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The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 60 (p.182) |
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To Sir G. B. sir, Between the time of making up my o- ther Letters, and the hour that your man limited me to call for them, came to my house an other pacquet directed to him: for by this time, the carrier is as wise, as his horse, to go to the house that he hath used to go. I found liberty in the super- scription to open, and so I did; but for that part which concerns him, I must attend his comming hither, for I know not where to seek him; and beside, I have enough to say for that part which concerns my self. Sir, even in the Letter it self to me, I deprehend much inclination, to chide me: and it is but out of your habit of good language that you spare me. So little occasion as that postscript of mine, could not bring you so near to it, if nothing else were mistaken, which (so God help me) was so little, that I remember not what it was, and I would no more hear again what I write in an [CW: officious] |
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