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Previous image Next imageThe 1654 Prose Letters  Letter 89, cont. (p.248)




Sir, I cry you mercy for sealing your sisters let-
ter, but I deliver you up my authority, and I re-
member you, that you have hers to open it again.
You will the easilier forgive me, that I write no
newes, when you observe by this transgression,
that I live in a place which hath quenched in me
even the remembrance of good manners. By na-
ming her, I have made my postscript the wor-
thyest place of my letter: and therefore I chuse
that place to present my service to all the company
at our lodging; in which house, if I cannot get
room for a pallat, at my return, my comfort is,
that I can ever hope to be so near them as the Spittle
in the Savoy, where they receive Travellers.
[CW: To]
p.248

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