THE
FIRST
LETTERS
OF
COMPLEMENT
.
SIR
,
I
Take
such
delight
in
rendring
you
my
service
,
that
I
remaine
alwayes
the
first
satisfied
though
I
acquit
my selfe
And
that
which
makes
mee
so
carefull
in
seeking
Occasions
,
is
,
that
you
should
not
reproach
me
to
have
omitted
any
.
Yet
in
this
Sir
I
doe
not
implor●
your
beleife
,
desiring
so
to
let
you
see
by
Effects
,
rather
then
Words
,
that
I
am
without
Complement
,
Sir
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Another
upon
the
same
Subject
.
SIR
,
I
Defie
you
to
accuse
me
of
neglect
in
the
performance
of
my
Duty
,
the
passion
which
I
have
to
your
Service
being
so
violent
,
that
it
nourisheth
in
mee
a
continuall
Care
of
seeking
Opportunities
to
make
it
knowne
.
To
the
furtherance
of
which
,
this
Letter
offerd
it selfe
most
happily
,
having
charge
to
assure
you
from
my
part
,
that
of
all
the
servants
which
your
Merits
have
acquired
you
,
I
am
Sir
The
most
humble
and
most
faithfull
.
SIR
,
I
Am
by
so
many
obligations
Yours
,
that
the
onely
want
of
Occasions
to
give
Testimony
of
it
,
breeds
all
my
Discontents
.
Esteeming
my selfe
unfortunate
in
nothing
so
much
,
as
that
the
Passion
which
carries
me
to
your
Service
,
prooves
as
unprofitable
as
extreame
.
Which
forceth
me
to
have
recourse
to
Intreaties
,
beseeching
you
to
honour
me
with
your
Commands
,
that
(
other
meanes
failing
)
my
obedience
may
oblige
you
to
believe
that
I
am
Sir
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Another
upon
the
same
.
SIR
,
I
Must
discharge
my
heart
in
telling
you
that
I
honour
you
more
then
all
the
rest
of
the
World
.
T
is
true
your
desert
imposed
the
necessity
upon
me
,
but
it
did
not
give
me
the
inclination
:
though
I
beseech
you
to
beleeve
that
I
was
very
willing
in
the
constraint
,
having
suffer'd
no
other
violence
,
then
what
my
Reason
and
Iudgement
offer'd
mee
.
You
shall
have
daily
new
proofes
by
the
Continuation
of
my
Duty
,
and
by
the
Quality
which
I
beare
Sir
of
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Another
upon
the
same
subiect
.
SIR
,
IF
you
expect
nothing
but
Complements
from
me
,
you
shall
never
receive
any
,
I
am
a
Sworne
enemy
of
Courtship
and
Civility
towards
persons
whom
I
honour
extreamely
,
as
I
doe
you
.
It
sufficing
mee
that
I
performe
my
Duty
in
their
behalfe
,
and
that
I
take
care
to
do
it
with
a
good
Grace
.
This
is
the
Study
in
which
I
practice
my selfe
,
and
I
beseech
you
thinke
that
I
will
not
loose
the
least
occasion
to
witnesse
it
to
you
,
because
I
finde
my selfe
much
interessed
in
the
Resolution
which
I
have
taken
,
to
be
all
my
life
Sir
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Another
upon
the
same
.
SIR
,
THough
I
have
told
you
a
thousand
times
by
word
of
Mouth
that
I
am
your
Servant
,
yet
my
Pen
shall
once
aga●ne
assure
you
of
the
sam●
,
expecting
till
you
oblige
me
,
to
more
Eminent
proofes
;
which
I
conjure
you
do
to
,
&
(
if
you
be
pleased
)
to
prevent
the
occasion
by
some
Command
,
that
may
satisfie
my
Impatience
,
to
make
you
know
and
confesse
at
the
same
time
,
that
you
may
have
more
powerfull
,
and
more
considerable
Servants
,
but
never
Sir
A
more
humble
,
or
more
faithfull
.
Answers
to
the
Letters
of
Complement
.
SIR
,
I
Never
made
doubt
of
your
Civility
and
Courtesie
,
but
of
my
owne
good
fortune
,
in
meeting
with
the
meanes
to
require
them
.
Yet
I
intreat
you
to
believe
,
that
hereafter
I
will
imploy
all
my
cares
to
witnesse
unto
you
my
good
affection
,
and
if
Ill
meanes
render
them
unprofitable
,
I
will
dye
for
my
owne
satisfaction
,
Sir
Your
very
humble
Servant
.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
I
Esteeme
to
much
the
Honour
of
your
Remembrance
,
not
to
desire
the
continuation
,
and
withall
to
beseech
you
for
some
Employment
,
wherein
I
may
witnesse
the
Passion
which
I
have
to
your
service
.
For
which
I
will
importune
you
hereafter
,
desiring
by
deeds
rather
then
words
to
let
you
see
,
that
I
am
extreamely
,
Sir
Your
most
affectionate
servant
.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
THough
this
in
some
sort
requite
the
favour
of
your
remembrance
,
yet
I
cannot
cease
to
be
indebted
to
you
,
when
I
consider
,
that
your
courtesie
prevented
my
respects
;
But
I
beseech
you
imagine
,
that
for
the
Time
to
come
,
I
will
bee
so
carefull
to
disingage
my selfe
,
that
you
shall
have
greater
cause
to
complaine
of
my
importunity
,
then
my
silence
:
which
I
have
resolved
never
to
keepe
,
when
your
Interests
oblige
me
to
the
contrary
,
as
making
Publike
Profession
to
appeare
in
all
places
Sir
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
I
Will
be
so
presumptuous
(
since
you
desire
it
)
as
to
beleeve
you
love
me
;
but
upon
condition
,
that
you
will
likewise
acknowledge
the
Passion
,
which
I
have
to
serve
you
.
For
as
it
onely
makes
mee
merit
the
honour
of
your
Friendship
,
so
I
shall
be
very
glad
,
that
you
would
everlastingly
conserve
the
Remembrance
of
it
.
Continue
then
in
loving
mee
as
much
as
you
please
,
and
likewise
esteeme
infallibly
that
I
am
,
more
then
all
the
world
besides
,
Sir
Your
most
humble
Servant
.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
THough
I
give
you
very
humble
thanks
for
the
Honour
of
your
Remembrance
,
yet
I
shall
alwayes
remaine
Indebted
to
you
,
as
making
more
account
of
the
least
of
your
favours
,
then
all
the
respects
I
am
able
to
render
you
.
Continue
onely
in
obliging
mee
of
that
fashion
(
though
I
be
intirely
yours
already
)
and
beleeve
(
if
you
please
)
that
I
shall
never
bee
capable
of
other
resentment
,
then
which
shall
witnesse
the
quality
that
I
beare
Sir
of
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
I
Am
not
so
unfortunate
as
I
thought
I
was
,
since
I
hold
some
place
still
in
your
Memory
.
Yet
the
Griefe
which
I
have
,
not
to
deserve
this
honour
,
has
reduced
my
thoughts
,
to
such
a
Moderation
,
that
I
am
in
doubt
whether
I
should
complaine
or
rejoyce
I
r●maines
in
you
onely
to
allay
the
discontent
of
my
Minde
,
by
giving
mee
some
Employment
in
your
service
,
which
may
witnesse
the
Passion
I
have
to
maintaine
the
Quality
Sir
of
Your
very
humble
Servant
.
Letters
to
complaine
of
a
Long
Silence
.
SIR
,
THe
Friendship
and
Service
which
heretofore
I
vowed
you
,
force
me
at
this
present
,
to
demand
the
Reason
of
your
Silence
.
I
doe
not
doubt
but
alledge
a
sufficient
excuse
to
authorize
it
,
yet
I
beseech
you
thinke
,
that
how
lawfull
soever
it
bee
,
I
shall
never
leave
off
Complaining
:
you
may
pretend
the
want
of
Occasions
,
or
the
sudden
Accident
of
some
Sicknesse
,
(
which
never
molested
you
except
in
thought
)
whereby
to
Iustifie
your selfe
against
my
Reproaches
.
But
all
this
is
not
able
to
satisfie
mee
,
confesse
your
fault
;
aske
forgivenesse
,
and
you
goe
a
nearer
way
to
work
,
that
's
the
onely
way
to
conserve
eternally
,
Sir
Your
very
humble
servant
.
Another
upon
the
same
.
SIR
,
I
Shall
breake
with
you
at
last
,
if
you
breake
not
silence
,
imagining
that
you
love
me
but
a
little
,
since
you
have
forgot
me
altogether
.
I
beseech
you
deale
more
familiarly
with
me
,
if
my
friendship
be
any
way
considerable
,
or
you
esteeme
mee
worthy
of
yours
.
In
the
Humour
I
am
now
,
I
thinke
you
can
no
sooner
blot
me
out
of
your
Memory
,
then
I
can
raze
you
out
of
my
heart
,
without
retaining
any
thing
(
by
my
good
will
)
but
the
Quality
only
,
Sir
of
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
IF
you
have
taken
an
oath
to
write
no
more
to
me
,
at
least
send
mee
the
letters
backe
againe
which
I
addressed
to
you
,
that
I
may
still
have
the
honour
to
receive
something
from
your
part
.
Silence
is
a
sworne
enemy
of
Friendship
,
which
is
the
reason
that
mine
reproaches
you
at
this
present
,
being
not
able
to
indure
,
that
after
so
many
protestations
never
to
forget
me
,
you
should
loose
even
the
Memory
of
having
made
them
.
You
may
change
your
Humour
when
you
please
,
if
you
desire
to
renew
the
obligations
Sir
of
Your
most
humble
Servant
,
Another
.
SIR
,
IF
I
did
not
honour
you
extreamely
,
I
could
easily
revenge
my selfe
of
your
forgetfulnesse
,
by
my
silence
;
but
the
esteeme
which
I
make
of
your
deserts
,
together
with
an
inclination
which
carries
me
to
your
service
,
oblige
me
to
assure
you
still
,
that
though
you
should
forget
me
,
even
to
my
name
,
I
would
never
change
the
Resolution
which
I
have
taken
,
to
be
all
my
life
Sir
Your
most
humble
servant
,
M.
Another
.
SIR
,
I
Can
endure
no
longer
that
you
should
forget
a
Person
who
honours
you
so
extreamly
as
I
doe
.
These
three
Months
of
your
silence
I
have
kept
my
minde
in
the
continuall
fetters
of
grief
,
that
I
should
loose
the
honour
of
your
Remembrance
;
I
beseech
you
doe
me
Justice
,
and
let
not
all
the
World
complaine
with
me
,
of
the
little
esteeme
you
make
Sir
of
Your
most
humble
Servant
.
Another
.
SIR
,
DOe
if
you
please
,
write
no
more
to
mee
,
your
merit
constraines
mee
to
use
you
in
another
fashion
.
I
can
never
weary
my selfe
,
in
executing
your
Commands
,
and
lesse
in
acquitting
my selfe
when
Occasions
are
offer'd
,
yet
I
doe
not
desire
that
you
should
esteeme
your selfe
obliged
to
mee
,
for
I
satisfie
my selfe
alwayes
the
first
,
following
my
inclination
after
I
have
honoured
your
vertue
,
because
equally
both
the
one
and
the
other
force
me
to
carry
,
to
my
Grave
,
the
Quality
Sir
of
Your
most
humble
Servant
.
Answers
to
the
Letter
Complaining
of
Silence
.
SIR
,
YOu
oblige
mee
with
such
a
good
Grace
,
in
Complaining
of
mee
,
that
I
am
constrained
to
give
you
thankes
instead
of
reproaches
.
'T
is
not
because
I
want
lawfull
excuses
to
authorize
my
Silence
.
But
the
Interest
which
you
take
in
it
,
makes
mee
to
condemne
it
,
assuring
you
,
that
hereafter
you
shall
accuse
me
of
Importunity
rather
then
neglect
.
'T
is
the
Protestation
Sir
of
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
IT
is
not
needfull
to
excuse
my
silence
,
since
I
still
indure
the
Paine
of
it
;
by
reason
of
a
Sicknesse
,
which
molests
me
continually
.
But
though
your
Reproaches
proceed
from
your
Affection
,
yet
I
assure
you
they
Interesse
mine
extreamely
,
being
you
doubt
of
the
continuance
of
it
.
I
beseech
you
thinke
,
that
I
am
not
of
an
humour
to
forget
those
whom
I
honour
as
I
doe
you
,
and
that
except
I
bee
againe
reduced
to
the
extremity
I
was
in
before
,
I
shall
alwayes
acquit
my selfe
of
that
which
I
owe
you
,
In
Quality
Sir
of
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
IF
our
reciprocall
friendship
could
not
bee
conserved
but
by
letters
,
my
hand
should
bee
alwayes
upon
the
Paper
,
to
give
you
continually
some
new
assurance
or
other
;
But
knowing
that
she
subsists
of
herselfe
,
through
her
own
solidity
,
I
contemne
all
the
Paintings
of
Civility
and
Complement
.
How
little
knowledge
soever
you
have
of
your
owne
Desert
,
or
my
Humour
,
you
may
easily
know
without
being
a
Prophet
the
deare
esteeme
I
make
of
you
,
and
being
knowledge
has
truth
for
her
object
,
you
are
forced
to
beleeve
that
I
am
really
Sir
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
YOur
Complaints
and
Reproaches
,
are
too
agreeable
to
me
,
that
I
am
forced
to
give
you
thanks
,
knowing
they
proceed
from
an
excesse
of
affection
,
and
zeale
.
'T
is
true
I
have
beene
silent
too
long
,
but
I
pray
you
beleeve
,
that
the
Misfortune
which
Imposed
it
upon
me
,
hath
given
mee
such
a
Pennance
,
that
I
deserve
Pardon
,
though
it
were
the
most
enormious
crime
of
the
World
.
I
will
not
now
make
a
particular
recitall
of
all
the
Accidents
which
have
befallen
me
,
for
feare
you
should
Iudge
me
as
Importune
in
that
,
as
in
the
other
you
esteem'd
mee
negligent
:
It
sufficeth
me
to
put
you
in
minde
,
that
I
am
alwayes
,
what
I
alwayes
was
,
Sir
Your
most
humble
Servant
.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
.
YOU
are
too
Iust
to
Condemne
mee
without
hearing
me
speake
.
T
is
true
I
have
beene
somewhat
too
long
in
acquitting
,
by
the
ordinary
Commerce
of
Letters
the
debt
which
I
owe
you
,
but
the
Mischance
of
the
Prison
where
I
am
still
,
can
tell
you
,
that
though
my
hands
bee
free
,
yet
their
liberty
is
altogether
unprofitable
to
serve
them
in
that
which
you
desire
.
Content
your selfe
then
(
if
you
please
)
with
the
services
I
am
able
to
render
you
,
that
is
,
in
good
will
and
thought
:
without
accounting
this
for
one
,
since
t
is
both
by
hazard
&
an
excesse
of
good
Fortune
,
that
I
acquit
my selfe
of
it
.
And
beleeve
assuredly
,
that
into
what
extremity
of
adverse
fortune
soever
I
am
reduced
,
I
will
alwayes
conserve
the
passion
I
have
to
your
Service
,
as
being
without
Fiction
Sir
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
I
Would
I
were
lest
handed
,
that
I
might
acquit
my selfe
of
the
Service
I
owe
you
,
being
unfortunately
lame
of
the
right
hand
:
which
has
obliged
me
to
make
use
of
a
strange
Penne
,
to
excuse
my
silence
,
and
to
assure
you
,
that
though
I
serve
my selfe
of
another
mans
endeavour
in
writing
this
Letter
,
yet
't
is
my
soule
that
conceived
it
,
and
my
heart
that
gave
the
Dictamen
,
being
very
glad
to
witnesse
unto
you
the
Truth
of
my
thoughts
,
touching
the
Resolution
which
I
have
taken
to
make
my selfe
remarqued
in
all
places
Sir
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Letters
of
Thanksgiving
.
SIR
,
SInce
it
is
your
pleasure
to
adde
dayly
to
the
obligations
of
those
who
are
most
intirely
yours
;
I
am
resolved
to
let
you
take
your
course
,
and
busy
my
thoughts
onely
in
seeking
occasions
to
revenge
my selfe
.
And
if
my
misfortune
in
this
Pursuit
continually
render
my
cares
unprofitable
,
yet
for
your
satisfaction
I
shall
alwayes
have
a
good
Will
,
and
Passion
to
doe
you
Service
,
which
I
shall
heartily
offer
you
up
being
Sir
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Another
upon
the
same
.
SIR
,
I
Doe
not
intend
that
these
thanks
which
I
give
you
for
the
favour
wherewith
you
were
pleased
to
honour
me
,
should
passe
in
your
opinion
for
an
Acknowledgement
:
I
revenge
my selfe
onely
of
your
Civility
,
expecting
to
meet
with
an
occasion
,
wherein
I
may
witnesse
with
Services
rather
then
Words
,
that
I
am
unfaignedly
in
heart
,
and
soule
Sir
Your
very
humble
servant
.
Another
upon
the
same
.
SIR
,
I
Confesse
you
have
obliged
mee
with
a
very
good
Grace
,
and
so
perfectly
,
that
I
shall
remaine
indebted
to
you
all
my
life
.
I
would
to
God
some
Occasion
would
offer
it selfe
,
which
I
might
imploy
in
your
Service
,
thereby
to
witnesse
,
that
as
your
favours
have
beene
extreame
,
I
will
attempt
all
extreamities
to
revenge
my selfe
.
Those
are
no
discourses
of
Complement
,
my
heart
dictates
to
my
Penne
,
all
that
my
Penne
writes
to
you
,
with
assurance
that
I
will
not
long
unprofitably
beare
the
Quality
Sir
of
Your
very
humble
servant
.
