THE
SECRETARY
OF
LADIES
.
OR
,
A
new
collection
of
Letters
and
Answers
,
composed
by
Moderne
Ladies
and
Gentlewomen
,
Collected
by
Mounsieur
Du
BOSQVE
.
Translated
out
of
French
by
I.
H.
LONDON
,
Printed
by
Tho.
Cotes
,
for
William
Hope
,
and
are
to
be
sold
at
the
signe
of
the
Vnicorne
in
Cornehill
neere
the
Royall
Exchange
.
1638.
TO
MY
LADY
the
Countesse
of
DORSET
,
Governesse
to
the
DVKE
of
YORKE
.
Madam
,
YOur
pardon
,
if
it
bee
presumption
,
my selfe
but
newly
admitted
,
to
preferre
others
to
your
service
.
'T
is
a
sinne
I
could
not
be
drawne
to
commit
,
but
to
avoyd
a
greater
.
So
I
conceive
each
Casuist
rankes
the
breach
of
vowes
:
which
would
bee
my
obliquity
,
should
I
offer
at
any
other
Altar
these
first
fruites
of
my
poore
endeavours
.
The
French
Collector
(
so
hee
s●iles
himselfe
)
presents
these
Letters
to
the
world
with
a
French
familiar
confidence
:
Ra●ing
them
sufficiently
accomplisht
to
merit
entertainement
.
His
courage
cannot
cure
my
feare
,
knowing
they
must
passe
the
censure
(
at
least
if
you
daigne
them
a
view
)
of
one
(
then
hee
conceits
his
worke
)
far
more
accomplisht
:
and
not
being
ignorant
,
that
this
English
habit
,
made
by
a
stranger
to
the
tongue
,
more
to
the
Courtly
dresse
,
may
much
blemish
their
native
beauty
:
My
comfort
is
without
wracke
of
reputation
,
they
may
want
some
of
their
originall
ornaments
;
but
could
I
hope
your
approbation
to
trifles
hardly
worth
your
eye
,
I
durst
bee
bold
,
this
would
procure
them
more
grace
,
than
they
have
lost
by
their
Translator
.
But
,
Madam
,
t
is
too
much
,
I
dare
not
begge
it
;
my
most
ambitious
prayer
shall
bee
,
regarding
my
unworthy
sacrifice
,
you
would
vouchsafe
not
to
disdaigne
i●
.
Reserve
your
acceptation
for
more
deserving
straines
;
your
prayse
for
those
that
more
directly
tend
to
ki●dle
flame
of
piety
:
Your
not
r●j●cting
those
will
proove
a
sufficient
pasport
,
and
helpe
them
travel
the
Brittish
world
without
affront
,
or
enemy
:
where
I
am
confident
there
does
not
breath
such
a
schismaticke
to
civility
,
that
,
in
so
triviall
a
point
,
will
not
wave
his
opinion
,
to
one
that
governes
his
hopes
.
In
which
beleefe
I
devote
these
papers
to
the
fate
you
please
decree
them
.
My
onely
intent
in
exposing
them
was
,
to
give
some
testimony
of
a
thankfull
heart
:
If
I
have
mist
the
way
,
it
cannot
bee
denied
I
had
a
will
to
finde
it
;
and
mist
nothing
but
fit
meanes
to
informe
the
world
that
I
am
,
Madam
,
Your
most
humble
,
and
devoted
servant
,
Ierome
Hainhofer
,
Patritius
Augustanus
.
The
Authors
Dedication
TO
MADAM
DE
PISIEVX
.
Madam
,
I
Should
peradventure
have
made
some
difficulty
to
offer
you
any
booke
but
this
,
fearing
to
demand
an
unjust
protection
,
or
to
make
you
a
present
unworthy
of
your selfe
:
But
th●se
Ladies
which
I
tender
you
are
so
accomplisht
.
I
could
not
cherish
the
least
feare
to
produce
them
,
without
sinning
against
their
merit
,
and
the
judgement
you
know
to
make
in
things
of
valew
.
Neverthelesse
how
perfect
soever
they
be
,
they
acknowledge
a
necessity
of
your
approbation
to
appeare
in
the
world
:
And
,
that
if
this
good
fayle
them
,
all
their
faire
dresses
,
and
ornaments
can
gaine
them
a
reputation
but
imperfect
.
Behold
them
then
in
posture
to
doe
the
homage
they
owe
you
,
and
to
learne
from
your
mouth
what
credit
they
may
hope
from
others
.
Behold
the
wonders
of
our
age
,
which
come
to
reverence
the
rare
qualities
that
France
admires
in
you
:
And
to
consult
the
oracle
which
must
declare
their
good
,
or
bad
fortune
.
Confident
they
are
to
disp
lease
none
,
if
they
be
but
so
happy
to
please
you
,
and
that
by
the
generall
esteeme
you
are
in
,
your
judgement
shall
bee
the
rule
to
all
others
.
Receive
them
Madam
,
as
creatures
whom
the
report
of
your
name
and
vertue
hath
acquired
,
And
that
will
not
shew
themselves
abroad
with
your
passe
:
Refuse
not
your
favour
to
these
faire
unknowne
,
which
enter
not
into
the
world
,
but
to
vindicate
the
honour
of
dames
,
and
to
make
it
appeare
that
Letters
are
not
the
peculiar
heritage
of
one
sexe
;
and
that
men
are
out
,
when
they
va●t
themselves
sole
Monarchs
in
the
Empire
of
the
sciences
.
For
my selfe
,
Madam
,
who
doe
but
lend
a
hand
to
their
enterprise
,
I
confesse
I
am
ravisht
to
see
them
fall
into
your
armes
,
and
that
besides
the
lustre
of
their
owne
beauty
,
they
shall
borrow
that
of
yours
,
to
render
them
pleasing
as
your selfe
,
to
all
that
have
eyes
,
and
reason
.
I
cannot
cease
to
commend
their
choyse
,
seeing
it
must
be
imagined
,
Noble
as
you
are
,
you
will
be
taken
with
their
courage
:
and
while
they
travaile
in
a
designe
so
glorious
,
I
assure
my selfe
you
will
second
their
endeavours
,
And
that
your
countenance
,
approbation
,
and
spirit
,
shall
bring
them
more
than
halfe
their
victory
,
and
triumph
,
Thus
hopes
Madam
,
Your
most
humble
,
and
most
obedient
servant
,
Du
Bosque
.
An
advertisement
to
the
Reader
,
by
a
friend
of
the
Collector
.
BE
not
astonisht
to
see
this
Collection
come
out
in
print
,
hee
that
hath
tane
the
paines
,
to
make
it
had
reason
to
thinke
that
after
you
had
read
the
letters
of
so
many
ingenious
men
,
you
would
take
it
well
to
see
these
offers
of
women
.
There
is
no
colour
to
say
it
will
becomes
their
sexe
:
for
i●
it
be
not
amisse
that
they
are
able
to
m●ke
a
complement
,
you
must
not
thinke
it
strange
that
they
can
write
one
.
T
is
the
principall
subject
of
these
Letters
,
which
are
not
confused
nor
shufled
together
,
as
many
others
which
the
vulgar
esteeme
good
.
They
are
not
treatises
,
nor
orations
;
they
are
no
deepe
discourses
wherein
there
is
nothing
smels
of
a
Letter
,
but
Sir
your
servant
.
But
it
is
not
needfull●
to
witnesse
these
good
,
that
I
make
others
appe●re
ill
.
I
will
onely
say
that
if
the●e
bee
any
who
cannot
yet
consent
that
Gentlewomen
should
write
,
I
assure
my selfe
this
book
will
convert
them
▪
where
they
shall
〈◊〉
so
many
things
of
worth
,
they
shall
〈◊〉
●ompeld
to
renounce
their
ignoranc●
〈◊〉
●nvy
,
for
by
one
of
these
names
I
〈◊〉
call
the
cause
of
their
error
,
which
I
would
farther
oppose
if
these
Ladies
had
need
of
my
Apology
,
but
they
defend
themselves
better
by
neglect
,
than
those
〈◊〉
deserve
.
And
I
will
content
my selfe
to
say
,
that
if
this
age
hath
seene
many
that
write
with
approbation
of
all
the
world
upon
the
most
important
matters
Religion
,
and
morality
,
wee
need
not
make
it
such
a
marvell
that
they
can
endite
good
letters
,
seeing
they
can
make
good
bookes
.
But
it
is
time
to
finish
this
advertisement
;
and
I
vow
I
am
to
blame
to
detaine
the
reader
from
the
booke
it selfe
,
where
he
shall
receive
much
more
satisfaction
,
than
I
am
able
to
promise
.
THE
SECRETARY
of
LADIES
.
The
first
Letter
.
She
prayes
her
to
returne
to
Pari●
,
and
bring
her
in
dislike
with
the
Country
.
MAdam
,
provided
you
have
a
just
opinion
of
your
owne
merit
,
you
cannot
faile
in
that
you
o●ght
to
have
of
our
griefe
:
Remember
your selfe
onely
of
the
pleasure
your
presence
brings
us
,
to
comprehend
what
your
absence
takes
from
us
;
and
you
will
easily
averre
that
the
losse
of
so
great
a
good
is
no
lesse
worthy
of
our
teares
,
than
the
possession
of
our
joy
.
Those
that
have
the
knowledge
of
your
rare
qualities
,
cannot
be
ignorant
of
our
complaints
:
they
may
judge
the
effects
by
their
cause
.
Consider
next
,
if
there
bee
any
among
us
,
that
doe
not
make
vowes
for
your
returne
,
since
it
must
restore
alacrity
to
all
your
acquaintance
.
And
to
tell
you
of
our
feare
as
well
as
our
desire
,
would
it
not
be
a
wonderfull
change
,
if
you
should
accustome
your selfe
to
live
among
Barbarians
,
and
being
capable
of
the
best
company
,
confine
to
perpetuall
solitude
,
Remember
,
t
is
two
months
since
we
have
lost
you
;
and
if
this
terme
seeme
long
to
us
at
Paris
,
it
cannot
be
short
to
you
in
the
Country
.
But
this
is
not
enough
:
weigh
in
your
minde
that
these
two
moneths
you
have
not
seene
this
faire
City
,
whereof
the
sole
remembrance
is
sufficient
to
render
other
places
undelightfull
.
I
thinke
you
doe
not
so
much
love
the
deserts
,
that
though
our
happinesse
consist
in
your
returne
,
wee
should
have
no
ground
to
hope
it
:
After
all
this
if
you
have
lost
the
desire
to
come
backe
to
Paris
,
it
is
because
you
have
lost
your
memory
,
for
not
to
affect
a
returne
,
you
must
wholly
forget
that
you
have
beene
there
.
Finally
,
never
was
promise
better
kept
,
than
that
wee
made
you
,
not
to
take
collations
in
our
walkes
:
Your
faire
Dutchesse
is
so
exact
in
the
point
,
shee
would
make
a
conscience
in
the
hottest
season
to
drinke
fountaine
water
;
shee
hath
no
minde
to
quench
her
thirst
,
being
afraid
to
bee
refresht
:
Albeit
shee
might
lesse
incommodate
herselfe
without
breaking
promise
,
shee
dares
not
so
much
as
thinke
of
it
without
scruple
.
To
bee
entirely
fai●hfull
to
you
,
she
will
admit
neither
interpretation
,
nor
dispensation
.
Hasten
then
your
returne
,
and
if
you
have
yet
any
feeling
of
pitty
,
shew
it
to
so
many
that
doe
petition
you
.
Write
so
much
as
you
please
,
your
letters
may
asswage
our
evill
,
but
never
cure
it
;
our
sadnesse
is
measured
by
your
absence
.
Neverthelesse
,
we
can
assure
you
,
that
if
it
diminish
our
delight
,
it
doth
not
our
affection
:
especially
that
which
I
have
to
be
Madam
,
Your
most
humble
,
&c.
The
first
Answer
.
She
Answers
,
that
besides
the
losse
of
their
conversation
,
she
is
vext
with
that
of
the
Country
:
and
that
she
will
never
make
vow
of
solitude
while
she
can
hope
the
honour
of
their
company
.
MAdam
,
I
must
begin
my
Letter
where
you
end
yours
,
to
assure
you
that
I
have
too
great
an
opinion
of
your
good
will
to
thinke
it
can
diminish
in
my
absence
.
I
beleeve
that
my
returne
will
not
augment
your
friendship
,
but
your
joy
:
And
that
it
will
render
you
more
contented
,
not
more
affectionate
:
do
not
imagine
I
speake
this
out
of
the
good
opinion
I
have
of
my selfe
,
but
for
that
I
conceive
of
your
constancy
;
if
I
should
judge
your
desire
by
my
merit
,
I
should
have
little
cause
to
lament
you
:
And
if
you
had
no
other
apprehension
of
mee
,
than
I
have
of
my selfe
,
you
should
bee
without
regret
,
as
I
am
without
vanity
,
I
must
then
,
that
I
may
beleeve
you
,
surveigh
my selfe
by
another
measure
:
and
ought
to
thinke
that
if
indeed
you
have
any
greife
,
t
is
because
I
want
the
blessing
of
your
company
and
not
you
mine
;
your
charity
doubtlesse
gives
you
this
feeling
,
and
did
I
take
it
otherwise
,
I
should
declare
no
lesse
presumption
,
than
you
doe
courtesie
;
say
what
you
please
I
am
farre
more
worthy
,
than
you
,
but
it
is
of
compassion
▪
and
wish
in
that
we
are
separated
the
cause
of
our
sorrow
were
but
equall
.
The
advantage
lies
on
your
side
in
being
at
Paris
,
where
the
greatest
discontent
may
finde
diversion
,
and
the
sickest
soule
expect
some
remedy
:
I
on
the
contrary
,
am
in
a
wilde
Country
,
where
all
familiarity
is
a
punishment
.
I
am
deprived
of
yours
,
and
tired
with
theirs
who
are
impertinent
,
and
importune
.
I
have
a
double
cause
of
paine
,
the
privation
of
a
great
good
,
and
the
sufferance
of
a
great
ill
.
You
cannot
be
so
unhappy
at
Paris
,
where
I
left
you
in
company
good
enough
to
make
you
forget
mine
:
meane
while
,
that
I
meete
with
none
here
,
which
make
me
not
sigh
for
yours
.
Be
it
so
then
,
that
when
you
thinke
on
mee
it
bee
not
without
griefe
,
this
cannot
equall
what
I
suffer
for
so
many
excellent
Dames
,
I
alone
loose
many
,
and
all
you
but
one
alone
.
I
ought
to
reckon
the
causes
of
my
sorrow
so
many
as
you
are
most
accomplished
Ladies
:
or
rather
so
many
as
are
the
lovely
qualities
which
each
of
you
possesseth
.
Now
if
we
measure
the
greatnesse
of
displeasure
by
that
of
the
object
,
judge
how
much
I
suffer
,
by
what
I
have
lost
,
And
you
will
grant
that
I
have
reason
to
seeke
my
consolation
where
you
are
.
Is
there
then
any
appearance
to
feare
that
I
should
enure
my selfe
to
the
Country
,
or
to
thinke
that
I
can
forget
you
.
Never
imagine
I
meane
to
make
a
vow
of
solitude
,
while
I
dare
hope
the
honour
of
your
company
.
I
entertaine
my selfe
but
too
much
with
this
good
fortune
,
whereof
having
at
present
lost
the
possession
,
I
thinke
it
would
bee
advantagious
to
have
also
lost
the
memory
.
Neverthelesse
,
oblivion
is
a
remedy
too
injurious
:
I
have
too
much
courage
to
consent
to
buy
my
content
at
the
price
of
ingratitude
;
I
had
rather
be
unfortunate
than
faulty
,
I
beseech
you
beleeve
it
,
and
continue
your
prayers
for
my
returne
.
It
must
needs
bee
,
that
either
you
are
not
in
the
state
of
grace
,
or
that
your
petitions
are
unjust
,
seeing
they
obtaine
so
small
successe
.
I
could
wish
that
fasting
,
and
abstinence
from
your
walkes
might
remedy
this
;
And
that
you
should
bee
depriv'd
of
every
pleasure
,
that
I
might
the
sooner
obtaine
that
of
your
company
,
which
I
desive
to
possesse
with
as
much
passion
,
as
I
have
to
bee
all
my
life
,
Madam
,
Your
most
devoted
,
&c.
The
II.
Letter
.
She
entertaines
her
with
a
certaine
stupide
fellow
,
who
is
no
otherwise
happy
,
but
in
being
ignorant
.
MAdam
,
I
must
needs
entertaine
you
with
this
fellow
of
whom
you
write
unto
me
.
I
wish
he
might
be
content
,
I
thinke
he
has
no
reason
so
to
be
:
hee
is
not
happy
but
because
hee
is
ignorant
,
nor
hath
hee
a
quiet
soule
,
but
because
it
is
insensible
.
It
is
no
great
marvell
that
hee
is
without
disturbance
,
seeing
hee
is
without
knowledge
.
T
is
not
to
be
counted
a
miracle
,
if
those
that
are
blinde
doe
not
●eare
lightning
;
If
they
trembl●
not
like
others
,
they
are
not
therein
the
more
happy
:
On
the
contrary
I
suppose
they
would
have
a
good
sight
,
yea
on
condition
to
have
it
sometimes
dazled
.
You
will
tell
mee
I
have
read
the
booke
you
esteeme
so
much
,
and
that
my
Letter
bewraies
it
:
well
,
think
what
you
please
,
I
beleeve
there
is
no
more
danger
to
borrow
a
good
thing
from
a
booke
we
like
,
than
to
gather
fruite
from
a
tree
of
our
owne
:
We
do
not
reade
them
meerely
for
pleasure
,
but
partly
for
use
.
But
to
returne
to
our
man
;
I
protest
I
desire
not
such
a
good
fortune
;
I
love
better
the
restlessenesse
of
your
Spirit
,
than
the
tranquillity
of
his
,
I
speake
of
those
noble
cares
which
knowledge
bringeth
forth
;
and
of
that
moderate
feare
which
serves
but
to
awake
the
soule
,
and
not
to
trouble
it
.
The
happinesse
of
these
people
whereof
you
write
unto
mee
,
is
like
to
that
of
men
asleepe
,
their
spirit
is
quiet
,
because
it
is
not
capable
of
disturbance
.
I
must
make
you
laugh
as
I
conclude
this
Letter
at
a
comparison
,
which
perhaps
you
will
judge
a
little
too
high
for
mee
.
It
seemes
that
men
may
bee
set
safe
from
the
blowes
of
misfortune
,
as
from
those
of
thunder
,
by
being
very
high
,
or
very
low
;
but
in
both
these
,
albeit
,
the
safety
be
equal
,
the
glory
is
not
.
I
had
rather
scape
a
tempest
being
on
the
mount
Olympus
,
then
in
a
cave
.
And
to
talke
like
your
booke
(
the
onely
one
that
can
make
mee
guilty
of
theft
.
)
I
would
rather
choose
to
be
above
,
then
below
affliction
,
and
be
thereof
uncapeable
by
reason
,
rather
then
stupidity
.
I
conclude
this
then
,
beseeching
you
to
speake
no
more
of
that
matter
,
&
not
to
pleade
against
your
owne
Interest
,
in
quitting
that
of
great
Spirits
.
You
have
thereof
too
great
a
share
to
renounce
.
And
if
I
defend
them
,
I
doe
but
praise
a
good
which
you
possesse
,
and
I
desire
.
I
wish
as
many
good
termes
to
expresse
my
thoughts
upon
this
subject
,
as
I
have
desires
to
serve
you
,
and
to
witnesse
on
all
occasions
how
much
I
am
,
Madam
,
Your
most
affectionate
,
&c.
The
second
answer
.
She
endeavours
to
proove
that
those
that
have
the
least
spirit
,
have
also
the
least
molestation
.
MAdam
,
write
what
you
list
for
great
spirits
,
it
seemes
to
mee
they
have
more
glory
,
then
happinesse
.
And
that
it
is
difficult
to
have
great
splendor
and
little
care
.
It
is
true
they
are
much
esteemed
which
outshine
others
:
Notwithstanding
I
thinke
that
with
all
this
advantage
,
they
may
be
compared
to
the
bush
in
holy
Scripture
,
which
had
much
brightnesse
,
but
yet
was
full
of
thornes
.
There
are
indeed
many
sharpe
points
under
these
glorious
rayes
:
There
are
many
cares
which
knowledge
encreases
,
rather
then
cures
.
Let
us
speake
freely
,
and
not
suffer
our selves
bee
charmed
by
this
same
faire
appearance
.
As
those
that
have
a
feaver
would
willingly
be
lesse
sensible
that
they
might
bee
lesse
tormented
,
so
I
beleeve
the
miserable
would
wish
their
knowledge
diminished
,
for
to
diminish
their
affliction
.
In
this
we
may
speake
of
spirits
,
as
of
the
senses
,
the
most
delicate
do
soonest
feele
.
Phisicke
likewise
,
and
Philosophy
doe
in
the
same
manner
heale
the
unfortunate
and
the
diseased
.
The
one
stupifies
the
sense
,
without
which
there
is
no
sorrow
:
the
other
endeavours
to
withdraw
the
attention
,
without
which
there
is
no
sadnesse
,
whence
you
may
learne
that
the
most
ignorant
are
the
least
unfortunate
.
I
deny
not
but
there
are
some
which
lift
them selves
above
misery
,
and
doe
surmount
it
;
but
I
thinke
these
are
very
rare
:
I
see
few
that
do
resemble
you
.
And
to
tell
you
who
they
are
,
which
put
themselves
to
most
paine
,
I
beleeve
they
are
neither
the
great
nor
the
little
,
but
onely
the
indifferent
.
Mee
thinkes
disquiet
formes
it selfe
in
the
soule
,
as
clouds
doe
in
the
Aire
:
The
Sunne
sometimes
drawes
up
vapours
,
which
afterwards
it
can
hardly
disperse
;
and
these
middling
Spirits
precipitate
themselves
into
those
cares
,
from
which
they
can
never
get
free
,
whiles
great
spirits
overcome
discontent
,
and
the
lesser
know
it
not
,
the
middle
sort
are
intangled
therein
.
So
Christianity
,
reprobates
the
Luke-warme
,
from
hope
of
Salvation
,
and
morality
rejects
them
in
point
of
civill
felicity
.
These
then
are
they
which
have
cause
to
complaine
.
And
whose
understanding
seemes
to
mee
unlucky
,
since
it
onely
serves
to
leade
them
into
many
Labyrinthes
,
but
not
to
conduct
them
out
.
Have
I
not
then
reason
to
thinke
that
those
which
have
lesse
spirit
,
have
lesse
paine
?
If
there
bee
so
few
which
vanquish
affliction
,
is
it
not
sufficient
that
I
follow
the
path
most
beaten
,
and
content
my selfe
by
ignorance
to
be
below
evil
,
not
being
able
by
Iudgement
to
lift
my selfe
above
it
.
Since
the
felicity
of
the
lowest
wits
is
true
,
I
care
not
tho
it
be
lesse
glorious
then
that
of
great
sages
.
If
it
be
not
as
noble
,
sure
I
am
t
is
no
lesse
pure
,
no
lesse
reall
.
I
speak
in
this
my
wishes
,
not
my
being
,
for
albeit
I
am
without
wit
,
I
am
not
without
perturbation
.
I
suffer
the
misfortune
of
those
who
have
but
little
knowledg
,
and
am
deprived
of
their
advantage
,
you
know
it
well
enough
,
and
I
doubt
not
but
if
you
endure
my
dispo●ition
,
t
is
for
my
affections
sake
,
and
the
desire
which
I
have
to
be
,
Madam
,
Your
perfect
servant
.
The
third
Letter
.
Shee
complaines
that
men
doe
sometimes
fall
in
love
with
those
that
deserve
it
least
,
and
that
the
deformed
are
very
often
more
happy
then
the
faire
.
MAdam
there
s
no
neede
goe
into
Africke
,
to
arrive
at
a
Country
of
Monsters
,
our
own
produces
but
too
many
to
seeke
elsewhere
objects
of
wonder
.
In
fine
this
young
man
hath
marryed
the
old
woman
,
T
is
a
choyce
worthy
of
shame
for
himselfe
,
of
envy
for
many
,
of
admiration
for
all
,
we
are
young
,
and
it
is
to
us
a
strange
thing
to
see
that
in
our
dayes
,
she
hath
found
a
fortune
so
prodigious
,
in
the
decline
of
hers
,
And
that
any
should
fall
in
love
with
her
,
Albeit
shee
wants
the
three
goods
,
which
are
thereof
the
ordinary
cause
,
for
she
is
neither
faire
,
nor
rich
,
nor
young
.
I
do
not
doubt
but
she
hath
experience
,
sure
I
am
she
hath
age
enough
to
get
it
:
but
I
cannot
cease
to
admire
that
any
man
could
fancy
her
with
all
her
knowledge
.
If
she
deserved
to
be
sought
unto
,
it
was
like
some
Sibil
,
I
meane
to
be
consulted
,
not
beloved
,
I
thinke
she
is
more
fit
to
teach
,
then
to
please
,
and
more
worthy
to
have
Schollers
then
Suiters
,
what
will
they
say
of
Lidian
?
will
it
not
seeme
that
he
had
more
charity
then
love
,
&
that
he
tooke
her
not
,
but
out
of
meere
pitty
to
succour
old-age
.
If
strangers
finde
them
together
,
they
will
take
her
for
his
mother
,
not
his
wife
.
I
doe
not
yet
tell
you
all
,
I
protest
I
cannot
.
Nature
gave
her
nothing
amiable
,
which
old
age
could
take
from
her
.
Time
cannot
ravish
away
those
goods
shee
never
possest
.
All
it
could
doe
,
is
onely
to
make
her
more
aged
,
not
more
ill
favoured
.
She
is
rather
an
old
deformity
then
,
woman
.
It
might
well
deprive
her
of
strength
,
but
not
of
beauty
.
It
hath
toucht
nothing
but
her
haire
,
and
by
this
she
is
a
gainer
,
since
of
red
it
is
become
white
,
I
speake
nothing
but
truth
,
although
I
write
in
choller
.
But
I
ought
so
to
proceede
,
and
there
is
no
appearance
of
reason
to
approve
,
that
the
deformed
should
be
sued
to
,
and
the
faire
slighted
.
Must
they
which
want
all
merit
,
enjoy
so
much
good
fortune
,
and
our
Belinde
be
forsaken
?
I
know
well
the
custome
is
ancient
,
and
that
this
disorder
hath
been
begunne
before
our
age
.
It
is
no
newes
that
fortune
should
be
sparing
of
her
favors
where
nature
hath
been
prodigall
of
hers
,
but
this
imports
not
much
nor
doth
it
lessen
my
despight
.
The
examples
I
have
read
in
story
affect
mee
not
so
much
as
that
of
Belinde
.
Albeit
,
we
know
that
death
is
inevitable
,
we
omit
not
to
lament
our
friends
departed
.
And
tho
we
be
certaine
of
this
truth
,
that
it
is
a
fate
ordinary
to
persons
most
deserving
,
It
ceases
not
to
be
irke
some
to
us
.
This
is
the
cause
of
my
distemper
:
and
I
thinke
there
is
none
that
hath
a
thought
contrary
to
mine
,
if
he
know
the
merit
as
well
as
the
misfortune
of
faire
Belinde
.
You
know
the
affection
which
I
beare
her
,
and
I
wish
some
meanes
to
testifie
unto
you
,
That
which
I
have
to
remaine
,
Madam
,
Your
most
obedient
,
&c.
The
third
Answer
.
Shee
shewes
that
this
Marriage
will
be
more
happy
then
is
thought
.
And
sends
her
a
paralell
to
the
newes
she
had
received
.
MAdam
I
finde
the
choise
of
Lydian
as
worthy
of
praise
,
as
you
depaint
it
full
of
blame
.
You
ought
not
to
be
so
spightfull
to
him
,
nor
envious
to
her
he
loves
.
To
desire
Belinde
should
be
happy
.
It
is
not
needfull
Bumante
be
not
so
.
You
may
wish
good
to
the
one
without
harme
to
the
other
.
By
your
discourse
it
should
seeme
Fortune
hath
not
wherwith
to
please
both
,
and
that
she
can
give
nothing
to
the
old
which
shee
takes
not
from
the
young
.
You
will
change
your
opinion
,
If
you
consider
what
is
necessary
for
Lydian
.
Hee
hath
neede
of
a
governesse
as
well
as
of
a
wife
:
and
seeing
they
are
both
obliged
to
enjoy
their
goods
in
common
,
their
marriage
shall
have
of
all
sorts
.
He
hath
for
her
,
riches
,
and
beauty
,
she
hath
for
him
wisedome
,
and
age
.
He
looketh
upon
that
in
her
,
which
least
perisheth
in
al
others
,
I
meane
the
qualities
of
the
soule
,
rather
then
those
of
the
face
.
It
often
happens
that
time
effacing
the
faire
feature
,
effaces
from
our
soules
affection
bred
by
beauty
.
T
is
there
that
he
is
exempted
from
inconstancy
,
and
shall
never
be
subject
to
repent
.
But
in
what
humour
did
you
write
this
Letter
:
you
say
that
Numante
is
imperfect
without
touching
the
good
she
injoyes
.
Hath
shee
not
Prudence
,
and
Vertue
?
And
without
these
two
qualities
,
what
will
all
the
rest
availe
us
?
I
should
like
an
Angell
better
under
a
visage
something
deformed
,
then
a
devill
with
all
the
beauty
of
the
world
.
Her
conversation
is
pleasing
,
and
profitable
,
hee
will
become
an
honest
man
in
her
company
;
and
if
others
cease
to
be
Mistresses
after
their
marriage
,
this
shall
then
beginne
,
see
the
advantage
he
shall
get
,
and
then
judge
if
you
have
reason
to
finde
fault
with
the
Wife
,
or
blame
the
Husband
.
But
I
must
returne
you
like
for
like
in
matter
of
newes
:
and
make
you
see
by
these
,
that
wee
also
are
in
a
Countrey
of
Monsters
.
We
have
a
Woman
in
our
County
,
whom
all
the
world
esteemes
lovely
:
And
which
neverthelesse
is
farre
gone
in
affection
to
a
certaine
man
,
without
any
cause
imaginable
,
more
then
Lydian
can
pretend
for
Numante
.
