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 The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 66 (p.199) |
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To the worthy Knight Sir Tho. Lucy. sir, Your Letter comes to me, at Grace after supper; it is part of the prayer of that Grace, that God will blesse you, and all yours with his best blessings of both kinde. I would write you news; but your love to me, may make you apt to over-beleeve news for my sake. And truly all things that are upon the stage of the world now, are full of such uncertanities, as may justly make any man loth to passe a conjecture upon them; not only because it is hard to see how they wil end, but because it is misinter- table and dangerous to conjecture other- wise, then some men would have the event to be. That which is especially in my con- templation, which is the issue of my L. of Canterburies businesse, (for thereupon de- pends the consecration of my predecessor, upon which the Deanery devolves to the King) is no farther proceeded in yet, then that some of the 10 Commissioners have [CW: met] |
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