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Show tM tltiDrials 1/ ufe there-of. This, I think, hapfen'd t~ me, when 1 fent abroad the Ep1grams., wherewith 1 gratulated my felf ; ai 1f they ought not to be Ca~tives, .when 1 was freed. So, they came flrft 1nto the hands of my Ftiends , then to . yours , mofl eminent Sir, whofe ceniure the -moft ferious wo~ks may be afraid of. 'Twas much, you read them once=. but your Defir.:: is to keep them , wrmen with my own hand. Truly, the molt pleafam Flowers have but a fhort )Jeauty: and things that commend themlelves at · -firft fight, if you eye them much and oft, breed i~niety and difdain. Yet I mufi fulfill your defire , feeing w\thout any defcrt of mine, you have fo engaged me by your Humanity, th~t I o~ght rather to be immodeR than dtfobedient, Take therefore what you ask: but take them, I pray, not as V erfes, but as a teftimony of che divine favour and mercy to me. that was pleas'd I 0\ould fpring_from.a . /Che!l as from the Womb, and rile agam as 'twere out of my Coffin, and gave me an aufpicious token of the life to come' by delivering me from the confines of a moA: miferable death. How joyfully he paft hu tims in France what a concourfe of learned men there W' tU unto him' w ha t J1a: vour he found among the Nobility and 9reat ~f: ficers of State' and with the Kt~g h1111 Jelf, from whom he had Protteffon' Anl a 'Ptnfion for divers years; what cor.;. refPondence he held 61 Letters with hi.r ab]ent learned Frienels, Peireskius, Salmafius; and others; How he w~tt admitted into the hofom of the grt~tt {'haneel/ or oj Suedia, Oxen !tern, and advanced to he Embaff'ador into France for thar'Kingdome; thefe things (that I may not retard the Prefs) I Jhalll~ave the A6Lt: 'l(sader to pick om of our .Author· s Epiftl~.r * • . Onely ,_You. ]hall hear him* I: pill. ~ tell hM Frund PeueskiUs t the news G•lJos ex ofof hu ..Advancement, in thk loving ficinaElzevir. fi'Janner: I648. fiuem- IN~odrtm all- . ttm h.u lld 61/J11s j4m ha.bts meo hnzt(icio, .P 1Jicijfim nlicui, Groti411i 11ominu :t ~ bo114u~m rerum fludiojo, Meat, 91144 11d ltlgtlt4 , Gt~anos Sue, os, ~Anos, :4~glos'.Italos, allofi.t(c_ripftt fort inftnit~t~, U:veflzgut, nee tmr.st~ 111Vlaert,,~gens bm;te fr.ugzs, & nobis plurim.u ex dit~erjiJ 'E.uropte orH accepttt~ J.tm po(fidtntJbm, ac AJ tdtndlt4 ompe.spart~tis, Jr .. tiJ!i.m~s.Jutu,us t{l ~&~rvtt!· Przf .. ad ~.efr. t Vide~ fi plactt (urlltm lmrat"1um .-tmzc,, 'l'{.1,ol4l Pems(u 11itam, per G~m. 11 ~ * You that have heretofore afforded* l!.pift. J6S'. eompaffion and faithfull comforts to my·~ Ni'Q, .F•br~ Adverficy, have heard of the Amendment m~m P.ezrefii-: of my Fortunes with joy, I doubt not. :r 'M~~ . Though the Fame hereof hath prevented I6jf. ' · my Le~ter, yet I thought it was my duty ~· to figntfie to One who hath merited fo ·a t t much of Me , and of all Learnihg· ar.d·' ;,j • ... learned Men, that I am fent ' hither :t ·c ' · Embaffadour of the Q.ueen and KinO'~ . ~oine of St~tedetr: ,. and fO beiri& cxtric~• · • ctd out of the dii.ords both of t;y Coud.; . A a a l: try |