Some advised his going to Rome, because Pope Urbin VIII.

was a great Poet, and loved men of learning[161].

He thought the proposal very ridiculous, and joked on it to his brother.

December 27, 1630, he writes to him, "It is not reasonable that I should be always in suspense.

I shall leave this country too late, but I shall certainly leave it soon." What heightened his embarrassment was his uncertainty where to go.