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THough to Command and Obey be the fittest Dialogue betwixt you and us; yet since your Lordship pleases to descend from your Right and only to Re∣quest, pardon us, if, by your Example we intrench upon you, and presume upon an
Answer. Sir, We are sorry our Duty is not phras'd in Action, nor can we deter∣mine, whether it was more grateful to us, that you requir'd our Service, or griev∣ous, that at this time we could not express it; for no sooner were we inform'd of your pleasure, but so obligatory is your Will, that poysing your Letters with our Laws, we thought our Statutes were at Civil Wars. The College, like an Indulgent Mother, Entails her Preferments on her own Progeny. Your Lordship prefers a stranger, whom to Adopt were not only to Bastard her present Issue, but disinhe∣rit all succeeding hopes. If it seem a De∣linquency to be thus tender of her own, she will intitle her offence to your Lord∣ship, who when you honour'd her with your Admission, taught her to set a great∣er price upon her Children. Thus hoping you will abstract our Will from our Power, we honour your Lordship, desiring that occasion may present us with some service, whose difficulty may add a deeper Dye to the Observance of
The Master and Fellows of S. J.