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BY your letters I easilie compre∣hend two things, which I haue al∣waies desired: one, that you g••eatlie esteeme me; another, that you know your selfe beloued of me: Let's there∣fore contend in courtesies one to ••no∣ther; wherein, whosoeuer remaines superior, I shall be equallie satisfied. I am glad that it was not nece••••••rie ••o deliu••r my letter to Acilius. I see you
haue had no great need of the Sulpicius offices; because your matters were so shefled vp together, that they haue as you write, neither hands nor feete. I would they had their feete, to the end that you might once returne, because you see, that those wittie and ingenious mottoes, so long in vse, are euery day more and more decaying, if wee few, preserue not the auncient Atticke glo∣rie: as Pomponius, who next to you, in promptnesse of wittie sayings, is the chiefest; and I after him, might deser∣uedly say. Come therefore, I pray you, to the end that the seed of wittie iests may not be destroyed, as the Com∣monwealeh is extinguished. Fare∣well.