Letters of affaires love and courtship. Written to several persons of honour and quality; / by the exquisite pen of Monsieur de Voiture, a member of the famous French Academy established at Paris by Cardinall de Richelieu. English'd by J.D.
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Letters of affaires love and courtship. Written to several persons of honour and quality; / by the exquisite pen of Monsieur de Voiture, a member of the famous French Academy established at Paris by Cardinall de Richelieu. English'd by J.D.
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Voiture, Monsieur de (Vincent), 1597-1648.
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London, :: Printed for T. Dring and J. Starkey, and are to be sold at their shops, at the George in Fleet street near Cliffords Inne, and the Miter at the west end of St. Pauls Church,
1657.
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Voiture, -- Monsieur de -- (Vincent), 1597-1648.
Courtship -- Early works to 1800.
Love-letters -- Early works to 1800.
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"Letters of affaires love and courtship. Written to several persons of honour and quality; / by the exquisite pen of Monsieur de Voiture, a member of the famous French Academy established at Paris by Cardinall de Richelieu. English'd by J.D." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A96014.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 19, 2024.
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To my Lord President de Maisons.
LETTER. CXXX.
My Lord,
IT is too great a goodness in you to take the pains to write to
me, and to treat me with so much civility, as if I were not before
the most oblig'd man in the World to you. I beseech you, and
that most humbly and most earnestly not to take trouble on your
self any more. You have not for the most part much to acquaint
me with; but for my part, besides the obligation of my duty to
write to you, the occurrences which from time to time happen here
furnish me with something to say to you. Nevertheless, my Lord,
I must needs confess, I was infinitely satisfy'd with the last Letter
you were pleas'd to send me; and when ever you have such pleasant
news to tell me, I dare not refuse the honour you do me in the
communication thereof. I am extreamly glad of the great ac∣quaintance
and friendship you have, since my departure, made with
Mademoiselle de Rambouillet, I understand it no more by your
Letters then by hers: shee never writes to me, but shee mentions
you, and that with all the affection and esteem due to you. I can∣not,
my Lord, but acknowledge it an extraordinary satisfaction
to me, that you and Madam de Rambouillet pitty me for
the indiscretion I was guilty of, and it shall be a re∣membrancer
to me for the future, besides the solemne pro∣testation
I lately made to the same purpose to Monsieur
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de Chavigny. I am also to be glad, that you have had the reputa∣tion
to keep Madam — fifteen dayes, and what is more, to cut
off all accesse from others; all I have to quarrel at, is, that you do
not dispose of her, till that now shee is in a mind to be reform'd,
and in the state of repentance. However I advise you, not to let
fall your suit; for, time, Fortune, and the addresses of a person of
Honour may work a great change in Affairs? Having once spoken
of those things, I conceive your Lordship will find no great plea∣sure
in any news I can entertain you with hence; but to avoid im∣portunity,
I shall tell you all in a word, which is no more then that
I am,
My Lord,
Your, &c.
Narbonne, May 10. 1642.
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