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tention: because, having received such innumerable friendships and benefits in so many ways from the most noble and most famous Lord I. G. Vossius (that most worthy father of Your Majesty, who is in heaven), and even from his entire house, I judged it a type of ingratitude, since I lack the faculty to compensate for the debt, if I did not at least show that I recognize it. Seneca, that great moral philosopher, said that one should seek to satisfy a benefit with some advantage (a due interest to him who knew how and was able to advance himself), and that what was to be

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