A Letter of Love.
IF I were to wish a titular happiness, it should onely be, now to know by what name, of some∣what more then ordinary neerness, I might ten∣der my best respects and affection towards you: but such is my unworthiness, as hath no such power in any small proportion to be endeared to your good∣ness; though, of all other earthly things, I most earnestly desire the accomplishment: it would make me, of now miserable, to approach to some possi∣bility of comfort. I confess I love you, first, in your person, whose feature merits beyond admira∣tion; secondly, your vertuous worth and unparal∣lell'd qualities, rarely found in these giddy times, (both suting in a fit way to imparadise the posses∣sor) hath forced many to attempt the attaining, and hath taken me, whose resolution was quite retired from such apprehensions, &c.