not whether S I will be safe. Insomuch that having taken away
all the words of connection, the wits will reduce us to the lan∣guage
of Angels; or if that may not be, they will oblige us to
speak only by signs. I must confesse there's nothing more cer∣tain
then what you say, that there can be no greater argument of
the uncertaintie of humane affairs. Who should have told me
some years since, that I should have outliv'd CAR? I had
thought he had promis'd me a life longer then that of the Patriarks.
In the mean time it comes to passe, that having liv'd 1100 years
in force and credit, after it had been emploied in the Treaties of
greatest consequence, and been honourably serviceable in our
Kings Counsels, it falls into sudden disgrace, and is threatned
with a violent end, I have now no more to expect then the
time when I shall hear those sad exclamations which shall say,
The Grand CAR is dead, whose death is of much greater con∣sequence
then that of the grand Cham, or the grand Pan. I
know, if one of the greatest Wits of the Age be consulted hereupon,
one I extreamly honour, he will tell you that this Noveltie de∣serves
a heavy censure, that we ought to make use of the CAR
of our fore-Fathers, as well as of their Land and Sunne, and
that we ought not to cast off a word that hath been in the mouth
of Charlemaign and St. Lewis: But you Madam are particular∣ly
oblig'd to take it into your protection, since the greatest force
and beauty of our Language is in yours, you ought to have a
supream power therein, and appoint words to live or die, as you
please. Nor do I doubt, but you have delivered this out of the
danger it was in, and by enclosing it in your Letter, you have
given it Sanctuarie, and a place of glory, where neither time
nor envie can ever assault it. Amidst all this, I must acknow∣ledg
I was extreamly surpris'd to see you so fantastick in your
good actions, in that you Madam, who without any compassion
could have seen the destruction of a hundred men, could not see
the death of a poor Sillable. If you had been so tender of me as
you have of CAR, I had been happy in spight of my ill-for∣tune;
poverty, banishment, and grief, could hardly have
fasten'd on me; and if you had not been able to rid me of these
evils, you might at least have rid me of the resentme••t thereof.
When I was in hope to receive some comfort from your Letter,
I find it more concerned for CAR then for me, and that his
banishment troubled you more then ours. I confesse, Madam,