Pascitur in vivis Livor: post fata quiescit;
Tunc suus ex merito quemque tuetur honos.
Ovid. Eleg.[1620]
[1621]Last of all insert the pindarique ode on Mr. Hobbes made by Mr. Abraham Cowley; and after that, in the next page, the verses made by Dr. Ralph Bathurst of Trinity College in Oxon, which are before Mr. Hobbes's Humane Nature.
<Copies of letters by, or about, Thomas Hobbes.>
i. Thomas Hobbes to Josias Pullen.
[1622]For my much honored friend Mr. Josias Pullen, Vice-principall of Magdalen Hall in Oxon.
Honour'd Sir,
I understand by a letter from Mr. Aubry that you desire to have the bookes I have published to put them into the library of Magdalen Hall. I have here sent them you, and very willingly, as being glad of the occasion, for I assure you that I owe so much honour and respect to that society that I would have sent them, and desired to have them accepted, long agoe, if I could have donne it as decently as now that you have assured me that your selfe and some others of your house have a good opinion of them so that though the house refuse them they are not lost. You know how much they have been decryed by Dr. Wallis and others of the greatest sway in the University, and therfore to offer them to any Colledge or Hall had been a greater signe of humility than I have yet attained to.
For your owne civility in approving them, I give you many thanks; and remain