<ii.>[1482]He did, anno 16.. (vide the date[1483], which is on the backside) doe me the honour to sitt for his picture to Jo. Baptist Caspars, an excellent painter, and 'tis a good piece, which I presented to the <Royall> Societie 12 yeares since (but will it not be improper for me to mention my owne guift?).
[1484]Hanc
Thomae Hobbes
Malmesburiensis effigiem
ad vivum depictam (1663)
Regiae Societati
Londinensi
D.D.D.
Johannes Aubrey
de Easton-Piers
ejusdem Soc.
S.
1670.
Gett a brasse wyer to hang it[1485] by.
<iii.>[1486]Mr. Hobbes's motto upon his owne picture at Sir Charles Scarborough's:—
Si quaeris de me Mores inquire: sed Ille
Qui quaerit de me, forsitan alter erit.
(Sir Charles Scarborough confessed to me that he made this distich.)
<iv.>[1487]Memorandum—there was a good painter at the earl of Devonshire's in Derbyshire not long before Mr. Hobbes dyed, who drew him with the great decayes of old age. Mr. William Ball hath a good copie of it.
<v.>[1488]His motto about his picture:—
En quam modicè habitat philosophia.