Another
.
SIR
,
I
Know
not
in
what
Tearmes
,
to
give
you
Thanks
,
for
the
Favours
which
your
Generous
disposition
has
beene
pleased
to
be
stow
upon
mee
.
I
am
so
unfortunate
an
Orator
,
that
I
am
out
of
all
hope
to
acquit
my selfe
,
that
way
.
It
sufficeth
me
,
to
put
you
in
minde
of
the
Passion
which
I
have
to
your
Service
,
perswading
my selfe
,
that
the
remembrance
it
will
excitate
in
you
shall
supplicate
for
the
default
of
my
Capacity
,
and
that
Considering
the
Ardor
of
my
Zeale
,
rather
then
the
beauty
of
my
Discourse
,
you
will
content
your selfe
with
my
Disability
,
and
that
I
assure
you
once
againe
,
how
perfectly
I
am
,
Sir
Your
very
humble
servant
.
Another
upon
the
same
.
SIR
,
IF
I
had
beene
more
happy
or
more
powerfull
,
I
had
already
requited
your
favours
instead
of
giving
you
thanks
;
but
being
unfortunate
as
I
am
,
and
in
such
a
degree
of
Impotency
,
I
have
nothing
left
but
words
,
to
send
you
,
as
an
acknowledgement
of
your
Deeds
.
T
is
true
,
they
are
words
most
infallibly
true
,
assuring
you
from
my
heart
rather
then
my
mouth
,
that
I
will
carry
to
my
Grave
,
the
Quality
Sir
of
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Another
.
SIR
,
IF
you
expect
Thanks
worthy
your
favours
,
you
shall
never
receive
any
of
me
.
I
am
farre
more
fit
to
publish
them
,
then
requite
them
in
the
least
respect
,
if
the
good
desire
I
have
to
disingage
my selfe
,
doe
not
passe
for
satisfaction
:
which
is
all
that
I
can
offer
you
in
the
state
I
finde
my selfe
at
this
present
,
beseeching
you
to
beleeve
,
that
if
I
were
not
oppressed
with
an
extreame
Misfortune
,
my
Care
and
Paines
should
soone
witnesse
the
Occasion
which
is
offered
me
,
to
give
Testimony
how
much
I
am
Sir
Your
most
humble
servant
,
M.
Answers
to
the
Letters
of
Thanksgiving
.
SIR
,
YOur
thankes
have
bought
my
service
at
so
deare
a
rate
,
that
the
satisfaction
which
before
I
received
is
utterly
now
taken
from
me
.
Keep
your
●omplements
then
for
some
other
,
and
remember
to
use
more
familiarly
,
Sir
The
most
humble
of
all
your
servants
.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
THere
is
farre
more
Honour
,
then
Content
in
serving
you
,
since
by
such
ready
acknowledgements
,
you
hasten
the
satisfaction
.
The
excesse
of
your
Noblenesse
,
undoes
me
,
not
being
able
to
endure
thanks
for
the
performance
of
my
duty
,
and
therefore
since
my
indeavours
in
your
behalfe
can
bee
stiled
no
other
,
I
beseech
you
to
vary
your
Tearmes
,
and
to
Consider
me
alwayes
in
the
Quality
I
am
Sir
of
Your
most
humble
servant
,
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
I
Complaine
much
of
the
Excesse
of
your
Civility
and
Courtship
,
since
our
Reciprocall
friendship
is
therein
greatly
Interessed
.
you
give
me
Thanks
for
the
service
which
you
desired
of
mee
,
as
though
I
were
not
obliged
to
it
of
Necessity
.
Leave
off
that
ill
Custome
if
you
Please
,
and
know
that
the
Language
of
Complements
is
unknowne
to
true
friends
,
whereof
I
am
one
,
and
which
is
more
,
Sir
Your
most
humble
Servant
.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
YOur
Complements
have
put
me
into
a
very
ill
humour
;
I
cannot
write
to
you
,
but
in
Choller
,
since
you
use
mee
as
a
stranger
,
like
as
app●ares
by
the
superfluity
of
your
Ceremonies
and
unprofitable
Thanks
.
It
seemes
you
have
wholly
forgot
the
absolute
power
that
your
Merit
has
obtain'd
over
me
,
which
causes
mee
once
againe
to
put
you
in
minde
,
that
you
will
be
sooner
weary
in
Commanding
,
then
I
in
executing
,
as
being
unreservedly
,
Sir
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
I
Send
you
backe
your
Thanks
,
to
the
End
that
you
may
make
use
of
them
,
when
you
entertaine
some
person
lesse
endeared
to
your
service
then
I
am
.
One
would
thinke
by
reading
your
complements
,
that
you
Cog
with
me
to
gaine
my
Friendship
.
I
pray
Remember
Sir
,
that
I
have
wholly
dedicated
it
to
your
desert
,
and
therefore
,
you
are
obliged
hereafter
to
treat
mee
with
lesse
Civility
,
and
more
freedome
,
if
you
account
mee
into
the
number
of
your
Servants
,
I
being
,
Sir
One
of
your
most
humble
,
and
most
faithfull
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
YOur
thanks
have
made
mee
resolve
to
doe
that
piece
of
Service
over
againe
,
Imagining
that
something
was
omitted
,
since
you
goe
about
to
put
mee
in
minde
of
it
,
by
your
unnecessary
Acknowledgment
.
Sir
you
know
that
kinde
of
affectation
is
alwayes
ill
received
in
the
familiar
Commerce
,
of
a
true
friendship
,
which
I
shall
alwayes
professe
in
your
behalfe
,
and
likewise
that
I
am
,
Sir
Your
most
humble
Servant
.
Letters
of
Intreaty
.
SIR
,
THe
Report
of
your
generous
Disposition
gives
me
the
boldnesse
,
to
implore
your
favour
in
the
dispatch
of
a
businesse
,
whose
successe
depends
absolutely
on
your
Authority
.
T
is
true
I
have
not
the
Honour
to
bee
knowne
by
you
,
but
that
being
a
particular
Mi●fortune
of
Mine
,
I
desire
it
may
not
serve
as
a
pretence
to
the
Refusall
of
my
Demand
:
Assuring
you
,
that
I
shall
indeavour
to
make
knowne
by
re-all
service
,
rather
then
name
,
Sir
Your
most
humble
Servant
,
M.
Another
upon
the
same
.
SIR
,
I
Could
wish
your
Command
had
prevented
my
Intreaties
,
that
my
observance
might
have
merited
of
you
the
dispatch
of
a
businesse
which
presents
it selfe
.
But
being
the
occasion
to
Importune
you
,
was
offer'd
,
when
I
sought
one
to
doe
you
service
,
I
will
force
my selfe
to
beleeve
that
my
good
will
may
oblige
you
,
not
to
refuse
this
courtesie
Sir
to
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Another
upon
the
same
.
SIR
,
MY
vowed
Service
and
Friendship
,
give
mee
the
freedome
to
Implore
your
favour
,
in
behalfe
of
the
Bearer
of
these
Presents
,
I
serve
my selfe
very
boldly
of
the
Power
you
have
given
me
to
imploy
your
Indeavors
in
all
sorts
of
encounters
,
but
upon
Condition
that
you
will
doe
the
same
in
all
occasions
that
may
offer
themselves
,
wherein
I
may
witnesse
how
much
I
am
,
Sir
Your
most
humble
servant
.
M.
Another
.
SIR
,
IF
you
make
as
great
Account
of
my
Intreaty
,
as
I
doe
of
your
commands
,
you
will
easily
accord
unto
me
this
,
which
is
,
to
sustaine
with
your
Authority
,
a
businesse
of
Mine
now
in
agitation
,
that
it
may
bee
determined
to
my
advantage
.
I
doe
not
doubt
of
your
Power
,
and
lesse
of
your
Noblenesse
,
which
forces
me
to
beleeve
that
you
will
comply
with
this
Occasion
offerd
you
,
to
oblige
extreamely
,
Sir
Your
most
humble
servant
.
M.
Another
.
SIR
,
IF
you
complaine
of
my
Importunity
,
accuse
your
owne
freenesse
,
for
if
you
had
beene
lesse
Generous
,
I
had
bin
lesse
bold
.
But
being
I
know
by
Experience
in
what
a
high
degree
Civility
&
Courtesie
predominate
in
you
,
I
am
constrain'd
to
think
,
that
my
intreaty
will
not
be
inacceptable
,
which
is
,
that
you
would
bee
pleased
to
mollifie
with
your
Eloquence
,
that
harsh
conceipt
that
Master
N.
has
of
mee
.
In
this
incounter
you
will
oblige
us
both
together
,
since
giving
him
to
understand
my
Innocence
,
hee
will
easily
give
place
to
reason
.
This
favour
in
particular
I
hope
from
your
Goodnesse
,
as
you
on
the
contrary
may
expect
all
sorts
of
Service
from
my
Duty
:
In
Quality
Sir
of
Your
most
humble
servant
.
M
Another
.
SIR
,
THough
I
bee
the
most
unprofitable
of
all
your
friends
,
yet
I
shall
never
faile
to
prove
my selfe
one
of
the
most
passionate
to
your
Service
.
The
violence
whereof
causes
me
at
this
Present
,
to
intreate
you
to
oblige
me
in
such
,
or
such
an
Encounter
.
All
that
I
can
say
to
you
for
the
first
acknowledgement
is
,
that
I
shall
conserve
Eternally
the
Memory
of
this
favour
,
and
if
I
be
not
able
to
meet
with
an
Occasion
to
revenge
my selfe
,
that
I
shall
carry
the
Sorrow
of
it
into
my
Grave
,
together
with
the
Quality
Sir
of
Your
most
humble
servant
.
M.
Answers
to
the
Letters
of
Intreaty
.
SIR
,
I
Have
done
all
that
you
desired
of
me
,
but
with
so
much
satisfaction
,
and
so
little
Paines
,
that
I
beseech
you
prepare
some
new
commands
,
whereby
the
passion
I
have
to
serve
you
,
may
not
be
left
unprofitable
,
and
you
shall
see
by
my
observance
,
that
I
have
no
greater
Pleasure
in
the
World
,
then
to
make
my selfe
remarqued
in
all
places
,
Sir
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
I
Have
many
thankes
to
returne
you
for
the
happy
imployment
you
gave
mee
in
your
service
;
I
thinke
all
things
fell
out
according
to
your
desire
,
which
gave
mee
ample
occasion
to
rejoyce
,
as
participating
in
all
things
that
concerne
your
particular
.
I
beseech
you
doe
me
the
favour
,
that
I
may
never
have
occasion
to
doubt
of
it
,
since
I
professe
my selfe
as
much
as
any
man
in
the
World
,
Sir
Your
most
humble
servant
.
M.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
I
Could
wish
you
had
every
day
occasion
to
command
my
service
,
that
I
might
continually
have
the
Good
fortune
to
produce
new
proofes
of
my
obedience
.
I
performed
happily
the
last
Commands
wherewith
you
were
pleased
to
honour
mee
,
which
gives
me
cause
to
believe
that
you
will
not
long
let
me
rest
unprofitable
,
without
giving
me
some
other
sort
of
imployment
,
wherein
I
may
finde
more
satisfaction
,
as
prooving
it
more
painefull
.
This
I
beseech
you
to
doe
,
in
quality
Sir
of
Your
most
humble
Servant
,
M.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
I
Finde
so
much
facility
in
the
execution
of
the
Command
,
which
you
imposed
upon
mee
,
that
I
am
ashamed
to
reckon
it
in
the
number
of
services
which
I
desire
to
render
you
:
It
being
an
Encounter
of
so
little
Importance
,
for
my
satisfaction
and
your
Interest
,
that
I
beseech
you
give
me
some
other
Imployment
,
wherein
I
may
witnesse
according
to
your
Merit
and
my
Affection
how
unfaignedly
I
am
Sir
Your
most
humble
Servant
.
M.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
I
Aske
you
pardon
for
the
long
time
that
I
have
spent
in
the
executing
your
Commands
,
not
that
I
have
beene
negligent
in
employing
my
Cares
,
and
Diligence
,
but
because
the
successe
consisting
in
a
Strangers
power
,
I
could
no
sooner
give
you
the
Effects
:
yet
let
not
the
mishap
of
this
delay
,
hinder
you
hereafter
in
using
my
Endeavours
,
since
I
am
without
reserve
Sir
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
WHen
you
desire
any
service
of
me
,
I
beseech
you
consider
whether
it
be
in
my
power
or
no
,
to
the
end
that
being
unable
to
execute
your
Commands
(
as
I
am
at
this
Present
)
I
incurre
not
the
hazard
of
your
reproach
.
You
may
Expect
new
proofe
(
when
you
please
)
of
the
Passion
which
I
have
to
serve
you
,
since
I
no
way
desire
to
beare
in
vaine
the
Quality
Sir
of
Your
most
humble
Servant
.
M.
Other
Answers
of
Excuse
to
the
Letters
of
Intreaty
.
SIR
,
I
Am
more
sorry
then
your selfe
,
that
I
am
not
able
to
effect
your
Commands
:
The
duty
which
you
expect
,
does
not
absolutely
depend
of
mee
,
so
that
to
render
it
worthily
,
I
am
to
implore
the
favour
of
an
other
Man
,
who
professeth
to
incline
totally
to
the
adverse
party
.
Doe
not
thinke
that
I
make
these
excuses
to
avoid
the
occasion
,
which
presented
it selfe
for
your
service
,
but
beleeve
I
beseech
you
,
that
in
all
other
Encounters
,
I
will
Comport
my selfe
with
so
much
passion
,
that
you
shall
be
forced
to
confesse
I
am
unfaignedly
,
Sir
Your
most
humble
servant
,
M.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
IF
you
knew
in
what
disorder
my
Misfortune
causes
me
to
write
,
(
since
I
am
not
able
to
satisfie
your
desire
)
you
would
have
pitty
on
my
Affliction
,
being
it
wholly
proceeds
from
my
Griefe
,
that
the
Power
to
doe
you
service
is
taken
from
mee
.
I
speake
this
from
my
heart
,
and
soule
,
and
being
the
friendship
I
promised
you
taught
mee
the
Language
,
I
will
constraine
my selfe
to
beleeve
,
that
it
is
Eloquent
enough
to
perswade
you
,
that
the
only
want
of
ability
,
deprives
mee
at
this
Present
,
of
the
Honour
and
Contentment
,
to
witnesse
unto
you
how
much
I
am
Sir
Your
most
humble
servant
.
M.
Congratulatory
Letters
to
a
friend
,
of
some
Good
Fortune
happened
to
Him
.
SIR
,
IF
you
knew
how
excessively
joyfull
I
was
at
the
Newes
of
your
good
fortune
,
you
would
make
a
doubt
whether
your
owne
resentment
might
be
equalled
to
mine
or
no
:
truly
Sir
there
could
nothing
be
added
to
it
,
and
besides
it
proceeds
wholly
from
the
friendship
that
long
agoe
I
vowed
to
your
good
nature
,
which
is
not
vulgar
,
since
it
has
your
desert
for
the
Object
.
I
could
say
more
if
the
Excesse
of
my
Gladnesse
would
give
me
the
freedome
,
wherefore
for
the
Present
I
must
suffice
my selfe
,
that
you
remaine
assured
,
how
the
Contentment
which
I
take
can
be
equalled
by
nothing
but
the
passion
which
I
have
to
your
service
,
as
being
Sir
Your
very
humble
servant
.
Another
.
SIR
,
THe
newes
of
your
Promotion
into
that
Charg
,
which
you
wish'd
for
so
long
,
have
added
such
Contentment
and
Satisfaction
to
my
thoughts
,
that
I
am
able
to
expresse
but
one
part
of
the
Ioy
which
raignes
in
me
.
I
trouble
not
my selfe
,
to
perswade
you
to
it
by
a
long
discourse
;
your
owne
merit
and
our
reciprocall
Friendship
,
(
supplying
the
defect
of
my
Eloquence
)
will
give
a
farre
better
Testimony
then
my
pen
is
able
,
which
has
in
charge
at
this
present
onely
to
put
you
in
minde
,
that
I
am
alwayes
according
to
my
wont
Sir
Your
most
humble
Servant
.
Another
upon
the
same
.
SIR
,
THe
part
which
I
alwayes
tooke
in
your
Interests
,
shall
witnesse
unto
you
at
this
Present
,
the
excesse
of
my
joy
which
I
conceived
at
the
newes
of
your
Good
Fortune
:
&
though
I
be
not
one
of
the
first
to
congratulate
it
with
you
,
yet
I
am
one
of
the
most
sensible
,
in
the
common
Contentment
which
possesseth
the
World
.
The
diligence
,
or
delay
of
a
Post
can
advance
,
or
diminish
no
mans
duty
in
this
kinde
of
encounter
,
since
nothing
but
Zeale
,
and
Affection
are
considerable
,
which
gives
mee
great
confidence
at
this
Present
,
as
being
more
then
any
man
in
the
world
,
Sir
Your
most
humble
Servant
.
Another
.
SIR
,
DOe
not
admire
that
I
am
one
of
the
last
,
who
congratulate
with
you
,
your
good
fortune
:
the
joy
which
I
conceived
was
so
extreame
,
that
it
could
afford
mee
no
sooner
the
Liberty
to
acquit
my selfe
.
I
know
,
the
most
o●
your
friends
have
prevented
me
,
but
being
their
satisfaction
is
small
,
I
doe
not
wonder
if
their
diligence
be
the
greater
.
As
for
my
part
my
idlenesse
increaseth
my
Merit
,
since
the
stay
and
Protraction
proceeded
only
from
the
excesse
of
the
Gladnesse
Sir
of
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Another
.
