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MADAM,
UNlesse I should send you Flower-de-luces, this world af∣fords not any flowers fit to make you a present, and there∣fore what I now send you are only strewings for your feet. Nay indeed I much envy them that disposall, as conceiving they will be much more glorious in that place, then if they were on the
heads of Queens. You will wonder much that a man who knowes you so well should be guiltie of a presumption, great as as that of writing to you, and thence you may measure the vio∣lence of my passion, since that at my age, and with my coun∣tenance, it hath forced me to the impudence to declare it to you, and that so great a hazard as that of displeasing you could not oblige me to forbear. J know, Madame, there cannot be any offences more impardonable then what are committed against you, and that J am not destined to die by any other hand then yours. But I recommend my self to the disposal of my destinie, and what misfortune soever may happen to me thereby, it is im∣possible J should avoid it. While you read this, indignation makes you blush, and gnash your verie teeth. Yet J am as farre from repenting me of any thing as ever, for J am now proof a∣gainst all, even the most extraordinarie accidents, and am, though it cost me my life, resolved to be eternallie
MADAME,
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