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A78017	Balzac's remaines, or, His last letters· Written to severall grand and eminent persons in France. Whereunto are annexed the familiar letters of Monsieur de Balzac to his friend Monsieur Chapelain. Never before in English.; Correspondence. English. Selections	Balzac, Jean-Louis Guez, seigneur de, 1597-1654.; Chapelain, Jean, 1595-1674.; Dring, Thomas.	1658 (1658)	Wing B616; Thomason E1779_1; ESTC R209057	331,826	458

bestow on me but I had only one heart to give you the propriety of which I offered to you eighteen years ago and you had gain'd it sometime before It is true the present was but trivial I am ashamed to put you in mind now that great hearts are so necessary in great enterprizes and unless you reckon a great deal of passion and zeal for something I should not in time of War have mention'd a toy of so little use as that Yet my Lord is there no place for a violent passion in your service Cannot a zealous spirit produce some thoughts couragious enough to venter beyond the prospect of our present age and more Noble then to injure the glory of your great Name There are some persons over-credulons in my favour as to imagine so and I were very happy if their perswasions were not upon bad grounds As it is the most ambitious of all my designes so it is also the most ardent of all my desires But herein I must confess I can but little satisfie my self For what ever indulgent friends say I have little encouragement to believe from the view of my sufficiencies I discover neither a Mine nor a Bank in my brain to suffice for the recompence of supream vertue for requitall of heroicke actions and for the price of that which is inestimable On the other side I want that other facultie which descends from above and is called Enthusiasme The muses do not answer me at all times when I call them and I have often times begun Poems that ended at the Invocation It is possible I shall be better inspired for the future The excellencies of invention may at length be infused into me from Heaven and I may have my part of those illuminations it sends down to our brethren of the Academy I attend this happy hour of inspiration with impatience that I may employ it well and I cannot live contented till I have testified by some eminent act of gratitude pardon that eminent upon this occasion that I am as I ought to be My LORD Your c. Feb. 25. 1645. LETTER VIII To my Lord the Arch-Bishop of Thoulose My Lord THE successes of which I receiv'd information from your Letter redoun'd so much to your glory that Honouring you perfectly as I do I could not receive them with a moderate joy You have had justice at length of the Senate but it was the same Senate that did it you You do not only receive the just Honours that are due to you but even with the consent of them who disputed them with you by one and the same victory you have gain'd both your cause and your adversaries affection So though the conquest be desireable but the peace far better nothing should be wanting to your satisfaction who have obtained at once both the Good and the Better It remaines now my Lord that you enjoy this faire calme and these dayes of Serenity you have made such that is employ them all in that harvest that respects you and in the conduct of that flock which Jesus CHRIST hath entrusted to your care If you would you might have climb'd to Glory by other steps But all things being considered this is the surest and shortest for him that aimes at nothing but Heaven Could you exceed Cardinal Baronio in the solidity of your learning yet it is better to follow Cardinal Borromeo in the Sanctity of your Life and be the subject of others writings then the Historian of their actions How happy do I esteem the meanest labourers that you use in your great work and I cannot express how it troubles me to be perpetually desirous of being with you and yet to stick fast here and to be able to profess to you only with wishes and idle passions I know not when that I am more then any person in the World My Lord Your c. Jul. 25. 1633. LETTER IX To the same My Lord I Perceive there is no possibility for me to execute my grand enterprize or to effect what I have had in designe these ten yeares My journey to Languedoc is likely to become the exercise of a man that stirs not or the dreame of one awake If Heaven will have it so I shall at least have this happiness nothing can hinder me the enjoying in my mind the contentment which I fancy My imagination that hath power to bring me neer to places where I desire to be walks me continually round about this distant happiness and puts me into possession of one of the apartments of your Palace and soon after lodges me even in your Library O how I contemne the Jasper and guildings of the Escuriall when I am in that Cabinet This indeed is to inhabite a more Noble and stately Court to be the guest of an infinite number of rare souls and blessed intelligences where after a repast of Tanzies and Mellons the entertainment might be with light and truth I do not seek out high words to abuse them I employ them in their proper and naturall signification for what is there My Lord which the desire of knowledge and ambition of learning