To Mounsieur Granier. LETTER. XIII.
SIR, my persecution should be sweete unto me, if in suffering it, I might have the hap∣pinesse to see you; but your absence makes it insupportable: and it were as good for mee to
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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goe and be killed in the place where you are, as to come hither and die with languishing Being here against my minde, I finde nothing that pleaseth me: and the objects which I be∣held before, as the riches of Nature, I cannot now looke upon but with horrour, and count them but as the moveables of a Prison. I sigh continually after your Cabinet, which hath so often served for a haven to my tossed spirit: and from whence I have so often fetcht Armes and courage to defend me against For∣tune. I am not out of hope to see it once againe, and to sit mee downe in that greene chaire, where you know I have used to be inspired, and foretell things to come, as Sibil did from her Tryvet. In the meane time I must let the unhappy co•…•…stellation passe away; and must give place to the choler of heaven. So long Sir, as you vouchsafe to remember me, and to hold me in the favour of Messieurs du Puy; I shall not want a good portion of consolation. These are persons that without wearing purple, or bearing office, are yet illustrious and in Autho∣ritie, at least in the reasonable world, and a∣mongst men, that can rightly judge of things. No imployment is so honourable as their Lei∣sure: no ambition so worthily at worke, as their vertue takes it rest. You shall doe mee a singular favour, to let them know from me, in how greet 〈◊〉〈◊〉 I hold them both: and that 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the Gallery of Moun∣s•…•… 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉 better perswaded than I am of their inco•…•…: merit, I will sometimes
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expect to heare from you; and will alwayes be with all my heart,
Sir,
Your, &c.
At Balzac, 3. Septem. 1632.