Quintus Cicero to his Tiro. Epist. 26.
HAuing receiu'd another Packet, without your letters, I silently complained of you. You will not bee able, to exempt your selfe from the penalty of this offence. Mar••u•• must defend you, and studie well too vpon the matter: and yet I cannot tell how he will proue, that you haue not com∣mitted an error. When I was a little one, I remember our mother, would cause euen the emptie butts to bee ••••••∣led: because, if any of the full were by stealth drunke out, they might not say, 'twas one of the emptie ones; and I would haue you doe the like. Though you haue nothing whereof to write,