VII

a) p. 27

As often as I weigh these things, so often am I drawn into admiration, and recently into the same opinion that Morerius held, namely that the AUTHOR OF THE MEMORABLE BRANDENBURG AFFAIRS has followed in his footsteps. For his book, which is inscribed anonymously Memoires pour servir à l’histoire de la maison de Brandebourg [Memoirs to serve the history of the House of Brandenburg], certainly contains much that cannot fail to please readers, to entice them, to hold them, and to commend itself. The man who is supreme in all learning, ISAAC CASAUBON, praises Polybius in the letter, full of good fruit, with which he dedicates him to Henry IV, King of France and Navarre, and asserts a unique glory for that excellent author: that he handles two things at once with almost equal care—that he narrates and that he advises. a) The author of the history of Brandenburg, worthy of memory, shall not be deprived of the same praise. For he does not commemorate facts, which also cohere in a most suitable order, in a simple style of speech, but, having searched out the sources and principles of all things, he joins them with pragmatic judgments, so that readers may judge more gravely and justly regarding the nature and condition of the events that occurred.