Nevv epistles of Mounsieur de Balzac. Translated out of French into English, by Sr. Richard Baker Knight. Being the second and third volumes
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Nevv epistles of Mounsieur de Balzac. Translated out of French into English, by Sr. Richard Baker Knight. Being the second and third volumes
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Balzac, Jean-Louis Guez, seigneur de, 1597-1654.
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London :: Printed by T. Cotes [and John Dawson] for Fra. Eglesfield, Iohn Crooke, and Rich. Serger, and are to be sold at the Gray-hound in Pauls Chuch-yard [sic],
1638.
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"Nevv epistles of Mounsieur de Balzac. Translated out of French into English, by Sr. Richard Baker Knight. Being the second and third volumes." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A02322.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.
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To my Lord the Bishop of Nants. LETTER LI.
SIR, I am now growne shamelesse, and make no longer any conscience to be trou∣ble some to you. Yet hold on your course of goodnesse: which hath from the very first beene so ready to me, and freely makes me of∣fer of that, for which it ought to make me be a suitor. I send you now foure leaves for Ruell, and if you please to let three of your owne lines beare them company, I doubt not but they will have a happy arrivall, and that the skiffe will procure passage for the great vessell. But because Fortune her selfe, hath done one halfe of my discourse, and that I have little com∣merce with any but Latines borne, I humbly entreate you my Lord, to be so good, when I am fallen to helpe me to rise, and not suffer me to goe astray, in a Country, where you are Prince. I know you love your owne elections, with more then naturall tendernesse, and that
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you respect me, as none of the least of your Creatures. This is a cause, why to keepe me in your favour, and to ingage you in my inte∣rests, I will not tell you to your face, that you are the Chrysostome of our Church, that you are privy to the most secret intentions of Saint Paul, That there is neither Iew nor Gentile, that hearing you speake of the greatnesse and Dignity of Christianity, doth not willingly submit himselfe to follow Christ, I will onely say, it hath beene your will to be my Father, and that I am,
My Lord,
Your, &c.
At Balzac 8. Ianua. 1630.
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