And so I commend your Lordship to God's goodness." There was yet another production of this time, of which we have a notice from himself in a letter to Toby Matthews, the curious and ingenious little treatise on the _Wisdom of the Ancients_, "one of the most popular of his works," says Mr.Spedding, "in his own and in the next generation," but of value to us mainly for its quaint poetical colour, and the unexpected turns, like answers to a riddle, given to the ancient fables.

When this work was published, it was the third time that he had appeared as an author in print.

He thus writes about it and himself: "MR.

MATTHEWS,--I do heartily thank you for your letter of the 24th of August from Salamanca; and in recompense thereof I send you a little work of mine that hath begun to pass the world.

They tell me my Latin is turned into silver, and become current.