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The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 54, cont. (p.168) |
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Sir, it hath pleased God to adde thus much to my affliction, that my wife hath now confessed her self to be extremely sick; she hath held out thus long to assist me, but is now overturn'd, & here we be in two beds, or graves; so that God hath marked out a great many of us, but taken none yet. I have passed ten daies without taking any thing; so that I think no man can live more thrifti- ly. I have purged and vexed my body much since I writ to you, and this day I have missed my fit: and this is the first time, that I could discern any intermission. This is enough, the rest I will spend upon the parts of your Letter: Your Letter at Pauls is delivered. In the History of that remove, this onely perchance may be news to you, that Mr Alabaster hath got of the King the Deans best Living worth above 3oo1 l, which the Dean had good hope to have held a while. Of that which your writ concerning a Book of the Nullity, I have heard no syllable any other way. If you have received it by good hands, I beleeve it [CW: with] |
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