Letter 1025: Desire for your letters has made me write first — a reversal I accept without complaint.
XXV. ENNODIVS OLVBRIO ET EVGENETL
Desiderio paginarum uestrarum facta est mihi prodiga frons
pudoris, et dum tabella promittit promulgata responsum, intra
uerecundum penetrale annosam continere nescit infantiam.
deberem quidem sanguini et proposito silentii uenustatem, postquam
spei meae fructum prima negauere conloquia. sed nescio
utrum male pertinax iudicetur intentio, quae sine alterius dispendiis
sollicitae per amorem experientiae pericla multiplicat.
ualete, mi domini, et ad scriptionis mecum remeate concordiam,
ne contra euangelii faciatis monita, si et inportunitati denegetis
quod iuste forsitan inpetrasset affectio.
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