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The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 41, cont. (p.126) |
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tation here, I could not forbear to aske her leave to send them: I writ to you by Mr. Pory the 17 of Jan. here, and he carried that Letter to Paris, to gather news, like a snow- ball. He told me that Pindar is gone to Con- stantinople with Commission to remove and succeed Glover: I am afraid you have neg- lected that businesse. Continue me in M. Martins good opinion: I know I shall ne- ver fall from it, by any demerit of mine, and I know I need not fear it, out of any slack- nesse or slipperinesse in him, but much bu- sinesse may strangle me in him. When it shall not trouble you to write to me, I pray do me the favour to tell me, how many you have received from me, for I have now much just reason to imagine, that some of my Pacquets have had more honour then I wished them: which is to be delivered into the hands of greater personages, then I addressed them unto. Hold me still in your own love, and proceed in that noble testi- mony of it, of which your Letter by M. Pory spoke, (which is the only Letter that [CW: I] |
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