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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Another to her. LETTER LI.
MAdam, I cannot possibly live a•…•…ie longer without hearing from you: but I cannot heare of anie of whom to heare it; and Ley∣monsins are as rare in these par•…•…, as Spaniards since the warre was proclaimed, I must there∣fore make use of a messenger, whom you have raised to an Embassadour, to the end hee may informe mee of your health and your friends, My love of you, drawes on a curiositie: for all things that are yours: and my 〈◊〉〈◊〉 will not be in quiet, till I heare how my masters, your children doe, and what good newes you heare
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from them. Particularly I desire to know, whe∣ther you bee yet a Grand-mother in Holland: and whether my Ladie, your daughter in law, have brought you Captaines or Senatours, at least, Madam, they shall bee children much bound to their mother; seeing, besides their birth, they shall owe her for their libertie, a thing they should not doe to a Fleming of Bruxels. I have seene the Cavalier you have so often spoken of, and I thinke you judge verie rightlie of him. Hee consists wholly of a Pickedevant, and two Mustachoes: and therefore utterly to defeate him, there needes but three clippes of a paire of Cizers. It is not possible to bring one——to bee afraid of him. Hee sayth, that if he wore a Lions skinne, and carried in one hand a Torch, and in the other a Clubbe, yet in such equipage hee would bee more ridiculous than redoubtable. Hee beleeves hee hath cho∣ler enough, but beleeves not hee hath any heart; hee reckons him, in the number of beasts that are skittish and resty, but not that are cruell and furious: And when I tell him, he hath been often in the field; hee answeres me, it hath been then, rather to feed, than to fight. You can, if you please, returne mee a hundred fold for this my untoward short re∣lation: and it will bee: long of you, if my man come not back laden with histories, which must certainly have been written to you by the
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last Posts. Take pitty upon the ignorance of your neighbours, and doe me the honour to bel•…•…ive I am,
Madam,
Your, &c.
At Balzac, 15. Aug. 1635.
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