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TO WILLIAM GONELL 551 1514] Dama procerem fecit. Equum remisi ; mone saepius vt pater eum bene tractet. Est apud me quod putem tibi gratum fore, sed mirum quanta hic scriptorum inopia. Bene vale, charissime Gonelle, 15 D. Greanum meis verbis saluta. [Anno millesimo quingentesimo decimoquinto. | 288. To ANTONY or BERGEN, London. 14 March 1513. Auctarium p. 62. PF. p. 114: HN: Lond. ii. 28: LB. 144. [1514, because Erasmus has heard of the delivery of the messages sent in Ep. 273; also subsequent to the election of Leo x on 11 March 1513. This letter was translated into German by George Spalatinus and printed, in six quarto leaves without printer's name or date (probably 1514), with the title Herre Erasmus Roterdamus Epistel zu herr Antony von Berg, Apt zu Sant Bertin, von den manigfältigen schäden des Kriegs und was übels, nachteyls und unwesens usz den Kriegen erwechszt. It was afterwards expanded into the Adage, Dulce bellum inexpertis, which was inserted in the Froben edition of 1515, as No. 3001, and was printed separately by Froben in April 1517 and later. There is a copy of Spalatinus’ translation in the University Library at Basle.] DES, ERASMVS ROTERODAMVS CLARISSIMO D. AC REVERENDO IN CHRISTO PATRI D. ANTONIO A BERGIS ABBATI SANCTI BERTINI S. D. ORNATISSIME pater, ex oratione Episcopi Dunelmensis et Andreae Ammonii, secretarii regii, cognoui studium in me tuum planeque paternum quendam amorem; quo magis gestio me patriae restituere, si modo detur a Principe fortuna quae possit ociolum nostrum alere. Non quod mihi displiceat Britannia aut Mecoenatium poeniteat. Sunt et hic amici complures, multorum episcoporum non vulgaris in me benignitas ; tum vero Cantuariensis Archiepiscopus sic me fouet, sic complectitur vt, si frater esset aut si pater esset, non possit amantius. Ex huius dono pensionem habeo sacerdotio resignato satis amplam. Tantundem addit alter ille Mecoenas de suo; accedit non 10 parum ex procerum benignitate, multoque plus accederet, si vel pauon lulum ambire velim. 287. 13. Dama] The non tressis agaso of Pers. 5. 76 seq.; cf. Adag. 711. Brandon was regarded at this time as an upstart ; but when these letters were published, he had risen to great power, and the passage was therefore omitted. 15. scriptorum] Cf. Ep. 292. 3-7. The same complaint is made at Cambridge in Ep. 246. 5, 6. 16, Greanum] Probably Thos. Grene, who was Master of Catharine Hall in 1507, B.D., and in 1523 Vice-Chancellor. See Athen. Cantabrig. i. 32. It 288. 1. H: Dulnemensis D. appears from Ep. 289 that at this time he was one of the commissaries or assessors in the Vice-Chancellor’s court. Gonell, writing from London to Cambridge in Dec. 1517, sends a message to Grene complaining of his silence (Record Office, S.P. Henry vint, $ 12, No. 278); but Brewer in his abstract (ii. App. 17) calls him ‘Grey. 288. 8. vt, si frater] Cf. Ep. 253. 12 n. 9. pensionem] Cf. Ep. 255 introd. zo, alter] Mountjoy; cf, Epp. 287. 1 and 296. 130, 1.
