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  The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 89 (p.246) |
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To your selfe. Sir, The first of this moneth I received a Letter from you, no Letter comes so late, but that it brings fresh newes hither. Though I presume, Mr Pore, and since, Sir Rob. Rich came after the writing of that Letter, yet it was good newes to me, that you thought me worthy of so good a testi- mony. And you were subtile in the dis- guise: for you shut up your Letter, thus, Lond. 22. in our stile, but I am not so good a Cabalist, as to finde in what moneth it was written. But, Sir, in the offices of so spirituall a thing as friendship, so momen- tary a thing as time, must have no consi- deration. I keep it therefore to read every day, as newly written: to which vexati- on it must be subject, till you relieve it with an other. If I ought you not a great many thankes for every particular part of it, I should yet thanke you for the length; [CW: and] |
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