can imagine exquisite and rare but is to be found either in your books or conversation those three or four hours I had the honour to pass with you presented to me the riches of ages and antiquity you taught me things which not only the commonalty of the learned are ignorant of but such as it may be the Princes of the Schools understand not The severall manuscripts your goodness daign'd to shew me left so faire an impression of Christianity upon my soul that immediately I divorced my self from my old Loves and bad adieu to all the muses that are not holy Since that time I speak nothing but of the Primitive Church and the Oecumenicall Councells and you have so alienated me from Pagan-Rome that in those places of History where I meet with Aquilae I am sometimes ready to change it into Labarum A communication of such advantage deserves to be sought though it were at the end of the World and a thousand leagues are nothing to be travelled for it To confess freely the voyages of the Graecian Philosophers into Aegypt do very much reproach my immobilitie It is necessary that I rouze up this Lethargy or to speak more humanely that I prop up this weakness and provide redress to this infirmity and since it is impossible it should endure a Coach unless in a Downe or a Meadow I am at this instant going to purchase a Litter to make it more capable of the journey and transport me without disturbance to the feet of a greater Master then Gamaliel The ambition of a spirit cured of the Court may well be terminated there where I shall receive your answers to my Questions after I have rendred you my respects and sworne to you in the presence of Eusebius Theodoret and such like kind of witnesses that I am ever perfectly My Lord Your

a higher price from the stamp of your civility and comming to me from your own hands I confesse I discern such attractions in it as would have been unperceivable if I had received it from the payment of an under-Officer You made choice of this meanes to augment your gift without enlarging the summe and 't is one of your delusions to multiply four thousand livres to me even to infinity For so I construe the course you were pleas'd to use in conferring an obligation upon me beyond the ordinary standart of courtesie Since there is subtilty and contrivance in your benefits they must not be receiv'd so negligently and grossely as if they proceeded from a blind faculty and acting without understanding The forme of it is worthy of as great esteem as the matter and therefore I ought to be not onely in the quality of one obliged for a favour done me but as rationall and one curious of novelties My Lord Your c. 20 Sept. 1639. LETTER XVI To Madam de Villesavin Madam IF you esteem things by their rarity you ought to set a high rate upon my Letters They come not oftner then Anniversary Festivalls and though you oblige me every day in the place where you are yet there needs a whole twelve months time to send you one bare thanks from hence It is not that I begin to be a frugall husband of my words after a squandring away of whole Volumes and that I am growne Covetous of that only Estate I am thought to be rich in But Madam this estate being no more but the figure of sound proceeding from the mouth and the issue of a small emotion of the braine I am ashamed that I am not able to present you with that which may properly be called Some thing and it vexes me alwayes to employ my zeal only to let you know it is unprofitable To what purpose do we truck with our protestations and drive a trade with our wishes And to what end is it to expose to sale that which we want and to enhance what we desire to gaine to put our selves in the high straine onely to get a reputation to our poverty and to guild the front of a Cottage made of earth and stubble It is certainly farre better to say nothing with silence then to say nothing in long harangues and discourses I am confident Madam you have a better opinion of an insolent man in reality that confesses himselfe so without pretences of sufficiency then one that rakes up all the fleight false artifices and points of Rhetorick only to dresse up an image of gratitude I am not minded to undertake so unacceptable a service and which I should manage with so ill successe This would be the way to increase my debt by indeavouring to get a discharge and after I had kept a great bustle I should still find my selfe in the same place I will take a clean contrary course if you please and present my selfe to you once a yeare onely to declare to you that I will never pretend to acquit my selfe from my engagements but eternally remaine Madam Your c. LETTER XVII To the same Madam NEither my selfe nor my affaires are worth the trouble you take upon you When you have an opportunity to oblige me you think nothing beneath you And you who are the most moderate person in the world do herein commit exorbitances You break the limits of decorum even you who so religiously observe them in all things else Who was ever so surprized as I when I understood you had given a visite to Monsieur de and that onely in favour of my interests I cannot comprehend Madam how this person could receive such an honour without descending from his high termes and