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Illustrious and Beloved Lord Father I am returning the rest of your shirts that we have
Illustrious and Beloved Lord Father I am returning the rest of your shirts that we have
long absence; and particularly the wine casks, which, envying the praise you have
at last I hear you begin to speak of setting out on your journey home, which I have
this week because I really wanted to send you the ortolans, but in the end none have
Father I was thinking of playing a wonderful joke on you, Sire, which was to have
All that we have left of Galileo’s handiwork are two telescopes and a broken lens
indications you give me, Sire, for I discern a waning of the warm affection you have
Why Galileo Performed this experiment Galileo may have already known the answer
Meanwhile, Sire, you will have been here and had the chance to speak of it directly
I have hastened my work on the linens, and they are almost finished; but in applying