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The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 45, cont., and Letter 46 (p.143) |
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It is my third Letter: which I tell you, because I found not Mr. Rogers, but left the Letter which I sent last, with a stran- ger at Cliffords Inne. To Sir H. G. Sir, This 14 of November last I received yours of the 9, as I was in the street going to sup with my Lady Bedford, I found all that company forepossessed with a won- der why you came not last saturday. I per- ceive, that as your intermitting your Let- ters to me, gave me reason to hope for you, so some more direct addresse or conscience of your businesse here, had imprinted in them as assurance of your comming, this Letter shall but talke, not discourse; it shall but gossip, not consider, nor consult, so it is made halfe with a prejudice of be- ing lost by the way. The King is gone this day for Royston: and hath left with the Queen a commandment to meditate upon [CW: a] |
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