Reliquiae Wottonianae, or, A collection of lives, letters, poems with characters of sundry personages : and other incomparable pieces of language and art : also additional letters to several persons, not before printed / by the curious pencil of the ever memorable Sir Henry Wottan ...

About this Item

Title: Reliquiae Wottonianae, or, A collection of lives, letters, poems with characters of sundry personages : and other incomparable pieces of language and art : also additional letters to several persons, not before printed / by the curious pencil of the ever memorable Sir Henry Wottan ...
Author: Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639.
Publication: London :: Printed by T. Roycroft for R. Marriott, F. Tyton, T. Collins and J. Ford,; 1672.
Rights/Permissions: To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.
Link to this Item: http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A67127.0001.001
Cite this Item: "Reliquiae Wottonianae, or, A collection of lives, letters, poems with characters of sundry personages : and other incomparable pieces of language and art : also additional letters to several persons, not before printed / by the curious pencil of the ever memorable Sir Henry Wottan ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A67127.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 5, 2024.

Pages

To Doctor C.

Worthy Sir,

IT is one of the wonders of the World unto me, how your Letters come so slowly; which if either themselves or their Bearers knew how welcome they are, would flie. I speak this both by some other before, and by your last or the 19. of December, which was almost nine days on the way: and I hope the Scene of Scotland much changed in the mean while to the better.

But to let go exotick matter, if that may be so termed, I must congratulate with you your actual possession of the Place of the — For although your own Merit was (before you had it) in their judge∣ments that understand you, a kind of present in∣vesture; yet I learned long since of our old Ma∣ster at Oxford, That Actus is better then Potentia: which yet, I hope, will not divert you from your Philosophical Profession, wherein I know no man of sweeter or sounder ability. And so, Sir, I rest,

Very truly and affectionately, at your Command, H. WOTTON.