Harriot, Thomas, Mss. 6789

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                <emph style="bf">Commentary:</emph>
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              <s xml:space="preserve"> The book discussed on the first page of this letter was the
                <emph style="it">Trigonometria</emph>
              of Bartholomaeus </s>
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            I never loved huntinge till you furnished mee
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            with dogs. I will henceforward prove myself another [???]
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            inded I soughte both arkes and tangents in the tables by pro-
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            portion onlie. so in a worde you have made me see
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            my faulte. or, 2. or, 3. more you have taught me to
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            amende it. onlie your sure dog Pitiscus will not
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            come into my sighte: but after a weekes vaine anger
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            and paines in seeking for him I found at last it
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            was not the poor Currs faulte but M
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            Bills that
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            sending me the *
              <emph style="super">* printed, 1608</emph>
            second edition of the Trigonometria
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            sent me onlie the tables; so as turning the pages
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            75. 76. 78. 79. of the *
              <emph style="super">* printed, 1600</emph>
            first edition which is all I have
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            I found no such thinge as you cited nor no such
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            examples as you added. This is
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            the first time that
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            Bill hath sent me imperfect copies. I pray let him
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            understand so much. so, you see I am defeated of the
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            Curre dog;
              <emph style="super">such indeed is not enough to give me satisfaction</emph>
            saving what I pick out of your letter.
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            let Kitt: when he goes next to London speake to
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            Bill or at the Blackfriers for a perfect copy of Pitiscus.
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            my brother the capitaine will sende it to mee </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> the touch that you give of your doctrine of
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            differences of differences or triangular nombers en-
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            amours me of them. wherein to understand somethinge
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            I will one day be a beggar unto </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> Your dog that hunts by the sines onlie and I, am
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            growen familiare and he is an excellent dog: but
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            your shee bitch hath no fellow for [???], onlie
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            she is slow. I had not lost hir, but knew hir
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            goodnesse wel enough. the reason why I did not
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            use hir in the former workes, was because beinge in
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            way of calculation by the tables onlie, in that practise
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            I indevored to cleare that way of all rules, also be
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            cause of conceaving it to be the shortest I hastened
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            (so greedie was my desire) to see the issue of my
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            worke. so that by the assistance of thes dogs of yours
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            I grow so confident as to undertake to pursue in
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            chace anie game; but then onlie I shalbe sure that
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            nothinge do escape me, when you shall please
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            to imparte unto me a brach of your triangular </s>
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