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Another to him. LETTER XLIV.
SIR, I make no secret of our friendship, it is too honest to be hidden; and I am so proud of it, that I thinke my selfe of no worth but by it. Mounsieur Iamyn, acknowledgeth my good fortune herein, and is himselfe in passion to get your acquaintance, to which hee perswades himselfe; I should not be his worst introductor; and that by my meanes he might be admitted to your studies. I will make my selfe beleeve, that he mistakes me not; and that for my sake, you will adde to your accustomed courtesies a little extraordinarie. They who saw Pericles, how he thundred and lightened in the publike Assemblies, were desirous to heare him in a quieter estate; to know whe∣ther his Calme were as sweete and pleasing as his Tempest. This man hath the like desire; and though my recommendation, were as in∣different to you, as it is deere; yet so honest a curiositie would deserve to be respected. Hee is the sonne of one of my best friends, and though perhappes you know it not, you are the example that Fathers propose for imitation to their children; and by whose name they ex∣cite to vertue all their youth. I neede not say more to you of this; onely be mindefull of our resolute and undaunted Maximes; and in this