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Diplomats -- Great Britain -- Correspondence.
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1603-1625.
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"Letters of Sir Henry Wotton to Sir Edmund Bacon." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A67123.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 16, 2024.
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The 7. of June stile of the place. 1615.
Sir,
I Hear a little voyce that you are come to London, which to me is the voyce of a Nightingal: for since I cannot enjoy your presence, I make my self happy with your nearness: And yet now methinks I have a kinde of rebellion against it, that we should be separated with such a contemptible distance. For how much I love you, mine own heart doth know, and God knoweth my heart. But let me fall into a passion: for what sin in the name of Christ was I sent hither among soul∣diers, being by my profession Aca∣demical, and by my charge Pacifical? I am within a day or two to send Cuthberd my servant home: by whom I shall tell you divers things. In the mean while, I have adventured these few lines to break the ice of
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silence: for in truth it is a cold fault.
Our sweet Saviour bless you.
Servidore ANIGO WOTTONI.
My hot love to the best Neece of the World.
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