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90 LETTERS OP ERASMUS [1515
355 mihi eiusmodi prebet Moecenatem vt nec optare possim vel amantio¬
rem vel benigniorem.
Londini Anno. m.p. 15. duodecimo calen. Tunias.
836. From JOHN FISHER.
Deventer MS. 91, f. 122. Halling.
LB. App. 429. (May 1515.)
[Dr. Reich dates this letter in 1516, because of the visit to Rochester actually
accomplished in that year (Hp. 452) ; Mr. Nichols in 1515, on the ground that in
1516 Erasmus’ work in Basle was finished. Although Epp. 420 and 459 show
that his friends there were still hoping that he would return, 1515 seems to me
more probable, from the mention of Agricola (1. 1.) and because in 1516, at the
time when this invitation might have been issued, the Bishop was in Cambridge
(Epp. 432. 1 n. and 512).
Halling is a small parish on the Medway above Rochester, where the Bishops
had a palace (Hasted, Hist. of Kent, i. 475 seq.). Brewer’s correction (ii. 2282) to
Malling is baseless.]
IOAN. EPISCOPVS ROFFENSIS, ERASMO $S. P. D.
PrerLEGimvs, Erasme, his diebus Rodolphi Agricolae Dialecticam ;
venalem enim eam repperimus inter bibliopolas. Fecit autem vt
emerem laus tua, qua illum inter Adagia tua prosequeris ; neque
enim persuadere mihi potui quin is lectu dignissimus foret, qui a te
simul et Hermolao illo tantopere commendatus fuit. Paucis dicam :
nihil vnquam, quantum ad artem illam pertinet, legimus iucundius
et eruditius; ita singula quidem puncta expressisse videtur. Vtinam
iuuenis praeceptorem illum fuissem nactus! Mallem id profecto,
neque sane mentior, quam archiepiscopatum aliquem.
ro Sed de hac re coram dicemus. Quando iter Basileam arrepturus
sis, fac per nos venias; consiliis enim tuis nobis opus erit. Quam¬
obrem ne id negligas precor, et felix ac diu valeas, Ex Hallyng.
n
Tuus Io. Roffensis.
2233734, TO Martin Dorp.
Damiani Elegeia fo, If. vo, Antwerp.
Monde 2 B i, (May fin.) 1515.
[This letter was evidently written on Erasmus’ return from England (Il. 20-2).
His route lay through Bruges (Epp. 362 and 388), Antwerp, Mechlin (Epp. 356
and 362), Cologne (?: Ep. 374), Mainz, which he passed on 1 June (MRE. 533),
Spires (Epp. 355 and gor), and Strasburg. Here he appears to have spent some
time, perhaps not reaching Basle until July; cf. Epp. 342. rand 343.5,6. Ep.344.1
336. 1. Agricolae Dialecticam] De 304,5.
Inuentione Dialectica, Louvain, Th. 3. Adagia] 339, ‘Quid cani et
Martens, 12 Jan. 1515. For the history balneo?’; which contains Hermolaus
of the publication see EHR. xxi. pp. Barbarus’ epitaph on Agricola,