Journal Article

Gratulatio de Marchionatu. Ad Buckingh. C

2017

Overview

[...]as Rivers that receive waters from a Spring do not themselves hold on to them, but release them to the sea, so you also pour over the whole Commonwealth the distinctions our most excellent King has chosen to bestow upon you. Rivalry and an affectionate competition arise between these forces, to see whether the Princes grace might exceed your virtues, our prayers exceed the Princes grace, or Your virtues exceed both our prayers and the Prince's grace. There is no doubt that just as straight lines, though in many different directions, still all drive forward to the center, even so a variety of plaudits, on this side from the people, on that side from the Prince, come together in You and converse. The first sixteen of the following eighteen letters are taken from the Orators Book of Cambridge University Epistolae Academicae), vol. 2, University of Cambridge Registry. The Latin titles were added in a different hand and are much smaller than the body of the letters. The year entered by the second scribe as a heading is probably inaccurate.

• Publisher: Sidney Gottlieb
• Subject: Titles