Hardly
hath
he
a
face
like
others
,
and
I
thinke
were
he
found
among
a
company
of
Apes
he
would
be
taken
for
a
brother
:
consider
well
all
his
p●rts
,
it
is
impossible
to
finde
any
which
merit
patience
,
so
much
does
he
want
those
which
may
procure
Love
;
meane
time
he
is
happie
,
albeit
he
deserve
it
not
;
but
it
is
time
to
finish
this
,
which
is
enough
to
shew
you
,
how
many
have
cause
to
complaine
of
fortune
,
and
I
especially
,
since
she
hath
alwayes
beene
so
contrary
to
me
,
that
till
this
present
I
could
never
finde
any
good
occasion
to
serve
you
,
or
to
expresse
how
much
I
am
Madam
Your
most
affectionate
,
&c.
The
fourth
Letter
.
Being
derided
by
some
for
saying
to
a
greater
personage
then
her selfe
I
Love
you
:
she
labours
to
prove
that
this
forme
of
speech
is
good
.
MAdam
,
I
am
not
afraid
to
write
unto
you
againe
that
I
love
you
;
and
those
that
accuse
me
of
ignorance
,
because
I
use
this
word
,
can
never
cleere
themselves
,
they
know
no
more
the
lawes
of
Phylosophy
,
than
those
of
civility
,
the
word
Love
expresses
respect
,
better
than
that
of
feare
.
And
I
know
not
why
men
take
it
ill
,
since
God
himselfe
is
contented
with
it
,
when
he
sayes
that
we
should
adore
him
,
he
sayes
also
that
wee
should
Love
him
.
I
say
more
he
contents
not
himselfe
to
permit
,
but
he
commands
it
.
T
is
strange
to
see
how
farre
the
vanity
of
man
extends
:
which
is
not
satisfied
with
the
same
termes
that
God
would
have
us
employ
,
to
expresse
the
respect
we
owe
him
.
Are
we
equall
unto
him
,
if
wee
say
wee
Love
him
?
or
have
men
reason
to
demand
more
of
one
another
than
God
himselfe
demands
of
them
?
but
leave
wee
these
divine
arguments
,
there
are
enough
humane
,
feare
may
well
be
without
Love
,
but
Love
never
without
feare
;
slaves
may
feare
and
yet
not
Love
,
but
children
cannot
Love
,
and
not
feare
:
T
is
shallow
to
say
that
the
word
Love
imports
equality
;
children
are
not
so
great
as
their
Parents
,
albeit
they
Love
them
.
The
least
may
Love
the
greatest
,
for
men
may
Love
God
.
I
thinke
also
that
this
manner
of
speech
doth
not
displease
you
:
since
you
like
to
be
beloved
,
you
should
not
loath
to
heart
it
;
finally
doe
not
beleeve
that
I
honour
you
the
lesse
for
saying
I
Love
you
.
This
fashion
of
expression
,
shewes
the
excesse
of
my
affection
,
not
of
my
boldnesse
.
I
love
you
then
,
and
am
more
than
any
person
of
the
world
,
Madam
,
Your
honourer
,
The
fourth
Answer
.
Shee
prooves
that
wee
may
not
say
to
greater
persons
we
Love
them
,
but
we
Honour
them
.
MAdam
,
I
saw
your
Letter
in
the
hands
of
Celinde
,
who
hath
commanded
mee
to
answer
it
:
otherwise
I
had
hardly
beene
able
to
resolve
upon
it
.
I
doe
love
my
opinions
so
well
that
I
would
maintaine
them
with
dispute
.
I
abandon
them
freely
to
every
assailant
,
and
finde
more
relish
in
peace
,
than
glory
.
If
I
could
overcome
you
I
should
like
better
it
should
be
by
my
respects
,
than
my
reasons
,
this
victory
should
be
more
agreeable
to
my
duty
,
and
my
humour
.
If
I
thought
to
displease
you
,
I
would
desire
your
Cousin
to
dispense
me
the
labour
:
and
should
assuredly
beleeve
my
obedience
blameable
.
I
would
not
endanger
the
losse
of
your
friendship
to
defend
a
word
or
a
sillable
.
I
am
not
so
blinde
to
violate
the
lawes
of
civility
to
maintaine
those
of
Grammar
.
I
could
likewise
tell
you
that
you
should
not
put
your selfe
in
choler
against
one
that
hath
no
intent
to
disquiet
you
:
and
which
had
never
blamed
this
forme
of
speech
,
if
she
had
thought
you
would
have
undertaken
to
defend
it
,
but
since
in
your
letter
you
have
toucht
so
neere
the
quicke
,
as
to
make
my
opinion
passe
forridiculous
,
suffer
me
in
a
few
words
to
make
it
appeare
reasonable
.
It
seemes
to
me
then
that
speaking
to
those
above
us
;
it
s
better
to
say
wee
honour
them
,
than
to
say
onely
we
love
them
.
I
thinke
it
would
make
the
Court
laugh
heartily
,
if
one
should
say
to
the
Queene
in
a
Complement
,
Madam
I
love
you
.
It
may
be
this
would
passe
in
another
Country
,
or
in
another
age
:
but
seeing
we
ought
to
accommodate
our
language
to
those
that
live
with
us
,
there
is
no
reason
to
reigle
our
civility
by
that
of
Pharamond
or
of
China
.
I
am
not
much
taken
with
Proverbes
,
excepting
those
of
Solomon
,
but
yet
I
must
tell
you
I
like
that
which
counsels
to
live
,
as
few
doe
,
but
to
speake
with
the
most
,
wee
ought
not
to
doe
as
others
,
but
to
speake
like
them
:
our
actions
we
must
conforme
to
reason
,
but
our
words
to
custome
.
T
is
a
vanity
to
play
the
Philosopher
upon
every
name
,
to
see
if
it
doe
well
expresse
the
nature
of
the
thing
,
we
ought
in
this
rather
to
follow
use
than
argument
,
but
I
am
content
to
employ
both
the
one
and
the
other
to
cleere
our
difficulty
;
as
for
use
t
is
plaine
enough
on
my
side
,
and
now
let
us
see
if
reason
be
contrary
.
Is
it
not
true
that
wee
ought
to
entertaine
great
persons
with
discourse
witnessing
our
submission
.
And
I
leave
you
to
thinke
if
this
word
imploying
reverence
,
be
not
fitter
for
this
than
that
of
love
,
or
friendship
,
since
when
a
Nobleman
sayes
I
love
you
:
A
vassall
cannot
reply
as
much
without
treating
him
like
an
equall
,
what
difference
should
there
then
be
betweene
the
Complements
of
the
high
and
the
low
,
and
wherein
should
the
Language
of
Authority
be
distinguished
from
that
of
obedience
?
that
which
they
say
for
fathers
,
may
be
said
for
all
others
on
whom
we
depend
.
Love
doth
never
ascend
which
shewes
not
onely
that
Children
doe
not
returne
as
much
love
as
they
receive
from
their
Parents
;
but
also
that
they
ought
not
to
say
they
love
them
,
but
when
Parents
promise
affection
,
Children
must
offer
obedience
;
this
Complement
must
not
remount
to
the
spring
,
not
that
we
are
not
obliged
to
love
them
,
but
our
love
in
this
place
must
expresse
it selfe
by
the
mouth
of
feare
.
And
whereas
you
say
that
God
commands
we
love
him
,
and
a
word
which
pleases
him
should
not
displease
men
:
I
will
answere
onely
,
that
in
the
same
place
he
commands
also
that
wee
adore
him
,
and
that
he
requires
feare
as
well
as
love
;
or
I
may
cite
one
Law
for
another
.
If
God
will
that
we
love
him
,
he
wils
also
that
we
honour
our
Parents
.
It
seemes
to
me
there
is
great
difference
betweene
the
honour
we
owe
to
him
,
and
that
we
render
unto
men
;
he
requires
our
consciences
,
and
demands
rather
the
motions
of
the
heart
,
then
the
words
of
the
mouth
:
he
hath
no
neede
of
any
man
,
but
wee
have
neede
one
of
another
,
he
craves
the
service
of
the
heart
,
and
men
want
that
of
the
hand
▪
he
desires
not
our
actions
,
except
,
because
they
proceede
from
love
;
and
men
oft
times
seeke
not
affection
,
but
onely
for
the
profitable
effects
which
it
produceth
,
say
what
you
list
wee
draw
more
service
from
slaves
,
which
feare
without
love
,
then
from
those
which
love
without
feare
Love
doth
often
aspire
to
equality
,
but
feare
doth
alwayes
containe
within
respect
.
Men
therefore
are
to
seeke
that
which
is
most
assured
,
whilest
God
loves
nothing
in
us
,
but
that
which
is
most
noble
.
This
is
the
reason
that
speaking
to
those
of
higher
degree
then
our selves
,
t
is
better
to
say
we
honour
them
,
then
,
we
love
them
;
this
Complement
doth
more
please
,
and
the
terme
of
respect
doth
better
expresse
our
dependance
than
that
of
love
or
friendship
.
I
could
pursue
this
matter
,
and
bring
many
other
reasons
to
maintaine
my
cause
,
but
it
sufficeth
me
to
shew
that
it
is
not
so
ridiculous
as
you
describe
it
.
I
neede
not
so
many
proofes
,
t
is
enough
that
I
have
custome
on
my
side
,
since
our
language
,
and
civility
,
doe
absolutely
depend
thereupon
,
but
to
finish
this
Letter
,
I
must
make
you
a
complement
according
to
reason
,
and
not
according
to
your
humour
,
and
while
you
say
to
others
that
you
love
them
,
I
assure
you
that
I
honour
you
.
Never
change
your
fashion
of
speech
:
I
am
well
content
that
you
love
mee
onely
,
and
shall
therefore
respect
you
in
the
quality
.
Madam
Of
your
most
humble
,
&c.
The
fifth
Letter
.
Shee
professeth
how
timorous
shee
is
to
displease
her
,
adjoyning
that
if
shee
write
seldome
she
feares
to
be
deemed
unthankefull
;
if
often
,
importune
.
MAdam
,
the
desire
I
have
to
please
you
,
is
so
tyed
to
the
feare
of
all
successe
,
that
I
perceive
my selfe
alwaies
obliged
to
beg
your
pardon
,
be
it
that
you
heare
much
newes
or
very
little
from
me
.
If
I
write
rarely
to
you
,
I
feare
to
be
ingratefull
,
if
frequently
,
troublesome
.
Neverthelesse
,
if
I
must
needes
be
guilty
,
I
should
hope
a
more
easie
remission
of
the
first
then
second
crime
.
I
beleeve
you
will
sooner
excuse
a
want
of
power
then
of
will
.
It
is
true
that
the
desire
depends
upon
our
liberty
,
but
the
effect
commonly
upon
Fortune
,
you
know
it
well
enough
;
and
therfore
the
consideration
of
your
goodnesse
ministers
me
more
assurance
,
then
my
owne
defects
doubt
.
I
freely
confesse
my
inability
,
to
write
good
Letters
;
but
I
thinke
t
is
more
acceptable
to
have
an
affection
to
doe
you
service
,
then
eloquence
to
offer
it
.
And
what
imports
it
in
this
occasion
,
to
violate
the
Lawes
of
Rhetorique
,
provided
wee
observe
those
of
friendship
.
I
had
rather
passe
faithfull
,
then
able
.
It
troubles
me
little
tho
your
opinion
be
bad
of
my
judgment
,
so
it
be
good
of
my
affection
,
and
the
desire
I
have
to
be
,
Madam
,
Your
,
&c.
The
fifth
Answer
.
She
replies
,
that
she
doth
ill
to
distrust
acceptance
whether
she
write
,
or
not
.
MAdam
,
it
must
needes
be
,
that
you
have
an
ill
opinion
of
my
humour
,
seeing
you
are
so
much
afraide
not
to
bee
able
to
satisfy
it
.
Albeit
it
shold
be
crosse
to
all
others
,
I
would
endeavour
to
render
it
conformable
to
yours
.
In
this
my
inclination
strayes
not
from
my
duty
;
and
pardon
mee
if
I
tell
you
,
you
know
mee
not
,
since
you
feare
me
.
If
you
were
well
acquainted
with
the
opinion
I
have
of
your
merit
,
you
could
not
faile
in
that
you
ought
to
have
of
my
observance
.
I
can
assure
you
that
all
the
thoughts
of
my
soule
are
so
submisse
to
those
of
yours
,
that
t
is
impossible
but
you
should
content
me
.
If
you
write
often
,
I
take
it
for
an
effect
of
your
courtesie
.
If
rarely
,
I
attribute
your
silence
to
your
employments
and
affaires
.
Moreover
,
you
cannot
be
unthankefull
to
a
person
that
never
obliged
you
,
nor
troublesome
to
her
which
adores
all
that
you
approve
,
you
have
too
much
courage
to
want
wil
,
and
too
much
power
,
not
to
produce
the
effects
may
witnesse
it
,
but
why
doe
you
handle
me
in
this
sort
by
your
Letter
?
you
thanke
me
for
a
good
turne
which
I
make
you
but
desire
,
and
you
have
not
yet
received
.
And
you
write
to
mee
with
so
much
civility
,
that
you
make
me
in
case
not
to
be
able
to
returne
just
thanks
for
yours
,
and
then
you
say
further
,
that
you
want
not
onely
occasions
to
gratifie
mee
,
but
words
to
shew
the
desire
you
have
to
do
it
.
Thinke
what
you
list
,
certainely
I
see
none
that
can
expresse
themselves
with
a
better
grace
:
and
if
you
be
not
satisfied
with
your
own
discourses
,
and
writings
,
beleeve
it
,
your
opinion
is
singular
.
For
my self
,
I
finde
them
so
agreeable
that
besides
the
content
I
have
to
understand
by
your
Letters
that
you
love
mee
,
I
finde
my selfe
all
joy
,
reading
the
sweet
language
you
employ
to
assure
me
thereof
.
I
want
an
equall
pen
to
praise
yours
,
and
therefore
content
my selfe
to
averre
the
excellence
,
without
endevouring
to
describe
it
:
I
apprehend
the
goodnesse
of
it
,
but
cannot
expresse
it
.
Iudge
then
if
your
feare
bee
reasonable
;
since
mine
is
onely
this
,
not
to
receive
newes
from
you
so
frequently
,
as
I
wish
,
and
not
to
give
you
evidence
enough
how
much
I
am
Madam
,
Your
most
&c.
The
sixt
Letter
.
She
acknowledgeth
that
it
is
sufficient
to
suffer
her
Letters
,
without
doing
her
the
honour
to
desire
them
.
MAdam
,
I
received
no
lesse
astonishment
then
joy
,
when
I
learn●d
by
yours
,
that
you
desire
mine
.
I
thought
your
sufferance
honor
enough
,
could
not
aspire
to
be
requested
.
You
tell
mee
that
to
make
you
happy
I
need
doe
no
more
but
write
.
If
it
be
so
,
I
shall
so
overlade
you
with
number
,
that
you
shall
soone
have
cause
to
complaine
your
felicity
,
insupportable
.
It
shall
not
be
long
ere
you
forbid
mee
that
you
now
command
.
If
there
be
as
you
say
no
more
to
doe
to
dispell
sicknesse
,
you
neede
henceforth
never
distrust
the
losse
of
health
,
but
take
heede
the
remedy
be
not
more
troublesome
then
the
disease
.
I
know
well
enough
what
I
ought
thinke
of
it
:
if
I
should
beleeve
it
,
I
should
be
no
lesse
simple
,
then
you
covetous
.
I
acknowledge
no
lesse
kindnes
in
your
letters
then
in
your
entertainement
,
but
however
,
it
shall
not
trouble
mee
to
write
unto
you
,
since
you
command
it
,
provided
that
you
promise
me
an
answer
,
I
shall
be
glad
to
send
bad
Letters
to
gaine
good
;
but
if
in
mine
you
cannot
finde
vivacity
enough
to
content
you
,
I
hope
at
least
that
you
shall
observe
a
great
affection
to
serve
you
,
and
to
be
all
my
life
Madam
,
Your
,
&c.
The
sixt
Answer
.
She
assures
her
that
shee
cannot
heare
from
her
too
oft
.
MAdam
,
I
know
not
why
you
say
the
care
I
have
to
heare
from
you
,
does
no
l●sse
astonish
,
then
content
you
.
This
desire
in
no
wise
deserves
your
admiration
,
seeing
t
is
long
since
that
I
have
made
you
understand
it
:
nor
your
joy
,
since
it
can
procure
you
nought
but
trouble
,
you
should
not
marvell
,
if
I
demand
some
witnesse
of
your
remembrance
:
It
cannot
be
,
but
you
have
forgotten
the
request
I
made
you
,
when
I
was
at
Paris
,
and
I
acknowledge
that
you
have
yet
neede
be
sollicited
,
to
doe
a
favour
that
you
have
promised
.
Not
able
to
enjoy
your
entertainement
,
you
must
not
wonder
,
if
I
demand
your
Letters
;
And
if
seeing
my selfe
depri●ed
of
so
great
a
good
,
I
have
recourse
to
the
only
remedy
of
my
losse
T
is
a
favour
so
great
,
that
the
possession
,
in
stead
of
quenching
,
encreases
the
desire
.
Finally
let
it
not
trouble
you
to
restifie
your
friendship
,
and
seeke
no
more
proofes
for
one
that
is
wholl
perswaded
.
However
I
could
say
in
your
behalfe
,
that
you
should
not
be
simple
to
beleeve
it
,
nor
I
over
covetous
to
affirme
it
;
for
t
is
a
truth
,
which
is
enough
to
free
you
from
error
,
me
from
flattery
.
I
delight
to
speake
of
what
you
wish
,
and
I
owe
you
;
I
have
neither
praise
enough
for
your
merit
,
nor
thankes
enough
for
your
courtesie
,
nor
can
I
ever
satisfie
the
one
,
or
the
other
,
but
by
the
extreame
desire
I
have
to
be
Madam
,
Your
,
&c.
The
seventh
Letter
.
She
saith
that
the
society
of
the
Countrey
is
insupportable
,
and
that
shee
lesse
feares
their
contempt
,
then
their
importunity
.
MAdam
,
I
can
no
more
,
I
am
at
point
to
lose
my
reputation
,
or
my
health
,
whether
I
suffer
these
troublesome
clownes
,
or
tell
them
the
distaste
their
ignorance
merits
.
It
seemes
my
Castle
is
like
the
Pallace
of
Apollidon
,
where
a
world
was
still
seene
enter
,
and
goe
out
by
troupes
,
my
resolution
is
set
,
I
had
rather
it
were
a
Desert
,
then
a
Court.
I
wish
that
they
who
have
no
qualities
requisite
for
society
,
had
at
least
an
inclination
to
solitude
,
but
their
humor
imports
me
nothing
,
I
had
rather
satisfie
my
owne
,
then
the
civilities
of
the
Countrey
;
to
what
end
should
I
give
them
contentment
at
my
owne
cost
,
and
live
alwaies
in
constraint
to
acquire
the
reputation
of
being
courteous
?
I
see
no
recompence
for
the
paines
I
should
take
:
and
whatever
happen
,
I
will
no
longer
play
so
troublesome
a
part
.
The
comparison
is
not
amisse
,
since
to
please
them
I
disease
my selfe
no
lesse
,
then
those
on
a
Theater
to
content
the
spectators
,
who
straine
themselves
both
in
voyce
and
gesture
:
I
must
renounce
this
confusion
,
and
reading
,
or
dreaming
passe
the
time
.
I
know
there
be
●ad
boo●es
,
but
t
is
an
easier
matter
to
shift
a
bad
Auther
t●en
bad
company
Books
doe
not
importune
us
against
our
will
,
how
dangerous
soeverthey
be
,
they
are
unmoving
enemies
,
which
cannot
come
at
us
,
if
we
seeke
not
them
.
If
they
vex
us
,
we
may
cast
them
away
,
or
teare
them
(
if
we
list
)
they
cannot
complaine
;
it
is
not
so
with
these
petty
Sirs
,
which
never
cease
prating
,
t
is
not
so
easie
to
make
them
silent
as
to
shut
a
Booke
.
I
thinke
it
bett●r
not
to
see
them
at
all
,
then
to
seek
occasions
to
suffer
them
.
I
am
resolved
what
to
invent
for
fashions
sake
to
keep
them
off
:
I
will
make
it
be
noised
abroad
that
I
am
sicke
.
and
and
so
I
shall
quickely
be
,
if
I
suffer
them
continue
their
visits
,
t
is
better
I
suppose
to
seeme
,
then
to
be
so
:
better
to
deceive
then
anger
them
;
to
oblige
them
to
lament
,
then
to
complaine
of
me
,
but
whatever
happen
,
if
my
device
succeede
not
,
I
like
their
neglect
better
then
their
officiousnes
:
and
had
rather
put
them
in
a
humor
of
rayling
,
then
complement
.
The
greatest
ill
I
feare
,
is
their
company
:
and
I
shall
alwayes
have
more
patience
for
the
effects
of
their
hatred
,
then
for
those
of
their
good
will
,
see
my
resolution
:
which
it
it
seeme
to
you
unreasonable
,
give
mee
the
meanes
to
vanquish
it
,
and
you
shall
quickely
perceive
,
that
I
have
not
yet
any
designe
contrary
to
that
of
obeying
you
,
and
testifying
by
all
meanes
possible
that
I
am
perfectly
Madam
Your
,
&c.
The
seventh
Answer
.
She
counsels
her
to
straine
her selfe
a
little
,
to
suffer
company
lesse
agreeable
,
and
that
shee
betray
no
contempt
,
for
feare
of
receiving
it
.
MAdam
,
never
complaine
of
the
Countrey
you
are
in
:
if
there
be
affection
without
civility
,
here
is
civility
without
affection
.
I
should
rather
choose
a
freedome
somewhat
rude
,
then
dissimulation
with
all
the
sweetenesse
of
the
world
.
As
there
is
no
paint
can
make
mee
love
deformity
;
so
there
is
no
supplenes
,
nor
cunning
can
make
me
suffer
scorne
.
Change
then
your
resolution
,
if
you
have
taken
that
not
to
be
seene
.
T
is
better
to
receive
displeasing
complements
,
then
expose
your selfe
to
publicke
displeasure
.
Remember
your selfe
,
that
if
we
must
seeke
the
approbation
of
few
,
we
must
flye
the
detraction
of
all
,
wee
owe
our
opinions
to
truth
,
our
countenance
to
opinion
,
for
their
fashion
of
living
,
or
discourse
,
you
may
laugh
at
them
in
your
sleeve
,
provided
outwardly
you
seeme
to
approve
them
.
I
beseech
you
consider
that
the
subject
of
your
choller
would
serve
for
recreation
to
many
others
;
who
would
goe
to
seeke
in
the
Countrey
that
which
you
there
thinke
insupportable
,
without
doubt
you
will
be
thought
of
a
bad
humour
,
if
you
cannot
with
patience
suffer
those
that
offer
you
their
service
.
If
they
tender
not
their
duty
with
a
good
grace
,
take
their
affection
,
and
make
sport
at
their
ceremonies
accept
their
purpose
,
and
laugh
at
their
discourse
,
otherwise
you
will
passe
for
unthankeful
,
and
uncivill
,
know
you
not
also
that
Christianity
bindes
us
to
support
the
weakenesse
of
our
neighbours
?
and
since
they
love
you
,
you
ought
to
tolerate
them
,
both
by
reason
,
and
religion
.
Charity
obliges
you
thereto
as
well
as
Pleasure
.
It
is
no
small
matter
to
gaine
the
affections
of
people
;
and
therefore
wee
should
be
carefull
to
leave
a
good
smell
where
we
come
.
This
is
my
advice
,
and
since
you
doe
me
the
honour
to
demand
it
,
I
hope
it
shall
not
prove
distastefull
,
but
you
will
take
it
for
a
testimony
of
the
affection
I
have
to
be
Madam
Your
,
&c.
The
eight
Letter
.
Shee
complaines
of
the
disorders
at
Paris
,
and
prefers
the
dive●sions
of
the
Country
to
those
of
the
Court.
MAdam
,
for
the
newes
I
receive
of
the
change
of
states
and
Provinces
,
I
can
returne
you
none
but
that
of
the
fall
of
leaves
,
and
change
of
seasons
,
I
meane
for
great
matters
,
I
can
only
send
you
little
.
Thinke
not
for
all
this
I
complaine
of
the
place
where
I
am
,
if
the
remembrance
of
your
company
occasions
mee
some
griefe
,
that
of
your
distractions
lends
me
no
envy
,
when
I
consider
you
in
the
disorders
at
Paris
,
I
cannot
but
lament
you
:
Perhaps
you
do
as
much
for
me
,
and
esteeme
my
condition
more
worthy
of
pitty
then
yours
,
but
I
assure
my selfe
you
would
change
your
opinion
,
had
you
tarryed
some
while
in
the
countrey
;
you
should
find
that
the
Country
life
hath
pleasures
more
solid
,
then
that
of
the
Court
,
&
that
nature
there
gives
us
true
contentments
,
whiles
Fortune
elsewhere
makes
us
but
taste
those
that
are
imaginary
,
it
happens
oft
that
the
happiest
at
Court
,
resemble
those
that
run
after
an
inchanted
Hare
,
they
see
alwaies
what
to
hope
for
,
seldome
whereof
to
rejoyce
;
this
is
not
to
be
happy
,
but
to
be
abused
.
Insomuch
that
taking
away
the
errour
of
Courtiers
,
you
take
from
them
all
their
delights
.
Those
which
shew
them
the
truth
of
their
misery
,
doe
them
no
lesse
hurt
,
then
if
they
awakt
them
from
a
pleasing
dreame
.
But
it
is
not
you
that
neede
be
entertained
with
this
discourse
;
I
know
well
enough
you
have
no
thoughts
but
very
reasonable
:
And
if
you
stay
at
Court
,
t
is
not
because
you
finde
much
sweetenesse
there
;
but
because
you
are
enured
to
suffer
the
troubles
,
and
incommodities
that
are
inseparable
,
when
you
call
me
back
to
Paris
,
tel
me
not
that
it
is
to
enjoy
the
allurements
there
to
be
found
,
to
make
me
returne
,
it
is
enough
to
know
that
you
are
there
,
but
for
your
company
,
which
renders
every
place
delectable
,
I
could
say
that
the
Conntrey
is
the
object
of
my
desire
,
Paris
of
my
patience
.
I
stay
in
the
one
by
inclination
,
in
the
other
by
constraint
,
this
is
as
much
as
I
can
say
of
it
.
And
now
I
thanke
you
for
all
the
particularities
that
you
have
taught
me
,
whereof
the
exchange
will
still
be
after
the
old
fashion
:
I
meane
instead
of
good
deedes
,
you
get
from
mee
nothing
but
bare
words
,
and
a
very
simple
assurance
,
but
very
true
,
that
I
am
Madam
Your
,
&c.
The
eight
Answer
.
She
replies
that
the
recreations
of
the
country
are
not
more
solid
,
but
more
grosse
,
not
more
innocent
,
but
more
rude
.
MAdam
,
be
not
so
violent
against
the
delights
of
Paris
,
they
are
more
worthy
of
your
desire
,
then
your
contempt
,
you
are
in
the
wrong
to
raile
against
those
pleasures
,
no
lesse
innocent
then
reall
.
And
I
can
hardly
beleeve
that
you
speake
in
good
earnest
:
but
rather
to
shew
the
goodnesse
of
your
wit
,
then
the
truth
of
your
opinion
.
T
is
then
to
your
letter
,
not
your
intent
I
answer
.
I
esteeme
you
too
capeable
to
give
,
and
take
delight
in
company
,
to
thinke
you
have
made
a
vow
of
solitude
,
and
that
this
designe
would
prove
contrary
to
your
owne
humour
,
as
well
as
our
wishes
.
I
should
thinke
it
strange
that
you
should
fall
in
love
with
the
Countrey
,
after
you
have
thereof
restified
so
much
horrour
,
you
say
that
the
recreations
there
found
are
more
solid
:
I
should
rather
say
they
are
more
dull
.
Your
pleasures
are
not
more
innocent
,
but
more
salvage
.
It
must
needes
be
that
you
have
no
memory
,
since
you
have
no
sorrow
;
but
whatsoever
you
say
,
I
thinke
it
be
not
so
:
and
that
there
is
not
so
much
constancy
in
your
spirit
,
as
in
your
letter
.
What
finde
you
out
of
Paris
that
can
so
much
enchant
you
?
you
meane
the
chanting
of
birds
;
and
do
you
more
esteeme
the
note
of
a
Nightingall
,
than
those
of
our
musitians
?
d'
ye
love
a
bagpipe
better
than
a
lute
?
you
see
the
flocks
,
you
see
the
shepherdesses
runne
,
you
goe
a
hunting
,
all
this
may
bee
called
country
pleasure
,
and
after
all
this
you
have
nothing
,
but
wee
have
here
the
same
.
We
see
flowers
,
and
eate
fruites
aswell
as
you
:
you
have
the
onely
advantage
to
see
them
gathered
,
or
rather
the
disadvantage
.
I
like
the
comparison
of
those
who
say
,
that
if
the
world
be
a
great
body
,
country
villages
make
the
hands
,
the
feete
,
the
nayles
,
and
the
haire
;
and
that
the
Cities
are
like
the
stomacke
,
which
receives
all
,
and
possesses
those
goods
which
others
provide
for
it
.
Finally
,
I
know
not
how
you
can
say
,
you
are
in
a
place
of
true
pleasures
,
when
you
are
among
the
miserable
.
Change
then
your
opinion
,
and
come
backe
to
Paris
,
where
all
the
world
desites
you
,
but
more
than
all
the
rest
of
the
world
,
Madam
,
Your
,
&c.
The
ninth
Letter
.
She
complaines
of
the
inconstancy
of
a
certaine
man
,
and
saith
it
is
ordinary
to
those
of
his
sexe
.
MAdam
,
at
length
my
prophecies
are
accomplisht
,
and
what
I
foresaw
is
come
to
passe
.
