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esteem more than all the World, whofe Health I defire as much as my own, and the Half of whofe Sickness I would willingly bear to have her cured. Secondly, Because I fear I fhall fuffer yet longer that tedious Abfence which has hitherto given me all poffible Uneafiness, and as far as I can judge, is like to give me more. I pray God he would deliver me from fo troublesome a Tormentor. The Third Reafon is, because the Physician, in whom I truft moft, is abfent at prefent, when he could do me the greatest Pleasure. For I fhould hope by him, and his Means, to obtain one of my principal Joys in this World, that is my Miftrefs cured; however, in Default of him, I fend you the fecond, and the only one left, praying God that he may foon make you well, and then I fhall love him more than ever. I beseech you to be governed. by his Advice, with relation to your Illness; by your doing which, I hope fhortly to fee you again, which will be to me a greater Cordial than all the precious Stones in the World. Written by the Secretary, who is, and always will be,

Your Loyal, and most

Aljured Servant,

H's Heart, A. B. Rex.

LET

LETTER XIII. Original.

SINCE your laft Letters, myne awn Darling, Walter Welche, Mafter Brown, John Care, Trion of Brearton, John Cocke the Pothecary, be fallen of the Swett in this Houfe, and thankyd be God all well recovered, fo that as yet the Pleague is not fully ceafed here; but I trust shortly it shall by the Mercy of God; the reft of us yet be well, and I trust shall paffe it, either not to have it, or at the least as eafily as the reft have don. As touching the Matter of Wylton, My Lord Cardinal * hath had the Nunys before him, and examined them, Mafter Bell being prefent, which hath certified me, that for a Truth, that the hath confeffed herself (which we would have had Abbeffe) to have had Two Children by Two fundry Priests; and furder, fince hath been keeped by a Servant of the Lord Broke, that was, and that not long ago. Wherefor I would not for all the Gold in the World clog your Confcience nor mine, to make her Ruler of a House which is of fo ungodly Demeanour; nor I truft you would not, that neither for Brother nor Sifter I should fo deftain mine Honour or Confcience: And as touching the Pryoreffe, or Dame Ellenor's Eldest Sister, tho' there is not any evident Cafe proved against them, and that the Pryoreffe is fo Old, that of many Years fhe could not be as she was named; yet notwithstanding to do you Pleasure, I have don that neither of them fhall have it, but that

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fome other good and well-difpofed Woman shall have it: Whereby the Houfe fhall be the better reformed (whereof I enfure you it had much need) and God much the better ferved: As touching abode at Hever, do therein as beft fhall like you, for you know beft what Aire doth best with you; but I wold it were come thereto (if it pleased God) that neither of us need care for that, for I enfure you I think it long. Suche is fallen fick of the Swett, and therefor I fend you this Bearer, because I think you long to hear Tydings from us, as we do in likewife from you. Writen with the Hand,

De votre feul*

H. Rex.

LETTER XIV.

Original.

DARLING, thefe fhall be only to advertise you, that this Bearer, and his Fellow, be difpatched with as many Things to compaffe our Matter, and to bring it to paffe, as our Wits could imagine or devife; which brought to paffe, as I truft by their Diligence it fhall be, fhortly you and I fhall have our defired End, which should be more to my Hearts Eafe, and more Quietnesse to my Minde, than any other Thing in this World, as with God's Grace fhortly I truft fhall be proved, but not fo foon as I would it were, yet I will en

* i, e. Of yours only.

fure

fure you there shall be no Tyme loft, that may be wone, and further cannot be done, for ultra poffe non eft effe: Keep him not too long with you, but defire him for your Sake to make the more Speed, for the fooner we shall have Word from him, the fooner fhall our Matter come to paffe; and thus upon Truft of your fhort Repair to London, I make an End of my Letter Mine awne Sweetheart. Writen with the Hand of him which defyreth as much to be yours as you do to have him.

H. Rex.

LETTER XV. Original.

DA

ARLING, I heartily recommend me to you, affertaining you, that I am not a little perplexed with fuch Things as your Brother shall on my Part declare unto you, to whom I pray you give full Credence, for it were too long to write. In my laft Letters I writ to you, that I trufted fhortly to see you, which is better known at London, than with any that is about me, whereof I not a little mervelle, but lake of defcreet handling must needs be the Cause thereof. No more to you at this tyme, but that I trust shortly, our Meeting fhall not depend upon other Men's light Handlings, but upon your awne. Writen with the Hand of him that longeth to be Yours.

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LETTER XVI. Original.

MYNE awne Sweetheart, this fhall be to ad

vertise you of the great ellingness that I find here fince your departing, for I enfure you, me thinketh the Tyme longer fince your departing now laft then I was wont to do a whole Fortnight; I think your Kindness and my Fervence of Love caufeth it, for otherwife I wolde not thought it poffible, that for fo little a while it fhould have grived me, but now that I am comeing toward you, methinketh my Pains been half released, and also I am right well comforted, infomuch that my * Book maketh fubftantially for my Matter, in writing whereof I have spent above IIII Hours this Day, which caused me now write the fhorter Letter to you at this tyme, because of fome Payne in my Head, wifhing myfelf (fpecially an Evening) in my Sweethearts Armes, whofe pritty Duckys I truft fhortly to kyffe. Writen with the Hand of him that, was, is, and fhall be yours by his Will,

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H. Rex.

LETTER XVII. Original.

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O informe you what Joye it is to me to underftand of your Conformablenefs with Reafone, and of the fuppreffing of your inutile and vain

The King wrote a Treatise against the Pope's Supremacy.

Thoughts

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