able conditions, with which you are endowed beyond the common cuſtom of others; I ſay nothing of thoſe ancient monuments of your eminent nobility, the treaſures of your riches, both old, and new, the largneſs of your dominion, the ornaments of the ſacred dignities, with the excellency whereof you excel, together with the comely form, and ſtrength of the body. Through all theſe things be very great, yet I eſteem you far greater then all theſe, for thoſe your Heroick, and ſuperilluſtrious vertues, by which you truly have cauſed, that byhow much the more any one is learned, & loves vertue, ſo much the more he may deſire to inſinuate himſelf into your favor, whence I alſo am reſolved that your favor ſhall be obtained by me, but after the manner of the people of Parthia, i.e. not without a preſent, which cuſtom of ſaluting Princes, is indeed derived from the Ages of the Ancients, unto theſe very times, and ſtill we ſee it obſerved. And when I ſee certain other very learned men to furniſh you with fair, and great preſents of their learning, leaſt I only ſhould be a neglecter of your worſhip
