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Cicero to Marcus Fabius. Gallus. Ep. 25.

GRieue not that I rent your letter; for I haue kept it; and you may haue it, when you will. I thanke you for aduertising me; and I pray you to a••∣uertise me continually: For you seeme to feare, that if we haue other superior, then this man, our ioy, may change in∣to mourning. But doe you not see, that the Master comes, sooner then we thought? we must lay downe the pen∣sill: to the end that the praises giuen by vs to Cato, turne not to our preiudice. Be a••sured my Gallus, that, that part of your letter, could not haue beene set downe more to the purpose; where you say, o••her things are ••ransitorie. Heare this in secret: keepe it to your s••lfe: tell it not to Appella your freeman: no man writes after this manner, but we two. I doe not say, well, or ill; suffice it, that no man writes as we doe: pros••qu••••e then your style, and neuer giue it ouer. For 'tis that, which teacheth vs ••o speake well••; and I beginne to spend therein also a part of the night. Fare∣well.