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James proceeded--
"_Biennium dicis? Bene, bene, optume factum est--non uno Die, quod
dicunt,--intelligisti, domine glenvarlochiensis?_ Aha!"
Nigel replied by a reverent bow, and the king, turning to those behind
him, said--
"_Adolescens quidem ingenui vultus ingenuique pudoris._" Then resumed
his learned queries. "_et quid hodie lugdunenses loquuntur--vossius
vester nihilne novi scripsit?--nihil certe, quod doleo, typis recenter
editit_."
"_Valet quidem vossius, rex benevole._" replied Nigel, "_ast senex
veneratissimus annum agit, ni fallor, septuagesimum._"
"_Virum, mehercle, vix tam grandaevum crediderim_," replied the
monarch. "_et vorstius iste?--arminii improbi successor aeque ac
sectator--herosne adhuc, ut cum homero loquar_,
THONI DERKOV>?" text in Greek
Nigel, by good fortune, remembered that Vorstius, the divine last
mentioned in his Majesty's queries about the state of Dutch
literature, had been engaged in a personal controversy with James, in
which the king had taken so deep an interest, as at length to hint in
his public correspondence with the United States, that they would do
well to apply the secular arm to stop the progress of heresy by
violent measures against the Professor's person--a demand which their
Mighty Mightinesses' principles of universal toleration induced them
to elude, though with some difficulty.
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