Epistle XXVIII. To Severus.
by
the Same. [Mr. Henley]
[_]
On Two Pictures to be drawn.
HErennius Severus, a Person of consummate Learning, reckons much upon setting the Pictures of your Townsmen,
Cornelius Nepos, and Titus Cassius, in his Library, and desires me,
if they be in your Town, as it is probably they are, to send them, in order to have them copy'd and painted for him.
I rather enjoin you this Trouble; chiefly because you are so friendly as to be very obliging to my Desires;
and then you have the utmost Regard for Letters, and for the Studious;
and in the last Place, you have a great Veneration and Love for your Country,
and for all that have advanc'd the Glory of it, in an equal Degree. I would beg of you to pitch upon the best Hand you can;
for, as it is hard to express a Likeness from the Life, so to Copy after a Copy,
is the greatest Difficulty of all. And I would desire you, not to permit the Workmen you shall employ,
to deviate from it, tho' it were for the better.
Farewell.
