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 �532 APPENDICES

62 recto 1. I, for tyrannicutn read tyrannica.

€3 verso 1. 4, for retulissem read rettulisses.

e4 recto 1. 8» for deijcis read reijcis.

65 recto 1. 18, for exitnium read reuerrendissimimi.

e6 recto 1. 14, for infrendentis read frendentis.

e6 recto 1. 15, for minus satisfaciat read nulla s.

e6 verso L 2, for Nesis read Noli.

67 recto 1. i, for pius read peritus.

fi verso L 4, for turn si read turn ut

fi verso 1. ID, turn ut id perdiscas setiam after id add sit (?) siinuL

fi verso 1. II, for mutare read nutare.

f4 recto L 3, for superbie read superbericque.

f4 recto 1. 5, for amicus read amicorum.

f5 verso 1. 10, for humiliter read ciuiliter.

f6 verso L 16, for baud read non.

f8 recto 1. 3, omit per.

2. ERASMUS TO LOUIS BER.

Basle, January 26, 1527.

Thi« letter, hitherto unpublished, is contained in the collection of autographs of the Reformers and early Protestant theologians, gathered by the late Frederic A. Dreer, of Philadelphia, and now in the possession of the Pennsylvania Historical Society in that city. It is closely written on both sides of a single sheet, and both letter and envelope are in an excellent state of preservation. The letter is without address, but the address on the verso reads: "Absolutiss. theologo | Ludovico Bero | oposito, etc." Notes accompany the translation, supra, no. 75 j.

The letter reads as follows:

S. p. Epistola tua non minus erudita quam pia bonam tedii | partem abstersit ab animo meo, quod non perinde concepi | ex molestiis quas vel valetudo corporis adfert vel homi | num quorundem improbitas, atque ex publico orbis malo | quod videam rem christianam eo tendere quo mini | me velim eam pervenire. Sed admirandus in moderandis | subitoque vertendis rebus hominum artif ex, dominus, facit ut | non prorsus abjiciam spem letioris exitus, modo nos | agnoscaraus quod hec rerum tempestas nos vocat ad phi | losophiam Evangelicam, ne stultiores simus illo, qui | post naufragium gratias agebat fortune quod vel sic | ad sapiente studium invitaret. Ego certe ex tantis ma | lis mihi privatim nonihil conunodi decerpsi. Moliuntur | hie quidam at hec civitas in eodem sit statu quo est | Tigurinus, nee ullo pacto f erunt concionatorem vestrum | virum ut mihi videtur appositum ad docendum, minimeque | seditiosum. Sed habet ingens crimen quod dicit fre | quente auditorio. Quid nuper designavit Danus meus ar | bitror vos non latere. Si hec impune fiunt in civita | te quid opus est legibus? Nee hoc primum designa | vit ut sit quod excusetur. Neque tamen perinde casus | hie of- f endit, ut exemplum graviora minitans. Stom | achus his aliquot mensilnis

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