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My LORD.
IF your affliction be of publick concernment, and such as wherein all the Vertuous in France share with you, I think you satisfied that my resentments of it are not ordinarie, whom your goodnesses oblige above any other, to participate of what∣ever you are interessed in. I know my Lord with what con∣stancie you endure it, but that takes nothing from the trouble
it costs me, so that what should comfort me addes to my distur∣bance. The more I reflect on the courage, constancie, and greatnesse of soul wherewith you bear this thunderclap of For∣tune, the more am I afflicted that we have lost a Prince, in whom all those qualities should in all probabilitie have been revived, & in whose person I doubted not but we should one day see again those Vertues, which I fear me we shall not finde any where but in your self. I wish, my Lord, we may there enjoy them long; that Fortune who hath so unmercifuly lopped off this branch, may spare the bodie, and have some respect for a head so dear and so precious as yours. This wish, I assure you, is as much upon the account of France as my own, who am with all manner of respect and passion,
My LORD
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