SIR
,
SInce
you
doubt
not
the
Friendship
which
I
have
promised
you
,
you
will
easily
beleeve
,
that
I
was
extreame
sensible
of
the
Good
fortune
which
happen'd
you
of
late
,
but
I
must
tell
you
,
that
as
your
merit
made
mee
foresee
it
in
you
long
before
it
came
,
so
I
was
not
much
astonished
at
the
first
recitall
.
I
wish
you
daily
the
like
,
or
greater
advancements
,
being
unable
to
acquit
my selfe
otherwise
then
by
prayers
of
the
great
debt
I
owe
you
.
Yet
how
unfortunate
or
unprofitable
soever
I
be
,
doe
not
cease
to
continue
me
in
the
Number
Sir
of
Your
most
obedient
and
faithfull
servants
,
M.
Another
.
SIR
,
YOu
must
imagine
if
you
please
,
the
resentment
which
the
Newes
of
your
Good
Fortune
imprinted
in
me
,
since
I
am
not
able
to
expresse
it
as
it
is
in
it selfe
.
But
if
in
this
you
have
neede
of
any
succour
,
your
Memory
may
assist
you
by
putting
you
in
Minde
,
of
the
Passion
which
I
have
for
your
Service
;
't
is
that
onely
which
caused
the
excesse
of
my
Ioy
,
and
to
which
you
can
adde
nothing
,
but
by
honouring
me
with
your
Commands
,
since
by
that
meanes
my
Obedience
may
give
mee
,
the
perfect
Contentment
of
being
able
to
testifie
unto
you
how
much
I
am
Sir
Your
most
humble
servant
,
and
most
faithfull
.
Answers
to
the
Letters
of
Congratulation
.
SIR
,
I
Alwayes
beleeved
you
were
so
Generous
,
as
to
take
part
in
whatsoever
should
concerne
me
,
having
begun
so
strict
a
Commerce
of
Reciprocall
Friendship
.
And
I
perswade
my selfe
likewise
,
that
you
make
no
doubt
of
the
Passion
which
I
have
to
doe
you
service
(
by
which
Meanes
onely
I
am
able
to
Merit
the
Effects
of
your
Noblenesse
.
)
Whereof
you
may
bee
as
Confident
,
as
of
the
most
assured
thing
in
the
World
,
since
I
am
in
heart
,
and
soule
,
Sir
Your
most
humble
servant
,
M.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
SInce
you
take
part
in
the
good
fortune
which
has
befalne
me
,
you
must
also
participate
in
the
advantage
of
the
new
Credit
which
it
has
brought
mee
into
.
This
I
advertise
you
of
,
to
the
End
that
you
let
not
any
occasion
slip
,
wherein
you
may
procure
new
proofes
of
my
Passion
,
nor
forget
this
advice
which
I
give
you
;
since
I
shall
dye
of
Impatience
,
if
I
expect
long
,
the
opportunity
to
witnesse
unto
you
,
how
deepely
I
am
Sir
Your
Servant
,
and
Friend
,
M.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
I
Am
not
to
thank
you
for
these
new
proofes
of
your
Noblenesse
which
you
have
shown
in
my
behalfe
,
because
they
are
actions
so
proper
to
your
Nature
,
that
without
them
you
could
not
possibly
live
.
I
must
give
you
praises
then
,
instead
of
thanks
,
and
account
my selfe
happy
,
that
I
serve
as
an
object
,
to
your
vertuous
Inclinations
,
whereof
I
should
become
Envious
,
but
that
they
do
not
admit
any
hopes
of
Imitation
:
and
therefore
I
reserve
admiration
only
to
contemplate
them
,
in
Quality
Sir
,
of
Your
most
humble
Servant
.
M.
Another
.
SIR
,
THe
new
assurances
which
you
have
given
me
of
your
friendship
in
bearing
part
of
my
good
fortune
,
have
yeilded
me
much
more
satisfaction
then
my
advancement
it self
,
as
preferring
the
Happinesse
of
your
Affection
before
my
owne
particular
;
you
have
touched
me
so
sensibly
,
in
mingling
my
interests
with
your
own
,
that
I
shall
never
loose
the
Remembrance
of
so
great
a
favour
:
wishing
that
some
occasion
would
offer
it selfe
whereby
I
might
in
some
part
merit
it
by
the
reality
of
my
Service
,
since
I
am
,
and
will
be
,
all
my
life
,
Sir
,
Your
very
humble
servant
.
M.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
YOu
seeme
to
take
pleasure
in
nothing
else
,
but
in
giving
me
dayly
new
proofs
of
your
friendship
,
as
if
I
were
able
to
conceive
any
doubt
of
it
at
all
.
I
know
that
you
could
not
be
so
noble
as
you
are
,
except
you
tooke
part
in
the
Content
which
I
receive
,
for
the
happy
successe
,
of
my
affaire
.
And
besides
making
Profession
to
love
mee
,
in
that
height
as
I
honour
you
,
I
know
there
was
necessity
for
your
satisfaction
,
and
that
you
should
bee
extreamely
sensible
of
the
good
fortune
,
Sir
of
Your
most
humble
Servant
,
M.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
I
Began
not
to
day
to
bee
indebted
to
you
for
the
free
Testimonies
of
your
friendship
,
having
given
me
so
many
proofes
,
that
the
disability
to
revenge
my selfe
,
has
made
me
ashamed
of
the
Remembrance
.
But
since
you
partake
of
the
joy
which
I
receive
for
the
gaining
of
my
suit
,
I
conjure
you
to
serve
your selfe
without
exception
,
of
all
the
Advantages
which
I
have
got
,
if
you
would
really
have
me
beleeve
,
that
you
account
me
of
the
number
of
your
best
friends
as
well
Sir
as
of
Your
most
humble
and
most
faithfull
servants
.
Congratulatory
Letters
to
a
Person
of
Eminent
Quality
.
MY
LORD
,
THough
I
bee
one
of
the
last
in
Congratulating
with
your
Lordship
the
New
governement
which
the
king
has
bestowed
upon
you
;
yet
I
can
assure
your
Lordship
,
that
no
Man
forewent
mee
in
witnessing
the
Resentment
of
so
publike
a
Ioy
.
And
as
this
duty
which
I
render
you
is
valuable
according
to
the
greatnesse
of
my
Zeale
,
and
not
of
my
Diligence
,
so
I
thought
that
though
it
came
something
late
,
it
would
not
be
lesse
Considerable
.
If
I
had
had
no
other
object
but
your
Lordships
good
Fortune
,
I
had
prevented
in
this
action
,
all
that
have
now
got
the
start
of
me
;
but
taking
nothing
into
my
Consideration
,
except
your
Desert
&
my
Inclination
to
your
service
,
I
gave
way
to
my
own
desires
rather
then
Custome
,
which
is
to
make
my selfe
remarked
every
where
in
effect
,
rather
than
appearance
,
My
Lord
,
Your
most
humble
servant
.
M.
Another
.
My
Lord
,
I
Could
not
be
silent
in
the
Acclamations
of
such
an
universall
Gladnesse
,
being
forced
to
ioyne
my
voice
,
to
other
Mens
,
in
Publishing
our
Commune
Contentment
touching
the
Mareschalship
of
France
,
wherewith
the
King
has
beene
graciously
pleased
to
honour
you
;
This
Action
of
Iustice
is
so
highly
approved
by
every
Person
,
that
your
Enemies
are
constrained
to
condemne
themselves
to
an
everlasting
silence
,
being
not
able
to
open
their
Mouthes
,
but
to
their
owne
Confusion
.
Live
then
happily
with
this
part
of
Good
fortune
which
your
merit
first
made
you
aspire
to
,
and
believe
assuredly
,
that
in
the
whole
traine
of
your
Excellencies
servants
,
there
shall
be
very
few
able
to
imitate
me
,
in
the
resolution
which
I
have
taken
,
to
carry
to
my
grave
,
the
Quality
MY
LORD
,
of
Your
most
humble
&
most
obedient
Servant
.
M.
Letters
to
a
Person
of
Note
,
acknowledging
some
notable
favour
received
.
My
Lord
,
I
Doe
not
render
you
this
duty
as
thanks
,
for
the
favours
which
your
Goodnesse
has
beene
pleased
to
heape
upon
me
,
since
their
excesse
force
me
to
a
silence
,
as
taking
from
me
all
meanes
to
revenge
my selfe
.
It
sufficeth
me
you
beleeve
,
that
I
will
sooner
loose
my selfe
,
then
the
remembrance
of
your
bounty
.
I
know
your
Lordship
satisfied
your selfe
first
,
every
time
you
obliged
me
;
but
being
I
cannot
doe
so
,
what
advantage
soever
I
take
,
without
rendring
you
some
service
of
consideration
,
I
humbly
beseech
your
Lordship
to
grant
mee
the
Liberty
to
Importune
you
at
all
times
to
honour
me
with
your
Commands
,
to
the
End
that
by
the
Innocncy
of
my
observance
,
you
may
be
constraind
to
know
,
that
if
you
bee
extreamely
generous
,
I
am
no
lesse
sensible
,
nor
no
lesse
,
My
Lord
,
Your
most
humble
and
most
faithfull
Servant
.
M.
Another
.
MY
LORD
,
IF
you
expect
thanks
worthy
of
the
Favours
wherewith
you
have
beene
pleased
to
honour
mee
,
I
humbly
beseech
your
Lordship
to
afford
mee
the
tearmes
that
I
may
repeat
them
after
you
for
your
satisfaction
.
I
confesse
boldly
my
incapacity
to
expresse
unto
your
Lordship
the
resentment
which
your
obligations
cause
in
mee
,
as
well
as
my
disability
in
meeting
with
occasions
to
acquit
my selfe
.
But
being
Generous
actions
carry
their
owne
recompense
along
with
them
,
all
that
I
can
doe
,
is
to
put
your
Lordship
continually
in
minde
of
your
Noblenesse
,
and
to
publish
it
in
all
Corners
of
the
World
,
together
with
the
Quality
My
Lord
,
of
Your
most
humble
and
most
obedient
servant
.
Letters
to
aske
Pardon
for
a
Fault
Committed
.
SIR
,
IF
the
confession
of
my
fault
,
can
merit
any
Grace
,
I
will
expect
it
from
your
Bounty
,
not
my
Intention
,
because
it
is
Innocent
.
T
is
true
I
have
lost
your
good
Affection
by
reason
of
the
Passage
last
night
,
but
since
I
was
surprized
by
an
extremitie
of
Anger
,
(
which
would
not
suffer
mee
to
consider
where
I
was
)
I
leave
the
Iudgement
of
my
weaknesse
to
you
,
having
wholly
condemned
it
my selfe
.
You
know
that
our
first
motions
are
so
soveraigne
in
their
violence
,
that
in
contempt
of
reason
they
will
undergoe
no
lawes
but
their
owne
;
who
should
obtaine
of
you
to
consider
that
in
the
fault
which
I
have
committed
,
there
was
more
contributed
by
nature
,
then
my
own
free
will
;
so
that
I
knew
not
how
to
avoid
it
,
I
know
at
least
how
to
repent
my selfe
,
of
which
I
assure
you
most
faithfully
to
the
end
,
that
my
most
humble
intreaties
for
your
pardon
and
favour
,
may
bee
made
more
acceptable
,
and
the
rather
because
they
proceed
,
Sir
,
from
Your
most
humble
servant
.
M.
Another
.
SIR
,
I
Have
too
great
an
opinion
of
your
Piety
to
make
doubt
of
the
Pardon
which
I
crave
,
for
my
fault
committed
last
night
,
't
is
not
that
I
feare
the
Innocence
of
my
Intention
is
not
able
to
justifie
me
,
but
because
I
would
set
my
Minde
in
quiet
,
as
I
have
already
my
Cōscience
.
This
act
of
acknowledgement
should
serve
you
for
a
satisfaction
,
as
it
does
me
for
a
Pennance
:
putting
you
in
minde
of
the
Passion
which
alwayes
heretofore
I
have
had
to
doe
you
service
,
and
of
the
Profession
which
I
have
made
,
to
beare
in
all
places
,
the
Quality
,
Sir
,
of
Your
most
humble
and
most
obedient
Servant
.
M.
Letters
Reproaching
a
friend
for
the
Coldnesse
of
his
Affection
.
SIR
,
IF
I
made
not
an
extream
account
of
your
friendship
,
I
would
not
have
complain'd
of
your
silence
,
nor
that
Coldnesse
which
you
shewed
at
our
last
meeting
.
I
speake
not
this
,
because
I
would
force
your
Love
:
but
I
should
bee
very
glad
you
would
acknowledge
the
Affection
which
I
have
vowed
you
,
whereby
you
might
bee
obliged
to
doe
me
justice
in
honoring
me
with
the
like
,
yet
I
leave
you
the
liberty
to
doe
as
you
please
,
against
my
will
,
I
say
against
my
will
,
because
I
have
taken
Oath
,
to
live
and
dye
Sir
Your
most
humble
Servant
,
M.
Another
.
SIR
,
I
Am
constrain'd
to
put
you
in
minde
of
those
protestations
of
friendship
which
once
you
made
mee
,
being
I
perceive
that
yours
growes
already
weary
of
her
wonted
Constancy
.
You
seeme
to
have
forgot
at
the
same
time
,
both
the
esteeme
which
I
make
of
your
Desert
,
and
the
Passion
which
I
have
to
your
service
.
Sir
you
may
change
your
humour
when
you
please
,
if
you
would
have
me
beleeve
you
are
not
fickle
in
your
Promises
,
and
that
you
know
the
Art
to
Conserve
eternally
,
those
that
Endeare
themselves
the
most
to
you
,
as
I
doe
,
In
Quality
Sir
of
Your
most
humble
servant
,
Letters
to
complaine
of
Backebiting
Speeches
.
SIR
,
T
Is
told
mee
that
you
maintain'd
a
Certaine
discourse
to
my
disadvantage
,
I
beseech
you
out
of
Charity
repent
your selfe
in
time
,
if
you
would
not
have
mee
constraine
you
to
a
more
rigorous
Pennance
,
I
understand
not
Iesting
,
if
I
begin
it
not
my selfe
,
wherefore
correct
your
Pleadings
,
or
I
will
cause
you
to
loose
both
your
suit
and
charges
.
I
give
you
this
faire
warning
that
you
may
have
lesse
cause
to
complaine
hereafter
,
and
when
I
shall
perceive
you
in
as
humble
a
submission
as
I
expect
,
I
le
then
take
it
into
my
consideration
whether
I
ought
to
be
for
the
time
to
come
,
as
hitherto
I
have
beene
Sir
Your
most
humble
servant
.
M.
Another
upon
the
same
.
SIR
,
I
Understand
that
when
you
have
nothing
else
to
doe
,
you
take
upon
you
to
backbite
,
a
Person
very
neare
allied
unto
mee
.
'T
is
the
worst
trade
and
most
dangerous
that
you
can
imploy
your selfe
in
:
but
if
your
wine
bee
the
cause
of
these
extravagancies
,
I
advise
you
to
mingle
it
with
water
assoone
as
you
can
,
otherwise
I
shall
bee
constrain'd
to
force
you
to
such
a
long
silence
,
that
no
man
shall
ever
heare
you
speake
hereafter
.
'T
is
the
Charitable
advise
,
if
you
follow
it
,
Sir
of
Your
servant
,
M.
Answers
to
the
Letters
of
Complaint
.
SIR
,
I
Doe
not
write
this
letter
to
give
you
satisfaction
,
but
to
comply
with
my
owne
Humour
,
in
the
Innocence
I
have
alwayes
lived
;
you
are
too
blame
to
make
those
false
reporters
,
my
Iudges
,
from
whose
sentence
I
appeale
as
from
an
abuse
,
yet
you
may
beleeve
what
you
please
,
being
you
are
unwilling
to
explicate
your selfe
any
further
.
And
if
you
be
not
satisfied
with
the
Assurance
I
give
,
that
I
never
dream'd
of
offending
you
,
I
leave
you
to
faire
Paper
and
Inke
,
wherby
you
may
signifie
unto
me
your
minde
,
and
Intention
,
whether
good
or
bad
I
care
not
.
It
sufficeth
me
,
that
you
call
to
remembrance
the
Name
and
Quality
which
I
once
bore
Sir
of
Your
most
humble
servant
.
M.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
THose
that
told
you
I
abused
your
kinswoman
abuse
me
,
I
know
(
without
any
Mans
Intimation
)
the
respect
I
owe
to
that
sex
:
and
what
subject
soever
she
had
given
me
,
my
reason
should
alwayes
have
forced
me
to
hold
my
Peace
.
As
for
the
rest
,
know
that
wine
never
made
me
speake
,
and
if
you
be
so
foolish
as
to
beleeve
it
,
I
know
a
way
to
punish
your
folly
,
I
tell
you
what
I
meane
to
doe
,
that
you
may
have
no
pretence
to
say
I
surprize
you
unawares
,
at
our
next
meeting
,
where
I
have
good
hope
to
make
you
feele
how
worthily
I
can
Chastize
,
those
that
will
not
bee
contented
with
reason
,
'T
is
the
resolution
Sir
of
Your
servant
as
much
as
you
please
.
M.
Letters
to
Iustifie
ones
selfe
of
a
Reproach
.
SIR
,
I
Wonder
greatly
at
the
injustice
you
have
done
mee
,
being
otherwise
so
reasonable
as
you
are
:
you
have
condemned
me
upon
the
first
report
of
my
Enemies
,
without
observing
any
other
Formality
then
what
your
passion
suggested
.
