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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Subject terms
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 13, 2024.
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descriptionPage 240
The XLV. Letter. (Book 45)
Shee professeth her ind••sposition
to complement, and makes her
new offers of service.
MIstris, I keepe my word,
and send you a Letter far
from Complement, and how
should I make them, since tho
I know them not, I hate them?
This is the reason you forbad
me use them, to satisfie my ig∣norance,
as well as my humor,
if I were not extreamely averse
from them, your entertaine∣ment
would be my Schoole to
learne. But I must change dis∣course,
least with a Comple∣ment
I blame it. I am infinite∣ly
obliged to you, for so many
proofes of your remembrance,
and am so satisfied with the
descriptionPage 241
Paine you take to write, I can
no more expresse my content,
then the affection I have to ho∣nour
you. I sweare to you, the
one, and the other is extreame,
and my onely displeasure is to
have so little meanes to shew
it. I am barren of occasions to
render you what I desire, but
not of desire to encounter those
to serve you. I hope if ever a∣ny
be presented to acquit my
selfe in some sort of the obli∣gation
I owe you, by the care
I will take to make you see,
how I am,
Mistris,
Your, &c.
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