seeking their pardon by giving me immediate satisfaction But there are a sort of souls whose hardnesse is proofe against all soft perswasions there is a Colony of Savages planted about Paris that understand nothing either Faire or Honest neither History Oratory the Muses or Apollo Complements make no impression upon them and they would resist even the power of Exorcismes I conclude not from their barbarousnesse that you wanted authority but I gather that vertue do's not exercise her credit saving in the Civilised World You can do Madame all that you promise me to get my businesse effected another way Your goodnesse is ingenious ready and powerfull to oblige me but I have already received the greatest obligation from you that possibly I can For it is certaine giving me money would have been much lesse then contributing of your patience to my affaires and receiving a denyall in my behalfe I know not whether in the like case my stomack would be as good as yours or whether I could venture so farre in your service though I am with all my soul SIR Your c. 3 July 1642. LETTER XVIII To Madam de Bourdet Madam LEt the curiosity of people be as diligent and as laborious as they please there can never be found odours that may be paralleld to those which you inspire into your sweet bags The most subtle essences of Rome have a mixture of terra damnata and impurity in comparison The Spanish perfumes are sophisticate and hurt more then they delight These are all pure and innocent quickning and recreating the heart after they have flattered the brain and reviv'd the spirits They may be called a Masterpiece of Delicacy and Physick united I may say that by your favour there remaines no sort of honest and ingenious pleasure undiscover'd and yet I may proceed further that if you were Queen of Arabia the happy or the fortunate Islands you could not have presented me with any thing worthier of those two faire Kingdomes It is true Nature is the first which labours in the production of odours but it is you who afterwards cultivate her fertility and put her estate to improvement Though Amber Jasmin and Orange flowers be in themselves excellent you raise them into a temper that advances the noblenesse of their being These exquisite things attaine their perfection in your hands you purge them from all the defects of their matter and bestow something on them beyond what they receive from the Sun So that though he should come neerer us by I know not how many degrees and had the same power at Sainctes that he hath at Memphis yet he would ever stand in need of your art If you did not second him ●e could not digest those rich and precious vapours whose Oeconony and disposure is yours alone into their just and requisite temper But do not think Madam that I commend you for a vulgar Artist and that thereupon I have a designe to reduce your merits to your fingers ends I kn●w your value is high and it is certain your Province is owner of an ornament in you that deserves the Envy of the Court which shall some other time be discuss'd more largely and with effect You will give me leave

ad Inmortalitatem consecrare vale Romae Kalendis Januariis A. C. N.M.D CXXVIII Ex Epistola Johannis Jacobi Buccardi ad Franciscum Olearium Regiarum Rationum Lutetiae Magistrum LETTER III. To Monsieur de Bayers SIR IF I had known of your loss earlier I should sooner have shewen you what a part I beare in your griefe I just now understood the cause of it in the Gazette and make no question how strong and how fortified soever you be with Constancy but that you are sensible of the blow your family hath received and which will be felt all over our Province Without injury to nature reason cannot rank such like Accidents in the number of things Indifferent Tendernesse of heart is not incompatible with greatnesse of spirit for those who have undauntedly seen their own blood trickle down yet have with teares bewail'd their kindred and friends in that Condition Well Sir we must not think to make war upon other termes There was ever mourning and teares even on the side of victory Let us hope to recall him home who gives us occasion to speak so often of it and let us not ambition the Empire of the World at the rate of so deare a life as his You must in this life a●me your selfe with comfort against all sorts of death and that great kinsman of yours should countervaile all the former misfortunes of your life It is a perpetuall reason of Content and cause of satisfaction that there is no colour why you should grieve for any one or any lament you Yet I do it Sir in obedience to custome knowing withall that that part of the soul which suffers is strucken sooner then that which Reason hath warded off the blow I thought it was necessary for me to enter into the same thoughts with you but that it was as necessary too to get out of them and by a way which without doubt your selfe had made choice of I will hope that hereafter you will possesse all your joyes pure and serene and that Heaven who loves you reserves successes for you wherein your Moderation shall be more requisite then your Constancy at least I wish them you withall my heart being without Complement SIR Your c. June 5. 