A miscellany of sundry essayes, paradoxes, and problematicall discourses, letters and characters; together with politicall deductions from the history of the Earl of Essex, executed under Queen Elizabeth. / By Francis Osborn Esquire.
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A miscellany of sundry essayes, paradoxes, and problematicall discourses, letters and characters; together with politicall deductions from the history of the Earl of Essex, executed under Queen Elizabeth. / By Francis Osborn Esquire.
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Osborne, Francis, 1593-1659.
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London, :: Printed by John Grismond,
1659.
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1558-1603 -- Early works to 1800.
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"A miscellany of sundry essayes, paradoxes, and problematicall discourses, letters and characters; together with politicall deductions from the history of the Earl of Essex, executed under Queen Elizabeth. / By Francis Osborn Esquire." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A53491.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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descriptionPage 171
A Letter to two Sisters the one Black the other Fair.
Ladyes,
IT is Design, and, I hope, no Pre∣sumption in me, to joyn you in one: That, besides the opportu∣nity of presenting the highest of my Respects, I might comprize in a single Letter, the totall Summe of all the perfection extant in Wo∣man-Kind. Black and White, being the unquestioned Originall, of that infinite Variety of Beauty, (the mint of Nature) through which is main∣tained her Necessary Commerce of Generation. And, in this equall Distribution, Fortune hath shewn no small Ingenuity, (who is more Wan∣ton, and Inexorable, then Blind or Carelesse) in assigning, that of least Duration, the Fewest Years. For if you did not Wither alike, Art and
descriptionPage 172
Opinion (the Limmers and Carvers of all Excellency,) would have tempted, if not Constrained every one, to serve, and adore that Sister onely, whose beauty had survived. By which, sweet Variety had been lost; and Perfection reduced into one Monarchy, Which, now, martch in your Two glorious Regiments. To both which, I remain an Equall Captive. Being,
Ladyes, &c.
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