inventions taken from you ; for I remember long since you told
me as much, that the motions of the planets were not perfect
circles. So you taught me the curious way to observe weight in
Water, and within a while after Ghetaldi comes out with it in
print, a little before Vieta prevented [anticipated] you of
the gharland of the greate Invention of Algebra, al these were
your deues and manie others that I could mention ; and yet to
great reservednesse had robd you of these glories, but
although the inventions be greate, the first and last I meane,
yet when I survei your storehouse, I see they are the smallest
things and such as in comparison of manie others are of smal
or no value. Onlie let this remember you, that it is possible
by to much procrastination to be prevented in the honor of
some of your rarest inventions and speculations. Let your
Countrie and frinds injoye the comforts they would have in the
true and greate honor you would purchase your selfe by
publishing some of your choise workes, but you know best what
you have to doe. Onlie I, because I wish you all good, with
this, and sometimes the more longinglie, because in one of
your letters you gave me some kind of hope therof.

But againe to Kepler I have read him twice over cursoridlie. I
read him now with Calculation. Some times I find a difference
of minutes, sometimes false prints, and sometimes an utter
confufion in his accounts, these difficulties are so manie,
and often as here againe I want your conference, for I know an
hower with you, would advance my studies more than a yeare
heare, to give you a taft of some of thes difficulties that
you may judge of my capacitie, I will send you onlie this one
[upon the _Locum Martis_ out of Kepler's Astronomy, de motibus