I
must
tell
you
,
you
appeare
something
too
violent
in
this
Encounter
,
and
the
more
,
because
you
never
seem'd
to
make
doubt
of
the
passion
I
had
to
serve
you
;
I
complaine
then
with
reason
,
because
your
Reproaches
are
without
reason
,
and
beseech
you
take
the
Paines
hereafter
to
ponder
the
informations
which
shall
be
made
you
of
a
businesse
so
Important
as
this
,
and
particularly
when
it
touches
the
Interest
Sir
of
Your
most
humble
servant
,
M.
Another
.
SIR
,
I
Doe
so
highly
approve
of
your
Iudgement
,
that
I
begin
to
question
my
Innocence
,
since
it
has
declared
her
culpable
:
yet
I
must
assure
you
,
with
your
Permission
,
that
my
Thoughts
did
never
contribute
any
thing
to
the
fault
whereof
you
accuse
me
,
and
likewise
condemne
mee
,
without
hearing
me
speake
.
But
though
my
misfortune
were
alwayes
such
that
you
should
never
incline
to
doe
mee
reason
,
yet
my
conscience
should
alwayes
,
that
I
may
rest
in
Quiet
,
and
peaceably
possesse
the
Quality
Sir
of
Your
most
humble
servant
.
M.
Congratulatory
Letters
to
a
new
Married
Man
.
SIR
,
I
Reioyce
extreamely
at
the
Happy
election
you
have
made
of
a
wife
,
since
I
participate
with
Civility
in
the
satisfaction
which
you
receive
:
being
glad
that
you
have
now
divided
the
power
which
you
had
acquired
over
my
affections
,
as
honouring
at
this
Present
your
deare
halfe
,
with
the
same
respects
that
heretofore
I
rendred
to
you
onely
.
I
will
perswade
my selfe
,
you
will
make
no
doubt
of
it
,
no
more
then
of
the
Passion
I
have
to
your
Service
,
In
Quality
Sir
of
Your
most
humble
Servant
,
M.
Another
upon
the
same
.
SIR
,
DOe
not
expect
that
I
should
formally
congratulate
with
you
the
good-fortune
of
your
Marriage
,
since
I
interesse
my selfe
in
all
your
contentments
.
It
sufficeth
me
to
put
you
in
minde
,
that
your
good
and
ill
fortune
,
shall
be
the
sole
cause
of
all
my
joyes
and
discontents
,
as
fully
resolved
to
follow
,
your
Resentments
,
in
Quality
Sir
of
Your
most
humble
servant
.
M.
Answers
to
the
Letters
of
Congratulation
.
SIR
,
I
Alwayes
beleev'd
that
you
loved
me
so
much
as
to
participate
in
my
Contentments
,
they
are
effects
of
your
good
nature
and
noblenesse
,
to
which
I
am
extreamely
Obliged
.
But
I
can
assure
you
,
that
in
the
Election
I
have
made
of
a
Wife
,
you
have
obtained
a
new
servant
,
since
she
partakes
already
in
the
Passion
,
which
I
have
to
serve
you
,
being
Sir
Your
most
humble
Servant
,
M.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
I
Know
you
are
so
Generous
that
you
Interesse
your selfe
in
all
things
which
concerne
mee
,
but
I
am
ashamed
of
receiving
daily
new
proofes
,
since
I
cannot
Encounter
with
a
fit
Occasion
to
revenge
my selfe
.
All
that
I
can
say
then
is
,
that
I
shall
have
the
same
resentment
in
all
affaires
,
which
shall
touch
your
Particular
,
as
being
by
Inclination
as
well
as
reason
,
Sir
Your
most
humble
servant
.
M.
Letters
of
Protestation
of
Friendship
.
SIR
,
THough
I
have
made
a
vow
to
bee
your
most
perfect
honourer
all
my
life
,
and
not
to
remit
one
poynt
of
the
Passion
which
I
have
to
doe
you
Service
,
yet
I
shall
never
Content
my selfe
,
except
some
occasion
be
offered
very
suddenly
,
whereby
these
Words
may
be
changed
into
effects
.
'T
is
the
onely
Good
Fortune
which
I
expect
with
Impatience
,
being
not
a
little
grieved
that
I
beare
in
vaine
the
Quality
Sir
of
Your
very
humble
servant
.
Another
.
SIR
,
DOe
not
wonder
if
I
importune
you
so
often
with
my
Letters
,
I
have
no
greater
pleasure
in
the
World
then
to
assure
you
of
the
esteeme
I
make
of
your
friendship
,
and
the
eternity
of
minde
.
'T
is
true
,
these
are
but
words
,
but
being
they
are
dictated
by
my
heart
,
I
am
satisfied
in
acquitting
my selfe
of
that
which
I
owe
you
.
If
occasions
to
doe
you
ser●ic●
would
offer
themselves
as
often
as
they
doe
,
to
write
to
you
,
I
would
give
Testimony
by
my
actions
,
rather
then
my
Discourse
,
that
I
was
never
in
Complement
Sir
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Another
.
SIR
,
SInce
my
ill
fortune
deprives
mee
of
occasions
to
serve
you
,
I
must
for
my
owne
satisfaction
witnesse
unto
you
the
Passion
which
predominates
in
me
.
I
know
your
Desert
and
Condition
have
acquired
you
servants
without
number
,
but
I
can
assure
you
with
as
much
ostentation
,
as
Reason
,
that
Ioyne
them
all
together
,
I
am
Sir
The
most
humble
and
most
obedient
.
Another
.
SIR
,
THe
inclination
which
I
have
to
esteeme
you
more
then
all
the
World
,
will
not
suffer
mee
to
let
any
opportunity
slip
▪
without
giving
you
new
assurances
of
this
Truth
.
Not
that
I
cease
to
bee
in
a
continuall
impatiency
,
of
expecting
occasions
to
give
you
more
effectuall
proofes
,
but
because
they
being
not
dependant
of
my
will
,
I
satisfie
my selfe
,
in
letting
you
know
that
shee
shall
never
force
to
other
thing
,
then
to
make
open
profession
of
the
Quality
Sir
of
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Answers
to
the
Letters
Protesting
Friendship
.
SIR
,
BE
as
frequent
as
you
please
in
giving
me
new
assurances
of
your
friendship
,
all
the
proofes
that
you
can
have
of
mine
,
cannot
render
it
more
perfect
then
it
is
:
being
I
can
assure
you
,
that
if
my
indeavours
could
take
effect
,
or
my
vowes
accomplishment
,
you
should
not
long
account
mee
in
the
number
of
your
unprofitable
servants
,
though
Sir
of
Your
most
obedient
,
and
most
faithfull
.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
I
Will
never
refuse
the
Honour
which
you
doe
me
in
professing
to
love
me
extreamely
,
but
since
I
have
no
merit
to
oblige
you
thereunto
I
dare
not
publish
my
good
fortune
,
iustly
fearing
to
bee
deprived
of
it
every
Moment
.
Not
because
I
beleeve
you
will
proove
fickle
,
but
reasonable
,
and
that
therefore
your
Reason
may
oblige
you
,
to
make
me
lose
this
good
fortune
,
which
mine
onely
and
your
Courtesie
acquired
me
.
But
whatsoever
happen
I
shall
never
be
other
Sir
Then
your
most
humble
and
most
obedient
servant
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
THough
I
never
made
doubt
of
your
friendship
,
yet
I
make
such
esteeme
thereof
,
that
you
advance
me
to
a
new
degree
of
Honour
and
delight
,
every
time
you
take
the
Paines
to
give
mee
fresh
assurances
of
it
by
your
letters
.
'T
is
true
,
in
this
you
doe
but
assure
mine
,
yet
howsoever
,
the
commerce
of
this
kind
of
entertainment
is
so
delightful
,
that
if
I
did
not
apprehend
I
might
be
importune
,
I
should
write
unto
you
by
every
opportunity
that
presented
it selfe
,
being
't
is
the
onely
consolation
which
I
have
in
your
absence
,
to
put
you
in
minde
,
that
I
will
be
eternally
Sir
Your
most
humble
servant
.
M.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
FOR
all
you
love
me
and
esteeme
me
never
so
much
,
you
are
still
indebted
to
me
,
since
my
object
is
your
desert
:
what
proofes
soever
you
give
me
of
your
friendship
,
they
are
not
able
to
diminish
the
price
of
mine
,
being
in
a
height
of
Perfection
not
to
be
valued
.
But
if
my
misfortune
nourish
you
in
a
continuall
doubt
,
I
will
produce
my
advantage
when
you
produce
your
assurances
:
Desiring
nothing
so
much
as
to
witnesse
unto
you
by
effects
rather
then
words
,
that
I
am
Sir
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Letters
to
a
Friend
in
favour
of
another
.
SIR
,
THe
bearer
of
this
Letter
,
a
Gentleman
,
and
one
of
my
very
good
friends
,
desiring
that
I
would
intreate
you
,
(
as
I
doe
most
humbly
,
)
to
oblige
him
in
a
businesse
whose
successe
depends
wholly
in
your
favour
,
I
knew
not
how
to
refuse
his
merit
and
condition
so
poore
a
Demand
:
wherefore
you
shall
oblige
me
extreamely
,
if
you
will
be
pleased
to
imploy
some
part
of
your
credit
therein
,
without
any
other
Consideration
,
but
only
that
you
were
Requested
Sir
by
one
of
Your
most
humble
,
and
most
obedient
servants
,
M.
Another
.
SIR
,
YOur
Desert
,
and
Condition
,
have
made
you
so
Considerable
and
Necessary
,
that
your
friends
are
alwayes
subject
to
importune
you
:
and
amongst
the
rest
I
at
this
Present
,
in
favour
of
the
Gentleman
who
beares
this
Letter
:
beseeching
you
,
to
support
him
with
your
credit
,
in
a
businesse
of
which
hee
will
informe
you
.
I
shall
account
his
obligations
,
into
the
Number
of
mine
,
and
Testifie
to
you
in
my
owne
Particular
,
the
Resentment
which
I
shall
conceive
in
Quality
Sir
Of
Your
most
humble
and
most
obedient
servant
.
M.
Answers
to
the
Letters
of
Favour
.
SIR
,
THis
Gentleman
in
whose
behalfe
you
tooke
the
Paines
to
write
unto
mee
,
will
tell
you
by
word
of
mouth
,
how
faithfully
I
have
served
you
,
in
obliging
him
.
If
you
judge
mee
able
to
render
you
any
other
service
,
wherein
I
may
finde
more
satisfaction
,
as
prooving
it
more
difficult
,
it
stands
upon
nothing
,
but
your selfe
,
to
give
mee
the
Employment
,
being
very
glad
to
witnesse
unto
you
at
all
times
how
much
I
am
Sir
Your
servant
.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
I
Esteeme
my selfe
happy
to
have
met
with
this
little
occasion
,
to
doe
you
service
by
making
your
friends
businesse
(
wherof
you
writ
unto
mee
)
bee
determined
to
his
advantage
.
I
imployed
in
it
equally
,
both
my
Care
and
industry
,
not
loosing
one
moment
of
time
,
to
the
end
that
I
might
thereby
witnesse
,
in
what
esteeme
I
have
the
honour
of
your
Commands
.
You
may
give
mee
new
ones
when
you
please
:
if
you
desire
new
proofes
of
the
Obedience
Sir
of
Your
most
humble
,
and
most
faithfull
servant
,
M.
Letters
complaining
of
the
Absence
of
a
Friend
.
SIR
,
THough
true
friendship
bee
in
the
Proofe
of
absence
,
yet
yours
is
of
so
long
continuance
,
that
I
imagine
you
purpose
to
cast
me
off
,
since
you
seeme
to
retire
your
affection
thus
by
little
and
little
.
I
speake
confidently
,
because
I
feare
extreamely
,
and
you
ought
to
pardon
thi●
boldnesse
and
feare
,
since
they
proceed
equally
from
the
good
inclination
I
have
to
your
Service
,
and
the
great
esteeme
I
make
of
your
Friendship
.
Returne
then
quickly
,
if
you
will
free
from
sorrow
and
disquiet
,
Sir
The
most
humble
of
all
your
servants
and
the
most
faithfull
.
Another
.
SIR
,
I
Can
endure
your
absence
no
longer
:
you
must
of
necessity
shew
your selfe
oftner
then
you
doe
to
your
friend
,
for
your
owne
honour
,
and
my
satisfaction
:
I
say
for
your
Honour
,
because
it
is
thereby
in
Question
,
since
you
keepe
your selfe
so
long
retired
in
a
place
,
of
which
even
the
Gazette
never
makes
mention
.
You
must
not
give
so
much
way
to
your
humour
,
and
inclination
,
that
they
interesse
with
them
the
Contentment
,
of
all
that
love
you
.
For
my
owne
part
,
I
am
resolved
to
goe
seeke
you
,
if
you
returne
not
very
soone
,
to
which
I
adjure
you
,
by
all
the
Charmes
of
the
Passion
which
I
have
to
your
service
,
as
being
Sir
Your
most
humble
Servant
,
M.
Answers
to
the
Letters
which
complain
of
Absence
.
SIR
,
YOu
chide
me
with
such
a
good
grace
,
that
I
could
wish
to
see
you
oftner
in
that
humor
,
since
it
obliges
me
to
beleeve
that
I
am
not
altogether
indifferent
to
you
.
'T
is
true
,
my
absence
hath
been
something
long
,
but
being
my
presence
is
unprofitable
to
my
friends
,
by
the
disability
I
am
in
to
serve
them
,
I
make
the
lesse
account
of
my
absence
from
the
Court
;
Yet
the
only
means
to
occasion
my
return
,
will
be
,
if
you
testifie
unto
me
that
I
can
be
usefull
to
you
when
I
am
there
;
which
shall
precipitate
my
haste
,
being
in
a
firme
resolution
to
render
you
all
manner
of
Service
,
in
quality
Sir
,
of
Your
most
humble
and
obedient
servant
,
M.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
MY
pride
will
become
insufferable
,
if
you
interesse
your selfe
often
in
the
delay
of
my
return
.
I
wonder
you
can
find
me
wanting
at
the
Court
where
you
have
admirers
without
number
;
but
if
I
could
be
perswaded
that
my
absence
did
occasion
your
disquiet
,
or
that
my
presence
could
be
necessary
for
your
service
,
you
should
not
be
able
to
detain
me
from
the
Town
,
whither
your
Commands
shall
soon
call
me
when
you
are
pleased
to
expect
proofes
of
my
obedience
,
as
being
Sir
,
Your
most
humble
servant
,
M.
Letters
to
cleare
our selfes
of
a
false
report
.
SIR
,
I
Need
not
much
eloquence
to
perswade
my
innocency
touching
the
report
which
was
made
to
you
of
late
,
since
I
will
oblige
my selfe
to
make
them
confesse
the
truth
publickly
that
have
been
too
shamelesse
to
maintain
the
contrary
in
private
.
'T
is
a
malice
so
ill
contrived
,
(
though
black
as
Hell
)
that
I
am
perswaded
it
will
deceive
it selfe
.
For
what
appearance
is
there
,
that
having
received
an
infinity
of
favour
from
your
goodnesse
,
I
should
so
irreverently
contemne
a
thousand
other
noble
qualities
that
elevate
your
esteem
above
the
common
?
I
beseech
you
beleeve
that
I
shall
be
their
admirers
all
my
life
,
and
a
continuall
flaile
to
the
broachers
of
this
Imposture
.
I
have
no
respect
of
persons
when
my
Honor
is
questioned
;
I
beare
a
sword
to
defend
it
with
the
hazard
of
my
life
,
which
I
esteem
far
lesse
.
But
if
this
cannot
give
you
satisfaction
,
let
me
know
the
name
of
the
reporter
,
and
I
will
make
you
sport
in
laying
open
the
particulars
of
his
knavery
,
and
the
sincerity
of
my
innocency
,
which
shall
give
you
sufficient
never
to
make
doubt
of
the
passion
I
have
to
serve
you
,
as
being
Sir
,
Your
most
humble
and
obedient
servant
.
An
other
.
SIR
,
IT
is
an
easie
matter
for
any
Man
to
accuse
me
,
but
I
defie
all
the
World
together
,
to
convince
me
in
the
least
respect
.
T
is
true
,
I
could
not
speak
in
that
Company
,
but
some
must
heare
me
;
but
,
be
pleased
to
shew
me
my
adversary
,
and
I
le
engage
my self
to
make
him
signe
me
an
acquittance
of
my
innocency
with
his
owne
blood
.
I
boast
of
nothing
that
I
will
not
doe
;
for
let
me
but
know
the
broachers
of
that
imposture
:
and
I
will
easily
let
you
know
their
malice
,
which
shall
force
you
to
beleeve
(
as
I
most
humbly
intreat
you
)
that
I
will
sooner
loose
my
life
than
the
honour
and
stile
of
being
Sir
,
Your
most
humble
and
most
obedient
servant
,
M.
An
other
.
SIR
,
I
Will
not
justifie
my selfe
with
words
,
of
the
aspersion
laid
upon
me
,
desiring
by
effects
to
let
you
see
my
innocency
as
clear
,
as
the
malice
of
those
that
would
have
blemished
it
,
black
and
pernicious
.
I
beseech
you
think
that
I
shall
never
be
able
to
forget
the
respect
I
owe
you
;
and
if
any
have
the
boldnesse
to
accuse
me
of
it
,
my
Sword
shall
impose
them
a
most
rigorous
pennance
,
since
I
profer
to
be
alwayes
what
I
alwayes
was
Sir
,
Your
most
humble
Servant
,
M.
Answers
to
the
Letter
of
Justification
.
