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Show Mtrlilrilllt bf ' If there be any honeft way of getting l.ibercy , ! ·would owe it to none more willingly than to your Kibg and Kingdbme ; whb[d infinite mnits towards .Cur Commom .. wealth, 1 a.lwaies htve t:ttolled , whofe friendfhip I ha~e tornmended , whofe wholfotne c~unfels 1 have defended from the calunmi!lti6rt of Enemies ·, both at libercy 1 ~nd in my c;a ptivi t:1 , and che like I fhall t'it'ver ceafe to do. And, God grant I tnay live to traofrnit Ul1to Poflerity, together vvith th0ie pubUck benefits 1 this prl~ate otte conf~r r 'u on me, by iome Monltrtlet'lts of Learning. Thlt certainly will be to me the gre teft fruit both of my life and \i• berty. But , if that be above our Hope, yet whatever !hall be perforrn~d for me and Hol,~rbet ( whofe caufe being moll near to mine, I equally commend) will, among our Countrymen of the higheft, midfl and loweft order, be mdH gtatefuU and glorious. "Tunllated I jhall here mention alfo another Epi· into E~gliih, fti~ *, a v~ry larg~ one ,Jvhfch he 'tvrdte 111 •nd pru·red, frifo'J to the fame Du Maurier/o co11tjort Anno 16fz.. h;m after the death of hu Wife . .A rare , Soul he had, who could adminifter fuch t;.:cel/~nt confolations to Another, when his oYJrn Cond1tion [eemed to be moft un~ com'{urtable. But h~ had a treaJure of the ·beft Learn.mg /o~jJ- up in hu 1hemory, whence h~ drew tU oft and tU much ta he /'ple.-tfad. That golden "'flof.k, Of the nuch . of |
