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 June 10, 2024.
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A Letter to —— After the Death of his Lady.
SIR,
I Know, I need not minde you, That all Sublunary things are Transitory: Dansing like the Atomes (the ancient Philosophers imagined the World not onely to be made of, but stuffed withall) be∣tween one Condition, and another. Life seeming to be lent, to keep Death in Imployment. And Gene∣ration, to serve onely for the pro∣duction of Bodies; that the Fatall Sisters might not weave in vain, or want Creatures to vayl with their Garments of Mortality. But it is time to give over, at least, to turn down a Leafe; and refer the Inculcation of this Morality, till some fitter time; For fear of falling into their Indiscretion, are found to wake a
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Sick Friend, by an Impertinent In∣quisition after his Condition, or the unseasonable Administration of a Direction which way to dispose of his Body. Since none can Calcu∣late his Ease better, then the Pati∣ent:
Sorrow it selfe not being desti∣tute of its Voluptuousnesse.
Which, hoping you will not, too farre ex∣ceed: Give me leave, to Conclude That Manners exacted this; and Discretion no more but to assure you,
I am, &c.
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