SIR
,
T
Is
true
,
I
was
told
you
abused
mee
behind
my
back
;
but
since
I
never
gave
you
cause
,
and
on
the
other
side
your
discretion
being
sufficiently
knowne
to
me
,
I
was
not
so
much
as
tempted
to
give
credit
to
it
;
you
needed
not
then
have
justified
your selfe
of
a
fault
whereof
I
esteem'd
you
alwayes
innocent
.
The
reputation
you
bear
in
all
places
of
the
World
,
may
seem
as
a
judge
to
condemne
your
accusers
;
wherefore
you
may
sleep
in
quiet
,
since
I
account
my selfe
disinteressed
,
and
place
me
in
the
number
Sir
,
of
Your
most
humble
,
and
most
affectionate
servants
.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
BEfore
I
can
declare
you
guilty
,
you
must
confesse
your self
faulty
with
your
own
mouth
;
for
the
testimonies
of
all
the
World
,
cannot
convince
the
good
opinion
I
have
of
your
integrity
.
Men
may
calumniate
your
reputation
as
much
as
they
please
,
but
I
shall
alwayes
hold
your
accusers
to
be
in
the
fault
,
since
it
is
impossible
I
should
lose
the
esteem
which
I
conceive
of
your
desert
,
being
Sir
,
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Letters
to
a
sick
Friend
.
SIR
,
THe
news
of
your
sicknesse
hath
bred
such
a
change
in
my
health
,
that
I
may
justly
count
my selfe
in
the
number
of
those
that
are
not
well
.
Take
courage
then
,
if
you
will
give
it
me
;
you
know
the
intent
I
have
in
all
things
concerning
your
particular
.
In
a
word
,
if
you
leave
not
your
bed
very
suddenly
,
I
shall
be
constrained
to
take
it
.
These
are
the
Protestations
Sir
,
of
Your
very
humble
servant
,
M.
Another
.
SIR
,
I
Will
not
tell
you
how
extreamely
sensible
the
sorrowfull
news
of
your
sicknesse
was
to
me
;
only
I
must
put
you
in
mind
that
your
disease
cannot
chuse
but
be
very
contagious
,
having
infected
one
hither
.
I
could
wish
,
for
your
service
and
my
contentment
,
that
I
were
neare
you
;
but
my
misfortune
is
such
,
that
it
ties
me
to
certain
affaires
in
this
Town
,
which
by
no
meanes
I
am
able
to
abandon
.
Yet
all
these
obstacles
shall
not
hinder
me
from
acquitting
my selfe
of
my
duty
,
if
you
esteem
me
usefull
to
render
you
any
manner
of
service
,
of
which
I
give
you
most
faithfull
assurance
,
as
protesting
to
be
all
my
life
,
Sir
,
Your
most
humble
servant
,
M.
Answers
to
the
Letters
written
to
a
sick
Friend
.
SIR
,
IF
I
had
sooner
recovered
my
health
,
I
had
sooner
returned
you
thanks
for
the
resentment
you
wittnessed
to
have
of
my
sicknes
:
but
being
it
kept
me
very
long
,
I
was
constrained
to
delay
my
acknowledgement
till
this
very
present
:
though
't
is
not
from
this
encounter
onely
that
I
know
how
sensible
you
are
of
al
things
concerning
your
Friends
,
which
makes
you
have
them
without
number
;
but
I
can
assure
you
,
that
put
them
all
together
,
I
am
Sir
,
The
most
obedient
and
most
faithfull
.
An
other
Answer
.
SIR
,
AS
soon
as
ever
I
was
able
to
hold
a
pen
,
I
served
my self
of
the
opportunity
to
render
you
thanks
,
for
the
consolation
which
you
gave
me
,
in
the
delightfull
entertainment
of
your
letters
.
Yet
,
I
pray
you
Sir
,
deprive
me
not
of
this
contentment
,
if
you
would
not
have
me
sick
againe
.
For
I
can
assure
you
,
t
is
a
very
great
satisfaction
to
me
to
see
my selfe
honoured
with
the
favour
of
your
remembrance
,
in
Quality
Sir
,
of
Your
most
humble
servant
,
M.
Letters
to
demand
the
protection
of
a
strange
Prince
.
SIR
,
THough
I
have
not
the
honour
to
be
knowne
to
your
Highnesse
,
yet
the
esteem
that
al
the
World
makes
of
your
Royall
vertues
,
gave
me
the
boldnesse
most
humbly
to
beseech
your
Majestie
to
grant
me
protection
within
the
Lands
of
your
Obedience
.
I
am
not
guilty
of
any
crime
that
should
make
me
blush
;
and
if
I
have
violated
the
Lawes
of
my
owne
Prince
,
it
was
but
to
obey
the
Law
which
Honour
had
imposed
upon
me
before
.
This
makes
me
expect
from
your
Highnes
bounty
,
al
manner
of
assistance
,
since
onely
the
profession
of
Souldier
made
me
quit
my
owne
Country
.
Your
Highnesse
will
augment
by
this
action
the
number
of
your
Creatures
,
since
thereby
I
shall
vow
my selfe
to
live
and
dye
in
quality
of
Your
Highnesse
Most
humble
servant
,
M.
Another
.
SIR
,
THe
Bruit
of
your
Highnesse
renowne
occasion'd
my
entrance
into
the
Lands
of
your
Obedience
,
not
knowing
where
to
find
a
more
assured
harbour
in
the
World
.
I
hope
your
Highnesse
will
not
violate
for
me
alone
,
the
Lawes
which
your
wisedome
has
already
made
in
favour
of
distressed
and
guilty
persons
;
and
though
I
be
no
otherwise
than
the
right
of
Honour
dos
permit
,
yet
I
most
humbly
implore
your
Majesties
protection
as
extreamly
conducing
to
my
repose
and
quiet
.
For
my
birth
and
condition
,
I
thought
it
not
necessary
to
reveale
them
,
till
your
Highnesse
command
oblige
me
to
it
,
being
sufficient
to
give
you
assurance
,
that
I
have
committed
no
crime
whereof
all
men
that
make
profession
of
Honour
,
may
not
be
justly
accused
and
convicted
together
;
But
I
will
be
all
my
life
Your
Highnesse
Most
humble
,
most
obedient
,
and
most
obliged
servant
,
M.
Letters
witnessing
unto
a
Friend
the
contentment
we
receive
in
serving
him
.
SIR
,
I
Should
expresse
but
one
part
of
my
Contentment
,
though
I
should
say
in
doing
you
service
I
receive
all
the
satisfaction
the
World
is
able
to
afford
;
for
your
merit
is
so
considerable
,
that
there
is
no
divertisment
like
the
continuall
action
of
executing
your
commands
.
Doe
not
think
that
I
complement
,
but
beleeve
infallibly
that
my
heart
,
mouth
,
and
pen
,
conspire
together
every
time
I
give
you
assurance
,
as
I
doe
now
,
that
I
am
more
than
all
the
World
.
Sir
,
Your
most
humble
servant
.
An
other
.
SIR
,
YOu
are
so
generous
that
you
know
by
experience
what
contentment
men
receive
in
doing
their
friends
service
;
for
my
owne
particular
,
I
think
nothing
can
be
added
to
mine
,
such
a
sensible
feeling
I
have
of
it
every
time
you
are
pleased
to
honour
me
with
your
commands
.
I
pray
you
then
be
not
so
sparing
,
since
it
is
my
whole
delight
,
and
since
I
shall
importune
you
for
nothing
else
,
in
the
resolution
I
have
taken
,
to
beare
beyond
my
grave
,
the
Quality
Sir
,
of
Your
most
humble
and
most
obedient
servant
.
Another
.
SIR
,
I
Never
esteem'd
my selfe
happy
till
the
day
wherein
you
were
pleased
to
give
mee
an
employment
for
your
service
,
as
being
the
only
thing
in
the
world
I
aspir'd
to
with
most
passion
.
I
would
you
were
alwayes
in
th'
humour
to
honour
me
with
your
commands
,
as
I
am
alwayes
to
obey
them
,
which
you
shall
doe
me
a
great
favour
to
beleeve
,
and
besides
that
I
am
unfeignedly
and
without
reservation
Sir
,
Your
most
humble
and
most
faithfull
servant
.
Answers
to
the
precedent
Letters
.
SIR
,
EVery
time
you
are
pleased
to
give
me
sure
testimonies
of
your
friendship
,
I
find
my selfe
most
powerfully
touched
by
my
ordinary
impatience
,
of
incountring
with
some
opportunity
to
revenge
my selfe
;
but
since
you
are
extreamly
reasonable
,
I
will
force
my selfe
to
beleeve
,
that
you
consider
rather
the
price
of
my
zeale
,
than
the
misfortune
of
my
disability
,
so
that
making
no
doubt
of
the
passion
I
beare
to
your
service
,
you
will
place
mee
alwayes
in
the
rank
Sir
,
of
Your
most
obedient
and
most
faithfull
servants
,
M.
An
other
Answer
.
SIR
,
I
Know
't
is
your
ordinary
delight
to
oblige
all
the
World
,
without
expecting
as
much
as
thanks
;
but
I
beseech
you
beleeve
that
I
am
too
honestly
envious
of
your
noblenesse
,
that
every
time
you
are
pleased
to
give
me
new
proofes
thereof
,
I
live
in
all
the
tortures
of
the
World
,
till
I
have
encountred
with
the
means
of
requiting
it
.
And
finding
my selfe
in
that
case
at
this
present
,
I
am
forced
to
represent
unto
you
my
disquiet
,
that
I
may
not
be
accused
of
ingratitude
,
and
lesse
of
negligence
,
in
seeking
occasions
to
testifie
unto
you
how
perfectly
I
am
Sir
,
Your
most
humble
and
obliged
servant
,
M.
An
other
Answer
.
SIR
,
'T
Is
not
enough
to
oblige
continually
your
friends
;
friendship
commands
that
you
should
serve
your selfe
of
them
,
in
all
kind
of
encounters
;
to
which
I
conjure
you
,
if
you
desire
I
should
beleeve
that
you
love
me
extreamely
.
I
will
never
importune
you
with
other
things
,
in
the
grief
I
remain
,
to
beare
unprofitably
,
the
Quality
Sir
,
of
Your
most
humble
and
obedient
servant
.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
IT
would
be
very
hard
for
me
to
expresse
how
strictly
I
am
yours
;
for
what
proofes
soever
my
obedience
were
able
to
give
you
,
they
could
resent
but
one
part
of
the
passion
which
I
have
to
your
service
,
as
being
,
inimitably
Sir
,
Your
most
humble
and
faithfull
servant
.
An
other
Answer
.
SIR
,
I
Am
resolved
to
beseech
you
would
be
pleased
to
honour
mee
continually
with
your
commands
,
since
you
are
pleased
to
produce
continually
new
proofes
of
your
friendship
.
These
shall
be
all
the
intreaties
I
will
make
you
,
to
the
end
that
my
obedience
may
serve
me
for
an
occasion
,
in
serving
you
according
to
the
passion
which
raignes
in
me
.
And
to
witnesse
unto
you
,
that
there
be
few
in
the
World
can
vaunt
with
reason
,
that
they
are
to
that
height
as
I
am
Sir
,
Your
most
humble
and
most
obedient
servant
.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
IT
would
be
very
hard
for
mee
to
reckon
up
the
obligations
which
I
have
to
you
;
You
are
too
noble
in
all
respects
,
(
and
especially
when
it
stands
upon
the
interests
of
your
friends
)
that
it
is
sufficiently
seene
you
take
great
pleasure
in
having
no
equall
.
Yet
I
must
tell
you
freely
,
that
I
am
one
of
your
Enviers
,
as
well
as
of
your
Admirers
,
being
Jealous
of
the
continuall
Generosity
you
exercise
in
my
behalfe
,
not
leaving
mee
so
much
leasure
as
to
ruminate
upon
the
means
of
acknowledgement
.
'T
is
my
turne
now
to
let
you
know
,
I
am
not
insensible
,
and
that
if
you
be
extreamly
well
skill'd
in
the
Art
of
obliging
all
the
World
,
I
am
not
altogether
ignorant
of
the
Art
of
acquitting
my selfe
.
I
beseech
you
beleeve
it
,
and
that
I
am
without
Complement
Sir
,
Your
most
humble
servant
,
M.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
I
Begin
to
grow
weary
of
your
favours
;
the
disability
in
which
I
find
my selfe
,
will
not
suffer
me
to
receive
any
new
one
,
for
feare
I
should
be
constrain'd
in
the
End
to
passe
for
Ungratefull
.
Wherefore
except
I
encounter
with
some
favourable
occasion
,
wherin
I
may
witnesse
the
Passion
which
I
have
to
serve
you
,
I
will
never
adde
any
thing
to
this
number
of
obligations
.
This
is
my
Humor
,
my
Resolution
being
to
professe
my selfe
all
my
Life
Sir
,
Your
most
humble
servant
,
M.
THE
SECOND
PART
OF
The
Secretarie
in
Fashion
.
A
Letter
Consolatory
to
a
Father
upon
the
Death
of
his
Sonne
.
SIR
,
THE
sorrowfull
newes
of
your
Sonnes
Death
,
touched
mee
very
feelingly
,
and
the
more
,
because
I
had
the
honour
of
his
acquaintance
,
and
particular
knowledge
of
his
Deserts
.
The
love
which
you
have
sustain'd
,
is
very
great
I
confesse
;
but
you
must
likewise
confesse
that
unavoydable
evils
,
are
to
be
endured
with
constancy
.
I
speak
not
this
to
condemne
your
Sighes
and
Teares
,
for
I
doe
willingly
approve
of
them
,
yea
,
even
in
excesse
:
but
to
let
you
know
,
that
after
you
have
satisfied
your
humour
,
you
must
a
little
give
place
to
reason
,
being
you
shall
receive
as
much
glory
in
drying
vp
your
Teares
,
as
you
did
once
pleasure
in
shedding
them
.
I
know
your
Sonne
was
the
onely
Comfort
which
remained
to
you
in
this
World
,
and
that
his
presence
meerly
did
make
you
live
contented
even
amongst
the
peevishnesses
of
old
age
.
But
all
this
induceth
mee
to
beleeve
that
God
deprived
you
of
him
,
for
no
other
Reason
,
but
onely
to
comfort
you
hereafter
in
himselfe
,
as
being
the
onely
Good
which
is
subject
to
no
Change
.
He
calls
himselfe
a
Jealous
God
;
wonder
not
then
if
he
be
Jealous
of
the
unmeasureable
love
you
bore
to
your
Childe
.
And
if
his
Providence
hath
found
a
meanes
to
oblige
you
,
in
robbing
you
of
an
object
which
possest
all
your
affections
together
,
you
on
the
other
side
are
obliged
this
Day
to
make
him
the
object
of
your
Thanksgiving
,
and
not
of
your
Complaints
.
This
is
that
which
I
expect
at
the
hands
of
your
Magnanimity
,
and
soundnesse
of
Judgement
;
the
weakenesse
of
mine
,
detaining
mee
from
passing
further
,
being
assured
that
you
are
able
your selfe
to
be
your
own
Comforter
.
It
sufficeth
me
that
I
acquit
my selfe
of
my
Duty
,
in
witnessing
to
you
the
griefe
I
conceive
for
your
Misfortune
,
and
the
continuall
care
I
shall
have
to
blaze
my selfe
wheresoever
I
come
,
Sir
,
Your
most
humble
servant
.
The
Answer
.
SIR
,
I
Am
obliged
to
you
,
for
the
charitable
counsell
you
were
pleased
to
give
me
upon
the
Death
of
my
Sonne
:
But
suffer
me
to
tell
you
(
after
my
humble
thanks
)
that
my
affliction
is
of
such
a
Nature
,
that
Death
only
is
able
to
give
me
satisfaction
,
so
that
I
find
my selfe
constrained
to
go
seek
my
remedy
in
my
Grave
;
and
yet
I
doe
not
murmure
against
the
providence
of
God
;
though
I
must
assure
you
that
without
a
particular
Grace
,
and
sensible
miracle
,
I
shall
faint
under
the
burden
of
my
misfortune
.
Yet
I
beseech
you
Sir
,
doe
not
deprive
mee
of
the
Comfor
of
your
Letters
,
knowing
I
cannot
enjoy
the
Happinesse
of
your
Company
:
And
above
all
things
,
remember
me
in
your
Prayers
,
since
I
expect
no
succour
but
from
Heaven
.
I
am
ever
Sir
,
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
YOur
deare
Letter
concerning
the
death
of
my
Sonne
,
had
much
allayd
my
Greife
,
if
my
affliction
had
been
capable
of
any
Comfort
;
Yet
I
esteeme
my self
extreamly
obliged
to
you
for
the
part
you
seem
to
take
in
my
Misfortune
,
in
which
you
testifie
that
you
are
equally
both
of
a
Generous
Disposition
,
and
a
Good
Friend
.
Sir
,
the
sorrow
which
oppresseth
me
,
has
left
mee
nothing
but
sighes
and
teares
to
offer
you
up
in
acknowledgement
,
it
sufficeing
mee
(
since
it
is
true
)
that
you
beleeve
I
am
and
will
be
everlastingly
Sir
,
Your
very
humble
servant
.
Letters
Consolatory
to
a
Sonne
,
upon
the
Death
of
his
Father
.
SIR
,
THad
sooner
condoled
with
you
the
losse
of
your
Father
,
if
I
had
sooner
judged
you
capable
of
Consolation
.
I
thought
it
fit
to
afford
you
some
time
,
to
pay
(
with
the
abundance
of
your
Teares
)
the
debt
you
owed
to
Nature
;
but
now
having
satisfied
your selfe
,
by
the
publike
Testimony
which
you
have
given
of
your
Sorrow
,
I
come
amongst
others
,
to
acquit
my selfe
of
my
obligation
,
and
to
perswade
you
to
patience
,
assuring
you
that
I
am
very
sensible
of
the
excesse
of
your
Affliction
.
