, and Plutarch will give you a thousand Alexanders. If you should deal with love, with two ounces you may know of Tuscan you can go to León the Hebrew, who will supply you to your heart’s content; 9 or if you should not care to go to foreign countries you have at home Fonseca’s Of the Love of God , in which is condensed all that you or the most imaginative mind can want on the subject. 10 In short, all you have to do is to manage to quote these names, or refer to these stories I have mentioned, and leave it to me to insert the annotations and quotations, and I swear by all that’s good 11 to fill your margins and use up four sheets at the end of the book.

17