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  The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 98, cont. (p.269) |
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farther therein since that time, your Lord- ship might conceive new suspicions of me. That your Lordships name was at all used therein, or that any words of mine occasi- oned such an errour in my servant, I am so sorry as nothing but a conscience of a true guiltinesse of having performed an in- jury to your Lordship (which can never fall upon me) could affect me more. But I, who to the measure of my comprehen- sion, have ever understood your Lordships nobility and evenness, cannot fear that your Lordship will punish an oversight, like a crime: which should be effected upon me, if your Lordship should continue your dis- favour towards me, since no penalty could come so burdenous to my minde and to my fortune as that. And since the repose of both consists in your Lordships favour, I humbly intreat to be restored to your fa- vour, giving your Lordship my faith in pawn that I wil be as wary of forfeting it by any second occasion, as I am sorry for this. Yours J. D. [CW: To] |
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