The secretary of ladies. Or, A new collection of letters and answers, composed by moderne ladies and gentlewomen, collected by Mounsieur Du Bosque. Translated out of French by I.H.
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The secretary of ladies. Or, A new collection of letters and answers, composed by moderne ladies and gentlewomen, collected by Mounsieur Du Bosque. Translated out of French by I.H.
Author
Du Boscq, Monsieur.
Publication
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.
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French letters -- Early works to 1800.
Women -- Early works to 1800.
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"The secretary of ladies. Or, A new collection of letters and answers, composed by moderne ladies and gentlewomen, collected by Mounsieur Du Bosque. Translated out of French by I.H." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A20892.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.
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The XXII. Letter. (Book 22)
She tels her that nothing can keepe her
from writing; no, not the feaver it
selfe, though violent.
MAdam, imagine the de∣sire
I have to receive
your Letters by the care I take
to send you mine, having a fit
of the feaver to suffer, and see∣ing
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, tis not with feare, but
with a shivering cold. In this
estate I have not beene carefull
to write you a long letter, be∣cause
the Post presseth mee on
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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
tis a labour too praise worthy,
which I undergoe, to take oc∣casion
to testifie to you, how I
am,
Madam,
Your, &c.
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