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The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 58 (p.178) |
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To my best of friends Sir H. G. Sir, I heard not from you this week; there- fore I write more willingly, because it hath in it so much more merit. And I might do it very cheaply, since to convey to you this Letter, which mine hath the ho- nour to bring, any little Letter would serve, and be acceptable for that. Because it came not last week, I went now to solicite it, and she sent it me next day with some thankes, and some excuse that she knew not me, when I was with her. You know, I do not easily put my self into those hazards, nor do much brag of my valor now, otherwise then I purposed it for a service to you. The newest thing that I know in the world, is my new son: whose mothers being well takes off from me any new waight upon my fortune. I hear in Newgate, that M. Ma- thew is dead. The Catholiques beleeve it there: perchance out of a custome of cre- dulity. But the report, is close prisoner; for [CW: I] |
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