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Shee assures her that her Let∣ters shall never bee troublesome, and expresses displeasure, that hers were not all received.
MAdam, you do me wrong to thinke I can ever for∣get you, you must have lesse merit, or I lesse knowledge of it. There is nothing so true as the assurances I give you of my remembrance. And you shall have better reason to beleeve, then desire it. This is more true then profitable to you. You
are my example, and my reme∣dy: I thinke on you alwayes to comfort and instruct my selfe. You tell me that I have not received all your Letters; if it be so, I have reason to complaine with thankes, and to esteeme my selfe unfortu∣nate, at the same time, I beleeve my selfe obliged. I should be lesse worthy of this favour, if I had lesse feeling of such a losse. I see my selfe enforced to a∣gree to contrary passions for the same cause, joy, and sadnes. If I rejoyce to know you re∣member me, it afflicts me, not to have seene all the evidences, as for my Letters you have re∣ceiv'd them all in the same day as I conceive, albeit, as you may well see, I write them one after another. I am sorry they were not given you in the time
that I desired: But seeing it is thus happened, at least I shall thence draw one great advan∣tage; It is that henceforth, if you receive none, you will at∣tribute it to my misfortune, which else perhaps you would to my oblivion, never then en∣tertaine an opinion contrary to the purpose I have to ho∣nour you: and whether I write to you, or not, beleeve that I am perfectly,
Madam
Your, &c.