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The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 61, cont. (p.185) |
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at first, yet, I think, she took her characters of me, from you: And, at what time soe- ver she thought best of me in her life, I am better then that, for my goodnesse is my thankfulnesse, and I am every day fuller of that then before, to her Lap. I say nothing to you of forein names in this Letter, be- cause your son Sir Francis is here. For that which you write concerning your son, I onely gave my man Martin in charge, to use his interest in the Keeper, that your son should fall under no wants there, which it seems your son discharged, for I hear not of them. For other trifles, I bad my man let him have whatsoever he asked, so, as it might seem to come from him, and not me; and laying that look upon it, it came to almost nothing. Tell both your daugh- ters a peece of a storie of my Con. which may accustome them to endure disappoint- ments in this world: An honourable per- son (whose name I give you in a schedule to burn, lest this Letter should be mis-laid) had an intention to give her one of his sons, [CW: and] |
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