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TO MARCUS VELSERUS, One of the two Governours of AUSBURG. HENRY WOTTON wishing health.
SIR,
I Have vvritten to you heretofore sometimes in private, but have a concern upon me now to do it also in publick, of vvhich (vvith your permissi∣on) I desire thus to inform you.
At the last Frankefurt Mart there vvas set to sale a certain Book of Bulk (vvhich often gives the value) not inconsiderable. And it bore this Inscription:
Jaspar Scioppius his Ecclesiasticus: opposed to the Authority of the most Serene Lord King James—vvherein as vvith Arguments for the most part new, and in a vvay hitherto by no man trac'd—And so on vvith the like modesty.
The Composer of this VVork, in his begging Scraps all about, I know not by vvhat means, seems to have lighted on a merry definition of an Ambassador, vvhich above eight years before pas∣sing by that vvay, I had chanced to set down at my Friend's Mr. Christopher Fleckamor, in his Album of