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I know not whether your return to our accustomed conferences hath really been later than usual, or whether the desire of hearing the thoughts of Salviatus, touching a matter so curious, hath made me think it so: But I have tarried a long hour at this window, expecting every moment when the Gondola would appear that I sent to fetch you.

I verily believe that your imagination more than our tarriance hath prolonged the time: and to make no longer demurre, it would be well, if without interposing more words, we came to the matter it self; and did shew, that nature hath permitted (whether the business in rei veritate be so, or else to play