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a macula mendove cognomen est 1) . Potest hoc sine illius injuria et damno fieri; sunt
enim jam omnia ejus exemplaria distracta, integrumque tibi est, etiam si spem
aliquam illi feceris edendi aliquando per illum tua omnia, hanc interim gratiam huic
facere, qui nullus dubitat, quin et illa nostra hac formâ excusa etiam emptores suos
invenerint, antequam ista tuorum operum poeticorum moles in publicum prodeat 2) .
Bene etiam sic uterque meruerimus de illis, qui quidem hujus generis scriptis et
lusibus afficiuntur, sed, quia Deus illis non obtulit parcâ, quod satis est, manu 3) ,
amant editionem, quae parabilior est, uti Venusinus noster facilem et non magno
prognatum consule, etc. 4) Neque inconcinnum erit - nisi non pateris, quod argutos
inter strepat anser olores 5) - si haec conjuncta haberi possint, tum propter argumenti
paritatem, tum quod multa in meis fit Vitaulij tui mentio, quod ego dominam illic facio,
cujns illa sunt pedissequa. Neque erit, cur aegre hoc ferat illa, si eidem pelli utraque
insuatur. Videmus illas, quas demoiselles suivantes vocant, tousjours en la
compagnie de leur[s] dames et maistresses, includi eodem corio, vehi eodem pilento
aut carpento, rhedâ, essedo, lectica, admitti ad mensam, cubile, nisi quod propter
dominum dormire non fert domina. Sine per me hoc impetret civis hic honestus et
probus et qui sufferre sumptus et expensas has queat. Vale, vir maxime, et si me
amas, annue petitioni meae 6) . In Ockenb., V Cal. Majas (= 27 Apr.) CIƆIƆCLIV.
5351. Percy 7)
. (H.A).
The acquaintance I have had with you and the civilityes and respects I receaved in
Holland gives me greate confidence to make this addresse to you, being assured
that your communications to the rest of his Hig ns Councell will be more satisfactory
than if I writt to them apart. Since my returne from Chateau Renard I have bin under
such a continuall indisposition as till this instant I was not in a condition to give any
perticuler account of the place, nor indeed to doe that I much desired, which is to
make my acknowledgements both to you and them for the dispatches of those things
that concerned mee, wherein I doe understand by the advertissements I receaved
from mylord Culpeper 8) , how much I am obleeged to you all, which I will endeavour
to continue. My last stay there was so short, that more then view the place almost
I could not, which was enough to find that Mons. Vaufin 9) had discharged the duty
he owed to his Master very infav[er]ously ill in his keeping the castle and gardens
both, which are ruinouse, but the garden to such a degree as if the Lorraine troopes
had quartered there, it could not have bin worse, and perticuler the grove of trees,
that were an ornament to both, house and gardens, they have ..... 10) to make firing.
I must alsoe observe that the ditches about the house are so overgrowne with weeds
as they stopp the currant of the waters in the winter and casts them with much
violence uppon the howse, by which it has receaved much prejudice already, and
1) Adriaan Vlacq, die in 1653 Huygens' Hofwyck en later verscheidene andere werken van hem
heeft uitgegeven.
2) Eerst in 1658 zijn de Koren-bloemen uitgegeven.
3) Hor., Od., III, 16, vs. 43.
4) Hor., Sat., I, 2, vs. 70.
5) Verg., Ecl., 9, vs. 36.
6) Huygens heeft blijkbaar in dat verzoek niet toegestemd; Hofwyck en Ockenburgh zijn niet
samen uitgegeven.
7) Zie No. 5349.
8) Zie I, blz. 333.
9) T.a.p., blz. 322.
10) Onleesbaar.
Constantijn Huygens, Briefwisseling. Deel 5: 1649-1663