The. I will do my Endeavour, that you may not think your Present ill bestow’d.

Eu. There are St. Paul’s Epistles; your constant Companions, Eulalius, are in this Book; you use to have Paul constantly in your Mouth, and he would not be there, if he were not in your Heart too:  And now for the Time to come, you may more conveniently have him in your Hand, and in your Eye.  This is a Gift with good Counsel into the Bargain.  And there is no Present more precious than good Counsel.

Eu. This Lamp is very fit for Chrysoglottus, who is an insatiable Reader; and as M. Tully says, a Glutton of Books.

Ch. I give you double Thanks; first, for so choice a Present, and in the next Place, for admonishing a drowsy Person of Vigilance.

Eu.  Theodidactus must have this Pen-Case, who writes much, and to excellent Purposes; and I dare pronounce these Pens to be happy, by which the Honour of our Lord Jesus Christ shall be celebrated, and that by such an Artist.

The. I would you could as well have supply’d me with Abilities, as you have with Instruments.

Eu. This contains some of the choicest of Plutarch’s Books of Morals, and very fairly written by one very well skill’d in the Greek; I find in them so much Purity of Thought, that it is my Amazement, how such evangelical Notions should come into the Heart of a Heathen.  This I will present to young Uranius, that is a Lover of the Greek Language.  Here is one Dial left, and that falls to our Nephalius, as a thrifty Dispenser of his Time.

Neph. We give you Thanks, not only for your Presents, but your Compliments too.  For this is not so much a making of Presents, as Panegyricks.

Eu. I give you double Thanks, Gentlemen:  First for taking these small Matters in so good Part; and secondly, for the Comfort I have receiv’d by your learned and pious Discourses.  What Effect my Entertainment may have upon you I know not; but this I am sure of, you’ll leave me wiser and better for it.  I know you take no Pleasure in Fiddles or Fools, and much less in Dice:  Wherefore, if you please, we will pass away an Hour in seeing the rest of the Curiosities of my little Palace.

Ti. That’s the very Thing we were about to desire of you.

Eu. There is no Need of entreating a Man of his Word.  I believe you have seen enough of this Summer Hall.  It looks three Ways, you see; and which Way soever you turn your Eye, you have a most delicate Green before you.  If we please, we can keep out the Air or Rain, by putting down the Sashes, if either of them be troublesome; and if the Sun is incommodious, we have thick folding Shutters on the out-Side, and thin ones within, to prevent that.  When I dine here, I seem to dine in my Garden, not in my House, for the very Walls have their Greens and