His next reflection is upon _prætendit scire_, this he saith is an Anglicism. If this be all his accusation, upon this score we shall lose many expressions that are used by the best authors, which I take to be good Latinisms, though they be also Anglicisms, the latter being but an imitation of the former. The Doctor therefore was too fierce to condemn upon so general an account, that which was not to have been censured for being an Anglicism, unless also it had been no Latinism. Mr. Hobbes replies, that the printer had omitted _se_. He saith, this mends the matter a little. It is very likely, for then it is just such another Anglicism as that of Quintilian: “_Cum loricatus in foro ambularet, prætendebat se id metu facere_.” The Doctor certainly was very negligent, or else he could not have missed this in Robert Stephen. Or haply he was resolved to condemn Quintilian for this and that other Anglicism, “_Ignorantia prætendi non potest_,” as all those that have used _prætendo_, which are many and as good authors as Dr. Wallis, that makes his own encomiasts (not an Englishman amongst them) to write Anglicisms. Then he blames “_Tractatus hujus partis tertiæ, in qua motus et magnitudo per se et abstracte consideravimus, terminum hic statuo_.” Here I must confess the exception is colourable, yet I can parallel it with the like objection made by Erasmus against Tully, out of whom Erasmus quotes this passage: “_Diutius commorans Athenis, quoniam venti negabant solvendi facultatem, erat animus ad te scribere_;” and excuses it thus, that Tully might have had at first in his thoughts _volebam_ or _statuebam_, which he afterwards relinquished for _erat animus_, and did not remember what he had antecedently written, which did not vary from his succeeding thoughts, but words. And this excuse may pass with any who know that Mr. Hobbes values not the study of words, but as it serves to express his thoughts, which were the same whether he wrote _in qua motus et magnitudo per se at abstracte considerati sunt_ or _consideravimus_. And if the Doctor will make this so capital, he must prove it _voluntary_, and show that it is greater than what is legible in the puny letter of his encomiast, whom he would have to be beyond exception.