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  The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 112 (p.290) |
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To the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount of Rochester. My most Honourable good Lord, After I was grown to be your Lord- ships, by all the titles that I could thinke upon, it hath pleased your Lordship to make another title to me, by buying me. You may have many better bargaines in your purchases, but never a better title then to me, nor any thing which you may call yours more absolutely and intirely. If there- fore I appeare before your Lordship some- times in these Letters of thankfulnesse, it may be an excusable boldnesse, because they are part of your evidences by which you hold me. I know there may be degrees of importunity even in thankfulnesse: but your lordship is got above the danger of suffering that from me, or my Letters, both because my thankfulnesse cannot reach to the benefits already received, and because the favour of receiving my Letters is a new [CW: benefit.] |
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