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The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 62 (p.187) |
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To my much honoured friend Sr T. Lucy. sir, I have scarce had at any time any thing so like news to write to you, as that I am at this Town; we came from Spâ with so much resolution of passing by Holland. But at Mastricht we found that the lownesse, and slacknesse of the River, would incommo- date us so much, as we charged our whole gests, and came hither by Land. In the way at Lovaine we met the E. of Arondel, to re- compense the losse wee had of mis- sing my L. Chandis and his company, who came to Spâ within a few hours after we came away. Sir Ed. Conaway, by occasion of his bodies indisposition, was gone home before: he told me he had some hope of you about Bartholomewtide: But because I half understood by a Letter from you, that you were determined upon the Countrie till Michaelmas, I am not so earnest in ende- vouring to prolong our stay in these parts, as otherwise I should. If I could joine with [CW: him] |
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