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16 LETTERS OF ERASMUS [1814
Habes epistolam et prolixam et ineptam, sed quae tibi ingrata
esse non potest, vépote ab tui amantissimo profecta. ‘ Theodoricus
Alustensis chalcographus, qui Enchiridion et Panaegyricum im¬
150 pressit, orauit me vti se commendarem tuae humanitati. Cupiuit
plurimum videre te, cupiuit hospicio comiter ac liberaliter excipere,
et ea de causa Antwerpiam profectus, vt resciuit te non illic sed
Louanii esse, ilico recurrit ac totam ambulans noctem venit postridie
Hl Louanium sesquihora ferme postquam abiuisses. Si qua in re potest
155 tibi gratificari, omnia pollicetur, et haud scio an omnium hominum
viuat homo tui amantior. Catonem abs te castigatum mihique
| creditum castigate impressit, me erratorum vindice. Eam operam
| magistro Ioanni Neuio, Lilianorum gymnasiarchae, vti iussisti,
| dicaui; qui te ob hoc beneficium ita complectitur, vt qum redieris,
| 160 sis profusissime sensurus. Si aliquam tuarum aeditionum domino
Meynardo, abbati Egmondano, Mecenati meo, dicaueris, certo scio
gratissimum illi futurum et beneficium haud illiberaliter pensaturum.
Quod vt facias, te eciam atque eciam oro. Hollandus est et religionis
Hollandicae primas, vir doctus quidem, sed religiosior tamen quam
165 doctior, tametsi doctos omnes non mediocriter amet, et qui tibi, si
vsu veniat, multis in rebus possit esse auxilio.
Bene vale, doctissime mihique multo charissime Erasme. Louanii.
147. et prolixam et a: prolixam ac By. 148. profecto y. 149, Alustensis
chalcographus a : Martinus Alustensis, calchographus noster 8. 150. com¬
mendem fy. 151. comiter ac om. By. 152. a: Antuerpiam 82: Anuerpiam
By. 159. ob aB: vt +. 160. profusissime a: aliquando By. Sie ora
161. Mecenati a: Hditionum tuarum si aliquam domino Abbati Haeemundensi
patrono By. 161. certo om. By. 163. religionis . . . primas á : Hollandiae
| nostrae primas religionis By. 166. Nomen eius est Menardus Vir post auxilio
| add. By. 167. Bene om. By. Louanii om. By.
152. non illic] Erasmus had diverged
to Bergen (Ep. 301). His visits there
and at Louvain must have been very
brief; cf. Il. 7, 8 supra.
156. Catonem] Cf. Ep. 298.
161. Meynardo]Meyn. Mann (1526)
of Wormer, S. of Alemar ; 36th Abbot
of Egmond, W. of Alemar. He rebuilt
the Abbey after its destruction in a fire
which caused. the death of his prede¬
cessor, 30 Oct. 1509; see van Heussen,
Batavia sacra, 1714, ii. 430. Dorp was
indebted to him for a benefice (see the
preface to his Oratio de laudibus discipli¬
narum, Louvain, Th. Martens, 14 Oct.
1513, dedicated to Mann); and also
addressed to him a letter which was
printed in the first edition of Adrian
of Utrecht’s Quodlibetica, Louvain, Th.
Martens, March 1515, but not in later
editions. Corn. Gerard (Ep. 17 introd.)
praises him at length in Batawia, 1586,
P. 17, for his antiquarian interests ;
and John Murmell of Roermond dedi¬
cated to him his Charoleia, Louvain, Th.
Martens, s.a., with a preface dated
24 April 1515.
Erasmus did not act upon the sugges¬
tion made here; but mentions Mann
with praise in dedicating Eucherius to
Alard of Amsterdam (Ep. 433), who
was Mann’s kinsman,