Letter 1039: ...if you press too hard on something delicate, it bruises like a lily.
10 durins teras, livet nt lilia. legisse me memini, vnltu saepe laedi pietatem:
quid ille tam serius arbiter snper continuo silentio ac dissimnlato scribendi munere
oensuisset? tecum haec pensius aestimabis, sed mihi religio fuit tegere, qnae dolebant.
nam ut in te animi nsque pendeo, ita opere maximo usuram tuae unanimitatis ex-
pe/o. vale. ^
15 XXXV(XXVini) posta. 369.
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