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 conditions, with which you are endowed beyond the common cutom of others; I ay nothing of thoe ancient monuments of your eminent nobility, the treaures of your riches, both old, and new, the largnes of your dominion, the ornaments of the acred dignities, with the excellency whereof you excel, together with the comely form, and trength of the body. Through all thee things be very great, yet I eteem you far greater then all thee, for thoe your Heroick, and uperillutrious vertues, by which you truly have caued, that byhow much the more any one is learned, & loves vertue, o much the more he may deire to ininuate himelf into your favor, whence I alo am reolved that your favor hall be obtained by me, but after the manner of the people of Parthia, i.e. not without a preent, which cutom of aluting Princes, is indeed derived from the Ages of the Ancients, unto thee very times, and till we ee it oberved. And when I ee certain other very learned men to furnih you with fair, and great preents of their learning, leat I only hould be a neglecter of your worhip