Joannis Seldeni jurisconsulti opera omnia, tam edita quam inedtia : in tribus voluminibusCollegit ac recensuit; vitam auctoris, praefationes, & indices adjecit . T O 97 : T O My moft beloved F r i ^ n d, E DWARD H E T W A R O FC A R D E S T O N /7/ N O R F O L K, £/^5. WORTHY SlR, HAT affeBion, ivhich thus gave you, fome fixteen yearspafiy the firfi edition of the Titles of Honour, wasjufily hred out of the moflfweet community of life andfreedom of fludies, which I then happily enjoyed withyou. And your exceJlent conflancy to virtue and goodarts, befides the mutual hahitude of no intermittingf
Joannis Seldeni jurisconsulti opera omnia, tam edita quam inedtia : in tribus voluminibusCollegit ac recensuit; vitam auctoris, praefationes, & indices adjecit . T O 97 : T O My moft beloved F r i ^ n d, E DWARD H E T W A R O FC A R D E S T O N /7/ N O R F O L K, £/^5. WORTHY SlR, HAT affeBion, ivhich thus gave you, fome fixteen yearspafiy the firfi edition of the Titles of Honour, wasjufily hred out of the moflfweet community of life andfreedom of fludies, which I then happily enjoyed withyou. And your exceJlent conflancy to virtue and goodarts, befides the mutual hahitude of no intermittingfriendjhip hetweenm, hath fo flrongly fince confirmed it, that, although you had not fucha former right to this fecond alfo, yet you only or a name offuch worth(in what rank foever) I fi)Ould have fought for, if any, to haveplaced here. Books have heen ufuaUy dedicated, either for inftrucStioii,as Ciceroj offices to his fon, S. Luke to Theophilus^ and the like ;or for cenfure, whether they were fit to he made puhlick or no, asthat of Aufonius to Pacatus, with Sive legenda iive tegenda putes ;orfor love and honour only to the receivers. The firfi kind are pri-vate of their own nature ; though afterward they often hecome are they of the fecond, until at
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