I
know
you
have
practised
that
vertue
in
a
thousand
Encounters
of
Misfortune
,
which
have
made
you
able
to
give
lessons
to
all
the
rest
of
the
World
;
So
that
all
I
am
to
doe
,
is
to
put
you
in
mind
,
that
both
you
and
I
make
all
the
haste
possible
after
him
whose
absence
we
deplore
with
too
much
Lamentation
;
and
that
without
a
particular
Favour
of
God
Almighty
,
we
shall
be
even
at
his
heeles
,
before
we
be
worthily
prepared
for
so
great
a
Voyage
.
This
I
made
bold
to
remember
you
of
,
and
likewise
that
I
am
,
as
much
as
ever
Sir
,
Your
most
humble
servant
,
M.
Another
Letter
.
T
Is
not
to
Comfort
you
of
the
losse
which
you
have
sustained
,
that
I
put
Pen
to
Paper
,
but
rather
to
give
Testimony
of
the
Resentment
which
I
feele
,
knowing
the
Ability
of
your
judgement
,
and
weaknesse
of
my
owne
.
It
sufficeth
mee
to
represent
unto
you
,
that
in
the
Necessity
of
dying
or
being
born
,
Nature
does
oblige
every
man
to
goe
the
Way
that
is
Marked
out
for
him
;
T
is
no
matter
how
long
and
strong
some
men
be
,
they
all
meet
together
at
the
Grave
,
and
being
arived
there
,
none
makes
account
of
the
Time
which
they
imployed
in
going
that
Voyage
.
For
our
owne
particulars
,
let
us
consider
how
many
yeares
we
have
already
spent
since
we
began
it
;
and
in
this
very
Moment
that
you
read
this
,
we
may
propose
to
our selves
the
End
of
it
,
by
the
Imagination
of
a
hidden
death
.
As
for
your
Father
,
he
dyed
but
for
himselfe
,
and
has
perhaps
left
you
a
while
to
play
his
Part
here
in
this
World
,
which
ought
in
my
opinion
to
leave
you
more
Envy
than
Sorrow
,
knowing
that
he
has
already
cast
Anchor
in
that
haven
whether
you
tend
with
might
and
maine
.
I
would
say
more
,
if
I
made
no
conscience
to
detaine
your
Eyes
too
long
upon
this
Paper
;
you
must
give
them
yet
a
little
time
to
sleepe
,
since
your
Griefe
is
just
;
in
which
I
take
a
large
Part
,
in
Quality
Sir
,
of
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Another
Letter
.
SIR
,
I
Am
too
much
your
Servant
,
to
remaine
Dumbe
,
and
Insensible
,
at
the
sorrowfull
report
of
your
Fathers
death
.
These
lines
in
acquitting
me
of
what
I
owe
you
,
wil
testifie
unto
you
the
Part
I
take
in
your
affliction
.
I
think
it
will
be
hard
for
you
to
comfort
your selfe
after
such
a
Losse
;
but
since
God
does
never
Afflict
us
above
our
force
,
let
the
force
of
your
judgement
work
your
Consolation
.
The
most
sweet
consideration
you
can
have
,
is
that
you
were
witnesse
of
the
last
actions
which
your
Father
did
,
before
his
retreat
,
out
of
this
World
;
which
having
either
few
or
no
examples
,
may
be
a
sufficient
cause
of
your
Quiet
,
every
time
you
consider
their
importance
.
Live
honestly
as
he
did
,
and
dye
in
the
same
Manner
;
you
are
in
the
right
way
to
the
Place
whither
he
is
gone
:
and
if
he
have
anticipated
you
some
few
dayes
,
those
will
seeme
but
a
Moment
,
when
you
are
arived
at
the
End
.
Solace
your selfe
then
in
his
absence
,
since
the
innocency
wherein
you
live
,
is
an
Infallible
Assurance
to
you
that
you
shall
see
him
very
suddenly
.
I
will
give
you
like
undoubted
Testimony
of
the
Passion
which
I
have
to
your
Service
,
whensoever
you
please
to
honour
mee
with
your
Commands
,
as
being
Sir
,
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Answers
to
the
Letters
of
Consolation
.
SIR
,
I
Doe
not
excuse
the
Long
time
that
I
have
staid
in
returning
you
thanks
for
the
part
which
you
did
mee
the
Honour
to
take
in
my
affliction
;
because
the
Griefe
is
still
so
sensible
to
mee
,
that
I
cannot
imploy
my
Spirit
without
Violence
,
in
any
other
thoughts
but
those
of
my
Misfortune
:
Not
that
I
remaine
not
entirely
Resigned
to
the
Wil
of
God
,
and
fully
Resolved
to
Patience
:
but
yet
all
this
cannot
hinder
my
Sorrow
from
Enjoying
an
absolute
Possession
of
mee
:
and
for
an
Encrease
of
Mischiefe
,
my
griefe-sick
Humour
does
render
it
so
agreeable
,
that
I
have
not
so
much
Liberty
as
to
Complaine
,
though
it
devour
me
by
Little
and
Little
.
Yet
I
cease
not
to
be
extreamly
obliged
to
you
,
for
your
Pious
and
Charitable
Counsells
,
which
you
were
pleased
to
give
mee
,
assureing
you
that
I
will
take
my
ordinary
Lessons
of
Comfort
out
of
them
.
Notwithstanding
,
I
must
tell
you
with
my
ancient
freedom
,
that
as
my
Affliction
comes
from
above
,
't
is
from
thence
onely
that
I
expect
a
Remedy
.
How
good
a
Physitian
soever
Time
be
,
I
desire
nothing
of
you
but
Prayers
,
intermingled
with
Commands
;
to
the
end
that
my
obedience
may
make
mee
worthy
the
good
opinion
you
have
Sir
,
of
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
I
Must
confesse
your
Charitable
letter
did
much
comfort
the
losse
which
I
lately
sustained
;
and
the
more
,
because
it
gave
Testimony
of
your
feeling
in
my
Affliction
.
In
such
accidents
as
these
,
I
never
find
more
Consolation
,
than
to
see
my selfe
lamented
by
my
Friends
;
amongst
whom
since
you
possesse
the
first
rank
,
I
leave
to
your
owne
consideration
whether
your
Letter
were
agreeable
to
me
,
or
no
:
Yet
for
all
that
,
I
cannot
cease
my
Teares
,
my
Sorrow
increasing
upon
mee
daily
more
and
more
,
through
the
Remembrance
of
the
Misfortune
which
was
the
cause
of
it
.
And
truly
after
this
Losse
,
I
cannot
apprehend
any
other
;
which
might
serve
me
for
a
very
effectuall
admonishment
,
if
I
were
Capable
of
receiving
any
.
I
would
say
more
,
if
my
Teares
did
not
blot
out
my
Writing
:
Wherefore
in
briefe
,
I
doe
desire
of
you
,
that
you
would
be
pleased
to
Conserve
me
the
Honour
of
your
Remembrance
,
and
adde
not
the
Losse
of
your
Friendship
to
this
which
I
already
sustaine
;
since
I
am
with
Passion
Sir
,
Your
most
humble
and
most
obliged
servant
.
Letters
Consolatory
to
a
Husband
upon
the
Death
of
his
Wife
.
SIR
,
I
Know
not
in
what
Tearmes
to
begin
to
comfort
you
,
your
Losse
appearing
to
mee
so
great
,
by
reason
of
the
excesse
of
your
Affliction
,
and
my
Resentment
,
that
I
am
farre
more
disposed
to
accompany
your
teares
,
than
able
any
way
to
solace
your
Misery
.
You
know
Misfortune
has
taught
mee
by
Experience
to
value
a
Discontent
of
that
Nature
,
having
heretofore
shed
teares
for
the
same
subject
.
So
that
representing
to
my selfe
that
which
I
have
suffered
in
a
like
Incounter
,
I
must
needs
tell
you
,
you
are
not
to
expect
your
Remedy
from
any
Place
but
Heaven
.
Though
I
deny
not
but
Time
may
worke
much
upon
that
kind
of
Malady
;
yet
the
Terme
is
so
long
,
that
the
little
remainder
of
Quiet
,
which
is
left
after
the
Purge
of
our
discontent
,
stays
not
so
long
as
to
give
us
an
absolute
and
full
Possession
of
it
.
Wherefore
be
assured
,
that
God
will
not
abandon
you
,
if
you
adore
his
Providence
with
submission
;
a
Meanes
to
which
,
is
,
if
you
Consider
that
you
are
continually
in
Election
to
see
your
Wife
againe
,
and
sooner
too
than
perhaps
you
imagine
.
Pardon
mee
Sir
,
for
my
freedome
of
speech
;
I
cannot
flatter
you
,
being
to
that
Point
,
as
I
am
,
Sir
,
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Another
.
SIR
,
THough
I
be
not
able
to
Comfort
you
in
your
Wifes
death
,
yet
it
is
sufficient
for
my
satisfaction
,
that
I
witnes
unto
you
the
great
part
which
I
take
in
your
Affliction
:
onely
I
will
put
you
in
Minde
,
that
in
Sorrowfull
Accidents
,
Patience
is
the
cheif
Remedy
,
after
our
Resignation
to
the
Will
of
God
.
Our
teares
and
Complaints
are
in
vaine
,
since
they
doe
but
provoke
Heaven
,
in
stead
of
appeasing
it
.
When
you
espoused
that
vertuous
Lady
,
the
Notary
who
passed
the
Contract
of
your
Marriage
,
forgot
not
to
insert
this
Clause
,
that
the
survivor
should
enjoy
the
rights
of
Widdowship
.
What
reason
have
you
then
,
to
lament
a
Death
which
you
foresaw
so
long
since
,
as
if
you
had
been
assured
,
when
you
tooke
her
,
shee
had
not
been
subject
to
it
?
She
prevented
you
in
an
Inevitable
Action
;
and
perhaps
it
will
not
be
much
;
Ten
yeares
more
or
lesse
,
are
but
an
instant
to
that
of
Death
;
For
which
I
would
wish
you
prepare
your selfe
;
what
leasure
soever
you
have
,
I
can
assure
you
you
will
have
very
little
spare
time
.
But
I
must
not
incurre
the
Fault
from
which
I
promised
to
exempt
my selfe
.
I
aske
you
Pardon
,
since
my
Crime
is
occasioned
by
my
Zeale
,
as
being
Sir
,
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Another
.
SIR
,
THe
Friendship
and
service
I
vowed
to
you
long
agoe
,
have
made
mee
so
sensible
of
the
sorrowfull
Newes
of
your
Wifes
death
,
that
I
stand
in
need
of
the
Consolation
which
all
the
World
does
administer
to
you
.
Expect
not
then
any
Comfort
from
mee
,
being
afflicted
as
I
am
.
All
that
I
can
say
to
you
,
is
,
that
your
Wife
dying
in
that
innocency
,
in
which
shee
alwayes
lived
,
has
left
you
in
my
Opinion
a
greater
cause
of
Envy
,
than
of
Sorrow
.
Wherefore
,
I
would
not
have
you
Dreame
of
any
thing
so
much
,
as
of
following
her
;
and
since
you
are
every
houre
hastening
to
your
end
,
change
the
Nature
of
your
teares
,
lamenting
more
that
she
has
left
you
behind
her
,
than
that
she
is
gone
before
you
.
This
is
all
the
Counsell
I
can
give
you
,
together
with
a
new
assurance
that
I
will
live
and
dye
Sir
,
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Answers
to
the
Precedent
Letters
.
SIR
,
THE
Griefe
which
I
conceived
for
the
losse
of
my
Wife
,
would
not
permit
mee
sooner
to
render
you
thanks
,
for
the
pious
resentment
you
witnesse
in
her
behalfe
.
I
always
thought
you
would
participate
in
my
Misfortunes
,
because
you
did
mee
the
Honour
to
love
mee
:
And
the
rather
because
I
knew
you
were
interessed
in
my
Sorrow
,
as
having
lost
a
most
humble
Servant
.
Yet
I
remaine
indebted
to
you
for
the
Charitable
care
which
you
took
in
comforting
mee
,
though
it
were
in
vaine
,
since
I
cannot
so
soone
quit
the
memory
of
a
Losse
so
important
to
my
repose
.
Men
may
tell
me
as
much
as
they
please
,
that
my
Misery
is
without
reliefe
;
't
is
because
of
that
that
I
am
void
of
Comfort
.
To
cure
it
,
is
a
work
of
the
Hand
of
God
;
and
all
that
Time
and
my
Friends
are
able
to
contribute
,
does
but
serve
to
dispose
the
matter
,
which
the
Almighty
must
informe
when
he
pleaseth
.
Yet
Sir
,
though
my
Misfortunes
be
in
their
Flood
,
they
have
not
drowned
the
respectfull
observance
I
alwayes
used
in
your
behalfe
,
as
having
made
a
vow
to
coffin
up
with
my selfe
the
Quality
Sir
,
of
Your
most
faithfull
servant
.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
I
Could
heartily
wish
,
that
the
Sorrow
I
conceive
for
my
Wifes
death
,
were
capable
of
Consolation
,
that
so
I
might
make
use
of
the
Charitable
precepts
you
were
pleased
to
give
me
,
for
which
I
render
you
most
humble
thanks
:
But
truly
Sir
,
my
Affliction
is
so
great
,
that
if
God
doe
not
soone
play
the
Physitian
,
I
can
expect
remedy
from
nothing
but
death
.
So
that
how
constantly
soever
I
beare
my
Misfortune
,
the
very
Sorrow
wherewith
it
is
accompanied
,
will
thrust
me
by
little
and
little
into
my
Grave
.
Not
that
I
have
not
wholly
resigned
my selfe
to
the
will
of
God
,
but
because
being
not
able
to
make
this
Resignation
in
all
points
absolute
,
the
remainder
of
my
Liberty
serves
to
no
other
end
but
to
torment
me
:
Make
your
Prayers
to
Heaven
for
me
,
that
it
would
please
to
conduct
mee
suddenly
into
that
haven
of
Quiet
where
you
now
are
:
I
expect
of
your
devotion
,
this
favour
from
the
Divine
goodnesse
,
as
you
ohght
to
expect
all
manner
of
service
from
the
friendship
I
have
vowed
to
you
,
as
being
with
Passion
Sir
,
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
I
Can
thank
you
for
nothing
but
your
good
will
which
you
witnessed
to
me
,
in
those
wholesome
counsels
you
were
pleased
to
give
me
touching
the
Losse
which
I
have
lately
sustain'd
;
For
how
powerfull
soever
your
reasons
be
,
they
can
never
lessen
my
sorrow
,
and
much
lesse
be
able
to
heale
it
.
Those
that
see
my
Misfortune
,
consider
it
but
as
an
accident
that
arrives
every
day
,
and
which
torments
at
the
same
time
an
infinite
number
of
Husbands
:
but
if
they
could
penetrate
into
the
bottome
of
my
Soule
,
that
they
might
know
the
just
cause
of
my
continual
lamentations
,
the
wisest
of
them
would
be
constraind
to
approve
the
Eternity
of
my
complaints
,
since
they
would
know
thereby
how
hopelesse
they
are
of
cure
.
'T
is
true
there
is
nothing
else
now
able
to
give
me
satisfaction
,
which
makes
me
find
some
kind
of
Comfort
in
the
shortning
of
my
dayes
,
since
I
solace
my selfe
in
my
departure
,
knowing
it
tends
to
the
accomplishment
of
my
Griefe
.
You
le
tell
me
perhaps
I
speak
not
like
a
Christian
;
I
am
one
howsoever
;
but
the
Affliction
to
which
I
have
abandond
my selfe
,
will
not
suffer
me
to
enjoy
any
other
Light
,
than
that
which
shows
the
way
to
my
Grave
.
I
returne
to
the
obligation
wherein
I
am
bound
to
you
for
the
Honour
of
your
Remembrance
and
charitable
admonitions
,
and
to
witnesse
unto
you
the
Resentment
they
have
left
in
me
in
Quality
Sir
,
of
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
I
Confesse
the
Admonitions
which
you
used
in
the
last
letter
wherewith
you
were
pleased
to
honour
mee
,
touching
the
losse
which
I
have
sustained
of
late
,
by
the
Death
of
my
Wife
,
were
so
Ponderous
,
that
I
could
not
chuse
but
receive
thereby
great
Consolation
.
'T
is
needfull
(
as
you
say
very
well
)
that
our
first
lesson
of
Constancy
,
should
be
the
resignation
of
our
wils
to
God
:
and
that
al
the
Study
which
we
are
to
imploy
therein
,
should
be
but
to
perfect
that
Action
.
I
acknowledge
it
very
willingly
;
the
experience
which
I
have
learn'd
,
will
suffer
mee
to
make
no
further
doubt
.
For
God
laid
the
Affliction
upon
me
,
and
he
himselfe
is
my
Comforter
.
His
Justice
punished
me
,
but
his
Goodnesse
has
made
me
find
so
much
sweetnes
in
my
Misery
,
that
in
stead
of
Complaints
,
I
am
bound
to
render
him
Everlasting
Thanksgiving
.
Howsoever
,
continue
me
the
Favour
of
your
good
Counsels
,
with
the
Honour
of
your
Friendship
,
and
beleeve
if
you
please
,
that
I
will
be
all
my
life
,
Sir
,
Your
most
humble
and
most
obedient
servant
.
Consolatory
Letters
to
a
Lady
or
Gentlewoman
upon
her
Husbands
Death
.
