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The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 25, cont., and Letter 26 (p.73) |
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take you from some businesse, but I make you a new businesse by drawing you into these meditations. In which let my open- nesse be an argument of such love as I would fain expresse in some worthier fa- shion. To Sir G. F. sir, I writ to you once this week before; yet I write again, both because it seems a kinde of resifting of grace, to omit any commodity of sending into England and because any Pacquet from me into England should go, not only without just fraight, but without ballast, if it had not a letter to you. In Letters that I received from Sir H. Wotton yesterday from Amyens, I had one of the 8 of March from you, and with it one from Mrs Danterey, of the 28 of January: which is a strange disproportion, But Sir, if our Letters come not in due order, and so make not a certain and concurrent chain, [CW: yet] |
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