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604] a me neglectis nescio quo casu seruatum hoc vnum inter schedas 5 reperi. Id hac lege ad te mitto vt, si non probas, abiicias quo meretur ; sin approbas, nostro exemplo tuos item adolescentes hoc genus argumentis exerceas, atque etiam, si videtur, libellum hune ceteris lucubrationibus meis adiiciendum cures, post repertum coniugii encomium. tuae decus, TO HENRY GLAREANUS ila Adiunximus paulo Bene vale, Glareane, Heluetiae 10 568605, To JOHN OECOLAMPADIUS, Epistolae selectae (1520) f°. 14. F. p. 333: HN: Lond. vii. 43: LB. 354. Louvain. Cos dulyer Size) [This letter is first found in a volume entitled Epistolae aliquot selectae ex Erasmicis per Hadrianum Barlandum, Louvain, Th. Martens, Dec. 1520 (a); for which see App. 12. The year-date in the text can hardly be correct, in view of the date of Ep. 563. There is no suggestion here of any delay in the answer ; which may therefore be dated not long after Erasmus’ settlement at Louvain, and early enough for Oecolampadius to have expected another letter from Erasmus in the budget of 23 Aug. (cf. Ep. 797. 2 n). I place it therefore with the letters sent to Basle in July; see pp. 12, 3.] ERASMVS ROTERODA. INTEGERRIMO THEOLOGO IOANNI OECOLAMPADIO S. D. Ira quidem vulgo solet vsu venire, vt bona quae praesentia neglectim habuimus, sublata graui desiderio torqueant. Sed mecum pulchre agetur, si molestiarum quas ex me cepisti cum vna viueremus Basileae, memoriam aboleuit disiunctio. Sed iste nimirum candor est vere Christiani pectoris, vt amici vicia in bonam partem interpre- 5 teris et virtutes exiguas pro eximiis ducas, ipse in te iudex iniquior. Quanquam me mea fata nunc huc vocant, nunc illuc, tamen Louanii sedem habere videor, vbi mea est bibliotheca. Sed quocunque locorum circumagimur, seu terra seu mari, nusquam non circumferimus vnice dilectum Oecolampadium. Et nos interim Christum ro sequimur, sed a longinquo, quemadmodum Petrus adhuc imbecillis : et tamen est aliquid illum vel aeminus sequi. Profuit id Petro; 604. 9. Adiunximus... OECOLAMPADIL F. 5. vere om. F. Io, encomium add. B: om. ad, 605. TIT. a H : 2. aH: neglecta F; neglectum F Corrig. 3. agitur F. 604. 10. coniugii encomium] written for Mountjoy, when he was Erasmus’ pupil, probably in Paris @. p. 18. 716). It was first printed in Martens’ edition of the Querela Pacis (B : cf. p. 14) together with the Encomium artis medicae (Ep. 799). Froben reprinted these additions unchanged, c. 30 Aug. 1518, in honour of the wedding of his kinswoman (? Anna Schabler, who married Bruno Amorbachintheautumnof1518); ALLEN III and they are also found in y and 5. This Encomium appears in the editions of the De conscribendis epistolis from Aug. 1522 onwards as an example of the Epistola suasoria. For a controversy which arose out of it in 1519 see p. 93. Erasmus’ statement in his Apology (LB. ix. 107¥) that it was written ‘ante annos viginti quinque’, i.e. in 1494, may be taken as another example of inaccurate calculation ; ef. I. p. 2. 26 n,
