I did not intend to trouble your Lordship twice with this contention between me and Dr. Wallis. But your Lordship sees how I am constrained to it; which, whatsoever reply the Doctor makes, I shall be constrained to no more. That which I have now said of his Geometry, Manners, Divinity, and Grammar, altogether is not much, though enough. As for that which I here have written concerning his Geometry, which you will look for first, is so clear, that not only your Lordship, and such as have proceeded far in that science, but also any man else that doth but know how to add and subtract proportions, (which is taught at the twenty-third proposition of the sixth of Euclid), may see the Doctor is in the wrong. That which I say of his ill language and politics is yet shorter. The rest, which concerneth grammar, is almost all another man’s, but so full of learning of that kind, as no man that taketh delight in knowing the proprieties of the Greek and Latin tongues, will think his time ill bestowed in the reading it. I give the Doctor no more ill words, but am returned from his manners to my own. Your Lordship may perhaps say, my compliment in my title-page is somewhat coarse; and it is true. But, my Lord, it is since the writing of the title-page, that I am returned from the Doctor’s manners to my own; which are such as I hope you will not be ashamed to own me, my Lord, for one of Your Lordship’s most humble and obedient servants, THOMAS HOBBES. ========== TO DOCTOR WALLIS, IN ANSWER TO HIS SCHOOL DISCIPLINE --- SIR, When unprovoked you addressed unto me, in your _Elenchus_, your harsh compliment with great security, wantonly to show your wit, I confess you made me angry, and willing to put you into a better way of considering your own forces, and to move you a little as you had moved me, which I perceive my lessons to you have in some measure done; but here you shall see how easily I can bear your reproaches, now they proceed from anger, and how calmly I can argue with you about your geometry and other parts of learning.