The
man
is
yet
alive
,
and
his
affection
which
ought
to
live
alwayes
,
dead
for
ever
.
So
many
oathes
as
hee
made
of
constancy
serve
but
to
encrease
his
crime
;
as
if
hee
had
not
beene
guilty
enough
to
owne
the
quality
of
unconstant
,
except
hee
added
that
of
perjur'd
.
These
chances
have
not
surprised
mee
,
since
I
alwaies
expected
them
from
the
very
birth
of
his
friendshippe
;
and
the
yeares
hee
hath
worne
out
in
a
will
to
serve
me
,
have
wrought
mee
to
no
other
beliefe
.
I
know
well
that
lightnesse
to
their
sexe
is
like
death
to
all
the
world
,
which
arrives
to
some
sooner
,
to
others
later
,
but
with
a
little
difference
of
time
is
inevitable
to
all
.
How
could
he
,
being
but
a
man
doe
a
miracle
,
and
remaine
constant
?
I
should
have
judged
it
impossible
,
if
I
had
hoped
it
.
The
unavoydable
necessity
which
carries
all
of
his
sexe
to
change
,
forbids
me
to
reply
,
or
to
reproach
.
This
is
not
the
designe
obliges
me
to
write
:
but
rather
to
make
him
know
that
being
unable
to
change
humour
,
I
have
not
lost
the
esteeme
I
made
of
his
love
.
My
thoughts
of
him
have
alwayes
beene
reasonable
,
conformd
to
civility
,
and
vertue
,
and
being
able
to
conserve
them
without
fault
,
I
shall
keepe
them
the
rest
of
my
life
,
but
if
I
preserve
so
good
an
opinion
of
those
who
have
lost
affection
,
judge
how
much
I
shall
respect
those
which
love
mee
as
your selfe
:
and
if
I
am
not
like
to
remaine
constant
in
the
purpose
I
have
to
serve
you
,
and
to
be
whilst
I
live
,
Madam
,
Your
,
&c.
The
ninth
Answere
.
She
shewes
that
inconstancy
is
no
more
naturall
to
men
then
women
,
and
reprehends
her
overcredulous
humor
.
MAdam
,
it
is
no
great
glory
to
be
such
a
Prophet
as
you
:
it
is
easie
to
judge
that
men
may
change
:
they
are
no
more
immoveable
then
immortall
.
Their
designes
are
capeable
of
alteration
,
as
well
as
their
life
:
but
what
say
you
in
this
,
that
men
cannot
say
of
women
?
Albeit
,
either
Sexe
may
invent
for
their
advantage
,
I
beleeve
that
inconstancy
is
no
lesse
common
to
both
,
then
death
it selfe
.
I
cannot
comprehend
,
how
our
resolutions
should
be
lesse
light
,
nor
why
the
opinions
of
the
weaker
sex
should
be
more
strong
.
I
speake
onely
for
truth
,
not
against
you
nor
my selfe
.
I
know
that
there
are
some
more
constant
then
many
men
:
but
that
which
I
can
say
of
some
particulars
without
flattery
,
I
cannot
say
of
the
generall
without
error
.
I
doe
not
offend
the
constant
,
to
maintaine
that
some
are
not
,
how
much
this
is
more
rare
,
so
much
it
is
more
laudable
,
that
vertue
is
mos●
glorious
to
the
practise
of
which
we
are
least
disposed
.
Many
have
no
lesse
paine
to
be
constant
,
amidst
so
many
occasions
to
lose
it
,
then
to
carry
a
torch
lighted
,
when
the
winde
from
every
corner
offers
to
blow
it
out
,
but
I
will
no
longer
entertaine
you
with
this
subject
,
I
content
my selfe
to
say
,
that
we
ought
not
to
reproach
all
men
in
general
,
bnt
onely
some
particulars
with
inconstancy
,
he
of
whom
you
complaine
is
of
this
number
,
and
there
is
no
colourable
reason
,
that
finding
one
culpable
,
we
should
judge
so
of
all
the
rest
,
your
complaint
is
a
little
unjust
,
and
I
find
by
reading
your
Letter
,
that
an
angry
woman
hardly
keepes
moderation
,
in
venting
of
her
choller
:
it
seemes
to
me
notwithstanding
,
that
you
have
had
leasure
to
dispose
you
to
patience
:
and
since
you
alwaies
had
some
suspition
,
the
event
should
not
surprise
you
,
your
foresight
should
diminish
your
admiration
,
and
your
griefe
,
would
you
know
more
cleerely
my
intention
.
If
you
had
any
conjecture
of
his
naturall
maladie
,
you
should
have
interrupted
the
tragedy
,
if
I
had
foreseen
his
designe
,
I
had
prevented
him
by
a
generous
contempt
,
not
entertained
him
with
sufferance
.
I
had
remedyed
the
ill
I
knew
,
not
taken
pleasure
to
receive
offers
of
service
,
which
I
suspected
,
I
see
well
enough
how
you
are
abused
;
you
had
some
doubt
of
his
lightnesse
,
but
no
assurance
,
otherwise
I
should
judge
you
more
worthy
to
be
jeer'd
then
pittyed
.
Finally
you
will
needs
play
the
constant
,
for
those
that
meane
nothing
lesse
.
It
seemes
by
your
letter
that
you
doe
yet
hold
him
in
some
esteeme
,
but
I
know
not
what
merit
,
you
find
in
a
person
that
does
not
acknowledge
yours
.
nor
can
I
imagine
him
guilty
of
wit
that
hath
slighted
his
owne
good
fortune
,
or
able
to
make
a
handsome
choise
,
that
hath
once
quitted
you
.
I
suppose
how
it
goes
?
you
are
,
it
may
be
,
of
the
humour
of
many
,
who
have
the
misfortune
to
be
inclined
to
those
who
have
neither
affection
,
nor
desert
,
and
who
are
passionate
for
them
that
are
neither
amorous
nor
amiable
.
I
wish
I
be
deceived
,
and
that
my
prophecies
be
alwaies
false
,
when
they
are
not
to
your
advantage
,
they
may
notwithstanding
prove
so
to
you
,
if
you
flye
the
evill
I
foretell
,
and
if
you
give
no
more
opportunity
to
have
your
goodnes
abused
by
those
that
know
your
facility
.
I
speak
according
to
my
heart
,
aswell
as
according
to
my
duty
,
and
I
thinke
you
will
take
nothing
ill
of
what
I
write
,
seeing
all
the
liberty
I
use
proceeds
but
from
the
extreame
desire
I
have
to
be
,
Madam
Your
,
&c.
The
X.
Letter
.
Shee
tels
what
the
vulgar
thinkes
of
brave
spirits
.
MAdam
,
I
protest
,
I
shall
hardly
content
you
,
and
albeit
all
the
world
discourses
of
brave
spirits
,
it
seemes
to
me
neverthelesse
,
that
they
agree
not
in
their
description
.
I
will
tell
you
nothing
of
my
opinion
but
that
of
others
:
and
will
rather
assure
you
what
they
say
of
them
,
then
what
they
are
in
effect
,
doe
not
then
abuse
your selfe
touching
my
purpose
;
I
have
no
other
,
but
to
write
to
you
some
of
the
absurdities
which
they
attribute
to
them
,
and
not
to
combat
them
by
reason
.
And
I
think
to
set
them
downe
,
is
enough
to
confute
them
,
and
to
shew
their
extravagancy
,
sufficient
to
bring
them
in
hatred
.
I
will
tell
you
then
,
that
one
of
their
principall
maximes
is
to
condemne
all
,
they
cannot
comprehend
:
as
if
their
opinion
ought
to
be
the
rule
of
our
actions
,
and
nothing
were
reasonable
,
but
what
is
thereto
conformable
:
by
their
sayings
,
the
vertue
which
wise
men
follow
,
is
b●
them
accounted
,
but
a
Chimera
.
Religion
overthrowes
their
sense
,
and
with
an
ignorance
and
impiety
without
paralell
,
they
find
not
onely
what
to
reforme
in
the
providence
of
men
,
but
also
in
that
of
God
himself
;
in
so
much
that
there
is
nothing
divine
,
nor
humane
,
wherein
they
find
no
blemish
.
I
leave
you
to
judge
,
if
it
be
so
,
how
much
this
sect
should
be
abhord
by
those
that
have
soule
or
conscience
.
Neverthelesse
,
t
is
a
misfortune
that
the
novelty
of
this
(
with
some
dexterity
,
they
observe
to
establish
it
)
gaines
the
beliefe
of
ma●y
,
who
admire
,
if
they
doe
follow
them
.
These
brave
spirits
say
,
that
they
are
bent
against
none
,
but
bad
opinions
,
and
that
their
chiefe
aime
is
to
restore
reason
,
and
vertue
to
their
ancient
force
.
Howbeit
,
they
are
accused
to
oppose
both
the
one
,
and
the
other
,
to
the
end
they
may
the
better
establish
licentiousnesse
,
and
vice
.
I
could
say
more
but
I
would
have
my
words
as
innocent
as
my
thoughts
.
And
also
I
feare
to
describe
them
rather
according
to
the
errour
of
the
world
,
then
according
to
the
truth
of
their
being
.
let
us
leave
then
what
they
say
of
their
conscience
,
to
speake
of
that
they
see
in
their
countenance
,
let
us
quit
their
actions
,
to
entertaine
our selves
with
their
lookes
.
If
they
have
not
faults
enough
to
condemne
them
,
at
least
they
have
markes
visible
enough
to
make
them
be
knowne
.
They
have
certaine
deportments
,
whereby
when
they
would
demonstrate
the
force
,
they
shew
but
to
much
the
feeblenesse
of
their
soules
.
If
their
life
fright
you
,
their
countenance
makes
you
laugh
;
and
if
they
be
Atheists
in
heart
,
they
are
Buffons
in
conversation
.
You
shall
see
some
of
these
fellowes
retire
from
the
company
,
the
ha●
puld
downe
in
their
eyes
,
the
band
out
of
order
,
and
bigger
then
ordinary
,
striking
with
their
feete
against
the
ground
.
Instead
of
being
ashamed
of
themselves
they
perke
up
and
downe
every
where
,
and
doe
not
onely
make
private
places
the
witnesses
of
their
folly
,
but
also
the
publicke
,
as
the
●ourt
,
the
Exchange
,
the
Walkes
,
with
all
their
studyed
postures
they
would
passe
for
great
persons
,
never
thinking
that
their
apish
trickes
,
doe
better
resemble
madmen
,
then
sages
.
Neverthelesse
,
they
take
them
for
signes
of
a
brave
spirit
,
and
would
have
their
stupidity
,
passe
for
vigour
,
their
coldnesse
for
prudence
.
They
call
their
silence
an
effect
of
that
divine
ravishment
,
which
is
the
mother
of
beautious
thoughts
,
thus
they
name
their
defects
,
and
would
have
their
sottishnesse
passe
for
sagenesse
.
This
dazzles
but
the
vulgar
,
and
catches
those
onely
which
love
novelty
better
then
reaso●
.
But
let
us
passe
on
.
They
offend
not
onely
in
the
beleife
they
hold
of
themselves
,
but
in
that
they
have
of
others
,
they
seeme
displeased
,
and
are
distasted
even
with
the
best
things
.
Although
any
speak
excellent
well
in
their
company
,
they
give
,
or
deny
their
approbation
by
a
nod
,
or
a
smile
.
These
are
the
judges
of
our
discourse
,
and
our
actions
.
Rarely
doe
they
give
a
perfect
praise
:
they
find
that
solid
spirits
are
grosse
,
polished
,
light
,
or
ignorant
.
If
any
good
word
escape
them
,
as
it
may
happen
sometimes
by
chance
,
t
is
strange
to
heare
with
what
accent
they
pronounce
it
.
But
we
have
spoken
enough
of
them
;
that
which
they
doe
to
acquire
the
esteem
of
the
world
loses
it
,
they
would
passe
for
wise
,
and
are
thought
extravagant
.
Never
sect
was
lesse
followed
th●n
theirs
:
and
I
thinke
they
are
alone
in
their
opinion
,
when
they
think
well
of
themselves
.
This
is
what
I
have
to
write
touching
the
judgement
many
make
of
brave
spirits
.
I
pray
you
beleeve
this
Letter
is
none
of
the
least
witnesses
of
my
complacency
,
since
not
being
used
to
speake
of
what
I
know
not
,
I
have
notwithstanding
broken
my
purpose
,
to
obey
you
without
reserve
,
and
to
testify
the
absolute
power
which
you
have
Madam
,
Over
Your
,
&c.
The
X.
Answer
.
Shee
defends
great
spirits
provided
they
be
not
impious
.
MAdam
,
having
well
read
your
Letter
,
I
am
much
astonisht
,
that
a
person
like
you
in
reputation
for
a
noble
spirit
,
would
blame
those
that
resemble
you
,
giving
no
other
reason
,
save
that
their
opinions
are
not
conformable
to
the
vulgar
.
Certainely
,
if
I
were
to
make
their
apology
,
I
would
begin
their
praise
,
where
you
begin
their
accusation
.
Ought
we
not
to
esteeme
their
worth
,
if
they
had
rather
do
well
,
then
doe
like
others
?
They
know
that
imitation
should
have
ei●s
to
see
if
the
example
be
good
,
or
evill
;
and
that
it
is
not
enough
to
make
the
blind
walke
with
assurance
,
that
they
have
guides
,
if
they
know
not
also
that
these
guides
know
to
conduct
them
,
they
have
reason
to
beleeve
,
that
it
is
better
ta●e
the
right
way
,
with
a
few
wise
,
then
wander
with
a
multitude
offooles
.
And
to
say
,
that
if
they
be
reasonable
,
it
is
not
after
the
common
manner
,
and
that
they
are
but
Ieer'd
:
I
answer
They
doe
no
more
in
this
then
hath
beene
done
to
all
the
ancient
sages
,
hath
not
philosophy
it selfe
appeared
ridiculous
to
the
eyes
of
many
?
and
have
we
not
alwayes
seen
,
that
people
are
no
lesse
incensed
,
when
you
reverse
some
sottish
custome
,
then
if
you
had
beate
downe
all
their
Altars
,
and
rob'd
them
of
their
I
dols
!
Besides
the
cause
of
this
hate
is
easie
to
be
found
:
It
is
because
the
middle
spirits
cannot
suffer
what
is
above
them
:
and
being
unable
to
raise
themselves
,
they
thinke
it
glory
enough
to
endeavou●
the
downefall
of
others
.
We
love
resemblance
,
because
we
love
our selves
.
It
is
not
misery
alone
,
but
ignorance
also
that
seekes
comfort
in
company
,
and
you
know
that
spirits
,
no
more
then
the
eyes
,
can
suffer
brightnesse
,
when
themselves
are
feeble
.
I
confesse
that
if
they
be
wicked
,
t
is
reason
they
be
hated
:
and
if
they
be
enemies
to
religion
,
I
protest
,
that
I
am
not
onely
averse
from
their
sect
,
but
also
afraid
of
it
.
If
wee
could
love
spirit
without
goodnesse
,
wee
must
needes
love
the
devils
:
seeing
they
have
much
more
of
it
then
all
the
Libertines
of
the
time
,
but
if
you
except
this
,
I
am
not
resolv'd
to
hate
them
,
because
others
doe
not
love
them
.
I
must
see
whether
they
be
innocent
or
guilty
,
that
I
may
not
abuse
my
love
nor
hate
,
whereof
are
they
accused
?
T
is
said
they
oppose
ceremony
,
and
endeavour
to
banish
it
from
commerce
.
In
this
sure
they
are
not
much
in
the
wrong
,
since
oftentimes
t
is
but
a
Mountebank
that
sets
a
falsehood
,
for
a
truth
.
If
they
have
nothing
to
doe
,
but
with
her
,
I
am
of
their
side
,
what
is
there
oft
more
troublesome
,
then
that
we
call
Complement
?
To
what
end
so
many
offers
of
service
which
we
never
meane
to
performe
.
To
what
serve
all
those
studied
phrases
,
but
enter
abuse
each
other
?
and
what
colour
for
it
,
to
use
the
same
discourse
to
every
impertinent
fellow
,
&
to
our
honest
friends
to
speake
plainely
,
our
civility
hath
too
much
dawbing
;
and
is
but
a
comaedian
:
she
speakes
the
language
of
the
stage
,
and
plaies
a
fained
part
,
and
say
what
they
list
,
we
are
obliged
to
those
which
would
take
away
the
plaister
of
dissimulation
,
and
restore
freedome
to
society
,
candor
to
commerce
.
They
will
tell
me
,
that
following
the
humor
of
great
spirits
,
we
should
speake
with
no
lesse
Sophistry
,
though
fewer
words
:
I
answer
,
that
if
there
bee
no
lesse
craft
,
there
would
be
lesse
disprofit
,
and
if
there
be
no
more
reality
,
at
least
there
would
be
lesse
trouble
,
wee
should
be
no
more
non
plusd
with
these
Complement
.
flingers
,
conversation
should
be
more
free
,
lesse
importune
.
I
know
t
is
opposite
to
the
humor
of
many
,
to
speake
after
any
other
moode
:
but
what
imports
the
number
of
those
that
are
in
error
?
we
must
not
give
over
combatting
this
monster
,
because
it
hath
many
heads
.
As
we
may
condemne
superstition
without
offence
to
piety
:
wee
may
also
oppose
unreasonable
ceremonie
,
without
engaging
true
civility
;
yon
will
say
to
me
,
perhaps
,
that
if
the
inventers
of
these
fashions
of
speech
,
and
living
,
were
in
the
wrong
;
those
that
follow
them
are
in
the
right
;
that
it
is
dangerous
to
reverse
an
established
custome
;
and
that
it
is
oft
harder
to
turne
the
course
,
then
that
of
a
river
.
I
confesse
it
difficult
but
you
shall
grant
me
,
that
it
is
more
noble
to
undertake
it
,
and
more
glorious
to
goe
through
with
it
.
If
none
had
been
so
hardy
to
change
untoward
fashions
,
wee
should
yet
be
appareld
like
those
Ladies
,
painted
in
the
Galleries
at
the
Louuer
:
we
should
yet
weare
great
sleeves
,
and
fardingals
,
Let
us
speake
of
the
customes
in
carriage
,
and
cloathing
,
as
of
that
of
speech
:
and
let
us
banish
,
if
we
can
,
from
conversation
a
thousand
petty
toyes
,
no
lesse
tedious
,
then
superfluous
,
chiefly
let
us
not
take
it
ill
,
that
some
endeavour
it
.
Let
us
march
cheerefully
in
the
way
that
others
have
plained
for
us
.
If
we
have
not
courage
enough
to
doe
this
,
let
us
leave
the
war
to
others
,
and
be
content
our selves
to
enjoy
the
frui●es
of
victory
.
Although
I
would
not
enterprise
to
force
this
enemy
out
of
the
world
,
notwithstanding
,
I
wish
him
expeld
.
I
know
we
have
neede
of
civility
;
but
since
it
depends
on
our
owne
judgement
,
we
erre
if
we
make
it
not
lesse
irke
some
.
And
seeing
we
toucht
matter
of
apparell
,
which
these
great
Spirits
desire
not
so
over
orderly
,
doe
not
you
finde
it
strange
,
to
see
many
like
puppets
,
habiliate
themselves
,
as
if
they
went
to
make
a
shew
upon
the
Theatre
:
This
is
enough
to
put
Preachers
in
choller
,
and
Phylosophers
into
a
laughter
.
But
let
us
not
forget
that
which
makes
brave
spirits
most
odious
:
they
say
they
do
sometimes
dream
,
instead
of
discourse
in
company
&
that
this
is
aneffect
of
contempt
,
or
ignorance
:
that
in
this
they
cannot
be
defended
,
seeing
they
are
either
unable
to
talke
as
they
should
,
or
jealous
not
to
be
understood
.
Certainely
t
is
for
these
two
reasons
that
I
would
commend
them
:
for
if
they
cannot
speake
have
they
not
reason
to
hold
their
peace
?
If
they
can
,
but
cannot
bee
understood
,
why
should
they
display
their
excellent
conceptions
before
sots
that
know
not
the
price
,
take
their
silence
how
you
will
,
it
is
very
reasonable
,
since
holding
their
peace
,
they
shew
at
least
,
that
if
they
have
some
defect
,
they
have
not
that
to
shew
it
,
and
if
they
have
some
good
qualities
,
they
looke
for
competent
Iudges
,
whose
esteeme
is
worth
meriting
,
say
what
they
will
,
when
our
company
is
neither
fit
to
discourse
,
nor
able
to
apprehend
,
wee
must
have
recourse
to
fancy
,
seeing
there
is
no
satisfaction
to
be
expected
in
speech
,
or
attention
.
All
that
remaines
to
speak
of
,
is
their
apish
lookes
,
which
I
will
not
defend
,
if
they
be
extravagant
:
I
will
onely
say
that
if
this
be
bad
in
them
,
we
must
not
therefore
cease
to
praise
that
which
is
good
,
we
doe
not
leave
the
use
of
Moone-light
,
for
any
spots
we
find
in
her
body
:
nor
doe
we
feare
to
gather
flowers
,
though
they
dwell
in
the
neighborhood
of
thornes
.
Finally
let
them
baw●e
as
long
as
they
will
against
brave
Spirits
,
I
cannot
resolve
my selfe
to
find
fault
with
those
persons
against
whom
nothing
can
be
said
,
but
that
their
entertainements
are
lesse
strained
,
their
habits
lesse
neate
,
their
opinions
lesse
popular
.
The
XI
.
Letter
.
Shee
rejoyceth
that
shee
is
reconciled
with
her
,
and
confesseth
freely
the
torment
shee
indured
,
during
their
coldnesse
.
MAdam
,
I
am
angry
that
you
have
prevented
mee
in
repairing
our
old
correspondence
,
there
is
notwithstanding
some
justice
in
it
:
for
since
you
have
beene
the
first
to
breake
it
,
t
was
fit
you
should
be
to
restablish
it
.
But
if
I
have
not
begunne
,
I
beseech
you
beleeve
,
it
was
not
want
of
affection
,
but
hardinesse
.
It
seemed
to
me
,
that
I
had
no
right
to
demand
a
favour
done
mee
by
courtesy
,
and
taken
away
by
Iustice
.
T
is
thus
I
speake
of
the
honour
of
your
favour
,
assuring
you
that
I
cannot
deserve
it
,
that
you
may
have
the
more
obligation
upon
mee
when
I
possesse
it
.
I
will
neverthelesse
say
freely
,
that
if
there
be
nothing
in
me
worth
your
friendship
,
I
thinke
there
is
nothing
that
merits
your
hate
.
I
have
imperfection
,
but
no
malice
.
I
may
be
the
object
of
your
compassion
,
but
not
of
your
choller
.
See
in
what
fashion
,
I
feare
to
loose
your
love
since
yet
I
justifie
my selfe
,
as
if
I
had
not
already
received
remission
,
being
onely
unfortunate
,
I
beg
your
pardon
,
as
if
I
were
guilty
,
which
I
shall
never
be
in
what
concernes
you
,
and
provided
you
fall
not
into
error
,
I
feare
not
to
fall
into
disgrace
.
It
behoves
me
to
retake
my
courage
with
my
good
fortune
,
and
having
beene
mute
so
long
,
that
I
tel
you
the
paine
as
well
as
the
cause
of
my
silence
.
I
cannot
say
how
much
evill
I
have
endured
,
during
my
beleife
that
you
wisht
mee
no
good
.
I
will
make
a
free
confession
of
my
thoughts
.
How
angry
soever
I
have
bin
,
my
affection
hath
not
beene
blotted
out
of
my
soule
;
it
was
but
a
copy
of
my
countenance
.
I
thought
my
honour
lost
,
if
I
had
not
seem'd
offended
.
Never
was
vengeance
like
to
that
which
animated
mee
against
you
:
I
floted
betwixt
desire
,
and
feare
to
doe
you
harme
,
and
to
speake
more
cleerely
,
I
never
ceased
to
love
you
,
but
onely
to
expresse
it
.
And
so
much
did
it
want
,
that
my
affection
was
diminished
,
that
on
the
contrary
,
It
was
like
a
secret
fire
not
quencht
,
but
onely
covered
;
and
which
became
the
more
violent
,
when
it
had
lesse
liberty
to
appeare
.
And
I
will
make
you
see
on
all
occasions
,
that
for
what
is
past
,
I
have
never
beene
lesse
then
I
am
Madam
Your
,
&c.
The
XI
.
Answer
.
Shee
shewes
her
her
error
to
be
angry
upon
false
roports
,
and
adviseth
her
not
to
beleeve
too
lightly
.
MAdam
I
am
very
glad
that
you
have
not
ceased
to
love
me
,
but
only
to
tell
me
so
.
Notwithstanding
I
pray
you
beleeve
that
to
make
me
happy
,
it
is
not
enough
to
doe
me
this
favour
,
I
must
also
believe
that
I
possesse
it
,
without
which
as
I
should
have
reason
to
doubt
of
it
,
so
also
to
be
ill
satisfied
,
we
are
not
rich
in
those
goods
which
wee
beleeve
not
to
enjoy
:
nor
may
we
be
cald
contented
for
a
felicity
to
us
unknowne
,
tell
me
not
the
error
,
you
were
in
,
tooke
not
away
your
affection
,
but
onely
in
appearance
not
in
truth
:
for
if
the
opinion
of
being
offended
,
was
enough
to
vexe
you
what
ought
I
to
be
,
that
beleeved
my selfe
innocent
?
I
received
the
greatest
injury
,
since
you
judged
it
possible
,
I
should
offer
it
,
you
could
not
be
in
choller
,
except
you
were
in
errour
,
but
I
had
ground
for
it
,
because
you
had
none
.
I
owe
you
but
a
purgation
,
but
you
owe
me
a
satisfaction
,
you
received
wrong
,
but
from
my
shaddow
,
but
I
from
your selfe
Iudge
in
this
case
what
I
might
have
done
:
and
neverthelesse
I
sought
to
you
alwayes
with
the
same
affection
:
there
was
nothing
alterd
in
mee
,
but
the
ordinary
alacrity
,
which
I
shewed
,
when
we
were
better
agreed
.
Your
countenance
was
chang'd
by
misprision
,
mine
by
affliction
.
I
complain'd
of
you
,
instead
of
condemning
you
:
&
the
extremity
of
my
friendship
carryed
me
to
the
point
,
to
offer
you
the
pardon
you
ought
to
seeke
.
I
laboured
to
vanquish
you
by
submission
,
rather
then
by
reason
,
and
to
tostifie
the
excesse
of
my
love
,
before
I
shewed
you
the
right
of
my
cause
.
See
how
farre
the
feare
to
lose
your
alliance
hath
carryed
me
;
and
put
your selfe
no
more
in
danger
,
to
lose
a
good
friend
for
a
bad
opinion
.
I
beseech
you
esteeme
more
my
affection
,
then
your
oversight
,
and
beleeve
when
you
shall
be
sicke
again
of
the
same
disease
,
I
have
no
more
to
doe
,
but
undeceive
you
to
make
you
whole
.
It
s
no
great
matter
I
aske
of
you
,
if
to
instruct
you
,
be
to
satisfie
.
Remember
that
you
have
never
beene
so
cruel
,
as
when
you
have
been
so
credulous
,
doe
not
imagine
but
that
there
are
slanderers
:
and
when
you
heare
ill
of
me
,
instead
of
thinking
my
actions
so
,
can
you
not
consider
they
may
be
false
reports
?
Is
there
not
as
much
reason
to
beleeve
mee
innocent
,
as
them
true
?
And
what
,
must
I
to
conserve
your
friendship
,
put
all
liers
to
death
and
to
eloigne
you
from
error
,
banish
all
seducers
?
If
it
were
so
,
your
affection
would
not
be
assured
:
it
is
better
finde
a
remedy
more
certaine
for
mee
,
more
glorious
for
you
.
Chase
away
credulity
,
and
I
le
quit
my
feare
.
your
friendship
will
be
stable
,
provided
your
beliefe
be
not
too
light
.
We
need
not
disarme
those
that
assaile
us
,
when
we
have
bucklers
to
to
defend
their
blowes
.
Let
the
Serpents
keepe
their
poyson
,
provided
,
wee
bee
provided
wherewith
to
heale
their
sting
.
If
we
cannot
take
malice
from
our
enemies
,
wee
can
at
least
stop
our
eares
against
detraction
.
And
to
contemne
them
,
is
defence
enough
,
this
is
what
I
humbly
beg
,
or
I
must
tremble
without
ceasing
,
or
be
assured
of
the
integrity
of
all
that
talke
with
you
;
that
I
may
be
so
,
of
the
opinion
you
should
conceive
of
my
friendship
.
True
,
it
is
you
comfort
mee
a
little
,
when
you
assure
that
it
was
not
without
constrant
,
you
shewed
coldnesse
.
I
am
halfe
satisfied
to
know
that
when
you
put
me
to
paine
,
it
was
not
without
the
first
taste
,
but
I
shall
be
yet
more
glad
to
see
you
corrected
then
punished
:
and
desire
no
other
satisfaction
,
then
to
finde
you
free
of
errour
.
Abuse
your selfe
no
more
,
and
thinke
it
not
generosity
to
be
pettish
against
a
person
,
that
knowes
not
how
to
give
you
ground
for
it
.
If
there
be
not
as
much
courage
in
vengeance
,
as
in
pardon
,
yea
when
one
is
offended
;
how
shall
wee
call
the
feeling
that
transports
you
,
upon
the
bare
opinion
of
an
injury
?
Thinke
of
it
well
for
the
future
,
and
imagine
the
price
I
set
upon
your
friendship
,
by
the
care
I
have
tane
to
preserve
it
,
when
you
betrayd
an
indifferency
for
mine
.
And
after
this
I
beleeve
you
will
not
doubt
how
deepely
I
am
,
Madam
Your
,
&c.
The
XII
.
Letter
.
Shee
shewes
that
they
are
to
blame
,
who
blame
those
that
st●ddy
,
and
write
.
MAdam
,
I
have
read
her
Letter
,
who
takes
it
ill
that
women
should
study
.
But
it
seemes
to
mee
that
her
faire
fancies
savour
nothing
of
the
ignorance
she
commends
:
and
that
she
appeares
knowing
,
by
blaming
those
that
are
.
