CCX.MADAM,I Hope you will not be Angry, that I do not take your Advice to Leave the Country, and Live in the City, for I have so many Rea∣sons which perswade me not to do it, as this Letter cannot Compass, yet lest I should Of∣fend you, I'l set down some Few: The first is, that it is more Agreeing with my Humor to live in the Country, for Naturally my Hu∣mor is a Solitary, Musing, and Contemplating Humor, and my Delight is, to Write those Fan∣cies and Conceptions which my Contemplati∣on doth Produce; all which would be Di∣sturb'd with the several Noises that are made in Populous Cities. The second Reason is, the Preserving of my Health, for I have not a very Strong Body, nor a very Healthful Constituti∣on, although, I thank God, not any Particular Disease, yet so I am, as I do not find my self so Healthful as I wish I were, and therefore a Great and Populous City is not so well agree∣ing with my Health, as the Sweet, and Fresh Air in the Country, where the Sun and the Wind have Freedom and Power to Disperse, and so to Destroy Malignant Vapors. The third Reason is, that my Husband had an House in the City, but by the Occasion of the Civil Wars, his Estate being Torn in pieces, amongst many Parts which are quite taken from 0