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Cicero Imperator, to Coelius Aedile Curule. Ep. 11.
WOuld you euer thinke I could want words, and not you••s onely so elegant, but euen those vulgar [termes] that ordinarilie passe betwixt vs? yet this want doe I finde: for, in that I am much troubled with the feare of what will be resolued on, about the Prouinces; I am exceeding desiro••s ••o returne to Rome: I can forbeare the sight of my friends no longer: I am in∣comparablie wearie of my Prouince: ei••her because I haue alreadie purcha∣sed such fame, that I need not so much labour to augment it, as feare, least Fortune diminish it; or in that thi•• employment, is not propo••tion••∣ble to my forces, which can, and ha••e susteyned farre waightier burdens o•• the Common-weal••h; or else in very deed, because an hot warre is lookt ••or, which may be auoyded, as I suppose, if I be suff••red to depart at the time ap∣pointed. As for your Panthers, I haue spoken to diuers who t••ke them, that they should by all means get me some: but th••y light on so few now, as 'tis wonderfull; and they too, as men com∣monly say, complaine exceedingly, that all th••ngs are secure in my prou••nce