Nine Books on the Dignity and Advancement of Learning

slight afflictions know how to speak with eloquence to explain themselves well: but that those which are at the point where mine are, fall into such great confusion, that it is much that I still have some word to tell you of the loss I have suffered, and the design I have to observe a continual silence: if you do not command me to try to express as best I can the excess of your eminent perfections, in which I will make every possible effort for one who wishes to be with the most profound submission that one could desire,

MY LORD,