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  The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 99 (p.270) |
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To the Honourable Knight Sir Robert Karre. Sir, I had rather like the first best; not onely because it is cleanlier, but because it re- flects least upon the other party, which, in all just and earnest, in this affair, I wish avoided. If my Muse were onely out of fashion, and but wounded and maimed like Free-will in the Roman Church, I should adventure to put her to an Epithalamion. But since she is dead, like Free-will in our Church, I have not so much Muse left as to lament her losse. Perchance this busi- nesse may produce occasions, wherein I may expresse my opinion of it, in a more serious manner. Which I speaker neither up- on any apparent conjecture, nor upon any overvaluing of my abilities, but out of a generall readinesse and alacrity to be ser- viceable and gratefull in any kinde. In both which poore vertues of mine, none [CW: can] |
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