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The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 41, cont. (p.122) |
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unindustrious in attempting that; nor will I give it over yet. If at last, I must confesse, that I dyed ten years ago, yet as the Primitive Church admitted some of the Jews Ceremonies, nor for perpe- tuall use, but because they would bury the Synagogue honourably, though I dyed at a blow then when my courses were diverted, yet it will please me a little to have had a long funerall, and to have kept my self so long a- bove ground without putrefaction. But this is melancholique discourse; To change therefore from this Metaphoricall death to the true, and that with a little more relish of mirth, let me tell you the good nature of the executioneer of Paris: who when Vatan was beheaded, (who dying in the profes- sion of the Religion, had made his peace with God in the prison, and so said nothing at the place of execution) swore he had ra- ther execute forty Huguenots, then one Catholique, because the Huguenot used so few words, and troubled him so little, in respect of the dilatory ceremonies of the [CW: others] |
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