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Publius Vati••ius Imperator, to his friend Cicero. Ep. 9.

IF you be in health, I am pleas••d, my selfe am in health. If you t••••e vpon you m••ns defence, as your custome was: Pub••ius V••••inius, hauing n••ed o•• defence, ha••h recourse to your protecti∣on. I hope that you will n••t refuse me in matters, wherin my honor is touch't, hauing accepted of me in those which lesse imported. And whom should I ra∣ther choose or call vnto in my de••••nce, then him vnder whose protectiō, I haue beene accustomed to ••uercome? should I peraduenture fe••re, that you, who for my saf••ty expos'd your selfe agai••st ••he violence of mightie persons, are not now able to ressi••t, the bad and wicked practises of some, who are as vo••d•• of force, as fraught wi•••• 〈◊〉〈◊〉? where∣fore, if you loue me, as y••u were wont;

embra••e me, and prepare your selfe, to defend my reputation against such as these. You know that my fortune, •• can∣not tell ••ell 〈…〉〈…〉 manner, easily findes adue••saries, not vpon my dem••rit: but what auailes that, if i•• happen by my vnluckie fortune? I pray you, if any man would wrong my reputation, forget not your old custome, and make manifest vnto me your court••ous disposition, as euer you haue done, since first I came into this gouernment. I send vnto you a coppie of the letter, which I sent vnto the Senate, by way of aduertisement, of things by me atchieued. 'Tis told me, that a seruant of yours, is run from you, and that now, he is amongst the Vardaei, whereof you wrote nothing to me; notwithstanding I haue commaunded him to be searcht for, by sea and land; and I'le finde him you out howsoeuer, except he be fled into Dalmatia: from whence I'le fetch him too, at last. Loue me and Farewell. In the Campe at Narona, this xiij. of Iulie.