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were printed. Experience will shew you, you were no looser by the <strong>de</strong>lay. And yet,<br />

since you have <strong>de</strong>sired to see these trifles, doe so much for the autors sake as to<br />

peruse them en passant. I am sure, whatsoever wanteth in the composition, will be<br />

supplyed by the execution, if you will vouchsafe to lend it your most excelent royall<br />

tiorba. Or else, if you will bee so good to us one day, as to come where you may<br />

heare mylady Swanne and me make a reasonable beau bruict about some lessons<br />

of this booke. The Psalmes she most loveth and doth use to sing are named here<br />

in the margent 1) , as allso some of the songs. You must take the paines to lett me<br />

heare your censure upon everyone of them, if you will make me beleeve, you looked<br />

them over, and hold me still to bee, as I am for ever..... 20 Jan. 1654.<br />

5325. C. van Aerssen. (H.A.)<br />

Hierbij zend ik u van Morus 2) ‘une nouvelle production <strong>de</strong> sa veine’; wilt gij het stuk<br />

na lezing aan <strong>de</strong>n heer Brasset 3) teruggeven? De la Haye, ce 20 me <strong>de</strong> Janvi. 1654.<br />

5326. Aan graaf Lo<strong>de</strong>wijk Hendrik van Nassau 4)<br />

. (K.A.)<br />

Quos ad me dignatus es in gratiam D. Cyriaci Lentuli 5) clementissimas literas dare,<br />

ijs ego respon<strong>de</strong>re cupiam non tam verborum inanijs quam factis et obsequio, quali<br />

me non nuper obstrictum illustrissimae domui Nassavicae fateor libens meritoque.<br />

Cogitanti tamen cujusmodi a me opellam praestari viro eximio jubeas, mihi qui<strong>de</strong>m<br />

non occurrit quo testari valeam, quanti gloriam parendi fecerim, quotiescumque tibi,<br />

illustrissime domine, collibitum fuerit mandatis me tuis honestare. Nec ipse qui<strong>de</strong>m<br />

autor epistolâ ad me scriptâ eo collimare vi<strong>de</strong>tur, ut historiae, quam tractat,<br />

pertexendae quidquam a nobis suppeditetur, satis nimirum gnarus, res ab heroibus<br />

nostris publice gestas ex eorum commentarijs, qui in i<strong>de</strong>m argumentum complures<br />

hactenus incubuere, facile se edoceri posse, quin, ut ego mentem scriptoris capio,<br />

sustentando potius sibi et animando quod faciat, conferre Principem pupillum velit,<br />

quam ut schedulis situ foedis instruatur. Ea <strong>de</strong> re cum certiorem ego celsissimam<br />

Principem aviam feci, agnovit propensam viri eruditi voluntatem omni et Nassoviorum<br />

et Auriacorum favore dignam esse, neque obscure professa est, ubi aliquando ad<br />

umbilicum perductus ille labor luci publicae exponetur, curae sibi futurum, ut et<br />

nomine nepotis sui quâ par est humanitate excipiatur. De<br />

1) Nl. No. III-V, VII, IX, X, XIII, XVII, XVIII, XXII, XXIV, XXV, XXXIII en XXXV <strong>de</strong>r Pathodia.<br />

2) Zie IV, blz. 489.<br />

3) Zie I, blz. 345.<br />

4) Lo<strong>de</strong>wijk Hendrik van Nassau-Dillenburg (1594-1662) was in 1623 zijn va<strong>de</strong>r Georg als vorst<br />

opgevolgd.<br />

5) Cyriacus Lentulus was professor in <strong>de</strong> philologie te Herborn, daarna te Marburg. Het boek,<br />

waarvan hier sprake is, schijnt niet te zijn uitgekomen.<br />

Constantijn Huygens, Briefwisseling. Deel 5: 1649-1663

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