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 June 22, 2025.
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To Mademoiselle de Rambouillet.
LETTER CLII.
MADAME,
VVHoever shall love any thing as highly as I do
you, must not pretend to any rest; I was ever
against your journey, but believed withall the greatest hurt it
could have procured was to cause me the greatest affliction in
the world, and whereas I was sufficiently disordered that I had
not the honour of seeing you, the Newes which is come hither
from Merlou, hath distracted me much more. Though this Ac∣cident
produced no worse effect then the dissolution of such ex∣cellent
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company, yet were it sad enough, nay such as for which
I should hardly admit any comfort. Methinks it is long since
the Small pox hath been guilty of so great an insolence, and that
since it durst not do your Mothers face any injury, it should also
have been as tender of her pleasure and diversion. The rejoy∣cings
which I heard were among you, took away much of my
afflictions here, nor durst I presume to be sad in a time when it
was reported you danc'd every day. But now I have not the
happinesse of one pleasant thought, and I assure you that the
young Ladies du Vigean, were never so weary of their Garret
or any other place, as I am now of Paris. But Madam be plea∣sed
to consider the excesse of my discontent, I had resolved to
go in three dayes to Blois on horse-back, which signifies little
lesse then that I should cast my self headlong into the river.
It is uncertain whether I shall ever return; however, honour me
with the constancy of your love whether I am alive or dead, and
remember that I either was or am
MADAME
Yours, &c
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