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The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 56, cont. (p.175) |
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go. Though this be no service to my Lord: yet I shall never come nearer doing him a service, nor do any thing liker a service then this. Yesterday we had news by Sir Nowell Carou from Paris, that the D. of Savoy was elected King of Bohemia; which would cut off a great part of the occasion of our going: but it is not much credible in it self, nor at all beleeved here, because it is not signified from Savoy, nor Heidelberg. Since M. Gher. continues your Gazittier, I need tell you no- thing of the Q. of Frances estate. For your commandment in memory of M. Martin, I should not have sate so many processes, if I could incline my thoughts that way. It is not lazinesse, it is not gravity, nor coldnesse towards his memory, or your service; for I have thought of it oftner, and longer, then I was wont to do in such things, and no- thing is done. Your last pacquet, in which your daughter and I were joynt commissi- oners, was brought to me, because she was at Hampton, with the Queens body: but I sent her part to her, and my La. Uvedalls to her, [CW: who] |
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