Briefwisseling. Deel 4: 1644-1649

3904. N. Lanier³⁾. (L.B.)

Long ere this you had receaved my most humble thankes for your kind letter, and these few ill written and worse composed ayres, by the hand of a particular gentleman, a frend of mine, who was desierous to doe me the favour and receave the honour and happinesse to be knowed to you, but a suddayne accident hath cald him another way and left me no other meanes to send you this but by the common post. Good Sir, I know, you are so well stored with most excellent Italian compositions, that were it not to obay you, I should shame to present you these. But I most humbly desier you to consider indulgently, that they come from one, old, unhappye and in a manner in exile, plundred not only of his fortune, but of all his musicall papers, nay, almost of his witts and vertue, and hath nothing left him now, but the happiness to be sincerely ever ..... Antwerp, this first of March 1645.

3) Uitgegeven door Jonckbloet en Land, t.a.p., blz. XXI, Noot. - Zie II, blz. 430.