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a href="target329.html">  The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 78, cont. (p.221) |
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true, it goes farther, then that State hath drove in any publique declarations, but not farther then their Schools have drove often and constantly: the easinesse that it hath found in passing thus farre without oppo- sition, puts (perchance unnecessarily) in me a doubt, that they are sure to choak it, at the Royall assent, and therefore oppose it not, by the way, to sweeten the conveyance of their other purposes. Sir, if I stay longer I shall lose the Text, at Court, therefore I kisse your hand, and rest Your very true servant J. Donne. We hear (but without second as yet) that Sir Rich. Philips brother in France, hath taken the habit of a Capuchin. [CW: To] |
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