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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Title: 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.
Author: Voiture, Monsieur de (Vincent), 1597-1648.
Publication: 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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Subject terms: Voiture, -- Monsieur de -- (Vincent), 1597-1648.; Courtship -- Early works to 1800.; Love-letters -- Early works to 1800.
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To — LETTER XLII.

MADAME,

YOu will understand by the Letter I writ to you this morn∣ing, that J complie with you in all things; and J do now give you the greatest assurance J can possiblie, of my submissi∣on, when J return you what you had sent me. J finde them both so excellentlie handsome, that J could not resolve on any choice, and therefore J referre my self to you. Yet J am, J must confesse, as much taken with the lesser as J am with the other, and in as much as she is more sprightlie and knowes more dissi∣mulation, she is so much the liker you. You may now consider, whether you have not wit enough to finde out an excuse for lo∣ving two persons, when you have found out a way to make me in love with three. But indeed there is no necessitie for these Inventions, and if you consider how innocent J am ever since this day, you will find J am to be disposed of at your pleasure. But you shall never perswade me, after the receipt of the Letter J last had from you, but that you are the merriest, the most a∣miable, and the person the most given to Gallantrie and en∣tertainment, of any in the world.