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The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 45 (p.140) |
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To the best Knight Sir H. Wootton. sir, When I saw your good Countesse last, she let me think that her message by her foot-man would hasten you up. And it furthered that opinion in me, when I knew how near M. Mathews day of departing this kingdome was. To counterpoyse both these, I have a little Letter from you brought to me to Micham yesterday, but left at my lodging two days sooner: and because that speaks nothing of your return, I am content to be perplex- ed in it: and in all other, so in this perplexity to do that which is safest. To me it is safest to write, because it per- formes a duty, and leaves my conscience well: and though it seem not safest for the Letter, which may perish, yet I remember, that in the Crociate for the warres in the Holy Land, and so in all Pilgrimages enter- prised in devotion, he which dies in the way, enjoyes all the benefit and indulgences [CW: which] |
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