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ckaehtsi of Mercury, made after foft tertium qmrttimve a quo Je» 
a . certain manner, did the third pofueram annum adea cum Auro 
or fourth year after I had laid incaluip, uf ne adurcret manum 
it by grow fo hot with Gold, mcAm timerem. 
that I feared 't would have burnt 
my hand. 
7hus far the Author to hk Hadenus Author nofter ad 
Friend: But when he fent me the Amicum fuum : Sed cum mihi 
Paper, he accompanied ; it with Chart ilias mitteret, voluiteas 
the following lines,; [equenti mantifia locupletare ; 
1 3. I have little at prefent to Nen diu te morabor dijferendo 
fay to you about the Papers de chart is hie junCHs: Dicam 
which this flieet accompanies, folummoduj unam ex fracipuis 
fave that one of the chief Rea- rationthas^ qud^ 'tnvulgandis pr/n- 
fons that makes me backward grejfis Ohfervationthus cunUa- 
to have the foregoing Obferva- bundum me faciunt , hanc ejfe^ 
tions communicated to the Cu- quodvereor^nos hoc ipfo variis ctr* 
rious is, that I fear , we may ca Me r curium hunc gtt^jlionibas 
thereby .procure divers Que- forte Soilicitatiomhus anfum 
ries and perhaps Requefts, (re- datu^os , qu.ts omni Jludio prdca^ 
lating to this Mercury) which verevelim, cum ob alias ^ turn 
I would by all means avoid, for hanc ob caufrmy -quod magna ma- 
divers ReafonSjand particularly mum mearum debtUtas me im- 
for this, that a great weaknefs pdit^ quo minm meamet manu 
of that part difables me to write id confignare Uteris valeam, quod 
with my own hand, and I know, confinbi Amanuenfis tpera con- 
you will not think it fit, I fliould fu/tum hand judicaveris. JPro- 
about fuch a fubjefl: employ indeque concedere baud poffum^ 
that of an jdmanuenfis. And fcriptum hoc e manibm tuis di- 
therefore I cannot confenr, mitti^ niji rationem juggeras fro* 
this Paper fliould go out of babilem^ qua fecurum me praftes 
your hands, unlefsyoucanthink molejiia, atque ab ingrata ne- 
on fome likely courfe to fecure cejfitate repulfam dandi nan- 
me from trouble, and from the mllis ^ dum aliis obfecundare 
unwelcom neceffity cf difobli- fiudeo. Hac cautela Ji utaris^ 
ging fome, whilfi: I endeavour potero ampltfjima tua confuetu- 
to gratifie others. If this prse- dinis benefcio citra moleftiam 
caution be ufed , I may fafely edoceri/quid ii, qui tantdperitia 
learn by means of your diffus'd tantoque judicio vaknt , ut in 
Ac- hoc 
