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The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 26, cont. (p.74) |
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yet if they come as Atomes, and so meet at last, by any crooked, and casuall applica- tion, they make up, and they nourish bo- dies of friendship; and in that fashion, I mean one way or other, first or last, I hope all the Letters which have been addressed to us by one another, are safely arrived, ex- cept perchance that pacquet by the Cook be not, of which before this time you are cleare; for I received (as I told you) a Let- ter by M. Nat. Rich, and if you sent none by him, then it was that Letter, which the Cook tells you he delivered to M. Rich; which, with all my criticismes, I cannot re- concile; because in your last Letter, I find mention of things formerly written, which I have not found. However, I am yet in the same perplexity, which I mentioned before, which is, that I have received no syllable, neither from her self, nor by any other, how my wife hath passed her danger, nor do I know whether I be increased by a childe, or diminished by the losse of a wife. I hear from England of many censures of my [CW: book,] |
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