They
say
wee
cannot
oppose
eloquence
,
without
the
helpe
of
eloquence
:
wee
may
say
the
same
of
knowledge
,
which
cannot
be
assaulted
but
with
her
owne
weapons
.
Thus
shee
does
when
she
contemnes
this
divine
quality
:
since
there
is
not
one
of
her
words
,
which
shewes
not
,
she
possesses
it
,
doe
not
imagine
that
I
meane
to
make
an
Apology
for
the
knowing
,
to
do
it
I
must
be
so
:
and
as
knowledge
cannot
be
set
upon
,
but
by
those
that
have
it
,
so
must
the
same
advantage
bee
had
to
defend
it
,
you
know
well
enough
that
I
pretend
it
not
,
and
if
I
speake
for
it
,
t
is
rather
to
witnesse
the
force
of
my
affection
,
than
that
of
my
spirit
.
At
least
I
am
not
of
so
bad
a
humour
as
many
others
,
which
contemne
a
good
quality
,
because
themselves
want
it
.
Moreover
I
cannot
suffer
the
injury
they
doe
our
sexe
,
to
thinke
wee
cannot
be
innocent
,
except
we
be
ignorant
.
It
is
a
great
disposition
to
doe
good
,
but
to
know
how
it
must
be
done
:
and
if
knowledge
be
capeable
of
presumption
,
ignorance
is
not
free
of
error
.
●s
it
not
better
to
contemne
ill
,
then
not
to
know
it
;
and
to
va●quish
ones
enemies
,
then
not
to
see
them
?
in
this
the
fable
and
Philosophy
speake
in
the
same
fashion
:
Pallas
was
not
so
vitious
as
Venus
,
and
the
Poets
that
faine
the
goddesse
of
love
without
modesty
,
have
fained
her
also
without
knowledge
.
I
assure
my selfe
you
will
laugh
when
you
reade
this
,
where
I
cite
passages
,
as
if
I
would
shew
my
reading
.
T
is
zeale
transports
me
to
defend
a
cause
,
wherein
it
seemes
to
me
your selfe
have
interest
.
I
vafue
the
learned
,
and
wish
my selfe
to
be
so
,
if
but
,
to
resemble
you
,
and
to
testify
with
more
dexterity
how
much
I
am
,
Madam
,
Your
,
&c.
The
XII
.
Answere
.
Shee
speakes
her
opinion
against
the
knowing
.
MAdam
,
would
you
have
me
answer
freely
to
your
Letter
,
and
tell
you
roundly
my
opinion
:
I
allow
a
woman
so
farre
knowing
,
till
she
come
to
writing
,
&
making
of
books
,
but
when
she
sets
upon
this
,
she
is
in
danger
oft
times
,
not
to
gaine
the
reputation
of
being
eloquent
,
without
losing
that
of
being
modest
.
It
is
a
great
misfortune
when
one
affects
to
become
eminent
in
what
ever
it
be
,
one
becomes
so
often
in
another
fashion
then
shee
expects
,
or
should
desire
.
I
wish
that
more
would
thinke
of
it
,
that
they
might
moderate
the
desire
of
knowledge
,
which
men
study
for
necessity
,
women
for
glory
.
I
doe
not
say
then
that
they
are
unceapable
of
arts
,
or
that
they
cannot
penetrate
all
their
secrets
,
but
they
ought
not
seeke
a
wisedome
contrary
to
that
of
their
sex
,
nor
possesse
vertues
out
of
fashion
,
since
renowne
depends
not
on
our
owne
opinion
,
we
must
seeke
it
in
the
opinion
of
others
,
perhaps
if
many
Ladies
of
quality
should
undertake
to
write
,
they
would
make
the
custome
bee
received
:
otherwise
those
that
beginne
,
are
more
in
danger
to
be
mockt
,
then
follow'd
.
Their
designe
is
like
to
that
of
those
captaines
which
cast
themselves
into
the
midst
of
enemies
to
encourage
others
to
fight
;
and
then
remaine
ruin'd
,
without
any
succour
unfollowed
of
any
,
and
to
say
that
ignorance
is
easily
seduced
,
and
that
it
is
as
capable
of
errour
,
as
knowledge
of
vanity
;
certainely
this
cannot
be
affirmed
,
but
of
the
most
stupid
,
&
the
most
grosse
,
how
ignorant
soever
a
woman
be
,
she
alwayes
knowes
ill
enough
,
to
doe
it
,
if
she
will
.
Nature
opens
her
eyes
,
but
too
much
for
the
enjoyment
of
many
things
,
which
reason
forbids
.
The
most
simple
have
knowledge
enough
of
vice
,
and
vertue
,
to
merit
glory
in
flying
the
one
,
and
practising
the
other
,
but
let
us
leave
the
vertue
of
knowing
persons
,
to
speake
of
their
conversation
.
You
know
how
trouble
some
it
is
.
It
seemes
that
science
doth
no
lesse
harme
to
the
soules
of
many
then
painting
does
their
faces
,
this
corrupts
the
naturall
colour
,
and
that
enfeebles
com●
mon
sense
,
they
rave
,
when
they
thinke
to
discourse
,
they
become
all
memory
,
and
take
paines
to
amasse
much
goods
,
which
they
know
not
how
to
manage
.
T
is
pitty
to
see
how
sometimes
they
be
bemired
,
they
are
but
shreds
they
get
;
they
speake
nothing
naturally
,
without
which
the
richest
discourses
are
irke
some
.
I
know
well
there
are
some
knowing
women
,
which
being
withall
faire
,
or
rich
doe
alwaies
finde
approvers
:
but
meane
while
that
flattery
praises
them
in
private
,
truth
doth
often
condemne
them
in
publicke
.
The
XIII
.
Letter
.
She
affirmes
that
the
Gentleman
commended
to
her
merits
the
title
of
a
good
friend
,
and
promises
to
assist
him
in
his
affaires
.
MAdam
,
the
Gallant
you
commend
to
me
,
seemes
so
worthy
of
the
title
you
give
him
;
and
t
is
with
so
much
justice
you
call
him
a
good
friend
that
in
my
opinion
he
must
invent
some
other
word
,
more
significant
than
this
friendship
,
to
expresse
his
owne
,
knowing
him
as
I
doe
,
you
need
not
petition
me
for
him
;
it
had
been
enough
only
to
have
given
me
advertisement
,
since
he
can
so
well
expresse
his
affection
to
those
that
neede
it
,
I
shall
endeavour
to
let
him
see
how
much
I
desire
his
affaires
shold
prosper
.
I
will
take
as
much
paines
,
as
in
my
own
,
and
more
care
,
for
besides
the
displeasure
I
should
have
not
to
bee
fortunate
in
his
behalfe
,
I
shold
likewise
suffer
the
misfortune
,
not
to
content
you
,
that
you
may
hope
for
all
effects
that
lie
in
my
power
,
judge
onely
that
three
puissant
reasons
oblige
me
to
serve
him
:
his
owne
merit
,
the
justice
of
his
cause
,
and
the
force
of
your
recommendation
,
which
would
make
me
undertake
a
meere
impossibility
to
shew
,
in
doing
him
some
small
service
,
what
I
would
do
for
you
,
if
I
could
finde
any
favourable
occasion
,
to
witnesse
how
much
I
am
,
Madam
Your
,
&c.
The
XIII
.
Answer
.
She
replies
that
albeit
the
affaire
recommended
to
her
,
should
uot
succeede
,
the
obligation
for
her
paines
could
never
be
the
lesse
.
MAdam
,
I
am
not
ignorant
that
you
love
the
person
I
commended
to
you
,
and
that
to
gratifie
him
it
were
enough
to
let
you
know
that
hee
hath
neede
of
your
favour
,
but
if
it
be
sufficient
for
your
friendship
to
be
advertised
,
it
is
not
too
much
for
my
duty
to
beseech
you
,
as
I
doe
.
If
prayers
bee
superfluous
,
because
of
the
good
you
wish
him
,
they
seem
to
me
necessary
,
because
that
I
demand
it
.
I
cannot
make
them
too
humble
,
if
I
consider
your
condition
,
nor
too
affectionate
,
if
I
regard
his
merit
.
The
desire
I
have
to
see
his
matters
prosper
,
obliges
me
to
employ
all
my
power
of
recommendation
.
If
he
be
worthy
the
quality
of
a
good
friend
for
all
others
,
I
thinke
he
will
esteeme
that
of
your
servant
for
most
honorable
.
I
undertake
not
to
complement
for
him
,
since
he
hath
no
neede
of
my
helpe
;
and
that
I
have
not
in
my
power
too
many
thankes
to
tender
you
,
for
which
I
have
cause
whatever
become
of
this
affaire
.
After
you
have
taken
all
the
paine
you
can
,
to
give
us
content
,
suppose
it
should
not
succeede
,
we
shall
not
cease
to
be
extreamely
obliged
to
you
,
wee
ought
not
to
crave
that
of
you
,
which
depends
upon
chance
;
but
we
shall
alwayes
thank
you
for
the
favour
which
depends
on
yourcare
,
when
we
shall
be
deprived
of
that
which
depends
upon
fortune
.
After
Phisitians
have
don
what
they
can
to
cure
us
,
we
cease
not
to
be
bound
to
them
,
albeit
their
potions
prove
unprofitable
,
we
must
consider
that
events
are
not
in
our
owne
power
:
there
is
nothing
but
the
meanes
,
and
the
conduct
which
is
our
owne
but
what
neede
we
feare
while
we
have
reason
to
hope
?
there
is
no
likelihood
that
our
right
should
remaine
unknowne
,
and
your
paines
unsuccesfull
,
I
cannot
beleeve
it
,
and
am
confident
,
that
the
end
of
this
businesse
shall
give
mee
new
cause
to
serve
you
and
to
be
,
Madam
,
Your
,
&c.
The
XIIII
.
Letter
.
She
saith
that
the
greatest
persons
esteeme
themselves
happy
to
carry
her
Letters
,
because
of
her
that
receives
them
.
MAdam
,
albeit
I
write
often
,
I
thinke
you
are
not
much
troubled
with
the
reading
of
my
letters
,
and
that
the
greatest
part
stay
by
the
way
.
I
am
resolved
to
serve
my selfe
of
all
occasions
,
to
prove
if
any
one
shall
bee
lesse
unfortunate
then
the
rest
.
And
that
I
may
speede
,
I
will
also
employ
all
sorts
of
persons
,
and
not
regard
if
they
be
Knights
of
the
holy
Ghost
,
or
Marshals
of
France
,
provided
,
I
may
use
them
to
carry
my
tidings
.
The
trouble
they
shall
have
from
me
,
shall
be
repaired
in
the
satisfaction
to
see
you
:
And
of
what
quality
soever
my
messengers
be
,
they
cannot
thinke
themselves
vilified
when
they
know
the
merit
of
her
whom
they
oblige
.
I
demand
not
your
assent
to
this
,
since
humility
forbids
you
professe
,
what
truth
publisheth
to
all
the
world
.
I
only
entreate
that
you
suffer
it
from
me
,
and
that
you
receive
it
not
amisse
,
if
after
so
much
paine
I
take
,
&
give
to
send
you
mine
,
I
have
some
hope
to
receive
yours
.
This
is
that
I
begge
of
you
,
and
to
beleeve
that
my
greatest
contentment
is
to
be
able
to
give
you
testimonies
of
my
affection
.
It
is
true
,
they
are
but
feeble
:
but
in
this
I
shall
be
more
obliged
,
if
I
can
expresse
a
great
friendship
by
little
proofes
:
and
by
my
small
services
make
you
see
a
desire
so
great
as
that
to
be
,
Madam
Your
&c.
The
XIV
.
Answer
.
She
saith
that
if
persons
of
quality
bring
her
letters
,
t
is
because
of
the
sender
,
not
the
receiver
.
MAdam
,
I
know
not
if
I
receive
all
the
Letters
you
write
me
.
But
I
can
assure
you
I
alwayes
receive
lesse
then
I
desire
.
I
wish
you
such
perfect
health
,
that
I
cannot
too
oft
receive
the
newes
,
and
if
you
have
beene
ill
,
and
I
not
know
of
it
,
I
should
be
extreamely
displeased
,
for
having
beene
contented
when
you
were
not
.
I
beseech
you
beleeve
it
:
and
to
oblige
me
in
this
,
employ
,
as
you
do
all
sorts
of
messengers
,
of
what
condition
soever
they
be
.
When
they
deliver
mee
your
Letters
,
they
all
assure
me
that
they
are
rightglad
to
obey
you
,
and
I
should
not
much
wonder
at
their
quality
,
thogh
it
were
yet
greater
.
I
thinke
they
esteeme
it
little
in
respect
of
the
service
you
deserve
,
and
they
desire
to
performe
.
I
measure
their
desire
by
their
duty
,
and
I
beleeve
that
having
eies
,
and
soule
,
they
have
likewise
that
sense
,
and
respect
due
to
such
a
one
as
your selfe
.
I
conceive
they
would
not
take
such
paines
to
bring
me
letters
,
if
it
were
another
sent
them
.
They
regard
her
that
writes
,
not
her
that
receives
.
They
oblige
me
,
but
serve
you
.
You
have
reason
to
forbeare
demanding
my
assent
,
when
you
say
the
contrary
,
since
you
know
well
that
duty
bids
mee
deny
it
,
my
refuse
is
just
,
because
your
prayer
is
not
.
And
if
civility
bindes
you
to
gainesay
,
at
lest
let
truth
make
you
believe
it
.
T
is
a
humility
of
a
high
straine
,
whereof
your
Letter
is
full
.
You
are
not
content
to
attribute
to
others
the
services
done
onely
to
your selfe
:
but
you
tell
me
likewise
,
that
all
the
proofes
of
your
friendship
are
feeble
.
If
you
thinke
so
,
it
is
rather
for
the
good
you
wish
mee
,
then
what
I
merit
.
You
consider
lesse
what
I
am
worth
,
then
what
I
neede
.
Finally
,
entreate
me
not
to
suffer
the
importunity
of
your
Letters
:
there
is
nothing
but
this
forme
of
speech
,
which
I
cannot
suffer
.
You
are
the
object
of
my
consolation
,
not
my
patience
:
entertaine
me
no
more
with
this
word
of
respect
,
and
remember
rather
the
quality
of
my
friendship
,
then
of
my
fortune
.
I
wish
that
this
might
serve
in
any
thing
,
to
testify
the
other
,
give
mee
onely
occasions
to
shew
you
the
truth
of
it
,
and
you
shall
know
in
what
manner
I
desire
to
meete
those
,
by
which
I
may
be
able
to
make
you
see
how
I
am
,
Madam
,
Your
,
&c.
The
XV.
Letter
.
She
tels
her
that
one
of
her
friends
intends
to
become
religious
,
and
that
she
is
resolved
to
follow
her
.
MAdam
,
I
must
tell
you
news
,
no
lesse
unpleasing
to
your selfe
then
me
.
Mistris
Lucinde
speakes
no
more
,
but
of
religion
,
and
the
cloysters
:
all
her
entertainement
is
the
contempt
of
the
world
,
and
she
reades
nothing
but
introductions
to
a
devout
life
.
There
is
nothing
to
change
but
her
habit
,
her
face
,
and
her
soule
are
done
already
.
She
carries
her
eyes
like
those
that
weare
the
vaile
:
not
a
looke
of
hers
but
preaches
penitence
.
I
know
not
what
her
opinion
is
,
but
it
should
not
be
very
reasonable
.
If
she
thought
it
impossible
to
finish
her
salvation
,
but
in
the
cloysters
.
It
may
be
also
done
in
the
world
:
and
as
a
pearle
in
the
bottome
of
the
Sea
,
is
not
debarred
the
dew
that
formes
it
:
so
though
we
be
at
Court
,
and
in
company
,
our
soule
is
as
capable
of
grace
.
Truely
to
forsake
the
world
,
wee
neede
but
retire
our
thoughts
,
and
our
desires
.
Our
better
part
may
be
in
Heaven
,
whiles
our
grosser
part
remaines
in
earth
.
Though
we
sometimes
see
the
starres
in
the
bottome
of
the
water
,
they
cease
not
to
be
fixed
to
their
spheares
.
It
is
but
their
shadow
here
below
,
really
they
are
in
heaven
.
T
is
so
with
the
just
,
whose
conversation
is
among
the
Saints
,
albeit
he
live
among
the
profane
.
But
not
to
dissemble
,
will
you
that
I
tell
you
the
change
,
which
hers
causeth
in
my
soule
.
If
she
quit
not
the
designe
shee
hath
to
forsake
the
world
,
I
shall
mine
to
tarry
there
.
I
tooke
indeed
some
delight
therein
,
but
since
it
was
for
love
of
her
,
she
shal
carry
away
the
effect
with
the
cause
,
I
must
wholly
follow
her
to
be
content
,
you
will
tell
me
perhaps
,
this
is
not
to
renounce
the
world
,
but
to
seek
the
world
where
it
is
not
,
that
it
is
an
effect
of
friendship
,
not
devotion
:
and
that
to
run
after
her
into
the
cloysters
,
is
not
to
seeke
God
,
but
Lucinde
.
It
imports
nothing
,
it
may
be
having
begun
to
be
religious
by
complacency
,
I
shall
be
so
by
affection
;
God
will
touch
me
more
powerfully
.
A
tempest
may
sometim●s
cast
us
upon
a
countrey
,
where
afterwards
we
freely
chose
to
inhabit
.
A
beginning
full
of
constraint
,
may
afterwards
be
followed
by
a
progresse
full
of
liberty
.
And
what
ever
come
on
it
,
follow
her
I
will
.
This
is
my
inviolable
purpose
,
and
that
to
be
all
my
life
,
Madam
Your
,
&c.
The
XV.
Answer
.
She
replies
that
this
new●s
doth
lesse
astonish
,
then
rejoyce
her
,
and
that
she
will
make
on
to
quit
the
world
.
MAdam
,
you
are
deceived
if
you
thinke
your
Letter
hath
surprized
mee
;
it
brings
me
lesse
astonishment
then
joy
.
The
good
newes
is
double
which
I
learne
,
the
change
of
Lucinde
and
your
owne
.
As
far
as
I
conceive
your
friendship
would
carry
you
along
with
her
,
aswell
else
where
,
as
to
a
cloyster
.
Your
resolution
is
good
,
you
neede
onely
change
the
cause
,
doeing
that
for
the
love
of
God
,
which
you
intend
to
doe
for
the
creature
.
But
I
bring
you
newes
which
perhaps
you
looke
not
for
,
If
you
be
two
,
I
promise
you
to
make
the
third
.
It
is
not
new
to
me
to
have
a
great
distaste
of
vanities
:
I
had
not
stayed
so
long
to
abandon
them
,
but
for
the
great
griefe
I
had
to
lose
your
company
.
Now
,
by
Gods
grace
,
all
the
cords
are
broken
;
and
I
perceive
nothing
that
hinders
the
effect
of
my
resolution
,
after
that
you
have
made
.
Never
change
it
,
what
ever
be
said
to
you
.
Suffer
your selfe
to
be
carryed
out
of
a
place
where
there
is
neither
felicity
nor
vertue
.
So
I
speake
of
the
world
,
where
pleasures
are
imaginary
,
misfortunes
reall
,
but
grant
there
be
some
solid
goods
,
they
are
alwaies
small
in
respect
of
those
in
heaven
.
If
wee
believe
as
wee
should
,
the
joyes
of
eternity
,
there
would
be
many
more
that
would
contemne
those
of
the
present
.
Believe
me
,
and
you
will
avow
,
that
I
say
,
cannot
come
,
but
from
one
that
honors
you
infinitely
,
and
which
is
in
good
earnest
,
Madam
Your
,
&c.
The
XVI
.
Letter
.
She
complaines
of
the
ignorance
of
the
Countrey
,
and
saith
that
they
cannot
judge
of
good
bookes
.
MAdam
,
there
was
company
with
us
,
when
we
received
the
curious
book
you
sent
.
I
wish
you
had
been
here
,
to
observe
the
opinions
of
the
Countrey
,
they
are
either
grosse
,
or
false
.
To
praise
an
excellent
peece
,
they
content
themselves
to
say
,
t
is
very
trimme
.
There
was
a
dame
you
know
,
that
would
esteeme
no
other
book
,
but
the
Quadrams
of
Hibrac
.
Another
made
no
bones
to
begge
that
we
received
,
without
giving
her self●
the
patience
to
stay
till
we
had
lookt
upon
it
.
T
is
notwithstanding
the
first
time
that
ever
we
saw
her
;
And
judge
what
wee
ought
to
feare
,
or
hope
from
such
an
acquaintance
,
we
must
use
our selves
to
this
manner
of
life
,
since
here
t
is
most
common
.
Thinke
into
what
country
you
have
sent
honest
F.
to
make
lessons
of
morality
.
Count
it
not
strange
if
they
give
him
not
the
approbation
hee
deserves
,
and
if
hee
be
no
better
received
in
this
Countrey
,
then
those
that
preach
the
Gospell
among
Turkes
.
At
least
you
ought
to
be
assured
,
that
there
are
two
w●ll
make
a
speciall
esteeme
of
him
:
wee
will
learne
him
by
heart
,
my
sister
,
and
my selfe
.
And
wee
shall
finde
memory
enough
to
retaine
him
.
If
wee
have
not
judgment
enough
to
understand
him
,
for
my
part
I
finde
him
so
full
of
choyse
things
,
that
not
to
know
all
,
were
to
injure
the
author
.
That
which
I
find
there
extraordinary
,
is
that
in
reading
,
we
meet
alacrity
with
instruction
,
whereas
others
do
but
make
us
sad
.
Insomuch
that
this
advantage
is
gotten
,
not
onely
to
become
more
knowing
,
but
more
content
.
This
booke
corrects
the
humour
,
aswell
as
instructs
the
soule
.
And
we
have
either
of
us
given
it
a
name
:
my
sister
cals
it
her
schoole
,
and
I
,
my
consolation
.
There
is
but
one
misfortune
,
which
is
that
we
cannot
agree
,
to
reade
it
one
after
the
other
,
we
would
have
it
without
ceasing
,
at
the
same
time
,
both
together
.
The
meaning
is
we
beg
another
;
and
I
hope
you
will
excuse
our
importunity
since
it
proceeds
from
the
esteeme
we
make
of
an
Author
,
which
you
commend
so
much
my
eager
desire
would
seeme
perhaps
importune
if
it
proceeded
not
from
that
which
I
have
to
approve
all
that
pleases
you
,
and
to
be
in
all
things
,
Madam
,
Your
,
&c.
The
XVI
.
Answer
.
She
replies
that
even
at
Paris
it selfe
,
there
are
not
many
which
judge
soundly
,
of
good
bookes
,
and
praises
the
Author
of
that
she
sent
.
MAdam
,
t
is
nothing
strange
if
in
the
Countrey
they
doe
not
esteeme
good
bookes
as
they
should
:
wee
have
not
indeed
many
here
which
can
Iudge
of
them
soundly
.
There
is
no
body
that
praises
not
that
you
received
;
and
I
can
assure
you
,
that
never
was
approbation
so
generall
,
as
that
is
given
it
.
I
speake
of
that
of
the
better
sort
,
which
speake
without
passion
,
and
without
interest
.
There
are
some
people
found
,
which
not
being
able
to
know
good
things
,
or
to
suffer
their
brightnesse
,
straine
themselves
to
make
them
ill
,
but
they
have
gained
nothing
,
but
repentance
,
to
have
their
ignorance
,
and
malice
publickely
appeare
,
they
have
beene
constrained
to
change
their
discourse
,
albeit
,
perhaps
they
have
not
diminished
their
envy
.
But
whatever
they
utter
of
it
,
or
would
perswade
indifferent
men
,
it
is
profitable
to
all
sorts
of
humours
,
and
persons
.
The
learned
doe
there
finde
content
,
and
the
ignorant
instruction
.
Neverthelesse
I
advertise
you
of
one
thing
,
that
whatever
esteeme
you
make
of
this
booke
,
you
ought
to
prepare
a
speciall
one
for
him
that
made
it
,
you
desire
to
see
him
,
and
I
assure
my selfe
,
you
will
be
no
lesse
satisfied
with
his
entertainement
,
then
the
reading
of
his
writings
.
You
shall
observe
nothing
in
his
visage
,
nor
his
discourse
,
which
smels
of
that
,
we
call
an
Author
.
And
you
shall
not
finde
in
him
that
●aturall
or
affected
dulnesse
of
many
,
which
dreame
in
the
best
company
,
and
give
no
other
reason
of
their
silence
,
but
that
they
compose
.
These
are
fitter
for
a
closet
,
then
society
,
they
cannot
expresse
themselves
,
but
by
the
pen
.
He
,
you
shall
see
,
is
not
of
this
humour
:
he
speakes
yet
better
then
hee
writes
,
and
gives
the
lye
to
those
,
who
maintaine
that
the
same
temperament
cannot
be
proper
to
both
.
There
is
no
lesse
force
in
his
discourse
then
judgement
in
his
writings
.
And
above
all
you
may
marke
in
both
an
extraordinary
facility
.
I
speake
not
of
that
vitious
eafinesse
which
proceedes
from
lightnes
orindiscretion
.
I
know
well
that
the
earth
doth
easily
produce
superfluous
things
,
and
that
of
her selfe
she
beares
thornes
,
and
thistles
enough
.
I
praise
that
excellent
facility
which
comes
from
the
strength
of
spirit
,
when
a
man
is
master
of
the
subject
he
handles
,
and
good
words
are
joyned
with
rich
thoughts
.
I
will
use
a
sacred
example
to
explaine
a
profane
matter
.
If
holy
Scripture
saith
of
the
covetous
that
they
are
the
men
of
riches
,
instead
of
saying
that
t
is
the
riches
of
men
;
wee
may
say
of
certaine
Brokers
,
that
they
are
the
men
of
science
,
not
that
they
have
the
science
of
men
,
the
one
,
and
the
other
be
the
slaves
of
their
wealth
,
&
know
not
how
to
distribute
it
with
reason
.
The
Authour
you
shall
see
is
in
no
wise
of
this
number
,
let
him
speake
or
write
,
he
expresses
himselfe
with
an
advantage
extraordinary
,
try
him
and
you
will
affirme
without
doubt
,
aswell
as
many
others
that
know
him
,
that
readinesse
,
and
strength
of
Spirit
,
are
in
him
both
equall
.
He
is
prompt
without
being
light
,
solid
,
with
out
being
dull
.
I
will
say
no
more
of
him
,
and
indeede
,
it
would
alwaies
be
lesse
then
he
deserves
,
and
I
beleeve
,
however
more
then
hee
desires
.
In
effect
t
is
a
modesty
without
paralell
,
but
his
owne
.
Never
have
I
heard
him
speake
of
his
workes
,
or
of
himselfe
with
the
least
appearance
of
vanity
,
you
shall
judge
of
him
then
,
when
I
shall
have
the
honour
to
present
him
to
you
,
and
that
I
shall
assure
you
from
my
owne
mouth
,
how
that
I
am
,
Madam
Your
,
&c.
The
XVII
.
Letter
.
She
thankes
her
for
her
approbation
,
and
complaines
that
her
Letters
are
too
short
.
MAdam
,
I
intend
never
to
present
my selfe
there
where
you
have
spoken
of
me
,
nor
put
my selfe
in
danger
to
spoile
my
reputation
,
by
my
presence
.
You
delight
to
speak
to
my
advantage
,
and
to
give
me
excessive
praises
:
you
will
get
no
blame
by
this
,
you
shall
acquire
the
reputation
of
one
that
obliges
,
if
you
loose
that
of
speaking
truth
,
my
Letter
should
end
here
,
if
I
measured
him
by
the
length
of
yours
I
have
beene
no
longer
reading
the
contents
then
the
superscription
.
Never
feare
that
yours
should
be
trouble
some
to
me
:
make
them
as
long
as
you
please
,
I
shall
alwayes
esteeme
them
too
short
.
I
speake
according
to
the
measure
of
my
affection
,
not
of
my
merit
.
Since
I
have
nothing
worthy
of
your
good
will
,
I
cannot
receive
so
small
testimonies
therof
,
that
I
be
not
for
them
extreamly
obliged
,
and
that
they
give
me
not
sufficient
cause
to
be
all
my
life
,
Madam
Your
,
&c.
The
XVIII
.
Letter
.
Shee
assures
her
that
shee
has
alwaies
been
melancholy
since
her
departure
and
that
shee
shall
never
be
merry
till
her
returne
.
MAdam
,
I
beseech
you
beleeve
that
losing
you
,
at
the
same
time
I
lost
my
good
fortune
:
and
that
the
day
I
parted
from
Paris
,
was
the
last
of
my
life
,
since
which
time
I
have
scarce
had
leasure
to
breathe
:
&
if
I
have
spoken
,
t
was
only
to
complaine
.
After
the
persecutions
of
the
Countrey
people
,
sicknesse
challenged
mee
the
combat
;
as
if
the
torments
of
the
soule
,
caused
by
your
absence
,
were
not
sufficient
to
overcome
me
.
I
must
needs
confesse
to
you
the
error
I
lived
in
,
in
times
past
,
aswell
as
my
displeasure
at
the
present
.
I
thought
the
countrey
would
yeeld
charmes
to
drive
away
my
heavinesse
;
and
that
the
conversation
of
the
Dames
of
Burgundy
,
and
Forrests
would
make
me
forget
those
I
left
at
Paris
,
but
I
have
beene
fairely
deceived
.
My
disease
followes
me
every
where
,
with
so
great
a
displeasure
at
what
I
see
,
that
I
can
finde
nothing
that
contents
me
.
It
may
be
,
if
I
thought
lesse
on
you
,
I
should
be
more
happy
.
The
remembrance
of
your
entertainement
renders
me
that
of
others
unpleasant
.
and
I
may
say
the
remembrance
of
a
past
good
,
is
to
me
a
present
misfortune
.
In
the
distaste
I
am
in
,
whilest
I
possesse
you
not
,
the
most
able
people
here
,
seeme
not
to
me
to
have
common
sense
.
Iudge
then
how
unhappy
I
am
,
seeing
I
am
in
a
Countrey
where
she
that
has
the
best
stomacke
,
can
hardly
find
victuals
,
where
of
she
would
be
willing
to
eate
.
