< Portraits of Hobbes. >

<i.>Desire Sir Christopher Wren or Mr. Thomas Henshawe to speake to the king for his picture of Mr. Hobbes for Mr. <David> Loggan to engrave it.

<ii.>He did, anno 16.. (vide the date, which is on the backside) doe me the honour to sitt for his picture to Jo. Baptist Caspars, an excellent painter, and 'tis a good piece, which I presented to the <Royall> Societie 12 yeares since (but will it not be improper for me to mention my owne guift?).

Hanc
Thomae Hobbes
Malmesburiensis effigiem
ad vivum depictam (1663)
Regiae Societati
Londinensi
D.D.D.
Johannes Aubrey
de Easton-Piers
ejusdem Soc.
S.
1670.

Gett a brasse wyer to hang it by.

<iii.>Mr. Hobbes's motto upon his owne picture at Sir Charles Scarborough's:—

Si quaeris de me Mores inquire: sed Ille
Qui quaerit de me, forsitan alter erit.

(Sir Charles Scarborough confessed to me that he made this distich.)

<iv.>Memorandum—there was a good painter at the earl of Devonshire's in Derbyshire not long before Mr. Hobbes dyed, who drew him with the great decayes of old age. Mr. William Ball hath a good copie of it.

<v.>His motto about his picture:—

En quam modicè habitat philosophia.