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  The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 84, cont. (p.236) |
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Court; perchance you may doubt whether you be a thorough Courtier, if you come not up to see this, The Queen a Shepper- desse: but I speak not this, by way of coun- sail, to draw you up, it is not only Non Do- minus, sed ego, but nec Deus nec ego, to call you hither, but upon fair appearances of usefull commings. Mr George Herbert is here at the receipt of your letter, and with his ser- vice to you, tells you that all of Uvedall house are well. I reserve not the mention of my Lady Huntington to the end of my Letter, as grains to make the gold weight, but as tincture to make the better gold, when you finde room to intrude so poor and imper- tinent a name, as mine is, in her presence. I beseech you, let her Lad: know, that she hath sowed her favours towards me, in such a ground, that if I be grown better (as I hope I am) her favours are grown with me, and though they were great when she conferred them, yet, (if I mend every day) they in- crease in me every day, and therefore every day multiply my thankfulnesse towards [CW: her] |
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