Wee
must
not
seeke
for
superfluities
,
where
necessaries
are
scarse
to
be
found
,
so
farre
are
wee
from
procuring
ought
for
pleasure
,
we
can
hardly
meete
with
enough
to
satisfie
nature
.
This
is
the
cause
of
my
misfortune
,
which
afflicts
me
so
much
the
more
,
as
I
know
it
perfectly
,
above
all
when
I
thinke
that
at
your
departure
,
you
promised
your selfe
somewhat
from
our
province
,
but
it
is
so
unfruitfull
that
in
a
whole
age
it
produceth
not
so
much
as
one
good
thought
,
much
lesse
a
good
Letter
,
you
will
accuse
mee
of
little
affection
to
my
Countrey
,
since
I
doe
thus
aver
her
imperfections
;
but
I
had
rather
confesse
them
to
●ne
that
hath
the
goodnesse
to
dissemble
them
,
then
to
sacrifice
her
defects
to
the
pittiles
publicke
.
I
had
rather
tell
a
particular
person
that
she
is
barren
,
then
let
the
world
see
shee
can
produce
nought
but
monsters
.
however
,
I
assure
you
shee
furnishes
mee
with
no
better
reasons
to
defend
her
,
and
I
should
esteeme
her
farre
more
fertile
then
I
say
,
if
shee
could
afford
mee
any
occasion
to
shew
you
how
I
am
heartily
,
Madam
Your
,
&c.
The
XVIII
Answer
.
Shee
thankes
her
for
her
praises
and
remembrance
,
and
wishes
her
yet
lesse
contentment
then
she
hath
in
the
Countrey
,
that
she
may
come
and
take
it
at
Paris
.
MAdam
,
after
the
complaints
you
make
in
your
Letter
,
I
must
either
yeeld
no
faith
to
your
words
,
or
some
compassion
to
your
misfortune
I
doubt
not
but
you
wish
for
Paris
,
but
I
cannot
beleeve
that
you
put
the
losse
of
my
company
in
the
ranke
of
afflictions
.
I
have
too
good
an
opinion
of
your
spirit
,
too
bad
of
my
own
,
to
think
you
write
of
me
.
Your
error
would
be
as
excessive
,
as
my
good
fortune
should
you
speak
of
me
according
to
your
opinion
.
And
to
answer
this
according
to
mine
,
I
assure
you
that
reading
your
letter
,
I
am
not
so
much
astonisht
at
the
extraordinary
testimonies
of
your
friendship
,
as
at
those
of
your
approbation
,
&
esteeme
.
This
would
occasion
me
some
vanity
,
if
,
to
humble
me
,
I
did
not
consider
,
t
is
your
affection
speakes
,
not
your
opinion
,
or
,
to
use
better
termes
,
your
judgement
hath
beene
corrupted
by
your
will
.
I
know
those
,
that
doe
me
the
honor
to
know
me
,
finde
freedome
,
and
simplicity
enough
to
merit
some
part
of
their
favour
:
but
I
know
likewise
there
are
not
good
qualities
enough
in
my
soule
,
to
deserve
so
many
praises
.
Iudge
then
how
far
I
ought
to
thinke
my selfe
your
obliged
,
since
you
are
not
content
to
wish
me
well
,
and
doe
me
good
above
my
worth
,
but
that
moreover
you
take
the
paines
to
speake
every
where
a
thousand
fold
beyond
my
expectation
.
If
I
must
pitty
you
,
it
shall
be
more
for
the
ill
you
suffer
in
the
country
,
then
for
the
good
you
left
at
Paris
.
I
speake
of
what
concernes
my selfe
,
for
I
doubt
not
but
you
have
there
seene
rarities
enough
,
to
sad
you
in
al
your
voyages
,
but
to
change
discourse
I
will
end
this
letter
in
another
fashion
then
I
began
.
If
at
first
I
promised
you
pitty
,
it
seemes
to
me
at
present
I
ought
to
refuse
it
,
be
as
melancholly
as
you
list
,
I
wish
you
more
.
I
shall
be
very
glad
that
you
never
find
sweetenes
in
the
place
where
you
be
able
to
lessen
the
sorrow
you
suffer
for
Paris
,
&
that
you
have
cause
to
be
displeased
at
the
country
,
to
the
end
you
may
be
constraned
to
returne
hither
for
your
contentment
,
aswell
as
ours
.
I
sweare
to
you
that
after
I
had
read
your
excellent
Letter
;
I
mist
there
,
but
onething
,
which
is
,
that
you
give
mee
no
assurance
of
your
returne
.
I
should
answere
you
to
other
matters
,
but
I
am
constrained
to
remit
this
till
another
occasion
.
The
messenger
hastes
mee
to
close
this
,
and
affords
mee
no
more
time
,
but
to
assure
you
that
I
am
,
Madam
,
Your
,
&c.
The
XIX
.
Letter
.
She
complaines
thrt
she
hath
not
heard
from
her
so
oft
as
she
expected
,
and
saith
that
all
her
boldnesse
proceeds
from
affection
.
MAdam
,
if
I
had
hoped
lesse
of
your
affection
,
I
should
have
received
too
much
of
your
courtesie
:
but
I
am
so
much
your
servant
that
I
finde
you
owe
me
more
,
not
having
written
mee
but
one
Letter
in
three
moneths
absence
.
It
is
not
as
you
promised
me
,
when
I
had
the
honour
to
bid
you
farewell
.
I
had
parted
from
you
with
lesse
satisfaction
,
but
for
the
assurance
you
gave
,
to
send
mee
more
frequent
tydings
.
I
speake
boldly
:
but
you
may
without
much
paine
,
put
me
in
state
to
write
you
thanks
,
rather
then
imputations
,
which
will
be
,
when
I
shall
receive
the
effects
of
my
expectation
,
and
your
promise
.
I
meane
,
when
you
shall
no
longer
be
covetous
of
your
Letters
.
It
must
needes
be
that
either
you
have
an
ill
opinion
of
mee
,
or
that
you
beleeve
my
griefe
lesse
then
it
is
,
since
you
contribute
so
little
to
my
consolation
,
in
so
great
a
losse
as
that
of
your
conversation
.
If
you
think
there
are
other
remedies
for
this
besides
your
Letters
,
you
are
in
an
errour
;
if
you
thinke
them
the
sole
remedy
,
you
are
without
pitty
.
blame
my
presumption
as
long
as
you
list
,
it
is
certainely
true
,
that
when
I
consider
the
affection
I
beare
you
,
it
seemes
to
me
,
I
cannot
too
much
presume
the
effects
of
yours
.
You
delight
to
gratifie
me
,
but
I
protest
,
you
shall
never
doe
me
so
much
good
,
as
I
wish
you
,
but
if
you
desire
to
know
the
cause
of
such
extraordinary
boldnes
,
as
mine
,
not
being
able
to
returne
you
ought
,
but
wishes
for
effects
;
I
beseech
you
beleeve
,
there
is
no
other
then
the
great
affection
I
have
to
serve
you
,
and
to
be
,
Madam
Your
,
&c.
The
XIX
.
Answer
.
She
answers
that
she
is
in
the
wrong
,
t●
to
call
her
covetous
of
her
Letters
,
since
to
serve
her
,
she
would
be
prodigall
of
blood
,
and
life
.
MAdam
,
it
must
needes
be
that
you
have
but
a
weak
opinion
of
my
friendship
,
if
you
think
that
I
seeke
not
occasions
to
witnesse
the
truth
of
it
.
If
you
judge
I
neglect
the
meanes
to
write
to
you
,
you
offend
against
my
affection
:
if
you
beleeve
I
have
none
,
you
doe
not
complaine
but
blame
me
.
True
it
is
,
our
will
depends
on
our selves
;
but
oft
times
the
effects
we
employ
to
shew
it
,
depend
on
fortune
.
Any
misseadventure
,
or
chance
may
arrest
my
Letters
by
the
way
:
and
if
it
be
in
my
liberty
to
write
to
you
,
it
is
not
alwayes
in
my
power
to
cause
my
Letters
be
delivered
.
You
vexe
your selfe
against
me
without
reason
,
and
give
me
cause
to
be
in
choller
,
since
you
have
none
,
how
should
I
be
covetous
of
my
letters
,
that
would
not
be
so
of
my
life
,
and
my
blood
.
I
beseech
you
beleeve
this
,
or
the
judgement
you
make
of
mee
,
will
give
mee
liberty
to
make
the
same
of
you
.
And
when
I
receive
no
Letters
from
you
,
I
shall
be
able
to
thinke
,
you
want
not
occasion
,
but
memory
.
If
you
had
a
true
feeling
of
my
friendship
,
you
would
not
judge
so
ill
of
my
remembrance
.
I
never
thought
you
could
have
deemed
so
sinisterly
of
my
humour
.
So
while
you
call
me
covetous
of
Letters
,
I
stile
you
prodigal
of
reproaches
I
doe
not
accuse
your
boldnes
,
but
your
errour
.
I
suffer
your
freedome
,
albe
it
I
condemne
your
choller
.
Handle
me
more
sweetely
another
time
,
and
whatever
happen
,
never
entertaine
an
opinion
contrary
to
the
resolution
I
have
made
to
serve
you
,
and
to
be
all
my
life
,
Madam
,
Your
,
&c.
The
XX.
Letter
.
She
stiles
her
her
goddesse
,
prayes
her
to
pierce
into
her
heart
,
and
see
the
affection
she
cannot
expresse
.
MAdam
,
though
I
pray
you
to
thinke
of
me
,
yet
,
I
assure
you
,
I
have
more
need
of
your
judgement
,
then
memory
to
keepe
any
part
in
your
favour
,
because
your
memory
represents
things
,
but
as
they
appeare
,
but
your
judgement
can
discover
them
as
they
are
,
doe
not
content
your selfe
to
be
able
to
gaine
hearts
,
but
get
the
way
to
enter
into
them
,
and
see
there
the
affection
you
produce
,
be
not
like
the
sun
,
whose
heat
goes
farther
then
his
light
and
produces
gold
,
and
mettals
in
the
earth
,
where
notwithstanding
the
brightnesse
of
his
rayes
,
did
never
pierce
,
you
will
say
this
is
a
gallant
language
,
and
that
my
friendship
speakes
like
love
,
but
what
shold
bar
it
the
same
discourse
,
that
hath
the
same
excesse
?
It
knowes
no
difference
,
but
by
the
end
,
not
by
the
vigour
:
take
it
not
ill
then
,
if
I
entreate
your
aide
to
discover
the
violence
of
my
affection
:
and
since
I
title
you
my
goddesse
,
I
beseech
you
shew
some
effect
of
this
faire
name
,
regarding
my
heart
more
then
my
hands
,
my
intention
,
then
my
sacrifice
.
Certainely
I
should
be
the
most
unfortunate
of
the
world
,
shold
you
judge
my
friendship
by
my
workes
or
my
words
.
I
have
neither
power
,
nor
eloquence
,
but
had
I
the
one
,
and
the
other
,
both
in
a
perfect
degree
,
I
should
not
yet
be
able
to
shew
you
as
I
ought
,
the
desire
enflames
me
to
serve
you
,
and
to
be
,
Madam
Your
,
&c.
The
XX.
Answer
.
She
saith
that
she
hath
more
love
then
knowledge
,
and
that
after
the
effects
of
her
friendship
,
she
does
ill
to
employ
words
.
MAdam
,
I
doe
not
thinke
those
who
have
given
you
their
approbation
,
can
deny
you
their
remembrance
.
The
excellency
that
is
in
you
begets
at
the
same
time
desire
to
conserve
,
aswell
as
acquire
your
favour
.
I
have
but
one
griefe
,
t
is
,
not
to
have
soule
enough
to
judge
the
perfections
of
yours
.
They
say
wee
must
measure
love
by
knowledge
,
and
neverthelesse
,
albeit
I
beleeve
not
to
know
you
perfectly
,
I
cannot
imagine
that
any
can
love
you
better
,
but
were
it
so
,
It
would
sad
me
much
,
to
have
no
more
judgement
,
that
I
might
have
more
affection
.
I
thinke
I
am
quite
contrary
to
that
you
say
of
the
Sunne
,
my
hea●e
outgoes
my
light
,
my
love
,
my
knowledge
.
Call
me
no
more
your
goddesse
,
if
you
will
not
have
mee
call
you
my
idolatresse
,
you
erre
to
tender
so
much
honour
to
her
that
merits
so
little
.
Straine
not
for
words
to
shew
you
love
mee
,
your
deedes
have
made
mee
know
it
;
I
shall
never
see
better
by
the
brightnesse
of
a
Torch
,
then
that
of
the
Sunne
it selfe
.
So
I
compare
deeds
,
and
words
which
doe
not
equally
expresse
friendship
,
t
is
of
the
last
notwithstanding
I
must
serve
my selfe
,
not
having
power
enough
to
shew
you
otherwise
how
much
I
am
,
Madam
,
Your
,
&c.
The
XXI
.
Letter
.
She
makes
a
scruple
to
write
,
fearing
that
if
her
Letters
please
her
,
shee
should
be
lesse
impatient
to
returne
.
MAdam
,
whatever
commandement
you
make
me
to
write
,
I
protest
,
I
feele
a
repugnancy
to
obey
.
I
feare
if
I
give
yon
any
content
in
absence
,
lest
I
slow
that
which
I
hope
by
your
returne
.
I
have
heard
you
say
,
that
you
finde
unparaleld
delights
,
reading
my
Letters
,
which
albeit
,
I
doe
not
wholly
beleeve
,
I
cannot
cease
to
feare
.
I
imagine
with
my selfe
,
that
if
there
you
take
so
much
pleasure
,
you
wil
have
the
lesse
impatience
to
see
me
.
And
I
doubt
,
least
thinking
to
diminish
your
griefe
I
augment
my
owne
.
I
would
not
willingly
contribute
any
thing
to
make
my
absence
lesse
unsupportable
:
yours
is
to
me
so
,
that
I
cannot
enough
lament
it
.
And
I
can
tell
you
,
that
if
your
Letters
please
me
,
they
diminish
my
sorrow
.
without
diminishing
the
desire
I
have
to
enjoy
you
.
Rather
they
augment
it
;
and
the
contentment
I
take
to
reade
them
,
making
me
thinke
on
that
of
your
company
,
increases
the
desire
I
have
to
possesse
it
.
If
ever
I
have
the
good
lucke
,
I
will
make
my selfe
inseparable
,
that
I
may
no
more
be
obliged
as
at
present
,
to
write
to
you
that
which
I
would
more
willingly
protest
,
with
my
tongue
,
that
I
am
perfectly
Madam
,
Your
,
&c.
The
XXI
.
Answer
.
She
answers
that
the
Letters
shee
receives
,
augments
her
joy
,
without
decreasing
the
desire
to
see
her
.
MAdam
,
albeit
without
ceasing
I
demand
newes
from
you
,
if
you
write
to
me
,
because
I
desire
it
,
this
is
not
to
obey
,
but
oblige
me
,
not
an
effect
of
your
duty
,
but
onely
of
your
courtesie
,
however
never
feare
that
this
should
hinder
mee
to
wish
your
returne
,
since
the
entertainment
distant
friends
doe
give
,
and
take
by
Letters
,
is
but
a
picture
of
that
betweene
persons
present
:
you
should
imagine
that
though
your
Letters
did
yet
give
me
greater
content
,
they
would
not
hinder
me
to
desire
that
of
your
presence
,
to
speake
truth
,
A
Letter
is
but
a
copy
,
which
makes
us
curious
of
the
originall
,
a
table
which
augments
the
desire
to
see
the
person
represented
.
This
is
the
effect
of
yours
;
and
I
can
assure
you
,
that
if
those
you
write
mee
be
delightfull
,
there
is
nothing
so
true
,
as
that
augmenting
my
joy
,
they
augment
the
passion
I
have
to
bee
neere
you
,
and
to
finde
occasions
to
testifie
in
what
manner
I
am
,
Madam
,
Your
,
&c.
The
XXII
.
Letter
.
She
tels
her
that
nothing
can
keepe
her
from
writing
;
no
,
not
the
feaver
it selfe
,
though
violent
.
MAdam
,
imagine
the
desire
I
have
to
receive
your
Letters
by
the
care
I
take
to
send
you
mine
,
having
a
fit
of
the
feaver
to
suffer
,
and
seeing
the
Post
ready
to
part
,
I
resolved
my selfe
,
spight
of
my
disease
,
to
write
to
you
,
you
neede
not
demand
if
my
hand
shaked
,
t
is
not
with
feare
,
but
with
a
shivering
cold
.
In
this
estate
I
have
not
beene
carefull
to
write
you
a
long
letter
,
because
the
Post
presseth
mee
on
the
one
side
,
the
feaver
on
the
other
.
I
must
therefore
finish
,
and
put
of
what
I
have
to
tell
you
,
till
another
time
.
I
am
threatned
my
paine
will
bee
more
violent
,
but
it
matters
not
I
shall
endure
it
patiently
,
since
t
is
a
labour
too
praise
worthy
,
which
I
undergoe
,
to
take
occasion
to
testifie
to
you
,
how
I
am
,
Madam
,
Your
,
&c.
The
XXII
.
Answer
.
She
feares
least
for
receiving
a
small
satisfaction
,
she
lose
a
greater
,
and
that
having
forced
her self
to
write
she
encrease
her
d●sease
.
MAdam
,
I
have
not
received
the
joy
I
expected
,
by
the
returne
of
this
Bearer
,
learning
your
indisposition
by
the
Letter
you
did
me
the
honour
to
write
me
.
I
feare
least
the
paines
you
have
taken
augment
your
disease
,
and
that
being
willing
to
give
mee
this
satisfaction
,
you
deprive
me
not
of
a
greater
then
I
can
have
elsewhere
.
It
is
certainely
true
that
the
two
most
happy
newes
I
can
receive
,
are
that
you
love
me
,
and
are
well
.
And
that
I
feare
most
in
the
world
,
is
the
alteration
of
your
health
,
or
friendship
,
the
least
suspition
of
the
one
,
or
other
,
would
make
men
hate
my
life
.
I
protest
never
was
Letter
so
deare
unto
me
,
as
that
you
sent
maugre
your
fit
:
but
yet
I
like
better
you
should
take
care
of
your
health
,
then
writing
.
Albeit
your
tidings
extremely
re●oyce
me
,
I
love
your
life
,
better
then
your
letters
,
I
beseech
you
beleeve
it
,
and
employ
me
in
all
you
please
,
as
,
Madam
Your
,
&c.
The
XXIII
.
Letter
.
Shee
recommends
to
him
the
cause
of
her
friend
.
SIr
,
if
I
had
as
much
ability
to
serve
you
,
as
occasion
to
trouble
you
,
you
should
easily
judge
I
valew
not
my
owne
interests
in
respect
of
yours
.
But
I
must
in
this
accommodate
my selfe
rather
to
the
condition
of
●y
fortune
,
then
my
disposition
:
and
if
you
have
no
proofes
of
my
thankefulnesse
,
you
shall
at
least
of
my
confidence
,
past
examples
doe
make
me
more
and
more
hardy
for
the
future
,
and
instead
,
that
the
continuation
of
your
favours
ought
to
oblige
mee
to
a
modesty
,
lesse
audacious
,
I
finde
they
give
me
more
liberty
.
So
it
is
,
Sir
,
that
I
have
once
more
neede
of
the
accustomed
testimonies
of
your
good
will
:
but
to
begge
with
more
dexterity
,
I
wil
joyn
your
owne
interest
with
mine
,
and
convince
you
by
your
own
charity
,
as
well
as
by
the
favor
you
have
promised
me
.
I
assure
my selfe
,
that
the
vertue
you
practise
with
so
much
praise
,
and
the
justice
you
exercise
with
so
much
integrity
,
will
easily
obtaine
of
you
,
all
I
shall
demand
in
behalfe
of
this
bearer
.
He
is
no
lesse
worthy
your
compassion
,
then
his
adversaries
your
chastisement
:
I
know
you
will
do
in
this
businesse
all
that
justice
requires
,
but
besids
this
.
I
most
humbly
beseech
you
to
adde
yet
for
my
sake
,
that
sweetenesse
wherewith
you
are
wont
to
receive
all
those
,
I
recommend
to
you
,
and
that
obliging
quality
,
which
interesses
you
in
all
that
I
affect
.
The
obligation
I
shall
beare
you
in
this
respect
shall
hold
the
place
of
one
of
your
most
speciall
favours
;
and
I
shall
remember
it
all
my
life
,
aswell
as
the
promise
I
have
made
to
remaine
,
Sir
,
Your
,
&c.
The
XXIV
.
Letter
.
She
writes
to
her
,
that
her
sadnesse
i●
extreame
during
her
absence
.
MAdam
,
I
take
no
care
how
to
expresse
the
griefe
I
suffer
by
your
absence
,
for
it
were
to
aspire
to
an
impossibility
;
and
as
I
cannot
spea●e
my
contentment
when
I
have
the
honour
to
see
you
,
so
can
I
not
testify
the
displeasure
I
feele
,
when
I
am
deprived
of
so
great
a
good
fortune
,
my
griefe
is
as
mute
as
my
joy
.
I
wish
you
could
see
it
;
you
should
judge
my
affection
by
my
sorrow
,
since
the
one
is
the
cause
of
the
other
,
and
both
are
extreame
.
In
this
case
I
have
no
other
comfort
,
but
that
I
receive
by
reading
your
Letters
.
If
I
had
no
memory
,
I
should
be
the
most
unfortunate
of
the
world
.
And
that
which
more
afflicts
me
is
,
that
I
have
no
more
opportunity
,
to
receive
the
assurances
of
your
friendship
,
but
onely
to
send
you
those
of
my
duty
,
&
the
desire
I
have
to
be
,
Madam
,
Your
,
&c.
The
XXIV
.
Answer
.
She
answers
that
shee
hath
not
merit
enough
to
cause
joy
in
the
possessing
,
or
sorrow
in
the
losing
.
MAdam
,
your
letter
makes
me
more
ashamed
,
then
my
absence
,
you
melancholly
.
I
have
more
cause
to
blush
at
your
praises
,
then
you
to
be
sad
at
my
separation
.
I
cannot
beleeve
you
,
without
mistaking
my selfe
,
for
another
;
and
to
credit
your
words
,
I
must
renounce
the
knowledge
of
my selfe
.
That
which
you
have
of
mee
is
very
different
from
your
discourse
,
or
at
least
from
truth
.
I
doubt
not
but
you
feele
some
sorrow
;
but
I
care
not
to
measure
it
by
my
merit
.
I
have
too
little
to
equall
the
favour
I
possesse
:
and
I
should
be
no
lesse
ignorant
,
then
unthankefull
,
if
I
should
not
avow
,
that
you
have
much
more
affection
to
me
,
then
I
good
qualities
to
deserve
it
.
If
I
have
any
one
that
makes
me
so
hardy
to
beg
the
continuation
,
t
is
onely
this
simplicity
you
love
in
me
,
and
which
renders
you
my
defects
the
more
suppo●table
.
T
is
the
only
advantage
I
have
to
think
you
love
me
,
and
that
you
permit
me
to
call
my selfe
,
Madam
Your
,
&c.
The
XXV
.
Letter
.
She
desires
to
enter
into
a
Monastery
,
and
prayes
her
to
aide
her
therein
.
MAdam
,
I
must
needs
confesse
you
my
error
,
I
feare
that
you
forget
me
:
I
beleeve
you
wish
me
well
,
but
I
know
not
,
if
you
thinke
on
doing
it
;
and
in
the
number
of
great
affaires
,
which
take
up
your
thoughts
,
I
feare
you
dreame
not
on
any
so
small
as
mine
.
I
have
more
neede
to
sollicite
your
memory
,
then
your
will
,
and
am
more
in
paine
for
your
●emembrance
,
then
your
affection
,
but
that
I
may
touch
you
where
you
are
most
sensible
,
●he
pleasure
you
shall
doe
me
,
may
be
cald
an
effect
of
your
charity
,
aswel
as
of
your
friend●hip
,
I
perceive
well
the
endea●ours
of
my
calling
:
but
I
can●ot
follow
it
perfectly
without
●our
favour
.
I
have
yet
neede
●f
humane
things
,
to
arrive
at
●ivine
:
and
albeit
I
be
neere
a
●onasticke
life
,
as
the
cripple
●●
the
poole
,
I
want
some
bo●y
to
cast
me
in
,
upon
this
occasion
.
Without
which
I
shall
but
languish
in
my
desires
,
and
remaine
alwaies
in
a
place
,
where
long
since
I
fastned
no
more
hopes
.
I
call
the
world
so
,
which
I
should
quit
with
griefe
,
because
I
leave
you
there
,
did
I
not
consider
that
one
day
by
Gods
grace
,
wee
shall
enjoy
a
longer
conversation
,
then
that
is
promised
here
below
.
In
which
I
place
all
my
expectation
:
and
since
it
is
the
greatest
good
of
all
,
I
content
my selfe
to
wish
it
you
,
to
shew
the
true
affection
I
have
to
serve
you
,
and
to
be
,
Madam
Your
,
&c.
The
XXV
.
Answer
,
She
praies
her
to
employ
her
with
more
●●●●●●ence
,
approves
her
designe
to
enter
into
that
course
,
and
offers
her
aide
.
MIstris
,
if
you
thinke
I
have
forgotten
you
,
never
was
faith
so
faulty
as
yours
.
It
is
an
injury
to
both
,
seeing
you
must
have
a
bad
opinion
of
my
friendship
,
or
I
not
that
I
ought
to
have
of
your
merit
.
Iudge
the
consequence
,
for
to
want
memory
,
I
must
want
knowledge
.
We
cannot
in
this
separate
ingratitude
from
ignorance
.
And
to
examine
all
things
well
,
I
understand
not
how
I
can
wish
you
good
,
without
remembring
to
doe
it
.
this
should
be
rather
a
sicke
desire
,
then
mine
;
I
have
too
much
affection
,
to
remaine
unmooveable
:
and
I
can
assure
you
that
occasions
shall
rather
be
wanting
to
my
wil
,
then
my
will
to
occasions
.
This
would
be
a
thought
very
vnprofitablē
to
our
friends
,
if
we
should
remember
them
alwayes
,
except
at
those
times
they
have
neede
of
us
.
Be
then
lesse
fearefull
,
and
if
you
will
that
I
assure
my selfe
of
your
affection
,
doubt
not
of
mine
.
I
thinke
on
you
,
and
you
have
no
neede
to
sollicite
my
memory
,
more
then
my
affection
,
the
first
is
an
effect
of
the
last
.
True
friendship
is
alwayes
attended
with
remembrance
,
and
those
which
can
forget
:
were
never
truely
in
love
,
when
wee
fixe
upon
a
worthy
object
,
wee
resemble
the
covetous
,
who
have
no
lesse
care
to
conserve
then
heape
up
treasure
.
Insomuch
that
to
beleeve
,
I
entertaine
my selfe
with
you
,
is
to
beleeve
I
love
and
yet
however
you
consent
to
the
last
,
you
tell
mee
you
doubt
the
first
.
In
this
I
know
not
how
to
make
your
faith
,
and
your
feare
friends
.
Be
for
the
future
more
bold
to
employ
me
,
and
think
that
if
ever
I
want
memory
,
I
must
be
very
sicke
,
the
alteration
,
should
be
in
my
temperament
,
not
my
friendship
.
If
any
disease
should
take
away
this
faculty
of
my
soule
,
which
onely
renders
me
happy
in
your
absence
;
I
assure
you
,
I
would
alwayes
have
your
picture
before
my
eyes
.
I
would
employ
this
remedy
every
moment
,
and
refresh
your
Idea
at
the
table
.
But
I
hope
I
shall
have
no
neede
of
this
,
to
entertaine
my selfe
without
ceasing
,
with
a
person
that
had
no
defect
;
if
she
had
not
this
to
employ
mee
with
ceremony
.
It
s
enough
to
know
that
our
friends
want
us
,
to
gaine
our
assistance
:
we
must
not
be
entreated
when
t
is
sufficient
to
be
advertised
.
I
have
then
reason
to
complaine
of
you
;
and
it
seemes
to
me
that
you
have
an
opinion
scarce
good
enough
of
my
friendship
,
since
you
begge
the
effects
with
so
little
confidence
.
I
am
very
unhappy
not
yet
to
have
given
you
cause
enough
to
rely
on
me
,
and
to
use
me
with
more
assurance
.
Remember
your selfe
onely
that
if
I
seek
occasions
to
serve
you
,
you
should
not
feare
to
give
them
,
my
interests
are
tyed
to
yours
;
and
I
shall
be
no
lesse
obliged
when
you
present
mee
the
meanes
to
doe
you
a
good
turne
,
then
if
I
had
received
one
.
All
that
troubles
mee
in
this
,
is
that
I
cannot
benefit
you
,
but
by
depriving
my selfe
of
your
company
.
But
it
is
better
my
inclination
dispose
it selfe
to
yours
,
and
that
humane
things
give
place
to
divine
.
I
love
you
so
,
that
I
have
more
regard
to
what
you
gaine
,
then
that
I
lose
.
Insomuch
that
since
you
desire
this
holy
solitude
,
you
shall
no
longer
stay
here
,
but
with
repugnancy
,
follow
the
voyce
that
cals
you
,
and
hearken
not
to
that
which
laments
you
,
or
yet
speake
to
you
of
the
world
,
I
approve
your
desire
,
and
offer
you
all
the
helpe
I
can
bring
.
It
is
in
this
occasion
onely
,
that
I
will
bid
you
farewell
,
without
daring
to
complaine
,
and
without
expressing
other
griefe
,
then
for
that
I
cannot
follow
you
.
I
wish
I
had
the
liberty
so
to
do
:
and
I
would
not
onely
offer
you
the
favour
,
but
the
company
,
Mistris
,
Of
Your
,
&c.
The
XXVI
.
Letter
.
She
desires
her
to
beleeve
,
that
if
she
write
not
,
t
is
want
of
opportunity
not
will
.
