pleasure, also was well con- 

 tented to assent to his request, and to stande to his appoynt- 

 ment ; not suspecting his frendeshippe, but rather commend- 

 ing his wysdome, so to doo for his frende as therwith not to 

 forget hym selfe, quia nihll sapit qui sibi non sapit. But if at 

 that tyme I might so boldelye have presumed uppon your 

 honours favour, as by your ernestnesse in my behalfe I nowe 

 perceave I might have doune, I wolde have moved your 

 Honour of an honester sute (for a lease to be had at the 

 Queenes hands) whereof I made hym privie, and was longe 

 sense so mynded to have donne, but that he deterred me 

 frome the same, alleaging certen commissionars to have the 

 doinges therof, and that therfore no suche thing might be 

 had at her Majesties handes : albeit, I have sythens harde 

 of dyvers that have obteyned the like. Notwithstanding (as 

 in my former letters I wrotte to your honour) my meaning is 

 so to move your honour hereof, as neyther to be an impor- 

 tunate suter, or otherwise to thinke the same to be Mowed 

 then shall see me good unto your honour, unto whose will I 

 submitte myselfe in all thinges ; only putting your honour 

 in remembruance of the commodious place and tyme that I 

 nowe enjoy e for that purpose : for the conty nuance wherof, I 

 was a suter unto your Honour for your letters unto the gen- 

 tleman (my frende) in whose house I yet remayne, who also 

 being one that favoureth learninge and my greate frende, and 

 no lesse gladde to further so good a purpose, is well wdlling 

 the rather to my use to departe frome a piece of his commo- 

 ditie, in suche sorte as appeareth by the byll herein inclosed. 

 Whereof further to advertyse your honour, if you shall so 

 thinke it convenient, he will himselfe repayre unto your ho- 

 nour to give you perfecte informacion of alle thinges as 

 touching the same. And wheras the M r of Savoye tolde me 

 that your honour sumwhat doubted that the booke coulde 

 not be translated into the Englisshe toonge, I assure your 

 honour that this I dare saye without arrogancie, that to 

 translate the variable historic of Plinie into our toonge, I 

 wolde be ashamed to borowe so muche of the Latine as he 

 dothe of the Greke ; althowgh the Latine toonge be accompted 

 ryche, and the Englysshe indigent and barbarous, as it hathe 

 byn in tyme past muche more then it nowe is, before it was 

 enriched and amplyfied by sundry bookes in maner of all 



