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  The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 94, cont. (p.260) |
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to that then I am worth. I can give you no- thing in recompense of that favor, but good counsell: which is to speake sparing- ly of any ability in me, lest you indanger your own reputation, by overvaluing me. If I shall at any time take courage by your Letter, to expresse my meditations of that Lady in writing, I shall scarce think lesse time to be due to that employment, then to be all my life in making those verses, and so take them with me and sing them amongst her fellow Angels in Hea- ven. I should be loath that in any thing of mine, composed of her, she should not appear much better then some of those of whom I have written. And yet I cannot hope for better expressings then I have gi- ven of them. So you see how much I should wrong her, by making her but equall to others. I would I could be be- leeved, when I say that all that is written of them, is but prophecy of her. I must use your favour in getting her pardon, for having brought her into so narrow, and [CW: low-] |
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