MAdam
,
never
feare
that
I
forget
you
,
my
soule
may
sooner
be
without
thoughts
,
then
my
thoughts
without
you
,
but
albeit
I
employ
the
better
part
of
my
time
,
to
entertaine
my selfe
about
you
,
I
cannot
finde
any
favourable
enough
to
write
to
you
.
It
seems
that
fortune
is
jealous
that
I
bestow
all
my
contemplation
upon
you
;
and
that
not
being
able
to
divert
me
,
at
least
shee
hinders
mee
to
testifie
you
the
truth
by
my
Letters
.
I
most
humbly
beseech
you
to
beleeve
it
,
and
to
lament
me
,
rather
then
accuse
me
,
It
is
occasion
I
want
,
not
will
.
I
am
more
worthy
of
your
compassion
,
then
your
anger
.
Cease
not
then
to
send
me
your
news
,
albeit
,
you
can
but
rarely
receive
mine
,
my
silence
is
no
effect
of
oblivion
,
but
misfortune
handle
me
like
a
prisoner
,
on
whom
we
bestow
visits
,
without
hope
to
receive
any
.
If
I
had
more
liberty
,
you
should
have
more
proofes
of
my
affection
.
If
you
doe
but
a
little
remember
the
past
,
you
cannot
doubt
it
,
and
during
all
my
silence
,
I
am
no
lesse
then
I
have
beene
,
though
I
cannot
protest
it
you
so
often
,
Madam
Your
,
&c.
The
XXVI
.
Answer
.
Shee
answers
that
shee
can
easily
hope
the
honour
of
her
remembrance
,
since
she
possesses
that
of
her
affection
,
and
that
shee
is
assured
of
her
friendship
whatever
happen
.
MAdam
,
I
agree
to
yours
:
and
since
you
will
have
it
so
,
I
beleeve
that
you
passe
some
part
of
your
time
,
to
entertaine
your selfe
with
our
friendship
,
I
can
easily
beleeve
the
favour
of
your
remembrance
,
since
you
deny
me
not
that
of
your
love
.
We
do
more
oblige
persons
by
affection
,
then
memory
,
we
may
thinke
indeed
on
troublesome
things
,
but
love
only
delightfull
,
since
I
have
some
part
in
your
good
grace
,
I
beleeve
you
will
give
me
some
in
your
memory
.
After
a
great
favour
,
I
may
well
expect
a
little
one
.
And
if
my
imperfections
cannot
hinder
you
to
love
me
,
they
shal
never
hinder
you
to
remember
mee
.
This
is
my
faith
,
and
my
consolation
.
I
am
none
of
those
who
are
alwayes
in
alarme
,
when
people
faile
of
what
they
owe
,
or
what
themselves
desire
.
I
doe
not
regard
if
you
write
to
me
or
not
,
I
beleeve
that
you
faile
not
to
serve
your selfe
of
all
occasions
,
whereby
I
may
receive
any
assurance
,
I
feare
more
the
change
of
your
health
,
then
of
your
friendship
:
and
wish
you
were
no
more
subject
to
sicknesse
,
then
inconstancy
.
And
when
I
desire
you
more
liberty
,
It
is
for
your
owne
satisfaction
,
and
that
I
might
receive
more
frequent
testimonies
of
your
affection
.
Albeit
I
should
,
this
would
not
augment
the
beleife
I
have
,
but
onely
the
pleasure
I
take
to
understand
it
.
Your
Letters
render
me
more
content
,
but
not
more
constant
,
nor
more
then
I
am
,
Madam
,
Your
,
&c.
The
XXVII
.
Letter
.
She
complaines
of
her
distance
,
that
she
cannot
hope
for
newes
:
that
shee
can
neither
remember
her
without
griefe
,
nor
forget
her
without
ingratitude
.
MAdam
,
since
for
the
future
,
I
dare
scarse
hope
to
have
newes
from
you
,
I
must
at
least
send
you
mine
,
that
you
may
have
compassion
on
mee
,
and
not
render
my
evill
extreame
by
oblivion
.
T
is
that
I
feare
,
if
your
promises
did
not
give
me
that
courage
,
which
my
want
of
merit
entirely
takes
away
.
Excuse
me
if
I
write
thus
unto
you
,
since
the
soveraigne
remedy
of
my
solitude
,
is
to
thinke
that
you
have
promised
to
love
me
.
I
hardly
know
my selfe
,
when
I
consider
that
which
not
long
since
I
possest
.
I
speake
thus
according
to
your
measure
,
and
not
according
to
my
owne
;
since
t
is
but
eight
dayes
for
yov
;
but
a
whole
age
for
me
;
see
to
what
I
am
reduced
;
I
can
neither
forget
you
without
crime
,
nor
thinke
of
you
without
griefe
.
I
must
be
either
faulty
,
or
unhappy
.
You
have
too
much
merit
,
to
let
me
be
able
to
forget
you
,
and
I
too
little
to
imagine
you
thinke
on
me
.
Insomuch
that
I
can
neither
hope
without
temerity
,
nor
cure
my selfe
without
ingratitude
:
but
my
Letter
must
be
confused
like
my
thoughts
.
I
tell
you
once
more
,
that
I
know
not
where
I
am
,
when
I
thinke
on
your
conversation
.
It
hinders
me
to
taste
any
sweetnesse
in
all
others
.
And
therefore
quickely
to
reapproach
you
,
I
intend
to
give
such
order
to
my
affaires
that
in
few
daies
I
shall
see
an
end
.
I
shall
ever
hold
them
happy
enough
,
provided
they
be
short
,
and
albeit
there
were
crownes
to
hope
for
,
I
would
freely
quit
the
pretension
,
if
I
must
be
long
deprived
of
your
company
,
or
constrained
farther
to
deferre
my
returne
.
There
is
nothing
so
true
as
this
,
and
you
ought
no
more
doubt
of
it
,
then
of
the
affection
I
have
to
be
,
Madam
,
Your
,
&c.
The
XXVII
.
Answer
.
Shee
replies
that
if
she
have
not
confidence
enough
,
she
hath
not
a
just
opinion
of
her
friendship
,
and
that
she
hath
n●ither
power
enough
to
serve
her
,
nor
merit
to
be
worthy
of
her
choise
.
MAdam
,
I
know
not
why
you
have
so
much
desire
to
hope
for
my
newes
:
it
is
lesse
difficult
for
mee
to
send
,
then
profitable
for
you
to
receive
.
You
entreat
me
in
this
to
doe
a
thing
,
whereof
I
had
a
purpose
to
begge
your
permission
.
I
am
much
more
happy
,
then
I
beleeved
.
I
thought
my
letters
troublesome
to
you
,
and
you
tell
me
they
are
necessary
.
I
know
not
how
it
goes
,
but
assure
your selfe
,
you
shall
not
faile
being
happy
,
if
your
felicity
depend
on
me
.
You
shall
never
be
poore
of
those
goods
which
I
can
heape
upon
you
.
You
must
hope●
i●
with
more
assurance
,
otherwise
your
feare
will
produce
that
of
some
alteration
in
your
friendship
.
If
you
be
without
confidence
,
you
must
needes
beleeve
me
without
affection
,
seeing
we
ought
to
expect
all
of
that
person
which
hath
power
,
and
will
,
to
doe
us
the
good
to
which
wee
aspire
;
can
you
beleeve
that
I
have
neither
the
one
nor
the
other
,
either
to
send
you
tydings
,
or
to
serve
you
in
what
ever
it
be
?
For
the
tediousnes
you
suffer
in
my
absence
,
I
conjecture
it
is
not
small
,
no
more
then
the
affection
you
beare
me
:
but
I
cannot
imagine
that
t
is
like
mine
.
As
I
give
place
to
you
in
merit
,
you
should
give
place
to
mee
in
displeasure
,
when
wee
are
separated
one
from
the
other
.
If
wee
ought
to
measure
the
greatnes
of
the
losse
by
that
of
the
cause
,
It
is
easie
to
judge
my
griefe
extreame
;
meane
while
that
yours
cannot
be
great
,
no
more
then
her
merit
,
which
is
the
cause
of
it
.
I
know
not
why
you
tell
mee
that
you
cannot
hope
without
being
rash
,
nor
cure
your selfe
,
wi●hout
being
unthankefull
,
It
must
either
be
that
I
had
more
perfections
to
oblige
you
to
remembrance
:
or
you
more
obligation
to
have
some
ground
of
thankfulnesse
;
I
have
receiv'd
no
advantage
from
nature
,
or
fortrne
,
or
if
they
have
obliged
mee
in
ought
,
t
is
that
the
first
hath
given
me
a
disposition
to
honour
you
,
the
other
hath
given
me
occasions
to
know
you
.
Iudge
then
if
you
ought
to
handle
as
you
doe
a
person
that
is
in
case
rather
to
seeke
your●
favours
,
then
doe
you
any
.
And
hath
no
other
advantage
but
this
,
that
she
can
perfectly
honour
you
.
If
you
be
confused
,
it
must
needs
be
for
some
other
griefe
,
then
that
of
my
losse
,
And
if
the
remembrance
of
my
conversation
,
renders
all
others
unagreeable
,
t
is
because
it
troubles
you
,
and
puts
you
into
a
bad
humour
.
This
is
that
which
the
●●nowledge
of
my
defects
ought
to
perswade
me
,
whiles
that
of
your
goodnesse
shall
make
mee
beleeve
what
ever
you
will
to
my
advantage
.
It
is
time
to
finish
this
letter
.
Put
an
end
to
yonr
affaires
,
if
you
desire
an
end
of
my
unquiet
,
It
will
last
til
your
returne
,
which
cannot
bee
so
soone
as
all
the
world
desires
,
and
among
others
,
Madam
,
Your
,
&c.
The
XXVIII
.
Letter
.
Shee
promises
to
publish
every
where
the
effects
of
her
courtesie
.
MAdam
,
as
one
of
your
greatest
pleasures
is
to
oblige
your
friends
,
so
one
of
the
greatest
I
have
is
to
speake
of
those
I
have
received
.
I
would
be
no
lesse
generous
,
to
publish
your
favours
,
then
you
to
doe
them
.
I
proclaime
them
every
where
,
so
loudly
,
that
there
is
no
body
which
does
not
instantly
judge
,
the
resent
I
have
of
them
,
and
the
extream
griefe
I
take
,
not
to
be
able
to
testifie
you
the
truth
of
it
,
no
more
then
the
affection
I
have
to
be
all
my
life
,
Madam
,
Your
,
&c.
The
XXVIII
.
Answer
.
She
replies
that
instead
of
deedes
,
she
can
onely
have
good
intentions
,
and
desires
.
MY
deare
sister
,
how
much
would
you
deeme
your selfe
bound
to
mee
for
effects
,
seeing
you
beleeve
your selfe
,
so
much
only
for
desires
?
truely
you
must
needs
have
power
to
pierce
into
the
affections
,
as
well
as
to
gaine
them
,
to
thank
me
in
this
manner
.
I
am
very
glad
you
have
this
particular
gift
,
to
judge
the
intention
,
without
helpe
of
ordinary
appearances
which
may
show
it
.
I
should
hardly
be
able
to
shew
you
mine
,
by
my
workes
:
and
I
rejoyce
you
know
that
by
prophecy
,
which
I
should
be
able
to
demonstrate
by
experience
,
without
doubt
,
you
had
lesse
regard
to
the
service
you
have
receiv'd
from
me
,
then
to
●he
will
I
have
to
serve
you
.
It
is
great
enough
to
content
those
,
which
can
come
to
know
it
,
like
you
;
and
I
thinke
it
might
oblige
my
friends
to
doe
mee
good
,
if
they
should
consider
what
I
desire
them
,
t
is
this
which
obliges
you
to
doe
mee
so
many
civilities
;
and
which
renders
mee
confused
,
when
I
thinke
that
I
have
yet
done
nothing
,
which
may
evidence
to
you
as
I
would
,
in
what
fashion
I
am
,
My
Sister
,
Your
,
&c.
The
XXIX
.
Letter
.
She
comforts
her
touching
the
death
of
M.
and
shewes
that
teares
are
unprofitable
for
those
,
that
have
lost
life
,
dangerous
for
those
that
yet
possesses
it
.
MAdam
,
to
see
how
melancholly
you
be
,
one
would
thinke
you
no
more
regard
your
life
,
then
as
a
thing
in
which
you
have
no
interest
.
Since
you
lament
those
have
lost
it
,
why
doe
you
put
your
owne
in
danger
?
how
comes
it
to
passe
,
you
have
not
as
much
feare
for
your selfe
,
as
sadnesse
for
others
?
tell
mee
not
that
there
are
accidents
in
which
teares
,
and
griefe
are
a
just
effect
of
duty
.
Surely
there
is
more
of
custome
,
then
reason
:
and
I
cannot
comprehend
why
our
friends
should
take
pleasure
to
see
that
we
doe
our selves
an
evill
,
from
whence
they
can
draw
no
advantage
.
So
I
call
that
of
our
excessive
sorrow
,
for
since
wee
beleeve
them
content
in
the
other
world
,
if
wee
weepe
for
them
in
this
,
our
teares
are
injurious
:
if
it
be
for
our selves
,
they
are
mercenary
:
and
for
what
ever
it
be
,
they
are
superfluous
,
but
if
a
wise
man
ought
not
to
have
unprofitable
passions
,
how
shall
hee
have
any
so
dangerous
?
Pardon
me
,
if
I
tell
you
freely
,
that
if
you
diminish
not
your
griefe
,
I
shall
the
beleife
I
had
of
your
spirit
,
what
difference
is
there
betweene
you
,
and
one
that
wilfully
precipitates
himselfe
,
onely
you
kill
more
cruelly
,
then
ever
any
did
wee
accuse
of
their
owne
death
,
take
heede
least
to
shew
too
much
pitty
to
others
,
you
shew
too
little
to
your selfe
.
Remember
what
you
were
wont
to
say
touching
the
death
of
Lucretia
:
you
thought
men
could
not
justifie
her
murther
.
And
what
did
she
to
her
body
,
you
doe
not
to
your
soule
?
doe
you
thinke
that
one
is
lesse
homicide
that
kils
himselfe
in
five
dayes
,
then
in
an
houre
?
doe
not
that
with
voluntary
griefe
,
shee
did
with
her
owne
hand
.
And
what
is
it
to
purpose
,
if
the
weapons
wee
use
to
take
away
life
,
be
visible
or
not
?
if
the
shortest
death
bee
sweetest
,
judge
what
is
that
,
you
cause
your selfe
by
a
sadnesse
too
affected
?
I
know
well
the
losse
of
our
friends
doth
touch
us
,
I
would
not
remove
the
sense
,
but
the
errour
:
and
if
we
must
give
any
thing
to
nature
,
wee
must
yet
give
more
to
reason
,
but
I
correct
my selfe
,
it
is
not
so
much
nature
th●t
makes
us
to
weepe
excessiuely
,
as
opinion
,
since
there
is
no
time
wherin
noble
spirits
shold
not
aspire
to
felicity
,
what
shew
of
reason
is
there
,
that
to
gaine
the
glory
of
loving
well
,
a
man
should
racke
,
and
torment
himselfe
.
True
it
is
that
passions
there
are
,
whereof
we
forbid
but
the
excesse
:
but
for
sorrow
,
wee
should
take
away
the
very
use
it selfe
:
and
not
serve
our selves
of
it
,
but
for
repentance
.
In
all
things
else
,
it
is
superfluous
,
and
indeede
perilous
.
I
doe
notwithstanding
much
admire
,
if
shee
bee
often
Mistresse
of
our
soule
,
since
no
body
doth
resist
her
:
I
say
more
,
since
wee
detaine
her
spight
of
those
,
that
offer
remedy
.
Call
to
minde
that
shee
is
unprofitable
to
the
dead
,
dangerous
to
the
living
:
and
may
take
life
from
those
that
have
it
,
not
restore
it
,
to
those
have
lost
it
:
shee
pushes
into
the
grave
,
but
never
draws
back
any
.
And
to
behold
these
lamentable
effects
,
take
onely
your
glasse
,
you
may
guesse
the
ill
it
does
your
soule
,
by
that
it
does
your
face
.
Never
did
sorrow
doe
so
much
mischiefe
as
yours
,
seeing
it
ruines
at
once
two
of
the
fairest
things
in
the
world
,
your
disposition
,
and
your
beauty
;
judge
now
if
we
have
cause
to
complaine
,
and
if
your
melancholly
ought
not
to
be
a
just
cause
of
ours
,
think
on
this
,
and
consider
how
many
you
make
weepe
,
whilest
you
lament
but
one
.
You
see
what
I
might
write
,
and
yet
account
not
my
letter
necessary
.
I
speake
rather
to
your
memory
,
then
your
judgement
,
and
this
is
not
to
instruct
,
but
call
to
mind
those
lessons
you
give
to
others
,
and
would
be
at
present
usefull
to
your selfe
.
I
must
now
say
to
your
soule
,
as
to
sicke
Phisitians
,
that
shee
heale
her selfe
.
But
I
feare
least
it
be
spoken
as
unprofitably
to
you
,
as
them
,
for
if
the
sicknesse
of
the
body
takes
away
knowledge
,
much
more
that
of
the
soule
.
Nevērthelesse
I
will
hope
better
,
and
beleeve
you
will
not
alwayes
take
pleasure
to
hug
an
ill
,
whereof
you
may
heale
your selfe
.
At
least
I
thinke
you
will
interrupt
a
little
your
teares
,
if
you
open
your
eies
to
consider
her
that
prayes
you
,
it
is
Madam
,
Your
,
&c.
The
XXX
.
Letter
.
She
rejoyces
at
the
newes
of
her
returns
,
and
professes
no
lesse
feeling
for
her
then
her
owne
sister
.
MAdam
,
to
judge
with
what
con●entment
I
learnt
the
newes
of
your
returne
,
you
neede
but
thinke
with
what
passion
I
desired
it
.
Chorinde
shall
witnesse
it
,
and
I
beleeve
that
she
will
not
boast
,
to
have
shed
more
teares
,
or
made
more
prayers
then
I
,
during
your
absence
.
Let
her
say
what
she
will
,
if
she
be
nearer
to
you
by
reason
of
blood
,
I
am
,
then
her
,
by
inclination
;
the
one
is
aswell
a
linke
of
nature
as
the
other
,
this
is
it
you
shold
consider
,
if
you
will
not
make
me
as
unhappy
,
as
I
am
affectionate
in
what
concernes
you
.
Let
her
esteeme
that
quality
of
sister
,
I
rather
love
that
of
my
Mistris
.
I
am
very
glad
to
be
lesse
o●kin
,
and
more
distanced
in
blood
,
to
be
more
neare
by
our
alliance
.
I
rejoyce
that
nature
obliges
you
to
have
more
friendship
for
her
,
that
there
may
remaine
more
love
for
me
.
I
have
spoken
enough
of
my
affection
,
let
us
now
speake
of
the
griefe
it
produceth
.
Verily
,
if
I
had
not
learnd
the
newes
of
your
returne
,
my
misfortune
could
no
longer
linger
the
possession
of
this
good
,
without
advancing
the
end
of
my
life
.
If
you
againe
make
such
voyages
,
I
will
make
my
will
,
before
I
bid
you
farewel
,
●nd
,
ceasing
to
see
you
,
will
practise
the
same
ceremonies
,
●hey
doe
in
ceasing
to
live
.
I
●ssure
you
of
it
,
and
this
is
no
esse
true
,
then
the
affection
which
I
have
to
be
,
Madam
,
Your
,
&c.
The
XXX
.
Answer
.
She
assures
her
of
her
remembrance
,
and
her
returne
.
MAdam
,
the
onely
consolation
I
have
amongst
a
thousand
occasions
of
sufferance
,
which
present
themselves
but
too
much
in
the
Countrey
where
I
am
,
is
the
hope
I
have
to
see
you
.
And
if
you
aske
me
of
my
entertainement
,
I
assure
you
the
best
,
and
most
ordinary
I
have
,
is
the
remembrance
of
yours
.
T
is
this
which
serves
me
for
a
counter
poyson
,
after
that
of
many
troublesome
guests
,
whom
one
cannot
put
off
,
without
making
them
enemies
,
nor
s●e
without
enduring
a
thousand
incommodities
.
You
will
say
,
perhaps
,
I
not
oblige
you
much
to
thinke
on
you
at
present
.
And
that
if
the
company
here
were
a
little
lesse
insupportable
,
I
would
never
dreame
of
yours
.
I
assure
you
,
there
is
nothing
so
sweete
in
the
world
can
make
me
forget
it
,
and
that
I
have
no
lesse
sorrow
when
I
am
deprived
of
it
,
then
joy
when
I
possesse
it
.
It
is
to
this
happinesse
I
aspire
with
extreame
passion
,
and
doe
all
I
can
to
set
forward
my
returne
.
I
hope
it
shall
be
no
lesse
chearefull
,
then
my
departure
was
pensive
.
You
shall
be
the
first
to
see
the
effects
,
as
you
are
to
receive
the
menaces
.
I
say
the
menaces
,
not
the
promises
,
since
all
my
visits
are
more
worthy
your
feare
,
then
your
hope
.
It
may
be
you
are
of
another
opinion
:
but
if
this
were
not
mine
,
I
should
yet
lesse
merit
,
then
I
doe
the
honor
of
your
favour
,
and
the
quality
,
Madam
,
Of
Your
,
&c.
The
XXXI
.
Letter
.
She
professeth
that
the
course
displeaseth
her
,
and
that
shee
cannot
imagine
what
delight
may
therein
be
found
.
MAdam
,
I
am
in
despaire
that
my
opinion
is
not
conformable
to
yours
:
and
that
the
same
thing
is
the
object
of
your
pleasure
,
my
anger
.
I
speake
of
the
course
which
you
cal
the
fairest
houre
of
the
day
,
and
I
the
most
troublesome
.
This
is
my
opinion
which
yet
I
love
not
,
because
yours
is
contrary
,
give
mee
reasons
to
combat
it
;
there
is
nothing
I
desire
so
much
,
as
to
learne
those
which
make
you
love
it
,
that
I
may
renounce
those
which
make
mee
hate
it
.
I
much
feare
not
to
be
perswaded
:
and
albeit
your
spirit
be
very
powerfull
over
others
,
least
mine
in
this
occasion
,
oppose
her
aversion
to
your
eloquence
.
I
say
an
aversion
,
not
blinde
,
like
that
of
many
others
,
who
content
themselves
to
say
,
they
are
not
enclined
to
such
a
thing
,
and
will
not
open
their
eyes
to
see
the
truth
they
know
not
.
I
doe
not
shut
mine
,
rather
I
straine
my selfe
to
finde
some
reasons
to
make
it
pleasing
.
I
pry
into
every
corner
,
without
discovering
any
thing
faire
,
or
agreeable
.
We
goe
there
to
see
,
or
to
be
seene
:
and
for
that
matter
,
I
have
neither
vanity
enough
,
nor
curiosity
,
we
turne
,
we
behold
,
we
salute
three
things
in
my
judgement
unprofitable
enough
,
or
enough
trouble
some
I
will
not
say
dangerous
,
especially
speaking
to
a
person
that
knowes
how
to
preserve
her selfe
in
a
greater
contagion
,
and
which
runs
no
other
perill
in
this
adventure
then
that
of
being
importuned
.
T
is
to
you
then
an
innocent
diversion
,
albeit
,
it
may
be
,
it
be
not
so
to
many
others
,
but
suppose
it
be
to
all
:
have
we
not
many
better
,
wherin
there
is
more
pleasure
,
lesse
trouble
?
is
it
not
better
to
spend
that
houre
in
entertaining
of
our
friends
,
then
to
make
so
many
turnes
in
the
midst
of
noyse
,
and
dust
?
This
is
neither
conversation
,
nor
walking
,
seeing
there
is
too
little
familiarity
for
the
one
,
too
much
confusion
for
the
other
.
This
is
my
opinion
,
which
perhaps
is
not
conformable
to
that
of
many
others
:
but
it
matters
not
,
I
cease
not
to
beleeve
it
reasonable
,
although
I
have
not
many
of
my
side
.
I
know
there
are
more
bad
,
then
good
how
ever
I
think
the
best
may
be
of
diverse
opinions
in
such
a
matter
.
Howbeit
least
I
make
me
to
many
enemies
,
I
had
rather
say
,
I
take
no
pleasure
therein
,
then
that
there
is
none
at
all
.
I
would
not
have
my
humour
serve
as
a
rule
for
others
.
I
am
not
vaine
enough
to
claime
conformity
,
nor
easie
enough
to
yeeld
it
.
I
am
not
careful
to
frame
my selfe
a
particular
wisedome
.
And
I
let
you
thinke
if
I
desire
my
aversion
overcome
,
since
it
deprives
me
of
publicke
pleasure
,
and
makes
mee
hate
what
you
love
.
I
will
therefore
tell
you
that
I
have
found
the
meanes
to
draw
some
profit
from
the
course
,
and
to
recrea●e
my self
,
albeit
it
be
not
in
the
same
fashion
with
others
,
it
is
,
that
observing
the
passages
there
,
they
put
me
into
an
extraordinary
veine
of
laughing
,
not
that
this
folly
is
not
worthy
of
compassion
;
but
I
would
not
make
so
austere
a
reflexion
,
and
had
rather
make
sport
with
it
,
then
complaine
,
you
see
how
all
my
mirth
consists
in
deriding
that
of
others
;
but
I
must
confesse
you
the
truth
,
the
pleasure
which
I
thus
take
,
does
not
last
long
;
I
enter
insensibly
into
●holler
:
I
flote
betweene
a
good
,
and
a
bad
humour
;
I
see
whereat
to
be
angry
,
and
whereat
to
laugh
,
and
am
betwixt
snight
,
and
scorne
.
And
this
is
the
state
I
fi●de
my selfe
in
,
during
the
course
.
I
know
not
if
reason
be
of
my
side
,
or
yours
;
but
in
which
soever
it
be
,
free
mee
from
errour
,
or
leave
it
your selfe
.
It
is
no
great
matter
which
of
us
change
her
opinion
,
so
our
opinions
be
reconciled
.
I
cannot
endure
they
should
be
different
,
and
am
resolved
to
lose
,
or
gaine
the
victory
:
At
least
I
promise
you
to
suffer
my selfe
to
be
perswaded
by
your
reasons
,
if
you
bring
me
any
strong
enough
.
If
I
am
ignorant
,
I
am
not
indocible
.
And
it
is
easie
enough
to
cure
mee
,
if
I
be
sicke
.
I
am
wholly
disposed
to
beleeve
you
,
as
well
as
to
obey
you
,
and
to
be
,
Madam
,
Your
&c.
The
XXXI
Answer
.
Shee
answers
that
her
aversion
from
the
course
is
without
reason
,
and
that
shee
hath
nothing
to
vanquish
but
her
opinion
to
take
delight
therin
,
as
well
as
others
.
MAdam
,
seeing
it
must
be
(
as
it
seemes
by
your
letter
)
that
one
of
us
,
renounce
her
opinion
:
to
observe
some
justice
therein
,
it
will
be
good
to
have
regard
to
her
that
shall
lose
lesse
by
the
change
;
and
since
there
is
one
houre
in
the
day
that
displeases
you
,
you
shal
gaine
much
if
you
can
find
the
meanes
to
make
it
agreeable
.
You
ought
to
contribute
what
you
can
,
to
free
your selfe
from
a
beleife
that
hurts
you
,
and
makes
you
find
a
loathing
,
where
all
the
world
takes
a
recreation
.
Let
us
not
dispute
so
much
the
noblenesse
of
our
thoughts
,
as
their
utility
.
Let
us
be
happy
,
if
wee
cannot
be
wise
:
and
if
it
be
hard
to
discover
whether
our
opinions
be
contrary
to
reason
,
let
us
at
least
take
care
they
be
not
contrary
to
our
owne
good
fortune
.
To
what
end
should
we
affect
that
which
opposes
our
felicity
?
t
is
a
misfortune
,
that
instead
of
correcting
we
adore
our
owne
imagination
.
And
are
to
our
opinions
,
as
mothers
to
their
children
;
loving
to
those
that
merit
it
least
.
T
is
a
great
increase
of
misery
,
to
see
that
our
thoughtsare
not
only
salse
,
but
likewise
sullon
,
did
our
dreames
depend
upon
our selves
,
wee
would
have
none
but
pleasant
.
And
yet
though
our
thoughts
bee
at
our
owne
liberty
,
wee
cease
not
to
have
them
importune
,
nor
lose
them
without
difficulty
,
for
my
part
I
desire
not
that
errour
should
abridge
my
pleasures
,
I
had
rather
it
encreased
them
,
and
if
I
must
be
deceived
,
I
wish
it
might
be
pleasingly
,
doe
as
much
for
the
course
,
and
strive
to
finde
delight
,
where
your
imagination
depaints
nothing
but
importunity
.
I
know
not
why
you
say
,
t
is
neither
walking
,
nor
conver●ing
:
it
is
both
the
one
and
the
other
,
or
rather
a
third
pleasure
compounded
of
both
,
see
how
many
contentments
are
found
therein
at
the
same
time
.
Wee
take
the
aire
,
wee
entertaine
,
wee
mu●e
,
we
may
there
please
the
eye
,
and
the
eare
,
and
finde
the
pleasures
both
of
discourse
and
silence
,
but
there
is
enough
said
of
this
matter
,
if
reason
cannot
convince
you
,
I
hope
you
will
yeeld
to
experience
.
I
had
rather
make
you
taste
that
which
is
delightfull
in
the
course
,
then
to
describe
it
.
We
will
carry
you
thither
,
and
if
you
yet
go
there
with
your
errour
,
doubtlesse
you
shal
come
home
sound
.
You
shall
be
vext
at
your
antipathy
to
this
houre
,
and
grieve
the
time
you
employed
,
not
in
so
pleasing
an
exercise
,
I
assure
my selfe
you
will
thanke
me
for
undeceiving
you
,
and
that
you
will
ta●e
my
care
,
for
one
of
the
least
effects
of
the
affection
I
have
to
serve
you
,
and
to
be
alwayes
,
Madam
,
Your
▪
&c.
The
XXXII
.
Letter
.
Sh●
wisheth
her
much
wealth
,
and
saith
she
is
rich
in
the
goods
of
nature
,
if
poore
in
those
of
fortune
.
