Mr. Wray to Mr. Lifter, 



Mr. Wray to Mr. Lifter, Fellow of St. 

 John's College, Cambridge. 



SIR, 



A R rived here (viz. at Cambridge) I found a Let- 

 ter from you, the reading whereof gave me no 

 fmall content, it containing Expreffions fo %nificant 5 

 and full of heat and as certainly nothing but 



fincere Love could diftate 5 fure they muft needs be 

 a true Copy of your Mind, and not Words of Courfe 

 and Complement 1 Only I could wifh you had been 

 more fparing in what refers to my Commendation 5 

 for though I would not refufe the Teftimony and 

 Praife of Perfons who are themfelves Praife- worthy, 

 where there is juft Ground and Reafon for it 5 yet 

 not when it exceeds the Merit of any thing I dare 

 own, nor for fuch Qualities as I am not conlcious to 

 my felf of ; which grofs felf Flattery muft needs much 

 blind me if I did not quickly difcern to proceed ra- 

 ther from Affe&ion than Judgment. I rejoyce much 

 that you ftill purfue the Study of Nature, not only 

 becaufeof the propenfity I my felf have to it, and 

 confequently to love fuch as agree with me 5 but al- 

 fo becaufe I judge you to be a Perfon, to fpeak mo- 

 deftly, as well qualified as any I know in England for 

 fuch an undertaking 5 and fo likely to make the great- 

 eft Advance and Improvement, you having taken the 

 rightCourfe and Method 5 that is, to fee with your own 

 Eyes, not relying lazily on the Dictates of any Maf- 

 ter but your felf, comparing things with Books, and 

 fo learning as much as can be known of them. I do 

 not wonder a Man fo inquifitivc fhould make fome 

 Additions to the Cambridge Catalogue. Hier actum rec- 

 tum rigidumi it's not unlikely you might find about 

 BurweMh but it feems fomewhat ftrange you ihould 

 there meet with Alchimilfa vulgaris^ I having not to 



my 



