Upon this I went to my Host in a Torrent of Tears, and humbly implor’d that he would interpose his Authority to procure a milder Testimonial from the _Karatti_, and that he would shew them my University-Testimonial, in which I was complimented with Epithets of _Ingenious_ and _Honourable_. He reply’d, that that Testimonial might have its Weight in our World, where they regarded perhaps the Shadow more than the Substance, the outward Bark more than the inward Texture; but that it would be of no Value with them, where they penetrate into the inmost Nature of Things: And exhorted me moreover to bear my Fate as temperately as I could, especially as the Testimonial could be neither revok’d or alter’d; for that there was no greater Crime than to ascribe undeserved Virtues to any one. But what Comfort it was in the Power of Words to give, he gave. —_Verba facit, quibus hunc lenire dolorem Possit, & ingentem morbi partem removere. Ne cures hæc, quæ stulte miraris & optas. Quos non præcipitat subjecta potentia magnæ Invidiæ? mergit longa atq; insignis honorum Pagina; namq; homini, nimios qui captat honores, Et nimias venatur opes, numerosa parantur Excelsæ turris tabulata, unde altior illi Casus, & impulsæ præceps immane ruinæ._ As to the Testimonial of the _Karatti_, he added, that they were the most incorrupt and upright Judges, who could be brib’d by no Presents, nor aw’d by no Threats, to recede a Hair’s Breadth from Truth; and that therefore there was no Room for Suspicion in this Case. He also candidly acknowledged, that the Poverty of my Judgment was a Thing not unobserv’d by himself, and that he inferr’d from the Readiness of my Memory, and the Quickness of my Apprehension, that I was not that Sort of _Wood out of which_ Mercury _was to be made_, and that I could not possibly meet with Preferment upon account of that remarkable Defect in my Judgment: That he had gather’d, from my Discourses and Description of _Europe_, that I was _Stultorum in patria, pravoq; sub aere natum._ And with these and a great many more Professions of Friendship, he desir’d me without Delay to prepare for my Journey. I follow’d the Advice of this most sagacious Person, especially as Necessity requir’d it, and as it would have been Rashness to have oppos’d the Order of the Prince.