MIstris
,
after
the
letter
you
wrote
unto
mee
,
I
know
not
what
to
begge
of
heaven
for
you
,
or
what
prayers
to
make
,
may
give
you
satisfaction
.
I
seare
least
mine
be
contrary
to
yours
,
and
that
you
should
complaine
of
the
felicity
which
I
desire
you
,
tell
mee
your
minde
in
this
,
that
my
prayers
may
be
more
confident
,
and
profitable
,
but
whiles
I
lo●ke
to
heare
from
you
,
I
must
tell
you
what
I
feare
,
as
wel
as
what
I
desire
.
Although
you
cannot
choose
but
be
content
,
if
fortune
does
her
duty
for
you
;
I
feare
not
withstanding
least
wee
have
cause
to
complaine
of
her
blindnesse
,
who
without
doubt
would
averre
,
she
is
not
rich
enough
to
equall
your
perfections
with
her
presents
,
if
she
had
eyes
to
consider
what
you
are
.
In
which
this
shall
alwayes
be
your
great
consolation
,
to
be
able
to
thinke
,
if
shee
doe
you
no
good
,
shee
knowes
not
your
worth
,
how
liberall
soever
she
be
towards
you
,
shee
cannot
equall
nature
,
which
will
alwayes
make
you
merit
more
favours
,
then
the
other
can
give
.
I
beleeve
you
will
never
be
so
happy
as
you
are
perfect
,
by
my
advice
you
should
use
this
thought
to
sweeten
that
which
makes
you
melancholly
,
when
you
doe
not
so
much
consider
what
you
have
,
as
what
you
want
.
And
indeed
if
you
take
but
a
little
paine
to
regard
what
you
are
,
your
glasse
,
and
your
conscience
,
will
hinder
you
to
complaine
,
the
one
shewing
you
the
greatest
beauty
,
the
other
,
the
purest
vertue
of
the
age
.
Your
humility
forbids
it
not
,
since
after
you
have
well
knowne
your
owne
extraordinary
qualities
;
you
can
conclude
no
other
thing
,
but
that
you
are
specially
obliged
to
him
,
without
whose
favour
there
is
nothing
faire
,
nor
in
the
soule
,
nor
face
:
it
will
be
said
I
preach
,
in
stead
of
Complement
,
but
you
are
so
good
you
will
tolerate
the
liberty
of
my
discourse
,
because
of
the
affection
I
have
to
serve
you
,
and
to
be
,
Madam
,
Your
,
&c.
The
XXXII
.
Answer
,
She
maintaines
that
no
body
shall
disoblige
her
,
by
desiring
her
more
goods
then
she
hath
.
MAdam
,
I
am
glad
that
fortune
hath
no
eyes
:
if
she
had
I
should
looke
for
lesse
by
her
election
,
then
now
by
her
blindnesse
,
and
I
thinke
if
men
had
given
her
eyes
,
they
had
taken
away
all
my
hope
.
If
we
must
measure
her
favours
by
the
merit
of
those
that
receive
them
,
I
should
yet
be
poorer
then
I
am
.
It
may
be
some
will
say
,
that
if
you
meane
to
pray
for
me
,
it
must
be
to
make
mee
more
wise
,
and
not
more
rich
;
because
that
having
acquired
vertue
,
I
shall
possesse
a
good
greater
then
all
others
,
and
which
fortune
can
neither
give
nor
take
away
,
but
I
will
not
dissemble
I
will
freely
tell
you
what
I
thinke
,
I
am
not
of
their
number
which
despise
riches
in
appearance
,
and
desire
them
in
effect
.
It
seemes
to
me
that
I
may
wish
a
little
more
then
I
have
:
and
because
in
this
my
designes
are
just
,
I
thinke
my
desires
are
so
.
T
is
a
misfortune
to
be
necessitated
:
and
to
be
poore
with
honour
wee
must
vow
i●
.
I
suffer
poverty
,
but
desire
it
not
.
I
know
well
enough
what
they
say
of
this
subject
,
touching
the
contempt
of
riches
:
but
t
is
onely
discourse
,
practised
by
no
body
.
Philosophy
it selfe
in
our
age
would
be
better
lodged
then
in
a
tub
,
and
better
cloathed
then
in
the
dayes
of
the
Cynickes
.
This
is
not
strange
:
for
as
the
soule
albeit
faire
hath
need
of
a
faire
body
,
because
of
the
Organs
whereunto
she
is
tyed
,
so
how
eminent
soever
a
vertue
be
,
she
hath
sometimes
neede
of
the
goods
of
fortune
,
to
make
up
all
her
brightnesse
.
Otherwise
though
shee
hath
all
her
price
,
she
hath
not
all
her
luster
.
You
will
say
that
the
vertue
of
the
poore
breedes
compassion
,
like
a
faire
,
miserable
;
and
indeed
it
seemes
we
cannot
commend
it
without
complaining
.
I
wish
we
had
not
this
opinion
;
that
this
errour
were
not
in
the
soule
of
so
many
persons
,
and
that
wee
lived
not
in
an
age
,
wherein
they
give
more
to
a
person
of
quality
,
then
a
person
of
merit
,
but
t
is
better
we
accommodate
our selves
to
this
error
,
then
oppose
it
:
this
will
prove
to
us
a
wisedome
,
lesse
troublesome
,
and
lesse
dangerous
.
At
least
for
my selfe
,
I
assure
you
,
I
shall
never
fret
against
those
,
which
desire
mee
more
wealth
then
I
have
.
If
you
make
prayers
for
this
,
they
are
not
contrary
to
mine
.
I
thanke
you
for
the
good
you
wish
mee
,
and
I
beseech
you
beleeve
that
though
I
may
become
more
rich
,
I
can
never
be
more
then
I
am
,
Madam
,
Your
,
&c.
The
XXXIII
.
Letter
.
She
prayes
her
to
bring
her
acquainted
with
a
certaine
Lady
of
worth
.
MAdam
,
albeit
naturally
I
have
an
extreame
repugnancy
to
make
requests
,
I
assure
you
I
feele
no
effect
of
this
aversenesse
,
when
I
am
obliged
to
beg
your
favours
,
you
do
them
with
so
good
a
grace
,
they
leave
no
other
shame
,
then
that
of
impotency
to
returne
the
like
.
T
is
the
sole
displeasure
I
have
in
receiving
a
good
turne
from
you
,
not
to
be
able
to
render
it
.
You
will
thinke
I
doe
not
speake
this
to
no
purpose
,
and
that
I
doe
not
praise
your
goodnesse
,
but
the
more
easily
to
obtaine
the
effects
:
but
I
can
assure
you
,
I
desire
not
to
handle
you
in
that
sort
:
I
have
too
good
an
opinion
of
your
friendship
,
to
use
the
least
finenesse
in
solliciting
,
when
any
occasions
present
themselves
to
oblige
m●e
.
I
hope
more
in
the
force
of
my
prayers
,
then
my
perswasions
,
I
make
my
requests
with
more
affection
,
then
art
.
You
know
it
,
and
I
thinke
I
tell
you
nothing
you
beleeve
not
,
when
I
assure
you
I
am
naturall
,
there
lies
my
advantage
:
and
if
the
faire
Dutchesse
you
so
much
esteeme
,
be
taken
with
simplicity
,
I
hope
mine
will
please
her
.
I
have
but
this
charme
can
touch
her
.
You
see
the
subject
of
my
Letter
,
and
of
the
prayer
I
make
you
:
you
promised
mee
to
give
mee
her
acquaintance
,
and
if
I
demand
you
this
favour
,
t
is
onely
after
you
have
done
me
the
honour
to
offer
it
.
When
I
thinke
on
the
esteeme
you
make
of
it
,
it
seemes
to
mee
it
should
be
to
misprize
your
approbation
,
not
to
be
willing
to
know
a
person
,
which
you
repute
so
worthy
.
Albeit
she
had
but
this
advantage
to
be
esteemed
by
you
,
I
could
not
have
a
small
opinion
of
a
spirit
which
yours
approves
.
There
are
many
others
might
help
me
to
this
acquaintance
:
but
among
al
the
meanes
which
present
themselves
,
I
shall
bee
glad
to
employ
the
most
noble
,
and
for
my selfe
the
most
advantageous
.
If
I
had
more
merit
;
I
should
have
lesse
neede
of
your
favour
:
but
I
thinke
shee
will
not
examine
my
defects
,
and
that
shee
will
beleeve
what
I
am
by
your
esteeme
.
And
to
say
that
this
is
to
feare
for
you
,
and
that
she
will
wonder
to
finde
in
mee
so
few
qualities
worthy
her
knowledge
,
or
your
recommendation
:
never
imagine
that
this
can
hurt
you
,
the
opinion
shee
hath
of
your
merit
,
shall
not
diminish
by
that
shee
shall
have
of
my
imperfections
.
If
the
persons
of
whom
you
speake
to
her
,
have
any
good
qualities
,
shee
takes
this
for
an
effect
of
your
choyse
,
if
they
have
none
,
shee
attributes
it
to
your
goodnesse
.
She
can
make
no
interpretation
disadvantageous
to
you
.
That
which
she
cannot
referre
to
one
vertue
,
she
will
bestow
upon
another
.
You
may
employ
your
reputation
for
great
spirits
,
your
compassion
for
small
.
T
is
in
this
ranke
I
must
place
my selfe
,
albeit
to
say
true
,
I
ought
to
surpasse
the
most
excellent
,
if
I
had
as
much
brightnesse
,
as
affection
to
serve
you
,
and
to
testifie
that
I
am
entirely
,
Madam
,
Your
,
&c.
The
XXXIII
.
Answer
.
She
faith
,
that
she
shall
be
thanked
on
both
sides
,
for
bringing
them
acquainted
and
after
shewes
that
she
is
no
way
counterfeit
.
MAdam
,
you
are
not
a
little
faulty
,
if
you
doe
with
paine
employ
me
:
you
cannot
deprive
me
of
the
occasions
to
serve
you
,
without
taking
from
me
those
of
contentment
.
And
judge
if
you
ought
to
have
any
repugnancy
,
since
I
am
tyed
to
you
,
by
the
two
strongest
chaines
of
the
world
,
inclination
,
and
obligation
.
The
desire
I
have
to
doe
you
some
service
is
aswell
an
effect
of
my
sympathy
,
as
my
duty
.
I
beseech
you
bel
eve
it
,
and
especially
in
an
occasion
,
where
my
labor
will
be
more
honorable
to
me
,
then
profitable
to
you
.
You
desire
I
should
bring
you
acquainted
with
Mel●ante
,
and
I
thinke
you
demand
mee
nothing
,
which
to
her
may
not
be
very
pleasing
.
I
shall
receive
thankes
on
both
sides
,
and
you
both
shall
have
a
better
opinion
of
my
spirit
,
because
of
the
interest
I
have
in
persons
that
are
so
rare
.
Iudge
not
of
her
by
my
report
,
but
by
her
merit
,
which
is
the
cause
of
it
,
when
you
have
seene
her
,
you
will
not
accuse
me
to
have
spoken
more
then
truth
:
And
likewise
you
shall
judge
mee
worthy
of
excuse
,
if
I
have
not
exprest
all
her
good
qualities
,
since
there
is
too
great
a
number
.
I
must
make
her
the
same
complement
for
you
,
and
refer
you
both
to
a
more
particular
acquaintance
,
which
you
shall
get
in
time
.
But
you
are
in
the
wrong
,
to
say
there
is
nothing
amiable
in
you
,
but
simplicity
,
if
you
are
simple
t
is
by
reason
,
rather
then
nature
.
And
if
you
be
without
finenesse
,
t
is
not
by
ignorance
,
but
contempt
,
yours
is
a
noble
simplicity
,
which
comes
not
from
want
of
spirit
,
like
that
of
many
,
but
onely
from
an
aversion
you
have
to
impostures
.
I
hate
them
so
much
,
that
it
is
impossible
for
me
to
suffer
them
.
There
is
nothing
I
desire
so
much
,
in
those
I
love
as
a
solid
honesty
,
which
serves
for
foundation
to
al
vertues
;
and
without
which
there
shall
never
be
assurance
in
society
,
nor
commerce
.
I
seldome
see
those
that
are
cunning
to
have
much
soule
,
or
vertue
:
if
they
were
really
good
,
or
prudent
,
they
would
lesse
affect
the
appearance
.
There
are
which
conceale
their
vertues
by
modesty
,
meane
while
that
others
conceale
their
defects
by
vanity
.
But
in
the
end
,
men
take
away
the
vizards
,
and
discover
in
time
what
is
worthy
of
blame
,
or
praise
.
This
is
my
opinion
,
which
I
esteeme
so
much
the
more
reasonable
,
as
it
is
conformable
to
yours
.
Finally
,
you
know
if
I
have
cause
to
make
warre
with
those
that
are
lesse
sincere
,
since
there
is
nothing
so
contrary
to
my
humor
as
deceit
,
and
nothing
so
pure
,
and
naturall
as
my
affection
;
but
especially
that
I
have
to
be
Madam
,
Your
,
&c.
The
XXXIV
.
Letter
.
Shee
rejoyces
that
she
is
not
forgotten
,
and
feares
least
the
number
of
her
Letters
be
troublesome
.
MAdam
,
I
must
needs
say
,
in
the
feare
I
was
in
,
to
be
blotted
from
your
memory
,
I
have
beene
very
glad
to
know
that
your
long
silence
was
rather
an
effect
of
distance
,
then
oblivion
.
You
will
that
I
interpret
it
so
;
and
I
assure
you
I
am
of
the
number
of
those
who
beleeve
easily
what
they
desire
.
I
will
not
examine
if
it
be
truth
or
civility
that
speakes
.
I
make
no
more
doubt
there
hath
wanted
occasion
,
not
wil
,
if
I
have
not
received
your
letters
.
As
for
mine
,
I
had
cause
to
desire
that
some
had
stayed
by
the
way
:
since
if
you
have
received
them
all
,
you
should
have
no
lesse
reason
to
complaine
for
the
testimonies
of
my
remembrance
then
I
for
the
silence
of
yours
.
Our
plaints
had
been
very
different
you
perhaps
had
lesse
desired
my
Letters
,
I
yours
more
.
But
I
doe
not
repent
;
I
thinke
you
be
not
angry
at
my
writing
,
and
since
you
suffer
my
affection
,
your
patience
will
stretch
to
those
effects
which
shew
it
:
I
wish
stronger
,
better
to
merit
what
you
be
to
me
,
and
better
to
testifie
what
I
am
to
you
,
that
is
,
Madam
,
Your
,
&c.
The
XXXIV
.
Answer
.
Shee
assures
her
that
her
Letters
shall
never
bee
troublesome
,
and
expresses
displeasure
,
that
hers
were
not
all
received
.
MAdam
,
you
do
me
wrong
to
thinke
I
can
ever
forget
you
,
you
must
have
lesse
merit
,
or
I
lesse
knowledge
of
it
.
There
is
nothing
so
true
as
the
assurances
I
give
you
of
my
remembrance
.
And
you
shall
have
better
reason
to
beleeve
,
then
desire
it
.
This
is
more
true
then
profitable
to
you
.
You
are
my
example
,
and
my
remedy
:
I
thinke
on
you
alwayes
to
comfort
and
instruct
my selfe
.
You
tell
me
that
I
have
not
received
all
your
Letters
;
if
it
be
so
,
I
have
reason
to
complaine
with
thankes
,
and
to
esteeme
my selfe
unfortunate
,
at
the
same
time
,
I
beleeve
my selfe
obliged
.
I
should
be
lesse
worthy
of
this
favour
,
if
I
had
lesse
feeling
of
such
a
losse
.
I
see
my selfe
enforced
to
agree
to
contrary
passions
for
the
same
cause
,
joy
,
and
sadnes
.
If
I
rejoyce
to
know
you
remember
me
,
it
afflicts
me
,
not
to
have
seene
all
the
evidences
,
as
for
my
Letters
you
have
receiv'd
them
all
in
the
same
day
as
I
conceive
,
albeit
,
as
you
may
well
see
,
I
write
them
one
after
another
.
I
am
sorry
they
were
not
given
you
in
the
time
that
I
desired
:
But
seeing
it
is
thus
happened
,
at
least
I
shall
thence
draw
one
great
advantage
;
It
is
that
henceforth
,
if
you
receive
none
,
you
will
attribute
it
to
my
misfortune
,
which
else
perhaps
you
would
to
my
oblivion
,
never
then
entertaine
an
opinion
contrary
to
the
purpose
I
have
to
honour
you
:
and
whether
I
write
to
you
,
or
not
,
beleeve
that
I
am
perfectly
,
Madam
Your
,
&c.
The
XXXV
.
Letter
.
She
praies
her
to
assist
a
friend
of
hers
in
some
affaire
.
MAdam
,
I
beseech
you
at
the
entrance
of
this
,
to
remember
the
command
you
made
mee
,
when
I
had
the
honour
to
bid
you
farewell
:
and
you
will
finde
it
lesse
strange
,
if
I
have
rather
suffered
my self
to
be
transported
with
feare
to
disobey
you
:
then
to
importune
you
by
my
Letters
.
I
can
write
you
none
but
ill-composed
,
but
I
forbeare
not
to
hope
you
will
suffer
them
,
and
after
having
had
patience
for
a
bad
conversation
,
you
will
not
deny
it
me
for
a
bad
Letter
,
that
which
yet
makes
me
hope
this
favour
with
more
assurance
,
especially
in
this
occasion
,
is
that
I
write
for
one
who
hath
wisedome
,
and
vertue
.
They
are
two
qualities
you
love
,
and
possesse
in
a
degree
so
eminent
,
that
even
those
who
have
them
but
in
the
meane
,
finde
easie
accesse
,
when
any
occurrent
presents
it selfe
.
I
assure
my
selfe
this
bearer
which
knowes
this
truth
but
by
report
,
shall
quickly
learne
it
by
experience
,
when
he
shall
have
seene
you
.
I
doubt
not
but
you
will
assist
him
,
and
doe
beleeve
that
in
obliging
him
,
you
will
give
me
new
ground
to
serve
you
,
and
to
be
,
Madam
,
Your
,
&c.
The
XXXVI
.
Letter
.
Shee
makes
her
a
Complement
on
the
praises
she
had
received
.
MAdam
,
you
give
me
approbation
for
a
thing
,
which
hardly
deserves
patience
.
I
thinke
t
is
rather
an
effect
of
your
affection
,
then
of
your
judgement
;
and
that
you
have
more
desire
to
declare
me
your
good
will
,
then
your
esteeme
.
Take
heed
you
offend
not
,
in
praysing
me
after
this
manner
,
and
that
yon
make
me
not
fall
into
the
greatest
errour
of
the
world
,
which
is
to
take
my selfe
to
be
eloquent
.
I
ascribe
so
much
to
your
judgement
.
I
should
be
ready
to
abuse
my
owne
,
to
conforme
my
beleefe
to
yours
,
but
let
us
change
stile
,
I
thinke
it
is
not
your
intention
,
no
more
then
mine
,
and
that
when
you
value
me
so
much
,
t
is
rather
civility
then
truth
,
that
speakes
.
I
know
you
have
no
lesse
ability
to
discerne
my
defects
,
then
goodnesse
to
pardon
them
.
And
I
doe
not
desire
you
to
run
your selfe
into
errour
,
I
onely
pray
you
to
bring
in
others
,
and
to
say
of
mee
sometimes
that
which
your selfe
doe
not
beleeve
.
It
seemes
to
me
my
request
is
not
uncivill
,
if
I
beseech
you
to
speake
for
mee
to
others
,
as
you
use
to
doe
to
my selfe
.
I
thinke
you
would
not
I
should
have
any
other
opinion
of
my selfe
:
so
I
take
your
praise
for
an
honest
correction
,
and
doe
beleeve
that
in
attributing
to
mee
so
many
good
qualities
,
you
would
admonish
mee
of
those
I
want
,
and
which
must
be
had
to
merit
so
high
an
approbation
as
yours
.
This
is
that
which
ought
to
be
beleeved
by
,
Your
,
&c.
The
XXXVII
.
Letter
.
She
professes
to
her
the
feare
shee
hath
during
the
thunder
,
and
expresses
her
griefe
for
not
seeing
her
.
MIstris
,
wonder
not
if
this
Letter
be
confused
,
I
am
yet
more
in
my
thoughts
,
then
my
discourse
:
if
you
know
not
the
cause
,
I
thinke
it
is
enough
for
your
information
to
tell
you
it
thunders
here
,
they
say
the
storme
is
past
,
and
neverthelesse
my
feare
is
not
yet
blowne
over
.
This
is
not
written
like
others
in
my
cabinet
,
but
in
the
bottome
of
a
cave
,
whether
I
descended
all
trembling
,
and
wrote
it
with
so
much
disorder
,
that
to
reade
it
onely
,
will
be
enough
to
make
you
beleeve
the
truth
.
I
thinke
that
you
are
sorry
to
know
me
subject
to
such
an
excessive
feare
:
but
yet
doth
it
seeme
that
I
have
more
reason
to
feare
thunder
,
then
others
have
to
runne
away
from
Rats
,
and
spiders
.
After
so
many
sad
examples
wee
have
of
it
,
that
which
is
capable
of
feare
,
ought
to
be
possest
with
it
,
at
this
most
fearefull
Meteor
,
but
that
this
feare
may
be
profitable
,
it
must
make
us
discourse
of
our
owne
weakenesse
,
and
the
greatnesse
of
God
,
which
makes
all
tremble
with
a
vapour
,
and
which
employes
but
an
exhalation
to
fright
the
proudest
.
Excuse
me
if
I
write
to
you
in
this
fashion
,
the
apprehension
I
am
in
,
inspires
me
with
no
other
thoughts
,
you
shal
receive
something
another
time
lesse
melancholly
,
but
see
how
far
I
am
distracted
,
I
forgot
to
answer
your
Letter
,
where
you
tell
mee
there
is
no
appearance
,
I
bemoane
you
much
,
and
that
you
yet
hope
my
returne
with
more
passion
;
I
have
as
much
affection
to
your
company
as
you
to
mine
.
I
wish
you
knew
my
thought
,
without
doubt
you
would
change
yours
.
Finally
binde
me
to
judge
of
my
griefe
,
by
my
love
,
or
rather
of
the
one
,
and
the
other
,
by
your
merit
,
which
is
the
object
of
both
.
Neverthelesse
,
I
ought
not
to
give
my selfe
over
to
the
judgement
you
make
of
me
:
for
as
humility
conceales
from
you
the
better
part
of
your selfe
,
I
feare
least
it
also
hide
the
affection
,
they
beget
in
the
soule
of
those
which
know
you
as
my selfe
,
and
which
are
as
perfectly
as
I
am
,
Mistris
,
Your
,
&c.
The
XXXVIII
.
Letter
.
She
complaines
of
her
subtleties
.
MAdam
,
albeit
I
were
told
of
your
humour
,
I
could
hardly
beleeve
you
would
disoblige
those
that
had
vowed
you
service
,
and
friendship
,
the
good
opinion
I
had
tane
of
you
forbad
mee
this
beleife
,
insomuch
,
that
I
accused
of
malice
and
invention
,
those
that
informed
me
yours
,
but
now
I
have
quitted
this
error
,
by
the
last
effects
you
have
made
mee
receive
of
your
bad
disposition
;
which
are
by
so
much
the
more
unjust
,
as
I
have
never
given
you
cause
to
offend
mee
.
On
the
contrary
,
I
have
alwayes
exprest
to
you
,
that
I
esteemed
you
perfectly
.
T
is
this
which
makes
your
processe
the
more
criminall
:
and
which
should
carry
mee
more
justly
to
revenge
,
if
the
contempt
I
make
of
your
deceits
tooke
not
away
my
purpose
.
In
this
minde
I
would
never
complaine
of
you
,
if
it
were
not
for
feare
to
passe
for
an
innocent
in
your
judgement
,
giving
you
advantage
by
my
silence
to
thinke
that
I
discover
not
your
subtleties
,
and
that
I
yet
preserve
the
affection
I
promised
you
.
T
is
this
that
made
me
resolve
to
hazard
this
writing
,
to
assure
you
that
I
am
cleane
stript
of
friendship
or
hatred
towards
you
.
My
courage
makes
me
uncapable
to
estee
me
you
,
and
my
goodnesse
to
hate
you
:
But
if
my
mildnesse
obliges
me
to
this
moderation
,
it
shall
not
hinder
me
to
tell
you
;
that
of
all
the
Ladies
I
have
ever
knowne
,
you
are
the
most
malicious
,
and
the
most
unworthy
to
be
beloved
.
This
is
all
that
I
can
write
unto
you
of
this
matter
,
assuring
you
that
your
instructions
have
bin
unprofitable
,
and
that
those
people
which
have
studyed
them
,
have
made
very
bad
use
of
them
;
at
least
have
they
not
made
those
to
speake
,
which
else
would
hold
their
peace
?
I
doubt
not
,
but
if
they
have
bin
willing
to
tell
you
the
truth
,
they
have
affirmed
to
you
,
the
little
satisfaction
they
have
received
from
their
curiosity
.
Any
finenesse
that
their
wit
hath
used
,
innocence
hath
surpast
their
craft
:
so
doth
shee
triumph
alwayes
,
soone
,
or
slow
,
over
lies
,
and
calumnies
.
I
beseech
you
beleeve
that
those
you
have
employed
to
disoblige
mee
,
have
absolutely
taken
away
the
will
,
and
the
desire
to
be
,
Madam
,
Your
,
&c.
The
XXXIX
.
Letter
.
She
entreates
a
strange
Lady
to
assist
a
friend
of
hers
goeing
out
of
the
Realme
.
MAdam
,
I
have
alwayes
beene
heard
to
speake
of
your
merit
,
with
so
much
zeale
that
every
one
hath
imagined
by
the
testimonies
of
my
affection
,
that
I
had
some
part
in
yours
You
see
the
reason
why
M.
L.
which
shall
present
you
this
Letter
,
hath
desired
to
be
the
bearer
thereof
,
and
withall
the
subject
,
that
hee
might
receive
some
reflexion
of
the
friendship
,
wherewith
you
●●ave
honoured
me
.
Surely
,
Madam
,
I
am
engaged
to
him
in
this
occasion
,
to
give
me
that
to
write
to
you
,
to
recommend
to
you
in
him
the
person
of
one
of
my
friends
,
though
hee
be
commendable
enough
of
him selfe
.
I
hope
you
will
make
him
know
by
your
good
offices
,
that
I
am
a
little
in
your
favour
,
and
that
those
hee
shall
obtaine
of
your
courtesie
in
my
regard
shall
oblige
mee
to
render
you
as
much
service
.
In
the
meane
time
I
conjure
you
to
conserve
me
the
honour
of
your
remembrance
,
with
assurance
that
I
wish
that
of
your
commands
,
to
make
it
appeare
that
I
am
,
Madam
Your
,
&c.
The
XL.
Letter
.
She
entreates
him
to
oblige
the
bearer
if
there
be
neede
.
SIR
,
you
have
used
to
indebt
your
friends
with
so
much
affection
,
you
will
not
finde
it
strange
,
if
I
recommend
you
one
of
mine
,
which
merits
to
have
a
part
in
your
favour
.
If
you
afford
him
any
testimonies
of
the
friendship
you
have
promised
me
,
albeit
I
pretend
recompence
in
helping
you
to
his
,
I
shall
alwayes
be
engaged
to
you
for
it
,
it
is
of
M.
L.
who
shall
present
to
you
my
Letter
,
to
receive
some
favours
from
you
,
which
hee
shall
the
more
easily
obtaine
by
his
owne
merit
.
I
conjure
you
impart
them
●o
him
,
and
beleeve
they
shall
●e
set
on
the
score
of
obligations
,
which
I
desire
to
acquite
by
my
services
,
which
shall
shew
you
that
I
am
,
Sir
,
Your
,
&c.
The
XLI
.
Letter
.
She
writes
to
an
Abbesse
,
recommends
her
daughter
enterd
into
religion
.
MAdam
,
I
can
receive
in
the
world
,
no
more
satisfaction
,
my
daughter
no
more
glory
,
then
in
the
testimonies
you
give
the
one
,
and
the
other
of
your
courtesies
.
I
pray
God
,
Madam
,
the
example
of
your
life
,
which
is
a
rule
to
all
Ladies
living
in
Cl●ysters
,
may
yet
be
more
specially
to
her
,
I
recommend
you
,
to
what
ever
condition
God
doth
destine
her
,
this
shall
be
alwayes
her
great
advantage
,
to
have
seene
so
good
an
houre
,
and
approcht
so
neare
to
vertue
.
I
know
the
Importance
of
this
obligation
,
and
if
you
make
reckoning
of
any
humane
thing
,
I
shall
take
the
assurance
to
protest
that
I
am
more
then
any
person
in
the
world
.
Madam
,
Your
,
&c.
The
XLII
.
Letter
.
She
conjures
her
to
continue
her
friendship
.
MAdam
,
since
I
am
too
unfortunate
to
be
eternally
neare
you
,
at
least
I
must
make
you
see
I
am
alwayes
there
in
thought
,
and
that
the
greatest
consolation
I
have
in
my
solitude
is
to
entertaine
my selfe
with
your
rare
qualities
,
and
to
hope
for
your
newes
.
I
aske
them
boldly
,
since
you
have
done
me
the
honour
to
promise
them
in
your
celestiall
cabinet
,
where
they
doe
never
tell
lies
,
and
where
you
appeare
with
so
much
Majesty
,
as
a
Queene
upon
a
glorious
throne
.
I
conjure
you
to
this
,
by
those
faire
houres
,
which
I
cannot
remember
without
hoping
the
continuation
of
your
favours
,
you
have
promised
mee
this
grace
so
solemnely
,
that
if
it
were
a
curtesie
to
make
mee
hope
it
,
t
is
●ow
but
justice
to
pay
it
.
I
demurd
it
as
a
thing
you
owe
me
,
and
which
you
can
no
more
refuse
me
,
without
giving
me
cause
to
complaine
.
I
beleeve
my
hope
shall
not
bee
without
effect
:
and
that
which
yet
gives
mee
more
assurance
,
is
,
that
since
your
affection
depends
rather
on
your
owne
good
nature
,
then
my
merit
,
I
reckon
it
will
last
long
:
and
your
complexion
being
most
equall
,
the
friendship
you
beare
mee
,
shall
never
bee
lessned
.
