Mu. And you heartily, Lover of the Muses.

Al. What makes you pull me so?

Ba. You an’t as good as your Word.

Al. Why don’t you hear ’em?

Ba. I hear somewhat, but I don’t know what it is.

Al. Well, I’ll speak Latin to ’em then.  Whither are you going so fine and so brisk?  Are you going to Louvain to see the University?

Mu. No, we assure you, we won’t go thither.

Al. Why not?

Mu. What Place is for us, where so many Hogs are grunting, Camels and Asses braying, Jackdaws cawing, and Magpies chattering?

Al. But for all that, there are some there that are your Admirers.

Mu. We know that, and therefore we’ll go thither a few Years hence.  The successive Period of Ages has not yet brought on that Time; for there will be one, that will build us a pleasant House there, or a Temple rather, such a one, as there scarce is a finer or more sacred any where else.

Al. Mayn’t a Body know who it will be, that shall do so much Honour to our Country?

Mu. You may know it, that are one of our Priests.  There’s no doubt, but you have heard the Name of the Buslidians, famous all the World over.

Al. You have mention’d a noble Family truly, born to grace the Palaces of the greatest Princes in the Universe.  For who does not revere the great Francis Buslidius, the Bishop of the Church of Bezancon, who has approv’d himself more than a single Nestor, to Philip the Son of Maximilian the Great, the Father of Charles, who will also be a greater Man than his Father?

Mu. O how happy had we been, if the Fates had not envy’d the Earth the Happiness of so great a Man, What a Patron was he to all liberal Studies!  How candid a Favourer of Ingenuity!  But he has left two brothers, Giles a Man of admirable Judgment and Wisdom, and Jerome.

Al. We know very well that Jerome is singularly well accomplish’d with all Manner of Literature, and adorn’d with every Kind of Virtue.

Mu. But the Destinies won’t suffer him to be long-liv’d neither, though no Man in the World better deserves to be immortaliz’d.

Al. How do you know that?

Mu. We had it from Apollo.

Al. How envious are the Destinies, to take from us all desirable Things so hastily!

Mu. We must not talk of that at this Time; but this Jerome, dying with great Applause, will leave his whole Estate for the building of a College at Louvain, in which most learned Men shall profess and teach publickly, and gratis, the three Languages.  These Things will bring a great Ornament to Learning, and Glory to Charles himself:  Then we’ll reside at Louvain, with all our Hearts.