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a href="target331.html">  The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 79, cont. (p.223) |
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way; for I discern now no reason of going to Vienna, but I beleeve it wil extend our busines; so that I promise my self no speedier return by that. If I write no letters into England out of these parts, I cannot be without your pardon, if I write not to you, but if I write to any and leave you out, lay all the faults which you have ever pardoned in me, to my charge again. I foresee some reasons, which may make me forbeare; but no slacknesse of mine own, shall. Sir, if I have no more the commodity of writing to you here in England, (as, we may be gon before next Tuesday) I tell you, in this departing from you, with the same truth and earnest- nesse as I would be beleeved to speake in my last departing, and transmigration from the whole world, that I leave not be- hinde me a heart, better affected to you, nor more devoted to your service, then I carry with me. Almighty God blesse you, with such a reparation in your health, such an establishment in your estate, such a com- fort in your children, such a peace in your [CW: conscience,] |
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