legationibus administrandaque Republica, laboriosissimè distraheris, hoc libelli in manum cape, lege, & Moro, cujus os, ut puto, nondum vidisti, sed ex scriptis jampridem cognitum habes, fave. Bene vale clarissime vir. Basileæ, vII. Cal. Martias. M.D.XVIII. PROGYMNASMATA THOME MORI ET GUILIELMI LILII, SODALIUM. ΛΟΥΚΙΛΛΙΟΥ. Μγκ ἀσκληπιάδης ὁ Φιλάργυρον εἶδεν ἐν ὅικῳ, Καὶ τί ποιεις, φησιν, φίλτατε με παρ ἐμοί ; Ηδὺ δὲ μᾶς γελάσας, μηδὲν φίλο, φησί, φοβηθής, T. MORI IN AVARUM. Murem Asclepiades ut apud se vidit avarus, Mus quid in æde facis, dixit, amice mea? G. LILII. Murem Asclepiades in tecto vidit avarus, Et quid apud me ô mus, inquit, amice facis? Mus ridens, inquit, nihil ô verearis amice: Non abs te victum, sed mihi quæro domum. ΠΑΛΛΑΔΑ. Πλῶτον μὲν πλυτόντα ἔχεις, ψυχὴν δὲ πίνητο, Ω τοῖς κληρονόμοις πλάσει, σοὶ δὲ πίνης. G. LILII IN AVARUM. Divitias locupletis habes, animam sed egeni : Hæredi ô dives, sed tibi solus egens. VOL. II. M m T. MORI. Divitias locupletis habes, inopis tibi mens est, O miser hæredi dives, inopsque tibi. ΛΟΥΚΙΑΝΟΥ. Αγρὸς ἀχαιμενίδε γενόμην ποτέ, νῆν δὲ μενίππε, Οἴεται ἐιμὶ δ ̓ ὅλως ἐδενὸς, ἀλλὰ τύχης. G. LILII DE POSSESSIONIBUS INCERTIS. Nuper Achæmenidæ, sed nunc sumus arva Menippi, Ille etenim nuper, nunc et nos alter habere T. MORI. Nuper Achæmenidæ fueram, nunc ecce Menippi: Me proprium nunc iste putat, proprium ille putabat : AAHAON: Σώματα πολλὰ τρέφειν, καὶ δώματα πολλ ̓ ἀνεγείρειν, T. MORI DE LUXU IMMODICO. Multas ædificare domos, et pascere multos, G. LILII. Corpora multa alere, et complures ponere sedes, ΛΟΥΚΙΑΝΟΥ. Ως τεθνηξόμενος τῶν σῶν ἀγαθῶν ἀπόλαυε, Ως δὲ βιωσόμενον, φείδιο σῶν κτιάνων. Εσι δ' ἀνὴρ σοφὸς ἔτος, ὃς ἄμφω ταῦτα νοήσας, Φειδοῖ, καὶ δαπανῇ μέτρον ἐφηρμόσατο. G. LILII DE MODERATO SUMTU. Divitiis utare tuis, tanquam moriturus: Tanquam victurus, parcito divitiis. Vir sapiens est ille quidem, qui hæc ambo volutans T. MORI. Tanquam jam moriturus partis utere rebus: Ille sapit, qui perpensis his ritè duobus, ΑΔΗΛΟΝ, Ελπὶς καὶ σὺ τύχη, μέγα χαίρετε, τὸν λιμέν ̓ ἕνρον Ουδὶν ἐμοὶ χ' ὑμῖν, παίζετε τις μετ' ἐμέ. T. MORI DE CONTEMPTU FORTUNÆ. Jam portum inveni, Spes et Fortuna valete : G. LILII. Inveni portum, Spes et Fortuna valete : ΠΑΛΛΑΔΑ. Γῆς ἐπέβην γυμνός, γυμνός θ' ύπο γαίαν ἄπειμι, Και τι μάτην μοχθώ, γυμνὸν ὁμῶν τὸ τελών, leave to propose what him liked, verily trusting, for the good mind that he bare them all, none of them any thing would intend unto himward wherewith he ought to be grieved. When the duke had this leave and pardon to speak, then waxed he bold to shew him their intent and purpose, with all the causes moving them thereunto as ye before have heard. And finally to beseech his grace, that it would like him of his accustomed goodness and zeal unto the realm, now with his eye of pity to behold the long-continued distress and decay of the same. And to set his gracious hands to the redress and amendment thereof, by taking upon him the crown and governance of this realm, according to his right and title lawfully descended unto him; and to the laud of God, profit of the land, and unto his grace's so much the more honour and less pain, in that never prince reigned upon any people who were so glad to live under his obeisance, as the people of this realm under his. When the protector had heard the proposition, he looked very strangely thereat; and answered, that all were it that he partly knew the things by them alleged to be true, yet such entire love he bare unto King Edward and his children, that he so much more regarded his honour in other realms about than the crown of any one (of which he was never desirous) that he could not find in his heart in this point to incline to their desire. For in all other nations where the truth were not well known, it should per |