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Thursday noon, being Feb. (26) 84/85 My dearest soul, Thou only preserver of my life ...
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Knox, W., Sir.
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1689
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Thursday Noon being Feb. 26 84 / 05 My dearest Soul THou only preserver of my Life O thou Div e Being how can I pay Duty enough to thee for all thy immense Goodness to me thy poor Slave no I am never able to requite Dearest thee if I should continue these Thousand Years and yet if thou makest good thy Promises I shall go near to live a good part of them I have now no farther doubt but that thou art resolved to save me therefore 't is no matter how soon thy Tyrant knows I cannot Live without thee for come Life come Death I must and will have thee for thou art mine and I shall die if I am much longer absent from thee Dearest Angel do'st with thy self with me ah thou may'st have me when ever thou pleases O don't let me want what we both so much desire if it be thy bl t will for nothing can be Physick to cure my dying Body but thy Div e Presence 'T is fine work those Fellows Rich. and Moody intends to make my Villain Madley shall pay dearly for his Inquisitiveness and being such a Traitor to his Master but assure thy self 't is only guessing for I have examin'd the Boy who protests he never saw nor knew he had a Letter or to whom Directed but I will deferr his punishment till I hear more from thee Mrs. Savory may easily hinder them from finding out the Plates by sending them out of the House and then she may say she has them not The Esquire came here on Friday last when I was at London my Mother Eve beg'd of him but to stay till I came home which would be at Night no not he for he said he had Sworn never to lye in the House more but declared he would spend a Thousand Pounds in opposing my coming in for Parliament Man He went away in a great rage and told my Mother he had a ridiculing Letter from an unknown Hand who told him all that had pass'd in his Absence I fear all for thee nothing for my self for he is the pitifullest of Men where he cannot domineer By the Love thou bearest me suffer him not to strike or abuse thy Di e Person without giving me speedy notice of it I claim this Justice of thee thou being my better Part and know I shall die with Grief as well as Absence if I should live in dread of his beating thee and thou not Advertise me of it I hope thou wilt not do so cruel a thing to thy faithful Lover No doubt but his Worship brought home his delicate Humor to thee on Saturday Night he spent most of that Day at Mid t making all he could against me he together with his Myrmidons has spread abroad that I was not at the Charge of getting them their Ch r and a great many such silly nonsensical Lies he being thou knowest good at them I sent Ch s to the Burgers on Monday and he is not yet return'd so can give thee no accompt what Lord Mount the Town and Mr. Alcock says for I writ to them all I hear that some of the Burgers stickle very much for me I will get it if possible only if it be but to disturb my Destroyer Dearest there is no fear of his taking my Letters to thee if our dear friend will be sure to let her trusty Maid be at the Post-house on Fridays as soon as the Letters come in because he can have no way of coming at them but to get the Post-Master to give him or his y Agents any Letters Directed to our Friend till he finds one but if she takes this course 't is impossible for him to intercept a Letter therefore pray discourse it with her Then for thy blest ones to me never fear their being open'd send a Packet if thou pleases there 's no danger I wonder not at all at the Insolency of Ri n. Thy Tyrant and my Destroyer intends to make all so to thee that he can but blessing on thy dear Heart his Reign is but short and since my Life depends upon thy Divine Promise let me once more before I end this Scrible beseech thee on my bended Knees to remember what I tell thee that I cannot promise thee to secure my Life to thee long if I continue thus deprived of thee and my Destroyer is contriving all the ways he can invent to keep me from thee he knows it will kill me and that he knows is the safest way to be rid of me 'T is only by thee and from thee I can receive my Life and thou my Divinity can frustrate his and all their cruelties to me and since 't is so I fear nothing thou art my G d and I pray and praise thee every Day by whose blest Promises and Mercy I Live and my Days will not be long enough to express to dear thee my Gratitude for thy saving me thy poor Slave but while I Breath thou shalt see me attend thee with the purest Love the vastest Obedience and the greatest Reverence that can or ever was paid by Man. Ah! dearest Life what can I return thee for all thy Benefits bestowed upon me thy poor Creature only a Heart brim-full of Love and Admiration of thee the which will continue so for ever being I am thine and only thine thou hast been pleased to accept of so mean a Gift for which be pleased to accept of the most humblest Thanks and eternal Adoration of thy most Dutiful and Affectionate Hus. On Monday Night N d Th d and Three Men coming from London all very drunk one Sy n the best of them fell into our Gravel-Pit and was drowned the Night being very dark and it being about the hour of Twelve This comes of drunkenness Thy dear Sister is to be Married on Shrove-Tuesday and at Night to be laid upon her back as flat as a Pancake and no doubt will give and receive a curious time on 't Ch s is just come in and brings me in an account what Opposition there is against me made by my Lord the Esquire and Sir W m M y but find all that were Bayliffs and above Thirty are for me I intend to come down once more amongst them and try how far it will go next Week I tell thee more God Almighty keep me in thy blest Favour 't is no matter what becomes of this Affair Sir W. Knox's Letter to his Mistress in the Country LONDON Printed in the Year 1689.