MADAM
,
I
Had
no
sooner
heard
the
sorrowfull
newes
of
your
Husbands
death
,
but
I
put
Pen
to
paper
,
to
witnesse
unto
you
at
the
same
time
,
both
the
Sorrow
which
I
conceive
,
and
the
Resolution
which
I
have
taken
to
die
in
your
Ladyships
service
.
If
I
thought
my selfe
able
to
comfort
you
,
I
would
do
my
endeavour
most
freely
;
but
the
Remembrance
of
your
Vertue
forbids
mee
,
since
it
alone
is
sufficient
to
give
you
the
Lessons
,
which
it
made
you
practice
heretofore
,
in
other
encounters
of
Misfortune
.
T
is
true
,
this
is
more
penetrating
than
all
the
rest
;
therefore
your
Constancy
should
employ
all
her
Endeavours
to
surmount
your
Griefe
:
and
since
Grace
onely
can
give
us
the
greatest
part
of
our
force
,
you
have
more
(
in
my
opinion
)
to
hope
for
than
to
feare
,
in
this
Combate
.
What
if
Heaven
be
provoked
against
us
;
it
never
afrights
us
with
the
noyse
of
his
Thunder
,
but
it
rejoyceth
us
very
suddenly
with
the
cleare
shining
light
of
his
Sunnes
beames
.
But
if
you
be
pressed
with
impatience
in
this
Surprisall
of
Sorrow
,
dry
up
your
teares
,
cease
the
continuation
of
your
Sighs
,
you
shall
find
the
Soveraigne
Remedy
of
all
your
Ills
,
in
the
practice
of
these
actions
.
Mine
shall
be
alwaies
directed
to
your
Honour
and
Service
,
as
being
from
my
heart
rather
than
Mouth
,
Madam
,
Your
most
humble
servant
,
M.
Another
.
MADAM
,
I
Find
in
my selfe
a
greater
disposition
to
lament
with
you
the
losse
which
you
have
sustained
,
than
I
judge
my selfe
able
to
give
you
comfort
.
For
if
you
be
deprived
of
a
Husband
whom
you
loved
intirely
,
I
am
robbed
of
a
Friend
for
whom
I
would
have
adventured
a
thousand
Lives
.
Truly
Madam
,
I
am
so
wholly
taken
up
in
my
own
Sighes
,
and
teares
,
that
I
cannot
think
of
yours
,
but
in
some
intermediating
Houres
,
be
they
never
so
extreame
.
So
that
in
stead
of
giving
you
Comfort
,
I
am
more
like
to
perswade
you
to
render
your
Complaints
Everlasting
.
You
may
seek
an
other
Husband
to
a
faire
purpose
,
the
World
is
too
narrow
to
find
his
Equall
.
And
for
my selfe
,
I
may
truly
say
,
the
mould
of
my
old
Friend
being
broken
,
I
should
spend
my
Travaile
in
vaine
,
if
I
went
about
to
parallell
him
amongst
my
new
ones
.
Let
us
then
solace
our selves
in
our
affliction
Madam
,
since
it
is
extreame
:
the
Extremity
of
it
will
soone
teach
us
the
way
to
our
Graves
where
wee
shall
find
a
Remedy
for
our
ills
.
If
it
be
lawfull
to
love
perfectly
,
no
man
wil
hinder
us
to
lament
without
cease
,
since
continuall
tears
are
the
Testimonies
of
a
Perfect
Love
.
In
the
case
I
am
in
at
this
present
,
I
am
able
to
give
you
no
other
advice
;
yet
if
God
give
you
the
Grace
to
despise
my
Counsell
,
I
shall
never
reproach
you
for
it
,
but
rather
beseech
you
that
you
would
make
your
Prayers
to
God
,
for
my
like
happinesse
,
and
to
beleeve
that
if
I
be
extreamly
afflicted
,
I
am
no
lesse
Madam
,
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Another
.
MADAM
,
HAving
given
you
a
thousand
Testimonies
of
the
particular
esteem
I
made
of
your
Husband
,
I
hope
you
will
not
now
doubt
of
the
Resentment
which
remaines
to
mee
for
his
Losse
.
These
lines
notwithstanding
shal
give
you
a
new
assurance
of
it
,
and
likewise
of
the
good
will
I
have
to
doe
you
service
.
If
I
were
capable
of
giving
Consolation
,
I
would
begin
with
my selfe
,
being
sensibly
touched
with
the
same
affliction
which
torments
you
.
But
I
leave
that
care
to
your
Judgment
and
Vertue
,
considering
that
the
strength
of
the
one
will
supply
my
weaknesse
,
and
the
precepts
of
the
other
will
exceed
all
the
Counsell
and
advice
I
can
impart
to
you
.
Besides
knowing
you
to
be
wholly
resigned
to
the
Will
of
God
,
that
Resignation
will
be
the
soveraigne
remedy
of
your
distresse
.
The
Heavens
doe
alwayes
afford
us
Comfort
for
the
ills
they
send
us
;
but
they
expect
submission
,
to
make
us
worthy
of
that
favour
which
I
hope
you
are
already
in
state
to
obtaine
,
it
being
the
only
Meanes
to
live
at
Quiet
in
the
middle
of
Distresses
;
For
my
part
,
I
will
alwayes
interesse
my selfe
in
yours
,
as
being
with
Passion
the
same
I
alwayes
was
,
Madam
,
Your
most
humble
and
most
obedient
servant
.
Answers
to
the
precedent
Letters
.
SIR
,
I
Beleeve
the
Losse
I
sustained
in
the
death
of
my
late
Husband
,
does
touch
you
very
sensibly
,
since
in
your
own
particular
you
are
robbed
of
a
most
real
friend
,
and
faithfull
Servant
:
but
for
as
my
own
interest
,
my
Affliction
is
so
great
,
that
if
God
do
not
comfort
mee
very
suddenly
,
I
shall
die
very
suddenly
of
Griefe
.
You
may
judge
by
the
state
I
am
in
at
this
present
,
what
Comfort
I
can
expect
from
my
Misery
;
for
,
as
my
Fortune
and
Happinesse
are
equally
buried
in
my
Husbands
Grave
,
except
he
revive
,
I
shall
never
be
able
to
revive
out
of
the
Grave
of
Sadnesse
,
and
Discontent
.
All
that
I
have
resolved
in
this
extremity
,
is
,
to
resigne
my selfe
totally
to
the
Will
of
God
;
and
since
your
Prayers
may
be
favourable
to
me
in
that
behalf
,
I
beseech
you
for
their
continuation
,
for
which
I
shall
be
indebted
to
you
all
my
life
,
and
in
Quality
Sir
,
of
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
THrough
my
Teares
,
I
read
the
Comfortable
Letter
which
you
did
me
the
Honour
to
write
unto
me
,
touching
the
Death
of
my
late
Husband
;
and
the
little
space
which
I
employed
in
drying
them
up
,
gave
me
time
to
render
you
thanks
.
I
resolved
to
have
writ
more
at
large
,
when
I
took
Pen
in
hand
;
but
the
sorrow
which
I
endure
,
will
scarce
give
mee
liberty
to
assure
you
that
I
am
Sir
,
Your
most
humble
servant
.
A
Letter
from
a
Widdow
,
certifying
a
friend
of
her
Husbands
Death
.
SIR
,
THis
Sorrowfull
Letter
shall
inculcate
nothing
but
death
into
your
memory
,
assuring
you
that
you
have
lost
a
most
reall
admirer
,
and
faithfull
servant
,
in
the
Person
of
my
Husband
.
Pardon
me
if
I
say
no
more
;
the
Pen
fals
out
of
my
Hand
,
and
my
teares
blot
out
my
writing
.
I
am
the
most
afflicted
Woman
in
the
World
,
Sir
,
and
Your
most
humble
servant
.
A
Letter
from
a
Husband
to
his
Wife
,
comforting
her
upon
the
Death
of
their
Son
.
WIFE
,
IT
is
with
an
extreame
Sorrow
that
I
am
constrain'd
to
trouble
your
Quiet
at
this
present
with
newes
which
at
the
first
view
wil
be
able
to
beare
you
into
your
Accustomed
extremity
,
if
it
be
not
supported
by
the
Resignation
of
your
will
to
God
.
But
knowing
that
you
are
alwayes
disposed
to
undergoe
the
Lawes
of
his
Providence
,
I
take
the
boldnesse
to
let
you
know
that
that
very
Providence
of
God
,
has
sounded
a
retreat
out
of
this
World
,
to
our
eldest
sonne
.
This
Accident
,
how
new
and
strange
soever
it
seeme
,
must
not
soe
strictly
seize
upon
you
,
that
you
murmur
against
the
Author
.
You
must
resist
the
attempts
of
Sorrow
by
my
example
;
and
after
you
have
shed
some
Teares
,
which
the
Quality
of
Mother
will
constraine
you
to
,
you
must
adore
(
in
drying
them
up
)
the
Omnipotency
of
him
that
gave
the
blow
;
To
the
end
that
he
redouble
not
his
Wrath
,
in
depriving
us
of
the
Comfort
which
as
yet
remaines
with
us
.
Doe
not
think
that
I
am
insensible
at
this
Misfortune
;
it
touched
me
to
the
Quick
;
and
the
more
,
because
I
am
constrained
to
partake
it
with
you
.
But
since
God
has
ordaind
us
to
this
Affliction
,
we
ought
to
witnesse
by
the
Moderation
of
our
Complaints
,
that
there
is
no
excesse
in
his
Chastisment
.
I
leave
the
thought
of
all
these
Considerations
to
your self
,
with
assurance
that
I
remaine
,
Deare
Wife
,
Your
most
faithfull
Husband
.
LOVE
LETTERS
upon
all
sorts
of
Subjects
.
And
First
of
Presentation
of
Service
.
MADAM
,
THE
inclination
which
I
have
to
esteeme
you
more
than
all
the
rest
of
the
World
,
obliged
mee
at
this
Present
,
to
offer
your
Ladyship
my
most
humble
Service
:
And
to
assure
you
,
that
if
you
be
pleased
therewith
,
I
shall
never
change
the
Resolution
,
to
be
all
my
life
Madam
,
Your
most
humble
and
most
obedient
servant
.
Another
.
MADAM
,
I
Should
not
take
the
Liberty
to
let
you
know
how
extreamly
I
honour
you
,
if
the
Absolute
power
of
your
Beauty
did
not
force
me
to
it
.
Which
relating
unto
you
the
violence
it
useth
in
my
behalfe
,
will
easily
(
I
hope
)
obtaine
Pardon
for
my
Presumption
.
My
desire
in
this
is
no
other
but
onely
to
know
whether
you
be
pleased
I
should
Everlastingly
beare
the
Quality
Madam
,
of
Your
most
humble
and
most
obedient
servant
,
M.
Another
.
MADAM
,
I
Could
no
longer
conceale
the
Resolution
which
I
have
taken
,
to
serve
you
all
my
life
,
and
beare
the
Character
of
your
love
eternally
,
if
my
Service
and
Love
bee
agreeable
to
you
.
You
may
signifie
it
to
me
,
when
you
please
,
that
I
may
have
the
Honor
,
and
Satisfaction
to
beare
in
Publick
every
where
the
Quality
Madam
,
of
Your
most
humble
and
most
obedient
servant
,
M.
Another
.
MADAM
,
I
Must
of
necessity
for
my
owne
Quiet
declare
the
desire
which
I
have
,
to
love
,
and
serve
you
,
if
you
Judge
mee
worthy
so
great
an
honour
.
Your
merit
obliged
mee
,
and
my
Inclination
constrained
mee
to
it
.
I
expect
only
to
know
your
will
,
that
I
may
perfect
my
determination
of
professing
publickly
the
stile
Madam
,
of
Your
most
obedient
servant
.
Answers
to
the
Precedent
Letters
.
SIR
,
I
Am
much
obliged
to
you
for
the
good
will
you
witnesse
in
my
behalfe
:
but
I
have
no
other
Liberty
left
mee
,
except
to
give
you
thanks
,
as
I
doe
very
humbly
:
assuring
you
that
I
will
conserve
your
Remembrance
for
an
acknowledgement
,
in
Quality
Sir
,
of
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
I
Have
nothing
but
thanks
to
offer
up
to
you
for
the
Honour
you
were
pleased
to
doe
mee
in
your
last
Letters
.
And
though
they
be
ordinary
effects
of
your
Civility
,
rather
then
Proofes
of
your
love
,
yet
I
cannot
chuse
but
be
extreamly
obliged
to
you
,
which
I
beseech
you
beleeve
,
and
likewise
that
I
am
Sir
,
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
I
Doe
not
excuse
my selfe
of
not
answering
your
last
letter
,
because
my
Wil
does
so
absolutely
depend
of
my
Parents
inclination
,
that
you
are
to
learne
of
them
,
that
which
you
desire
to
know
of
mee
.
Yet
your
good
will
shall
oblige
mee
to
be
in
acknowledgement
,
all
my
life
,
Sir
,
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
YOu
know
that
in
the
state
I
am
,
I
must
neither
accept
nor
refuse
the
Offers
which
you
make
me
,
contenting
my selfe
to
witnesse
unto
you
the
Resentment
which
they
left
in
mee
,
with
assurance
that
I
honour
so
much
the
Merit
of
your
Mistresse
that
I
shall
alwayes
preferre
it
before
the
Condition
Sir
,
of
Your
most
humble
servant
,
Letters
to
demand
an
Answer
.
MADAM
,
YOur
Silence
nourisheth
a
Continuall
doubt
in
mee
,
whether
my
Service
be
acceptable
or
noe
.
You
may
Resolve
me
when
you
please
by
some
short
Answer
,
if
you
Judge
me
worthy
the
favour
and
Quality
Madam
,
of
Your
most
humble
,
and
most
obedient
servant
.
Another
.
MADAM
,
IF
you
knew
with
what
impatience
I
expect
the
favour
of
your
Reply
,
I
assure
my selfe
your
Charity
would
oblige
you
,
to
set
my
Mind
at
Quiet
;
But
as
that
is
an
Honour
,
which
I
must
expect
from
your
Goodnesse
,
rather
than
the
Passion
I
have
to
your
Service
(
not
knowing
whether
it
be
agreeable
to
you
or
no
)
I
must
have
recourse
to
prayers
,
beseeching
you
very
humbly
to
vouchsafe
an
Answer
,
which
may
authorize
the
Quality
,
I
beare
▪
Madam
,
of
Your
most
humble
and
most
obedient
servant
.
Another
.
MADAM
,
THe
Resolution
I
have
taken
to
serve
you
all
my
life
,
does
too
far
interesse
my
Repose
,
not
to
desire
your
Pleasure
in
that
respect
,
I
hope
for
this
favour
from
your
Goodnesse
,
as
you
ought
to
expect
from
my
duty
,
all
manner
of
observance
;
being
desirous
to
live
and
die
,
if
you
bee
pleased
,
Madam
,
Your
most
humble
,
and
most
obedient
servant
.
Another
.
MADAM
,
THis
Letter
is
so
Curious
to
learn
newes
of
her
former
Companion
,
that
shee
would
needs
be
gone
in
that
Pursuit
,
almost
against
my
wil.
Let
me
know
then
if
you
please
whether
the
first
was
acceptable
or
no
,
to
the
end
that
either
I
may
continue
you
my
service
,
or
cease
to
be
further
importune
.
These
are
the
most
humble
prayers
Madam
,
of
Your
most
obedient
servant
,
M.
Answers
to
the
Precedent
Letters
.
SIR
,
I
Took
the
Liberty
to
write
unto
you
,
but
not
to
resolve
you
in
your
request
.
You
know
the
Quality
of
Daughter
does
so
subject
mee
,
that
I
cannot
violate
the
Respect
I
owe
unto
my
Parents
;
yet
I
confesse
my selfe
much
indebted
to
your
good
Nature
,
being
Sir
,
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
I
Was
resolved
to
keep
silence
,
not
knowing
what
answer
to
give
you
;
but
since
you
require
a
letter
,
this
shall
tell
you
,
that
I
have
no
other
Resolution
than
to
honour
you
as
your
Merit
does
oblige
me
:
And
that
in
requitall
of
your
Civility
,
I
shall
make
my selfe
accounted
in
all
places
Sir
,
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
I
Send
you
this
Letter
,
because
you
desire
it
,
but
it
is
only
to
assure
you
of
the
small
ability
I
have
to
satisfie
your
request
:
You
know
you
are
to
adresse
your selfe
to
others
then
to
me
.
Yet
I
beseech
you
beleeve
that
I
esteem
my selfe
much
Honoured
in
the
testimony
of
your
Affection
,
being
Sir
,
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
I
Am
obliged
to
you
for
two
letters
,
but
I
must
tell
you
for
answer
,
that
you
are
to
expect
no
more
from
me
,
having
no
other
liberty
,
but
this
only
which
I
take
to
assure
you
of
it
.
I
speak
not
this
because
I
reject
the
Honour
you
are
pleased
to
doe
mee
,
but
because
being
extreamly
sensible
as
I
am
,
the
Quality
of
Daughter
affords
me
no
more
power
,
to
publish
the
stile
.
Sir
,
of
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Letters
upon
the
absence
of
ones
Mistresse
.
MADAM
,
HAving
given
you
such
absolute
proofs
of
Love
,
as
I
have
done
,
I
hope
you
will
make
no
doubt
of
the
griefe
which
your
Absence
causeth
in
mee
:
You
can
scarce
beleeve
the
one
,
without
giveing
credit
to
the
other
;
and
this
is
the
thing
which
gives
me
some
kind
of
Comfort
in
my
Affliction
.
If
I
durst
presume
to
supplicate
for
your
Returne
,
I
would
doe
it
with
as
much
earnestnesse
,
as
a
Sick
man
would
implore
the
presence
of
his
Physitian
;
since
I
can
assure
you
,
yours
is
as
necessary
for
my
repose
,
having
vowed
to
live
and
die
Madam
,
Your
most
humble
and
most
obedient
servant
,
M.
