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618 LETTERS OF ERASMUS [1519 15 incognita, nimirum eruditorum virorum oratione nobis saepe praedicata—, deinde Regis sui et Cardinalis Eboracen. literis, ac tuo postremo testimonio, charum habemus, complectimur cupidissime, Tu perge sacras literas et diuinam theologiam admirando illo tuo studio locupletare. Sic enim fiet vt barbara esse desinat, si qua 20 maxime fuit natio. Ad quod felicitatem tibi omnem et ex animo successum optamus, nostram ad id opem operamque pollicentes. Huttenum nostrum, vel idcirco quia amari abs te intelligimus, libenter diligimus. De libello nobis per te dicato nihil est quod turberis ; haud aegre tulimus ab alio aliis adscriptum illum, quando25 quidem nobis tu ante destinaueras. Remittemus et nostrum statim munusculum. Tu interim vale ex ciuitate imperiali Francfurdia, die decimatertia mensis Iunii. Anno M.D.XIX. 989. From NICHOLAS BERALDUS. Farrago p. 364. Paris. F. p. 456: HN: Lond. xi. 12: LB. 320. 20 June (1519). [For the date cf. Ep. 925 introd.] ELOQVENTISSIMO THEOLOGO ERASMO ROTERODAMO NICOLAVS BERALDVS S. Dept superioribus diebus optimo atque humanissimo viro Francisco Caluo Budaei, Deloini simul et meas ad te literas, Erasme doctissime : quas nihil dubito quin is tibi, etiam si serius, certo tamen fideliterque reddiderit. Nunc etsi nihil erat quod scriberem, proficiscenti tamen 5 hinc ad vos huic tabellario non potui non aliquid literarum ad te dare; praesertim petente id a me atque adeo procaciter instante Guilielmo Neseno tuo: simul vt intelligas quantopere literae hic tuae a nobis expetantur, simul vt epistolam aliquam tuam ad optimum ac doctissimum virum Guilelmum Hueum, Parisiensis ecclesiae 989. TIT. ELOQVENTISSIMO THEOLOGO om. H. 988. 26. munusculum] See Ep. 986. 9. Hueum] Wm. Hué (+30-1 July 35 2. 1522) was at first a Benedictine in 989. 2. literas] From the repetition St. Aignan’s at Orleans. In Oct. 1510, of binas in Ep. 994 it seems likely that both here and there Beraldus is thinking of the letters mentioned in Ep. 925. 1,2: though ‘proximo biennio’ has now become ‘superioribus diebus’. Budaeus’ letter would thus be Ep. 819: Deloy nes’ is lost. 5. tabellario] Probably Haio Hermann ; see Erasmus’ letter to Beraldus, 9 Aug. 1519. when Badius dedicated to him Holkot's (or Walleys’) commentaries on the Proverbs of Solomon, he was B.D. and had become a Franciscan (Renouard, Badius, ii. 494). But his sympathies were liberal ; for Beraldus, in addressing to Nic. Brachet an edition of Pliny’s N. H., 15 Oct. (1516), concludes: ‘ Vale, et Guielmum Hueum, optimum ac syncerissimae fidei virum, etiam atque
