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618 LETTERS OF ERASMUS [1519
15 incognita, nimirum eruditorum virorum oratione nobis saepe prae¬
dicata—, 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, quando¬
25 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 think¬
ing of the letters mentioned in Ep. 925.
1,2: though ‘proximo biennio’ has now
become ‘superioribus diebus’. Bu¬
daeus’ letter would thus be Ep. 819:
Deloy nes’ is lost.
5. tabellario] Probably Haio Her¬
mann ; 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 address¬
ing to Nic. Brachet an edition of Pliny’s
N. H., 15 Oct. (1516), concludes: ‘ Vale,
et Guielmum Hueum, optimum ac syn¬
cerissimae fidei virum, etiam atque