Qui, Quod Desperent Inuicti Membra Glyconis, Nodosa Nolunt Corpus Prohibere Chiragra.

Me sane, si hac commentatiuncula non erit tibi aut mihi dedecori, opera nequaquam poenitebit.

Quod si ad laudem vel aliquale patrocinium tui aliquid faciat, operam perdidisse haud videbor. Sin vero alios alumnos, meos conterraneos, arte et industria superiores, ad causam tuam, vel nunc, vel in posterum suscipiendam, hoc conatu tenello excitauero, quid est cur opera precium non fecisse dicar? quibus scribentibus, licet mea fama in obscuro futura est, tamen prastantia illorum, qui nomini officient meo, me consolabor: Nam etsi fama et nominis cura surnma esse debett maior tamen patria; cuius dignitate salua et incolumni, nos quoque saluos et incolumes reputabimus.

Scripsi Holis Hialtadalensium in Islandia, Ara Christiana Anno 1592. 17. Kalendas Maias.

The same in English.

THE SIXTEENTH SECTION.

[Sidenote: The tenth reproch.] Tenthly, that vnciuill beast casteth our men in the teeth with their good hospitality. They do not (sayth he) carry about money with them in their purses, neither is it any shame to be enterteined in a strange place, and to haue meat and drinke bestowed of free cost. For if they had any thing which they might impart with others, they would very gladly. Moreouer, he maketh mention of certeine churches or holy chappels (as of a base thing) which many of the Islanders haue built in their owne houses: and that first of all in the morning, they haue recourse thither, to make their prayers, neither do they suffer any man before they haue done their deuotion to interrupt them.

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