Briefwisseling. Deel 5: 1649-1663

5324. Aan N. Lanier⁴⁾. (K.A.)

I was at an end of my bookes and your countriemen so troublesome at sea, that I could but now get a small receate from France, where you see they

4) Een paar zinnen van den brief zijn uitgegeven door J.A. Worp in Tijdschr. der Vereen. voor Noord-Nederlands muziekgeschiedenis, V, 1897, blz. 133. - Zie II, blz. 430.

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were printed. Experience will shew you, you were no looser by the delay. And yet, since you have desired to see these trifles, doe so much for the autors sake as to peruse them en passant. I am sure, whatsoever wanteth in the composition, will be supplyed by the execution, if you will vouchsafe to lend it your most excelent royall tiorba. Or else, if you will bee so good to us one day, as to come where you may heare mylady Swanne and me make a reasonable beau bruict about some lessons of this booke. The Psalmes she most loveth and doth use to sing are named here in the margent¹⁾, as allso some of the songs. You must take the paines to lett me heare your censure upon everyone of them, if you will make me beleeve, you looked them over, and hold me still to bee, as I am for ever..... 20 Jan. 1654.

1) Nl. No. III-V, VII, IX, X, XIII, XVII, XVIII, XXII, XXIV, XXV, XXXIII en XXXV der Pathodia.