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The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 29, cont., and Letter 30 (p.85) |
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I leave not out my wishes, that their fortunes may second their goodnesse. Amen. To Sir H. G. sir, This Tuesday morning, which hath brought me to London, presents me with all your letters. Me thought it was a rent day, I mean such as yours, and not as mine; and yet such too, when I conside- red how much I ought you for them, how good a mother, how fertill and abundant the understanding is, if she have a good father; and how well friendship performs that office. For that which is denied in other generations is done in this of yours: for here is superseta- tion, childe upon childe, and that which is more strange, twins at a latter conception. If in my second religion, friendship, I had a conscience, either errantem to mistake good and bad and indifferent, or opinantem to be ravished by others opinions or examples, or dubiam to adhere to neither part, or scrupu- [CW: losam] |
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