Perhaps you would have a denial.

I think so indeed; come, I do not ask IT as a gift, will you lend IT ME? I will give IT you again to-morrow.

I do not refuse, only do not abuse IT.

I will not abuse IT. See you do not stir a foot hence before I come again.

I will stir no where, provided you return in time, otherwise I will not wait your return.

DIALOGUE IX. Will you lend me your Terence?

I will, indeed, provided you fetch it from Conrad, to whom I gave IT to use.

By what token will you that I fetch IT?

Truly, by this, that I have his epistles.

That is enough for me. But when will you give IT ME again?

When I shall have written out the context on three or four lessons.

Make haste then, lest you hinder my study.

I will make haste.

But ho, take care you do not blot IT, otherwise I shall hardly lend IT YOU hereafter.

Truly I should be unworthy of a kindness.

Give me two then, I pray.

But they will not be sufficient for you.

I will ask of somebody else.

Take these two then. When will you repay ME?

Upon Saturday, as I hope, when my father shall come to the market.

Be mindful then.
Do not fear.

DIALOGUE XII.
Lend me two pence.

Now it is not easy for me to lend.

What hinders? I know that you received money yesterday.

I have received indeed, but books are to be bought, and other things necessary to me. I will not hinder your advantage.

When I shall have bought what things are needful to me, if any thing remain, I will lend IT.

In the mean time then I will wait in hopes; but what if nothing remain to you?

I will tell you immediately, that you may not wait longer in vain.

When will you buy those things which you have designed?

To-morrow, as I hope, or at farthest the day after to

morrow.

B. Ab ipso initio mercatûs.

A. Miror valde qui audeat commorari illic tam diu, cùm sit tanta pestilentia in eâ urbe.

B. Non est adeò mirandum.

A. Itane videtur tibi? B. Ita, profectò, nam fuit aliâs in majore periculo, sed Dominus Deus custodivit eum semper.

A. Credo equidem, et custodiet eum adhuc. Sed quando est reversurus?

B. Nescio, expectamus in horas.

A. Deus reducat illum.
B. Ita precor.

A. Quònam abis nunc?

From the very beginning of the fair.

I wonder much how he dare tarry there so long, seeing there is so great a plague in that city.

It is not so much to be wondered at.

Does it seem so to you? So, indeed, for he has been at other times in greater danger, but the Lord God has guarded him always.

I believe IT indeed, and will guard him yet. But when is he to return?

I know not, we expect HIM every hour. God bring him back. So I pray.

Whither are

now?

you going