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  The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 124, cont. (p.308) |
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speake aloud, though we awaken men, and make them froward, yet after two or three modest knocks at the door, I went away. Yet I understood after, the King was gone abroad, and thought you might be gone with him. I came to give you an account of that, which this does as well. I have now put into my Lord of Bath and Wells hands the Sermon that faithfully exscrci- bed. I beseech you be pleased to hearken far- ther after it; I am still upon my jealousie, that the King brought thither some disaffecti- on towards me, grounded upon some o- ther demerit of mine, and took it not from the Sermon. For, as Card. Cusanus writ a Book Cribratio Alchorani, I have cribated, and re-cribrated, and post-cribrated the Ser- mon, and must necessarily say, the King who hath let fall his eye upon some of my Poems, never saw, of mine, a hand, or an eye, or an affection, set down with so much study, and diligence, and labour of syllables, as in this Sermon I expressed those two points, which I take so much to conduce [CW: to] |
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