He repeats the Latin epigram about her and Morus; he apologizes for having hitherto called her Pontia, attributes the error to a misreading of the MS.

of that epigram when it first came from Holland, but says he still thinks Pontia the prettier name; and, using information that had recently reached him, though we have been in prior possession of something equivalent (Vol.IV.p.

465), he thus reminds Morus of his most memorable meeting with that brave damsel:-- "You remember perhaps that day, nay I am sure you remember the day, and the hour and the place too, when, as I think, you and Pontia [he still keeps to the form 'Pontia'] last met in the house of Salmasius--you to renounce the marriage-bond, she to make you name the day for the nuptials.

When she saw, on the contrary, that it was your intention to dissolve the marriage-engagement made in the seduction, then lo! your unmarried bride, for I will not call her Tisiphone, not able to bear such a wrong, flew furiously at your face and eyes with uncut nails.

You who, on the testimony of Crantzius (for it is right that so great a contest should not begin without quotation from your own _Fides Publica_)--you who, on the testimony of Crantzius, were _altier_ in French, or _fiercish_ in Latin, and on the testimony of Diodati had _terrible spurs for self-defence_, prepare to do your manly utmost in this feminine kind of fight.