I
am
certaine
it
shall
never
have
an
end
,
if
it
dure
as
long
as
the
purpose
I
have
to
serve
you
,
and
be
,
Madam
,
Your
,
&c.
The
XLIII
.
Letter
.
She
entertaines
her
upon
the
departure
of
her
husband
,
and
the
retreate
of
one
of
her
children
into
the
cloysters
.
MAdam
,
one
that
knew
lesse
then
I
,
the
strength
of
your
spirit
,
would
thinke
there
needed
great
preparatives
of
reason
,
to
resolve
it
against
two
accidents
,
which
just
at
a
time
are
united
to
make
you
rather
an
example
of
glory
,
then
an
object
of
disgrace
.
I
wil
then
keepe
my selfe
from
condoling
you
,
nor
will
I
enterprize
to
comfort
you
,
since
wee
ought
not
thinke
any
unhappy
,
but
those
that
have
feeble
soules
;
and
that
to
say
truth
there
is
no
accident
fastned
to
the
substance
of
the
wise
,
that
which
the
vulgar
esteemes
hurtfull
,
and
vexatious
,
is
ordinarily
found
on
the
contrary
,
we
may
see
an
example
of
it
in
the
departure
of
my
Lord
your
husband
,
in
the
retreate
of
my
Lord
your
sonne
into
a
Monastery
,
I
assure
my selfe
,
there
is
no
body
that
beleeves
not
your
ressentments
most
just
,
but
your
judgment
is
too
cleare
to
be
surprized
by
appearances
,
and
not
to
know
in
the
age
we
live
that
vice
is
in
such
sort
authorized
,
that
we
know
it
no
more
,
but
by
the
traine
that
followes
it
,
and
by
the
equipage
,
which
makes
it
triumph
,
in
the
adoration
of
slaves
,
and
flatterers
.
Vertue
hath
no
more
the
beauty
which
Nature
gave
her
.
This
is
that
which
causeth
most
men
,
not
trouble
themselves
how
,
provided
they
procure
favour
.
I
praise
God
,
Madam
,
to
see
your
house
free
from
this
reproach
.
This
is
it
which
makes
me
beleeve
,
that
if
fortune
doe
ever
reconcile
her selfe
with
vertue
,
the
peace
will
never
be
made
,
but
on
condition
to
make
my
Lord
your
husband
chiefe
of
the
gowne
.
I
am
no
Sibil
,
my
age
,
and
face
,
take
off
the
suspition
:
but
if
there
be
prophetique
gifts
in
any
soules
,
and
God
take
pleasure
to
make
beasts
speake
under
the
raigne
of
Lewes
the
thirteenth
,
aswell
as
under
that
of
Pharoah
;
I
shall
boldly
foretell
the
good
hap
of
the
state
,
when
it
shall
use
the
counsels
of
M.
T.
That
which
he
hath
done
in
diverse
negotiations
,
witnesseth
that
he
hath
not
wanted
to
so
good
a
master
,
but
a
Letter
cannot
describe
his
perfections
,
and
I
have
done
but
like
Mathematicians
,
who
with
small
points
,
marke
out
great
Kingdomes
.
It
remaines
I
tell
you
that
the
departure
made
by
my
Lord
your
son
,
is
an
action
you
cannot
complaine
of
,
seeing
the
example
of
your
piety
,
is
perhaps
the
onely
cause
of
his
resolution
,
this
it
is
forbids
mee
remember
you
of
a
thousand
reasons
,
might
be
alleaged
to
sustaine
the
assault
of
blood
,
and
nature
.
for
the
fruites
hee
shall
bring
forth
in
the
Church
,
and
the
consolation
you
shall
thence
receive
,
will
diminish
the
displeasures
he
might
leave
to
a
house
full
of
honour
,
and
riches
.
T
is
this
I
hope
for
his
contentment
,
and
yours
,
sharing
as
I
doe
,
in
all
that
concernes
you
,
and
desiring
nothing
more
,
then
to
witnesse
to
you
that
I
am
entirely
,
Madam
,
Your
,
&c.
The
XLIV
.
Letter
.
She
testifies
her
displeasure
,
being
almost
in
despaire
to
see
her
againe
,
and
that
shee
had
rather
speake
,
then
write
to
her
.
MY
deare
Cousin
,
However
I
esteeme
your
Letters
,
I
had
rather
be
in
case
to
speake
then
write
,
not
that
I
loathe
to
entertaine
you
in
that
kinde
,
seeing
I
have
no
other
meanes
:
I
cease
not
to
thinke
on
you
,
but
I
preferre
your
presence
to
your
Idea
,
and
will
take
more
pleasure
to
addresse
my
prayers
to
you
,
then
your
picture
;
I
meane
to
the
image
of
your
merits
,
which
never
can
be
blotted
from
my
memory
.
Your
remembrance
may
give
contentment
to
my
soule
,
but
your
entertainement
to
my
sense
also
,
and
would
render
my
joy
more
perfect
.
Any
faire
thoughts
I
have
of
you
,
I
am
little
more
happy
then
those
that
have
pleasing
dreames
,
when
all
is
done
,
t
is
but
a
fantome
that
I
hugge
,
and
if
there
be
ought
better
in
my
dreaming
then
theirs
,
t
is
that
I
can
maintaine
it
longer
.
And
so
I
doe
alwaies
,
separating
my selfe
from
company
,
that
I
be
lesse
distracted
from
the
remembrance
of
yours
.
I
know
that
absent
persons
,
cannot
entertaine
themselves
,
but
by
the
meanes
of
letters
,
but
it
seemes
to
me
,
there
is
not
much
pleasure
to
speake
so
farre
off
,
as
we
doe
,
and
that
the
words
are
very
cold
we
put
on
paper
.
For
my selfe
,
I
cannot
but
complaine
of
it
,
and
I
thinke
I
have
more
cause
then
any
body
,
you
know
it
,
since
there
is
scarse
any
likelihood
to
see
you
again
.
This
necessity
which
comforts
in
other
occasions
,
doth
afflict
me
the
more
in
this
,
and
if
I
had
more
hope
,
I
should
have
lesse
torment
.
I
resemble
the
daughters
of
Princes
,
married
into
strange
Countries
,
which
never
,
or
very
seldome
returne
.
If
their
matches
be
but
banishments
,
so
is
mine
:
and
though
my
fortune
be
not
so
glorious
,
it
is
no
lesse
unhappy
.
This
is
that
which
troubles
me
,
when
I
consider
,
that
I
cannot
re-approach
you
,
and
that
I
must
now
write
,
what
I
have
beene
accustomed
to
protest
by
mouth
,
that
I
am
perfectly
,
Madam
,
Your
,
&c.
The
XLV
.
Letter
.
Shee
professeth
her
ind●sposition
to
complement
,
and
makes
her
new
offers
of
service
.
MIstris
,
I
keepe
my
word
,
and
send
you
a
Letter
far
from
Complement
,
and
how
should
I
make
them
,
since
tho
I
know
them
not
,
I
hate
them
?
This
is
the
reason
you
forbad
me
use
them
,
to
satisfie
my
ignorance
,
as
well
as
my
humor
,
if
I
were
not
extreamely
averse
from
them
,
your
entertainement
would
be
my
Schoole
to
learne
.
But
I
must
change
discourse
,
least
with
a
Complement
I
blame
it
.
I
am
infinitely
obliged
to
you
,
for
so
many
proofes
of
your
remembrance
,
and
am
so
satisfied
with
the
Paine
you
take
to
write
,
I
can
no
more
expresse
my
content
,
then
the
affection
I
have
to
honour
you
.
I
sweare
to
you
,
the
one
,
and
the
other
is
extreame
,
and
my
onely
displeasure
is
to
have
so
little
meanes
to
shew
it
.
I
am
barren
of
occasions
to
render
you
what
I
desire
,
but
not
of
desire
to
encounter
those
to
serve
you
.
I
hope
if
ever
any
be
presented
to
acquit
my selfe
in
some
sort
of
the
obligation
I
owe
you
,
by
the
care
I
will
take
to
make
you
see
,
how
I
am
,
Mistris
,
Your
,
&c.
The
XLVI
.
Letter
.
She
complaines
not
to
have
heard
from
her
,
and
expresses
the
feare
she
hath
to
be
no
longer
in
her
favor
.
MAdam
,
t
is
so
long
since
I
received
any
newes
from
you
,
I
scarse
dare
demand
it
any
more
.
I
have
cause
to
thinke
it
is
not
onely
want
of
remembrance
,
but
of
will
that
you
deprive
me
of
this
favor
.
I
should
be
happy
were
it
onely
oblivion
,
but
I
doubt
t
is
also
contempt
.
If
this
be
not
my
faith
,
t
is
my
feare
.
But
however
;
if
my
misfortune
be
come
to
such
extreamity
,
at
least
take
the
paines
to
tell
it
me
:
that
I
may
not
endure
so
great
a
losse
,
and
not
weare
mourning
.
T
is
not
long
since
I
perceived
by
your
Letters
,
that
I
ought
not
long
to
hope
the
continuance
.
Especially
since
I
have
beene
at
L.
with
Madam
d●
B.
It
seemes
to
mee
you
have
taken
mee
for
a
stranger
.
I
shall
never
be
so
in
what
concernes
you
.
And
beleeve
assuredly
what
ever
walk
I
make
,
the
change
of
the
place
shall
never
be
followed
with
that
of
my
affection
,
but
I
must
leave
this
discourse
,
or
rather
finish
it
,
in
the
distrust
I
am
to
have
no
part
in
your
favour
,
I
feare
my
Complements
doe
importune
you
.
I
end
them
,
and
this
,
which
I
ought
make
no
longer
,
having
reason
to
thinke
you
are
no
more
in
humour
to
reade
Letters
,
then
to
write
.
I
am
so
much
afraid
of
it
,
that
I
even
make
a
scruple
to
finish
this
like
others
,
and
I
beleeve
it
is
enough
to
be
,
without
daring
tell
you
so
,
Madam
,
Your
,
&c.
The
XLVII
.
Letter
.
She
complaines
of
her
forgetfulnesse
,
and
assures
her
of
her
remembrance
although
she
shold
forbid
it
.
MAdam
,
I
begge
your
pardon
for
my
writing
,
I
thinke
it
be
to
trouble
you
,
but
to
make
it
passe
the
least
part
of
your
time
,
in
reading
the
offers
of
a
service
,
so
little
necessary
as
mine
.
I
cease
not
however
to
acquit
my selfe
of
this
duty
,
and
to
persecute
you
yet
with
my
newes
,
to
shew
you
the
extreme
griefe
I
suffer
to
be
deprived
of
yours
.
I
receive
none
;
and
I
feare
that
sending
so
few
letters
,
you
have
not
a
purpose
to
shew
that
mine
displease
you
,
it
was
this
,
I
ought
alwayes
to
thinke
,
if
I
had
not
beene
too
credulous
,
when
you
assured
me
the
contrary
,
likewise
I
beleeve
that
another
more
bold
than
I
,
would
pray
you
to
remember
your
promises
,
since
upon
the
matter
you
have
at
other
times
made
me
to
hope
the
honour
of
your
remembrance
,
but
't
is
a
favour
so
much
above
me
,
I
should
thinke
it
a
fault
to
demand
it
;
and
that
indeede
,
I
did
but
dreame
,
when
I
thought
that
I
possest
it
.
Neverthelesse
since
I
can
no
longer
be
happy
by
hope
,
at
least
I
will
be
so
by
remembrance
.
I
will
consider
times
past
,
to
comfort
me
at
present
;
and
though
we
be
not
rich
,
by
the
goods
wee
have
lost
,
I
will
notwithstanding
doe
a
miracle
,
and
make
my selfe
content
by
a
felicity
not
in
being
:
all
that
can
afflict
me
is
,
that
I
know
not
if
this
will
not
offend
you
,
and
if
you
grieve
not
to
see
me
happie
,
albeit
you
contribute
nothing
to
it
;
perhaps
you
will
take
it
ill
,
that
an
extraordinary
merit
like
yours
,
should
serve
for
an
object
to
so
low
a
thought
as
mine
,
but
vexe
your selfe
at
it
while
you
list
,
I
shall
very
hardly
obey
you
,
though
you
should
fall
into
the
humour
to
forbid
it
;
to
forget
your
merits
,
is
to
me
as
impossible
,
as
the
remembrance
of
my
defects
is
to
you
tedious
.
And
albeit
the
feare
of
your
displeasure
,
should
hinder
me
to
protest
by
letters
,
the
affection
I
have
to
serve
you
,
I
cannot
deny
my selfe
to
be
truely
as
I
am
,
Madam
,
Your
,
&c.
The
XLVIII
.
She
thankes
her
for
her
approbation
,
and
saith
that
if
she
had
more
merit
she
should
have
lesse
friends
,
aswell
as
lesse
like
in
the
Countrey
.
MY
deare
confident
,
your
prayses
doe
bring
mee
more
shame
,
than
vanity
,
they
are
so
excessive
,
that
I
cannot
receive
them
,
without
wronging
the
knowledge
I
should
have
of
my selfe
,
you
are
too
liberall
;
and
if
nature
had
done
so
much
for
me
as
you
say
,
I
should
be
in
case
to
rejoyce
,
where
as
now
I
am
to
lament
.
Certainely
I
cannot
imagine
the
cause
of
so
an
extraordinary
an
approbation
.
If
it
proceede
from
affection
you
are
in
an
errour
,
if
from
subtlety
,
you
would
put
me
in
one
.
I
beleeve
there
ia
a
little
of
the
one
,
and
the
other
;
and
that
civility
mixt
with
friendship
,
renders
you
so
prodigall
in
my
behalfe
;
I
will
not
abuse
it
,
and
the
greatnesse
of
your
courtesie
shall
not
hinder
mee
to
see
the
greatnesse
of
my
defects
.
This
is
the
way
best
to
acknowledge
the
favour
you
doe
me
,
for
looke
how
much
I
esteeme
my selfe
more
imperfect
,
I
shall
esteeme
you
more
obliging
,
but
leave
mee
the
opinion
you
have
of
me
,
to
speake
of
that
they
have
in
this
Country
,
know
you
that
if
I
had
more
spirit
,
I
should
here
have
lesse
credit
,
and
should
be
in
danger
to
have
fewer
friends
,
if
I
had
fewer
like
?
if
I
could
speake
,
or
write
well
,
I
should
have
qualities
not
in
fashion
,
and
which
would
not
onely
be
unprofitable
but
dangerous
;
they
esteeme
them
worthy
of
contempt
,
not
prayse
,
or
imitation
:
we
are
in
a
Country
where
ignorance
is
more
happy
,
and
more
esteemed
than
knowledge
:
Vertue
is
here
despised
,
and
worthy
persons
are
constrained
to
doe
as
Protestants
at
Rome
;
they
are
afraid
to
appeare
with
their
merit
,
as
those
with
their
religion
,
insomuch
that
if
I
were
more
able
,
I
should
be
lesse
honoured
,
yet
have
I
cause
to
thanke
God
,
in
that
having
destind
me
for
the
Countrey
,
he
hath
given
me
qualities
there
esteemed
meane
,
while
my
defects
render
me
the
object
of
your
compassion
,
here
they
are
that
of
praise
,
and
admiration
,
insomuch
that
I
cannot
depart
hence
,
without
losing
my
luster
.
If
I
quit
the
Country
and
come
to
Paris
of
admirable
,
I
shall
become
ridiculous
.
I
am
hardly
of
opinion
to
goe
into
a
place
where
are
able
spirits
,
that
can
better
marke
my
defects
,
than
here
they
doe
;
but
all
these
reasons
move
me
not
;
the
feare
not
to
be
there
esteemed
,
shall
never
be
so
strong
as
the
desire
I
have
to
see
you
,
and
to
assure
you
that
I
am
,
Madam
Your
,
&c.
The
XLIX
.
Letter
.
She
sayes
that
if
she
prayse
her
,
it
is
without
flattery
.
MAdam
,
what
ever
I
say
of
you
,
doe
me
the
favour
not
to
accuse
me
of
dissimulation
;
it
is
not
civility
obliges
me
to
your
prayses
,
t
is
that
which
hinders
you
to
receive
them
,
doth
truth
displease
you
,
because
you
are
the
object
?
and
must
vertue
lose
the
esteeme
we
owe
it
,
because
it
lives
in
you
?
This
is
unreasonable
,
and
I
will
not
be
unjust
to
please
you
,
I
want
two
qualities
which
are
more
necessary
to
slatterers
.
I
have
neither
wickednesse
nor
wit
.
I
am
too
generous
,
and
too
ignorant
to
practise
this
vicious
dexterity
;
however
I
know
you
are
no
more
capeable
to
receive
,
than
I
to
offer
it
.
I
should
bee
farre
estranged
from
my
purpose
,
as
well
as
from
yours
,
and
my
owne
humour
,
should
I
endeavour
to
please
you
by
flattery
,
I
should
put
my selfe
in
danger
to
loose
your
favour
,
instead
of
gaining
it
by
this
device
.
Finally
,
I
tell
you
my
thought
,
and
if
you
ac●use
mee
to
bee
in
errour
,
●t
least
accuse
mee
not
of
●eduction
.
I
will
speake
no●hing
,
but
what
I
thinke
●hen
I
publish
every
where
●s
I
doe
,
that
the
two
things
●hich
admit
not
the
lest
●omparison
are
,
your
me●●t
,
and
the
desire
it
produces
●●
mee
to
serve
you
,
and
to
bee
alwayes
,
Madam
,
Your
,
&c.
The
L.
Letter
.
Shee
accuses
his
silence
,
and
complaines
that
shee
knowes
not
whether
to
write
to
him
.
MY
deare
Brother
,
I
know
what
reason
you
have
not
to
bee
here
,
but
cannot
comprehend
wha●
hinders
you
to
write
.
I●
your
absence
bee
an
effect
of
your
misfortune
,
your
silence
is
one
of
your
oblivion
.
And
thinke
in
what
displeasure
wee
bee
,
since
wee
must
beleeve
you
want
opportunitie
or
will
,
if
the
first
wee
feare
you
have
no
longer
libertie
,
and
have
cause
to
lament
you
:
if
the
second
,
you
have
no
more
affection
,
and
wee
have
cause
to
be
angry
with
you
,
wee
are
reduced
to
the
straite
,
either
of
pitty
or
choller
.
So
little
as
you
regard
us
,
consider
yet
into
what
you
plung
us
.
Since
beside
the
griefe
wee
have
not
to
heare
from
you
,
wee
know
not
moreover
how
to
send
.
If
you
tell
us
yet
where
you
bee
,
wee
should
have
some
comfort
,
but
as
yet
wee
can
discover
nothing
of
it
.
So
I
turne
this
loose
to
hazard
us
,
knowing
what
fortune
it
shall
runne
by
sea
,
or
land
.
I
must
speake
freely
to
you
,
and
tell
you
that
I
cannot
imagine
the
cause
of
so
long
a
silence
,
especially
in
a
person
that
would
perswade
that
his
affection
is
extreame
.
It
must
needes
be
that
you
inhabite
some
land
,
where
they
forget
faire
women
,
as
easily
as
here
they
doe
good
services
.
You
understand
me
well
enough
,
and
t
is
enough
you
know
,
that
Calista
doth
yet
complaine
more
then
Amaranta
,
and
that
your
Mistresse
mixes
her
teares
with
those
of
your
sister
.
Are
these
two
pleasing
companions
cleane
forgotten
?
Consider
if
you
be
but
little
guilty
,
when
at
the
same
time
,
you
offend
love
and
friendship
.
And
are
no
better
brother
,
then
faithfull
lover
.
How
insensible
soever
you
bee
,
I
assure
my selfe
,
if
you
reade
this
Letter
with
my
attention
,
you
cannot
but
bee
toucht
.
I
hope
my
prayers
shall
worke
some
effect
,
if
you
regard
who
makes
them
,
it
is
,
My
Brother
,
Yours
,
&c.
The
LI.
Letter
.
Shee
complaines
of
the
inconstancie
of
a
certaine
Lady
,
who
had
in
the
beginning
exprest
an
extraordinary
inclination
,
and
soone
after
quitted
it
.
MAdam
,
I
know
no
longer
what
to
thinke
of
our
age
,
I
am
of
the
opinion
of
those
,
who
have
neither
hope
,
nor
faith
,
but
in
God
:
that
wee
give
to
the
world
,
is
too
often
abused
,
not
to
leave
us
undeceived
,
would
you
ever
beleeve
that
Beliana
had
ceast
to
visite
mee
,
after
the
protestations
shee
made
mee
in
your
presence
?
had
you
thought
she
could
live
without
mee
?
and
neverthelesse
I
heare
no
more
newes
of
her
.
I
have
given
her
many
visites
,
without
receiving
any
.
And
when
I
meete
her
by
the
way
,
shee
salutes
mee
with
so
much
coldnesse
,
as
will
serve
to
expresse
her
ficklenesse
.
I
protest
I
have
beene
deceived
in
her
.
I
never
thought
so
faire
a
beginning
had
beene
so
neere
the
end
,
and
that
so
much
dearenesse
shee
made
mee
at
first
,
should
have
beene
followed
in
so
short
a
time
with
neglect
.
You
know
how
farre
my
humour
is
estranged
from
lightnesse
;
but
I
protest
at
present
,
I
wish
my selfe
more
facility
,
that
I
might
bee
lesse
troubled
with
hers
.
My
constancy
is
no
lesse
importunate
,
then
unjust
,
since
ordinarily
it
carries
mee
to
those
that
have
it
not
.
I
chaine
my selfe
so
strongly
to
what
I
love
,
that
it
cannot
be
separated
from
mee
without
carrying
away
a
peece
.
I
still
behold
with
griefe
what
I
should
behold
with
contempt
.
It
is
true
,
I
doe
my selfe
all
the
violence
of
the
world
,
to
lose
my
prize
.
But
what
shall
I
doe
more
for
her
,
not
being
able
to
returne
,
I
must
needes
let
her
goe
;
and
let
the
force
of
reason
comfort
mee
in
a
chance
,
where
the
tendernes
of
affection
would
bee
without
remedy
,
but
let
us
leave
a
discourse
unprofitable
,
and
irkesome
,
t
is
better
I
entertaine
you
with
my
voyage
.
I
have
beene
in
the
Countrey
,
since
I
saw
you
,
and
was
never
so
much
vext
in
so
little
time
.
T
is
a
strange
countrey
where
I
thinke
they
would
never
speake
,
should
you
barre
rayling
.
There
is
no
more
honesty
,
then
ingenuity
:
And
what
ever
they
talke
of
the
simplicity
of
the
village
,
I
know
they
are
no
lesse
viciou●
there
,
then
in
the
City
,
and
that
all
the
difference
is
,
they
sinne
more
grosse●y
.
I
have
met
there
but
with
two
sorts
of
persons
,
which
are
to
mee
equally
vexatious
,
the
ignorant
,
or
the
envious
;
they
have
all
abad
wit
,
or
a
bad
nature
.
The
one
know
not
vertue
,
the
other
love
it
not
,
judge
now
if
I
tooke
delight
in
the
Countrey
.
I
know
not
if
they
have
observed
my
aversenesse
,
but
I
am
sure
I
had
all
the
labour
of
the
world
to
conceale
it
.
You
may
tell
me
I
will
make
my selfe
enemies
:
but
for
my
part
,
I
had
rather
loose
unprofitable
friends
,
then
retaine
the
troublesome
.
I
cannot
observe
so
tedious
a
pollicy
.
T
is
a
prudence
too
laborious
,
which
commands
to
please
the
unworthy
.
I
renounce
it
,
say
what
they
will
,
and
henceforth
will
force
my selfe
in
nothing
,
if
the
complacency
bee
not
necessary
for
your
service
:
I
assure
you
of
it
with
as
much
truth
,
as
I
am
,
Madam
,
Your
,
&c.
The
LII
.
Letter
.
Shee
writes
that
shee
had
taken
paines
in
the
affaires
of
a
Gentleman
,
before
he
was
recommended
to
her
,
and
that
his
merit
only
had
obliged
her
to
it
.
MAdam
,
albeit
I
had
no
knowledge
of
the
affaires
of
Mounsieur
B.
That
I
have
of
his
person
,
obliges
mee
sufficiently
to
serve
him
,
when
I
know
my
friends
have
neede
of
mee
,
there
is
no
neede
of
prayers
,
advertisement
is
sufficient
:
judge
if
I
can
spare
my selfe
in
this
occasion
:
since
it
is
for
one
you
esteeme
.
You
must
not
doubt
,
but
I
doe
all
my
endeavour
to
obey
you
,
and
oblige
him
,
but
the
businesse
was
ended
,
I
had
already
done
that
for
his
onely
merit
,
which
I
would
doe
for
your
onely
recommendation
:
it
is
come
too
late
,
I
had
already
done
him
service
,
and
hee
received
the
favour
you
demand
by
your
Letter
.
I
have
one
particular
satisfaction
,
to
have
prevented
your
commands
,
and
to
have
showne
you
my
inclination
,
before
my
obedience
.
Respect
obliges
mee
to
call
it
so
,
which
your
courtesie
names
a
prayer
.
But
give
what
name
you
please
to
the
effects
of
my
duty
,
provided
you
judge
of
them
truely
,
and
doe
mee
the
honour
to
beleeve
that
I
am
,
Madam
,
Your
,
&c.
The
LIII
.
Letter
.
She
prayses
her
manner
of
writing
,
and
blames
that
of
many
others
;
who
have
no
equall
stile
,
and
know
onely
a
certaine
number
of
studyed
words
,
not
being
able
to
continue
.
MAdam
,
I
cannot
say
how
much
I
esteeme
your
letters
;
I
had
need
make
as
good
to
expresse
their
excellence
.
In
what
stile
soever
you
write
them
,
they
are
alwayes
pleasing
,
or
profitable
.
If
you
treate
on
subjects
of
importance
,
there
is
nothing
so
full
of
instruction
,
if
they
bee
written
with
more
freedome
,
there
is
nothing
so
full
of
recreation
.
Serious
they
are
without
strayning
,
familiar
without
neglect
.
Your
stile
is
like
those
beauties
which
appeare
in
all
fashions
,
and
still
please
,
whether
they
bee
neately
drest
or
plaine
,
and
to
touch
that
which
doth
wholly
●nc●ant
mee
,
it
is
the
great
equali●y
observed
as
well
in
your
discourse
,
and
writing
,
as
in
your
manner
of
life
,
by
which
equality
I
meane
not
that
one
should
doe
,
or
speake
alwaies
the
same
thing
,
but
that
the
one
,
and
the
other
be
alwaies
well
.
I
praise
a
perfection
in
you
,
which
is
much
wanting
in
many
others
.
There
are
many
which
learne
some
shreads
of
certaine
bookes
,
and
know
them
by
heart
to
vent
them
in
company
,
or
in
their
Letters
.
These
take
sometimes
,
but
they
must
not
shew
often
,
if
they
meane
to
acquire
equall
glory
,
they
are
like
to
those
which
sell
all
their
goods
for
a
weekes
bravery
.
Their
discourse
is
flat
on
some
subjects
,
swelling
in
others
.
This
is
to
put
a
peece
of
Scarlet
upon
a
tottered
garment
:
t
is
to
shew
at
the
same
time
theft
,
and
weakenesse
:
and
that
they
are
not
onely
poore
,
but
unable
to
use
the
wealth
of
others
.
T
is
to
make
their
fall
so
much
the
more
dangerous
,
as
they
strove
to
flye
too
high
wee
may
maintaine
that
truth
shewes
something
of
Icarus
in
our
sexe
,
though
the
fable
attribute
it
onely
to
men
:
to
speake
properly
,
they
are
dwarfes
upon
stilts
.
T
is
seene
they
are
little
,
and
would
appeare
great
,
we
know
the
vanity
of
their
designe
,
wi●h
the
imperfection
of
their
stature
.
You
know
of
whom
I
speake
,
and
I
would
tell
you
more
,
had
I
more
time
,
but
I
have
no
more
,
but
to
assure
you
that
I
am
,
Madam
Your
,
&c.
The
LIV
Letter
.
She
saith
that
her
letters
serve
her
for
copies
to
learne
to
write
,
and
that
shee
desires
more
judgement
to
bee
more
able
to
imitate
.
MAdam
,
you
erre
to
say
I
have
need
of
patience
for
your
Letters
,
as
well
as
your
entertainement
.
You
must
have
a
bad
opinion
of
mee
,
if
you
thinke
I
have
no
better
of
you
.
Albeit
I
have
not
judgement
enough
to
comprehend
the
goodnesse
of
yours
,
I
cease
not
to
taste
the
sweetenesse
,
with
extreame
griefe
,
not
to
be
more
knowing
that
I
might
bee
more
happy
.
I
am
sure
I
should
draw
more
advantage
from
your
knowledge
,
then
you
from
my
approbation
,
and
that
I
should
gaine
more
by
your
instructions
,
then
you
by
my
prayses
.
But
it
weighes
not
,
you
neede
not
complaine
much
;
if
I
have
not
judgement
enough
to
admire
the
sharpenesse
,
and
delicacy
of
your
Letters
,
at
least
I
shew
them
to
those
that
can
better
judge
,
and
which
give
you
an
approbation
more
glorious
then
mine
.
I
entreate
you
beleeve
me
,
and
forbeare
not
to
write
,
albeit
there
be
no
body
worthy
of
your
Letters
.
They
shall
serve
mee
for
copies
,
and
at
least
you
shall
gaine
this
advantage
,
that
if
I
be
happy
in
imitation
,
those
you
shall
receive
from
mee
shall
bee
more
polite
,
and
pleasing
to
you
,
so
much
as
they
shall
resemble
yours
.
Perhaps
by
little
and
little
,
I
shall
become
a
good
scholler
in
your
schoole
,
and
if
I
take
the
custome
to
call
you
my
Mistresse
,
I
shall
have
new
ground
to
ascribe
you
this
quality
,
and
not
onely
to
stile
my selfe
your
scholler
,
but
,
Madam
,
Your
servant
.
FINIS
.