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The friendship of most men in these days is like some plants in the water, which have broad leaves on the surface of the water, but scarce any root at all; like drums and trumpets and ensigns in a battle, which make a noise and a show, but act nothing; mere friendships in pretence and compliment, that can bow handsomely, and promise emphatically, and speak plausibly, and forget all.

(J. Spencer.).

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KJV: I had many things to write, but I will not with ink and pen write unto thee:

WEB: I had many things to write to you, but I am unwilling to write to you with ink and pen;