Another
.
MADAM
,
IF
you
knew
,
how
sensible
I
were
of
your
Absence
,
you
would
scarce
be
able
to
defend
your selfe
against
the
attempts
of
Pittie
,
how
cruell
soever
you
were
by
Nature
.
I
suffer
a
Torment
whose
report
only
would
force
my
Enemies
to
compassion
,
and
yet
can
hardly
beleeve
that
you
regard
it
,
being
farre
from
imagining
you
are
touched
by
it
,
in
the
least
respect
.
But
since
you
were
borne
into
the
World
for
no
other
end
,
than
to
be
admired
,
and
I
to
endure
all
manner
of
miserie
,
I
must
expect
no
Remedy
but
from
Patience
,
and
the
Consideration
of
the
Quality
which
I
beare
Madam
,
of
Your
most
humble
and
most
obedient
servant
,
M.
Another
to
the
same
Purpose
.
MADAM
,
I
Have
led
so
sorrowfull
a
Life
,
since
the
Day
of
your
Departure
,
that
if
I
should
recount
it
to
the
most
insensible
soules
of
the
World
,
't
is
credible
they
would
be
moved
to
Compassion
.
Yet
I
doe
not
desire
to
stirre
up
that
Passion
in
you
,
sufficing
my selfe
that
you
take
notice
of
it
,
to
the
End
that
you
make
no
doubt
of
my
Love
,
and
lesse
of
my
Constancy
.
I
must
tell
you
then
,
that
having
lost
both
my
appetite
and
repose
,
I
passe
over
whole
daies
without
eating
,
and
whole
Nights
without
sleep
.
I
may
seeke
Contentment
to
a
faire
Purpose
in
the
Conversation
of
my
Friends
,
but
I
can
find
it
only
in
Solitude
,
where
my
thoughts
as
ingenious
as
your selfe
to
increase
my
Affliction
,
represent
nothing
to
mee
but
your
Cruelty
.
Judge
now
if
I
be
not
one
of
the
most
wretched
Lovers
in
the
World
.
Yet
my
Consolation
is
in
this
,
that
I
suffer
all
these
Afflictions
for
the
most
worthy
Subject
living
,
and
for
whom
I
would
loose
a
Thousand
Lives
,
as
being
Madam
,
Your
most
humble
servant
,
and
most
faithfull
Lover
.
Another
MADAM
,
IF
my
Life
be
considerable
to
you
,
returne
very
quickly
,
that
I
may
be
cured
of
a
mortall
sicknesse
,
which
has
surprized
me
by
reason
of
your
Absence
.
You
ought
to
bee
carefull
in
conserving
mee
,
in
the
Passion
which
I
have
to
your
Service
,
knowing
there
be
few
in
the
World
can
give
so
good
a
Testimony
of
your
worth
,
to
which
long
agoe
I
dedicated
my selfe
Madam
,
A
Most
humble
and
obedient
servant
.
Answers
to
the
Precedent
Letters
.
SIR
,
LOves
diseases
are
so
easie
to
cure
,
that
I
never
spend
my
Charity
upon
such
persons
.
If
you
be
surprized
with
that
kind
of
Malady
,
my
Absence
(
whereof
you
complaine
)
will
soone
afford
you
a
Remedy
:
but
if
that
should
not
prove
as
I
expect
,
then
(
to
your
owne
advantage
)
the
truth
of
your
Affection
wil
appear
by
the
continuance
of
your
Constancy
,
which
shall
render
me
,
as
far
as
Liberty
permits
Sir
,
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
YOu
know
I
am
not
accustomed
to
credit
,
the
Complaints
of
Lovers
,
because
they
dye
so
often
in
word
and
Appearance
,
that
the
report
of
their
Afflictions
does
now
passe
for
a
Fable
.
This
I
give
you
assurance
of
,
and
likewise
that
I
am
,
Sir
,
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
I
Beleeve
you
suffer
lesse
paine
,
than
you
have
taken
to
describe
,
that
which
you
say
my
Absence
produceth
in
you
.
My
beauty
I
am
sure
,
cannot
cause
either
affliction
or
sorrow
in
any
Man
.
So
that
if
you
continue
your
Complaints
,
I
shall
bee
forced
to
begin
my
Reproaches
;
Cease
then
your
discourse
of
Sorrows
,
and
Griefs
,
and
Sighes
,
and
Lamentations
,
't
is
a
Language
that
Molests
mee
extreamly
,
and
which
makes
mee
speak
thus
freely
to
you
,
in
Quality
Sir
,
of
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Other
more
obliging
Answers
to
the
Precedent
Letters
.
SIR
,
I
Am
sensible
of
the
affliction
,
which
my
absence
causeth
in
you
,
but
as
it
is
unavoidable
in
the
Condition
I
am
in
,
you
must
of
necessity
resolve
to
be
patient
,
since
it
is
the
only
Remedy
of
your
Ill.
Doe
not
undertake
a
Journey
to
see
me
,
but
expect
some
occasion
or
other
,
which
will
soone
offer
it selfe
.
Comfort
your
thoughts
with
this
hope
,
and
the
rather
because
I
will
partake
in
the
Sweetnesse
of
it
.
What
need
you
feare
?
know
you
not
,
that
if
you
love
me
extreamly
,
I
will
revenge
my self
with
the
same
weapon
?
and
if
you
be
constant
I
wil
loose
my
life
rather
than
my
Resolution
to
dye
Sir
,
Your
most
humble
and
most
faithfull
servant
.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
IF
I
had
the
power
to
comfort
you
with
my
Presence
,
you
should
soone
see
mee
where
my
Letter
is
now
.
But
being
under
the
Subjection
of
a
Father
and
Mother
,
who
give
mee
not
so
much
as
the
Liberty
to
write
to
you
,
all
that
I
can
doe
is
to
steale
it
,
to
comfort
you
with
the
Hopes
of
my
Returne
.
Beleeve
mee
Sir
,
I
wish
for
it
with
Passion
,
since
I
am
to
that
Point
Sir
,
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Letters
protesting
Love
and
Fidelity
.
MADAM
,
I
Am
constrain'd
to
tell
you
,
that
of
all
the
Persons
in
the
World
you
are
she
only
whom
I
affect
most
entirely
;
These
are
no
Discourses
of
Complement
,
my
Soule
expressing
all
her
thoughts
with
the
same
Innocence
that
my
Mind
conceived
them
,
having
no
other
object
but
your
desert
only
.
If
you
make
doubt
of
this
truth
,
serve
your selfe
of
that
absolute
power
which
you
have
acquired
over
mee
,
to
oblige
my
Endeavours
to
all
manner
of
proofes
.
My
Honour
,
and
Life
,
are
both
at
your
disposure
;
I
will
hazard
the
one
and
other
,
when
you
please
,
either
for
your
Service
,
or
Contentment
;
since
it
interesseth
my
Quiet
,
that
I
be
eternally
Madam
,
Your
most
humble
and
most
obedient
,
and
most
faithfull
servant
.
Another
.
MADAM
,
THough
I
should
say
that
you
are
the
only
object
of
my
Respect
,
and
Affection
,
I
should
represent
but
one
part
of
the
Esteeme
which
I
make
of
your
desert
:
for
I
find
you
raigning
so
absolutely
in
my
Soule
,
that
I
have
no
liberty
left
mee
,
but
only
to
publish
in
al
places
where
I
come
,
that
I
am
Madam
,
Your
most
humble
,
most
obedient
and
most
faithfull
servant
,
and
subject
,
M.
Answers
to
the
Precedent
Letters
.
SIR
,
THe
Lovers
of
this
Age
,
are
so
accustomed
to
divulge
their
Constancy
and
Affection
in
all
places
,
that
they
are
as
far
from
perswading
the
beleefe
of
it
to
others
,
as
they
are
from
the
true
feeling
themselves
.
What
paines
you
take
in
seeking
to
give
me
assurance
that
you
love
me
!
I
am
so
farre
from
giving
credit
to
the
least
syllable
of
those
discourses
made
to
my
Advantage
,
that
it
is
a
great
trouble
to
mee
to
heare
them
,
being
fully
satisfied
if
you
love
mee
in
that
height
that
I
honour
you
,
since
I
am
Sir
,
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
YOu
are
too
eloquent
to
be
Amorus
;
a
Passion
so
extreame
as
that
which
you
feigne
in
my
behalfe
,
could
never
bee
able
to
expresse
it self
,
but
in
feeble
tearmes
.
Which
forces
me
to
a
beleife
that
you
imployed
more
time
in
Composing
that
pretty
Letter
,
than
ever
you
did
in
the
Sufferings
of
Love
.
But
howsoever
,
your
deceit
is
not
so
unpleasing
to
me
that
I
cease
to
be
obliged
to
your
care
in
turning
it
to
my
Advantage
,
which
I
shall
alwayes
receive
,
when
you
are
pleased
to
reckon
me
in
the
Number
Sir
,
of
Your
most
humble
servants
.
Letters
Complaining
of
a
Neglect
.
MADAM
,
I
Am
Constrained
to
say
that
I
am
most
unfortunate
,
since
three
years
service
could
never
obtaine
of
you
to
grant
they
were
pleasing
or
agreeable
.
Truly
,
though
that
recompence
(
as
proceeding
from
you
)
be
of
an
infinite
value
;
yet
me
thinks
the
effects
of
so
many
dutifull
regards
,
might
have
merited
some
small
acknowledgment
of
your
Civility
.
But
since
I
have
already
learned
my
lesson
of
Love
,
I
am
sufficiently
instructed
in
suffering
:
feeding
my
thoughts
with
the
Comfort
of
this
Consideration
,
that
't
is
You
are
my
Mistresse
,
and
I
Madam
,
Your
most
humble
and
most
obedient
servant
.
Another
upon
the
Same
.
MADAM
,
I
Should
never
have
conceived
,
that
since
you
are
publickly
honoured
by
all
the
World
,
and
perfectly
by
mee
,
you
would
have
recompenced
my
Respects
with
Contempt
,
and
my
Love
with
Hatred
.
'T
is
true
,
the
Slavery
wherein
I
am
tied
,
forbids
me
to
demand
a
reason
for
what
you
doe
.
Yet
my
Prison
allowes
me
this
Liberty
,
to
tell
you
that
you
are
too
rigorous
to
be
so
beautifull
:
and
that
except
you
change
this
severe
Humour
,
wherewith
you
tyrannize
over
mee
,
you
will
run
the
hazard
to
lose
Madam
,
The
most
humble
,
and
most
obedient
of
all
your
servants
.
Answers
to
the
Precedent
Letters
.
SIR
,
I
Wonder
you
should
Complaine
of
my
Neglect
,
having
alwayes
had
Esteeme
for
your
Desert
.
'T
is
true
,
my
austere
Humour
has
oftentimes
given
you
subject
to
greive
;
but
,
I
beseech
you
think
I
was
never
guilty
,
but
in
appearance
only
,
of
that
which
you
accuse
me
,
being
alwayes
inclined
to
nourish
a
good
opinion
of
your
Merit
,
in
Quality
Sir
,
of
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Another
Answer
.
SIR
,
YOu
have
no
pretence
to
divulge
mee
the
most
cruell
and
disdainfull
Woman
alive
:
for
when
you
maintaine
such
discourses
,
those
that
know
my
disposition
,
will
easily
know
you
are
in
Anger
;
otherwise
neither
could
they
excuse
your
humour
,
nor
I
your
misbeleife
.
If
my
actions
had
merited
the
proofe
of
your
Study
,
you
would
have
had
a
better
opinion
of
my
inclination
,
since
the
first
time
that
I
have
had
the
Honour
to
practice
you
;
but
such
is
my
misfortune
,
that
all
my
Endeavours
are
not
able
to
nourish
in
you
a
good
Conceit
Sir
,
of
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Letters
Complaining
of
Inconstancy
.
MADAM
,
I
Never
thought
that
after
so
many
protestations
of
Fidelity
,
you
would
have
lost
even
the
remembrance
of
having
made
them
.
Hereafter
,
Frailty
shal
not
be
esteem'd
an
adjunct
of
Humanity
,
since
in
yours
you
are
most
inhumane
,
having
thereby
exposed
to
the
utmost
perill
one
of
your
most
faithfull
Admirers
.
But
live
contented
in
your
new
Conquest
,
and
know
that
of
all
the
Servants
whom
your
Ficklenesse
shall
acquire
you
,
you
will
never
find
any
that
will
equall
my
Affection
,
or
be
to
that
point
that
I
have
been
Madam
,
Your
most
humble
,
and
most
obedient
servant
.
Another
.
MADAM
,
I
Must
let
you
know
that
your
Inconstancy
has
provoked
in
mee
more
Pitty
,
then
it
has
procured
me
ill
,
being
willing
to
lose
the
Possession
of
that
to
day
,
which
I
could
not
maintaine
till
to
morrow
.
I
say
Pitty
,
because
I
have
some
respect
to
your
Honour
,
which
is
more
interessed
in
that
Action
than
my
Contentment
.
I
pray
God
this
Lightnesse
may
give
you
as
much
Satisfaction
,
as
it
caused
you
blame
,
in
the
Eye
of
the
World
.
I
shall
alwayes
be
glad
of
any
good
Fortune
that
shall
happen
you
,
as
making
profession
to
be
still
Madam
,
Your
most
humble
,
and
most
obedient
servant
.
Answers
to
these
kind
of
Letters
.
SIR
,
I
Shall
receive
Praise
rather
than
Reproach
,
from
all
that
know
the
Reason
of
my
Change
;
for
I
was
obliged
to
it
in
so
many
respects
,
that
the
least
of
them
,
will
sufficiently
accuse
you
,
for
having
condemned
mee
.
I
will
give
you
an
account
of
this
Action
when
you
please
,
and
when
you
are
truly
informed
how
things
passed
,
I
will
have
no
other
Judge
but
your self
,
what
interest
,
soever
you
pretend
to
have
in
the
Suit
.
'T
is
from
the
Part
Sir
,
of
Your
most
humble
servant
.
Another
.
SIR
,
IF
you
knew
with
what
violence
I
was
constrain'd
to
this
Mutation
,
I
make
no
doubt
but
you
would
esteeme
me
far
more
worthy
Praise
,
than
Reproach
.
Imagine
the
power
of
a
Tyrannicall
Father
towards
his
Daughter
under
his
obedience
:
Shee
may
weep
her
fill
,
he
bathes
himselfe
with
joy
in
her
teares
;
her
Sorrowes
,
and
Lamentations
doe
but
increase
his
fury
.
This
is
the
case
I
am
in
at
this
present
.
I
leave
to
your selfe
to
Consider
what
I
am
able
to
doe
against
so
strong
an
Enemy
.
The
only
consideration
which
remaines
to
mee
,
is
,
that
if
I
have
lost
the
Quality
of
your
Mistresse
,
yet
I
will
conserve
everlastingly
Sir
,
That
of
Your
most
humble
servant
.
A
Letter
to
demand
the
Picture
of
ones
Mistresse
.
MADAM
,
I
Hope
you
will
grant
mee
this
humble
intreaty
,
which
is
,
to
give
me
your
Picture
,
knowing
I
value
the
Originall
more
than
all
other
things
in
the
World
;
That
beautifull
Substance
,
whose
Features
,
and
Graces
you
animate
with
so
much
sweetnesse
,
appeared
in
my
sight
so
adorable
,
that
I
long
extreamly
after
the
Shadow
.
You
may
give
Comfort
to
this
impatience
of
mine
when
you
please
,
by
granting
mee
the
expectation
of
that
favour
:
Which
I
will
place
in
the
Rank
of
the
greatest
Felicities
which
ever
can
happen
me
,
since
it
gives
mee
the
noblest
meanes
of
Testifying
the
Resentment
which
I
have
,
in
Quality
Madam
,
of
Your
most
obedient
servant
.
An
Answer
to
this
Letter
.
SIR
,
YOur
intreaty
is
so
obliging
,
that
I
am
forced
to
grant
it
,
being
glad
you
should
have
often
before
your
Eyes
the
Image
of
her
that
honours
you
extreamly
.
You
will
doe
mee
a
favour
to
beleeve
it
,
and
likewise
that
I
am
Sir
,
Your
most
humble
servant
.
A
Letter
to
demand
a
Mistres
her
Haire
.
MADAM
,
I
Hope
you
will
not
wonder
,
if
having
enjoyed
so
sweet
a
Servitude
,
I
seek
after
new
chaines
,
by
demanding
a
Bracelet
of
your
Haire
.
To
tell
you
how
highly
I
shall
esteem
this
favour
,
I
must
have
recourse
either
to
your
Merit
,
or
my
owne
Love
for
expression
,
and
being
you
have
perfect
knowledge
of
them
both
,
I
leave
the
Consideration
to
your selfe
,
together
with
that
of
the
Passion
which
I
have
to
your
Service
,
as
being
more
than
Ever
Madam
,
Your
most
humble
and
most
obedient
servant
.
A
Favourable
Answer
to
this
Letter
.
SIR
,
YOur
Merit
is
of
so
powerfull
a
perswasion
that
I
am
forced
to
grant
you
your
request
:
I
will
not
oblige
you
to
silence
,
knowing
that
your
Discretion
has
already
prevented
my
Desires
.
'T
is
sufficient
to
put
you
in
mind
,
that
as
these
favours
are
not
Vulgar
,
so
they
require
a
secrecy
of
Faith
in
the
Receivers
.
I
hope
you
will
keep
it
Inviolably
,
while
you
Remember
that
I
am
Sir
,
Your
most
humble
servant
.
FINIS
.