A Letter, &c.

intend, but often fail. I told him plainly, that you consider it a great point of honor never to say anything but what you think, and that he should not flatter himself by imagining you would set aside a quality so rare, and so new at Court, as to say his book is good if you find it otherwise. But what I now desire of your Lordship, and what I humbly beg you will not deny me, is to decide a disagreement original: "Difference" we have had between us. You should not, my Lord, have accumulated for yourself such a prodigious store of knowledge and learning if you did not intend to be consulted before even the greatest scholars original: "Doctors". This, Sir, is the dispute which I have had with my friend.

I tried to persuade him to change the whole framework of his work; for this joking original: "Drolling," meaning a mocking or satirical tone manner of carrying it out does not seem appropriate to his subject to me. These mysteries of the Kabbalah original: "Cabal," referring here to mystical or secret occult traditions (I said to him) are serious matters which many of my friends study seriously. They should, therefore, be refuted by the strength of solid arguments. And as their errors generally concern divine things—which, besides the difficulty