but much latelier, in the private academies of italy, wither i was favoured to resort, perceiving that some trifles which i had in memory, composed at under twenty or thereabouts, for the manner is that everyone must give some proof of his wit a reading there, met with acceptance above what was looked for, and other things which i had shifted in scarcity of books and conveniences to patch up amongst them, were received with written incomience which the italian is not forward to bestow on men of this side the alps.