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1514 | TO SERVATIUS ROGERUS 571 alicui episcopo me potius adiungerem, addens se nosse et animum meum et suorum fraterculorum mores; nam iis vtebatur verbis lingua vernacula. Et in hoc vitae genere in quo sum, video quae fugiam, sed quid potius sequar non video. 170 Nune restat vt de ornatu quoque tibi satisfaciam. Semper antehac vsus sum cultu canonicorum, et ab Episcopo Traiectino, cum essem Louanii, impetraui vt sine scrupulo yterer scapulari lineo pro veste linea integra, et capitio nigro pro pallio nigro, juxta morem Lutetiorum. Cum autem adirem Italiam videremque 175 toto itinere canonicos nigra veste vti cum scapulari, ne quid offenderem nouitate cultus, veste nigra illic vti coepi cum scapulari, Postea pestis orta est Bononiae, et illie qui curant peste laborantes linteum album ex humero pendens ex more gestant; hi congressus hominum fugitant. Itaque cum die 180 quodam doctum amicum viserem, quidam nebulones eductis gladiis parabant me inuadere, et fecissent, ni matrona quaedam admonuisset ecclesiasticum me esse. Altero item die cum Thesaurarii filios adirem, vndique cum fustibus in me concurrerunt, et pessimis clamoribus adorti sunt. Itaque a bonis viris 185 admonitus occultaui scapulare, et impetraui veniam a Pontifice Tulio secundo vt ornatu religionis vterer aut non vterer, vt mihi yisum esset, modo haberem vestem sacerdotalem ; et si quid ante peccatum esset ea in re, iis litteris id totum condonauit. In Italia ergo perseueraui in veste sacerdotali, ne mutatio esset 190 alicui scandalo. Postquam autem in Angliam redii, decreui meo 168. et aBd: ac y. 169. Et... 170. fugiam om. y. 170. quid y: quos a: quod £. 172. sum om. y. 174. capitio Byd: caputio a. nigro om. ay post pallio. 175. Lutetiorum Byò : Lutesiorum a. adirem 85 : abirem a. 176. nigra aBy : magna È. vti add. y. 179. humero ay: humeris 88. pendens aò: dependens y. 180. hifyé: Hiia. congressus aßð: congressum y. 182. et fecissent £: fecissent aô : fecissentque y. 183. admonuisset By5: admonuissent a. item aßð: autem y. 184. vndique aßy : vtrinque ð cum add. dò. 185. etom. B. adorti sunt add. y. 186. Pontifice om. ò. 187. secundo Po ana i y. aut yò: an a. 189. iis ay : iis, aliter iisdem £: om. ò. id om. ay?ò. 190. in om. ò. 191. Postquam a85: Posteaquam y. autem om. ay. meo yò: me a. 178. Bononiae] Cf. iv. 112 seq. and Lond. xxiv. 5, LB. App. 442. 184. Thesaurarii] Cf. Ep. 2or. 2 n. 186. veniam] This dispensation was probably obtained in 1507. The plague which occasioned it perhaps broke out in the spring of that year, since there is no allusion to it in the letters of 135 nn.). In ll. 189, 90 infra Erasmus shows that he enjoyed liberty in the matter for some while before leaving Italy. See also Ep. 226. ron. For the subsequent dispensation obtained from Leo x in 1516-7 see Vischer, Brasmiana, section iii. 197. Angliam] The Apologia referred the preceding or following autumn. Beatus Rhenanus (iv. 131-8) seems to imply that it was obtained before Erasmus went to Venice; though in his own mind he doubted whether any formal document had been actually received from Julius (iv. 132 and to inii. 134 n., f°. ¢, shows that English Austin canons, when not domiciled in houses of their order, had ceased to wear the strict habit. At that time Erasmus was resenting the necessity which had constrained himinEngland; cf. Horawitz, Erasmus undM. Lipsius, p.23.
