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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 im150 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. commendem 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 predecessor, 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 disciplinarum, 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 dedicated to him his Charoleia, Louvain, Th. Martens, s.a., with a preface dated 24 April 1515. Erasmus did not act upon the suggestion made here; but mentions Mann with praise in dedicating Eucherius to Alard of Amsterdam (Ep. 433), who was Mann’s kinsman,
