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stringe are the ligaments and the tubes belonging 
to it. I shall be glad to see what yow call 
Echinus Cordatus Major, or the Marmaid’s Box, 
I suppose it is so tender it must be sent in a small 
buiste. I take it to be a sort of the Echinus 
Spatagus, however it is fitt to know the names 
the vulgar give, and their opinion of these things, 
tho’ they mistake oftine. I shall intreat I may 
not be named in the edition of the Christian poet, 
it will be tyme enough to mention that when it is 
a printing. Sedulius will be first published as 
being thought to be the better poet and a Scotch 
Man, and any proposall yow think fitt to make 
may be, for a new edition of Sedulius Scotus, his 
Mirabilia Dei, corrected from ane excellent 
Manuscript copie in parchment of betuixt six 
hundred and seeven hundred years old, done 
about the tenth age. This to be printed by Mr 
Andrew Simpson, on good paper, and a fine 
letter, in Octavo, with choice notes and prolego- 
mena concerning the author and the learned’s 
opinion of his work. It may take neer a quair of 
paper in print : the subscrivers to have it in sheets 
for twenty shillings Scots, they advancing pre- 
sently at their subscription the half, ten shillings 
Scots. If yow can gett about ane hundred sub- 
scrivers, Master Sympson will, upon your paying 
in fiftie pounds Scots, give yow securitie to 
deliver a hundred copies upon the payment of the 
