TO MARINO MERSENNO,

With what black charcoal do you paint FLVDD, (Mersenne?)
Does this color suit the Fluctibus A play on Fludd’s name, meaning "waves" or "floods." well?
Did Francis of Paula teach you to paint in such a way?
Or did Satan teach you to forge implying both "to paint" and "to create falsehoods" instead?
With a Theonine tooth a reference to Theon of Alexandria, known for malicious criticism why do you tear apart
The Rosy Brothers The Rosicrucians (Gargantua)? Does slander befit a monk?
I warn you, henceforth spare the paper that will perish;
And submit your hard neck to the Fluddian yoke.
Believe it: and open your ear to the angelic words,
Which the holy seer pours forth from his Rosy mouth.
Here, let the thirsty soul bathe itself in eternal gold;
And let the hungry one live on Nectar and Ambrosia.

MARINUS MERSENNIUS;

* See col. 1745. His Questions on Genesis, etc.

Maurinus, why should I call you (little brother), do you ask?
Accept it: the name and the omen will be fitting.
For since you are a glutton the Latin word "Mango" can mean a dealer in slaves or goods, but here implies a corrupt swindler from the black blood of the Moors,
Your black writings betray it; and your hands prove it.
Clearly, just as the pig, friendly to mud, goaded the sacred
Pallas, so you summon learned men to your own fate.
Cease from destroying Lutetia Paris with muddy writings,
And from defiling Genesis with empty notes.