sane, cum primum reduci aliquid otii fuit, inpolitum hunc semicrudumque et, ut aiunt, tamquam musteum librum plus desiderii tui quam officii mei memor obtuli.
Certainly, in offering you this inelegant, half-raw, and, as the saying is, newly-vinted book at my first spare moment after getting home again, I have paid more regard to your desire than to my own duty.
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