Note 53 — Chapter II
Elizabeth Lee translation
"Equidem aureum quoddam seculum exoriri video, quo mihi fortassis non continget frui, quippe qui jam ad fabulæ meæ catastrophem accedam" (Letter to Henry of Guildford, May, 1519, "Epistolarum ... libri xxxi.," London, 1642, fol., col. 368)