Letter 2027: Another letter from the same.

27. ANOTHER LETTER OF THE SAME MAN. Although through the deacon Justus I have not had the privilege of receiving a letter from your kindly heart and eloquent lips, by which my wit might be schooled and my longing fed, nevertheless I, who would rather be judged an affectionate rustic than a heartless townsman, have not allowed the opportunity of writing to slip away from me, inasmuch as I am unwilling to let perish for myself - I will not say the occasion for writing, but not even the chance of seeing you for the space of even a single hour. And therefore I send you my heartiest greeting and ask that, without loss to either of us and to the profit of us both, you may always deign, when the opportunity offers itself, to brighten us with a letter of yours; for what you expend upon us in affection you do not lose, what you grant you do not forfeit, and what you transmit to us on paper you retain with us in your heart.

XXVII. ITEM EIUSDEM ALIA. Quamlibet per diaconem Iustum non meruerim litteras benigni pectoris et facundi oris accipere, quibus et erudiretur ingenium et desiderium pasceretur, ego tamen, qui malo affectuosus 8 fletibus v 4 ille 81, illo 82 6 defecit S 7 difinitioni S tribuet ut v 8 percensire S 9 putet 8 10 affecta te S, affecta aetate v 12 praepropere v, praeponere S 14 interpraes S 15 de cordis potest 81 16 uos v, nos S 19 ribus S 21 debit S 24 cerneres v 25 obtauerat S 29 facundioris S 30 mallo S rusticus, quam urbanus impius iudicari, scribendi oportunitatem mihi perire non passus sum, utpote qui mihi nolim, non dicam occasionem scribendi, sed nec uidendi uos unius saltim horae spatium deperire. ideoque salue plurimum dico et rogo, ut sine communi detrimento et utriusque conpendio nos semper oportunitate porrecta litteris uestris inlustrare dignemini, quia, quod nobis in affectu inpenditis, non expenditis, quod tribuitis, non amittitis et, quod nobis in charta transmittitis, uobiscum corde retinetis.