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Previous image Next imageThe 1654 Prose Letters  Letter 91, cont. (p.252)




If I should write to you any newes from
this place, I should forestall mine owne
Market, by telling you beforehand that
which must make me acceptable to you at
my comming. I shall sneake into London,
about the end of August. In my remotest di-
stances I did not more need your Letters
then I shall then. Therefore if you shall
not be then in London, I beseech you to think
mee at Constantinople, and write one
large Letter to be left at my Ladie Bartlets
my lodging; for I shall come in extreame
darknesse and ignorance, except you give
me light. If Sir John Brooke be within
your reach, present my humble service and
thankfulnesse to him; if he be not, I am
glad, that to my Conscience, which is a
thousand witnesses, I have added you for
one more, that I came as near as I could to
doe it. I shall run so fast from this place,
through Antwerpe, and some parts of Hol-
land, that all that love which you could
perchance be content to expresse by Let-
ters if I lay still, may be more thriftily be-
[CW: stowed]
p.252

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