1642. LETTER IV. To Monsieur de Villemontee of the Kings Councell Controller of the Revenew in Poitou Saintonge Aunix c. SIR YOu will say it may be my zeal renders me impatient but though you could justly taxe it of indiscretion yet I must send this bea●er to you to know at his returne what I cannot be ignorant of without disquiet When I parted from you I left you in the best plight the study of wisedome could settle a mind perfectly reasonable and the Letter you did me the honour to write to me informes me of nothing that should not continue you in this good temper Neverthelesse I confesse that sentence of sadnesse among the rest runnes in my mind And in truth it would trouble me if so drowzy and effeminate a passion as that is should encroach upon your vigilance and fortitude I remember the sage discourse you held me in when your wound was yet greene sure you have not forgotten the great Precedent you then propounded and what was so ready in your memory at the day of our separation They who bequeathed us those high examples concerning which we held so long a conference were not happy or unlucky but in the good or bad fortune of the Common-wealth They bare so great a love to their Country that they left none for themselves They knew no dysasters b●t wicked actions and the blame that attends on them they dreaded faults but despised every thing else And unlesse you mightily dissembled you are of the same mind these are your principles as well as theirs and consequently Sir while you do the King service with courage and understanding and your Gowne saves him the expence of an army on this side the Loire while you maintaine your self in repute at the Court without losing the affection of the people and while by your dexte●ity the bitternesse of your medicines make not the Physitian distastefull I cannot think you have any need of consolation nor that the Melancholly and clouds of an afflicted soul can retaine their mists before the splendor and light of so unblemished a life He whom I have sent to you will without doubt bring me the confirmation of all this and the meaning of a sentence which I shall be very glad rightly to understand my passion is wittily resolv'd to perplexe me but your goodnesse me thinks is obliged to draw me out of it for I am not an ill interpreter of your words but because it is with affection which is never without alarmes that I am SIR Your c. Jul. 1. 1641. LETTER V. To Monsieur de Lymerac de Mayat Captaine in the Regiment of Conty SIR I Have no great inclinations to serve you in your request I know not how to bewaile a man who hath gotten so much honour as you You are more fit for Brave mens envy then Philosophers compassion and your laurells are much more delicate then your chaines a stubborne Imprisonment is not so great an evill as you imagine it it gives ill influences leasure to passe over you it reserves a man to a happier season and it may be we should have lost you if our enemies had not preserv'd you As concerning the Brimmers of Germany of which you spake to me with such griefe as if they were Turkish bastinadoes me-thinks your sobriety is there a thought too superstitious You must as they that talk proverbs say when you are at Rome do as they do at Rome and not to alledge to you great Commanders Do not you know that wise Embassadours have heretofore been fudled for the good of the Kings affaires and sacrificed all their wisedome and gravity to the necessity of the times and the custome of the countrys in which they resided I do not advise you to debauchery that is prohibited but I do not think there is any harme in drowning your cares now and then in Rhenish wine and to make use of that pretty trick of contracting the time which seemes tediously long to prisoners Your father all this while labours hard to procure your liberty and you must think he doth not forget his cares and usuall activenesse in a businesse that is neerer his heart then all his other For my part being able to contribute onely my good wishes I can assure you they are most ardent and passionate for I am as much as it is possible to be SIR Your c. Dec. 15. 1645. LETTER VI. To Monsieur de Prizac of the Kings Privy Councell SIR IT is better to be sick in your company then well in your absence The delight I now take comes not neere the comfort you gave me and your society is so good that it makes even diseases pleasant If it cannot be had at a lower price

traunce must not ever continue so drowzy as to hinder me from turning my eyes sometimes towards that side from whence my good fortune shines If I be dumbe with admiration I will at least make signes that I am not ungratefull on purpose and when I shall taste those pleasant dayes at Plassac which you invite me to seek I will say at least in my heart that you and the Sunne bestow them on me or make use of a verse in Virgil It is a God that do's indulge this leisure The gods my Lord I speak in the Language of Virgil can not make a richer present to mankind nay they have not reserved a better for themselves for it was affirm'd by one that leisure was their businesse and by another that it was their proper possession I hid my selfe in the village for the better pursuance of this businesse of Heaven and to enjoy a happy idlenesse to satiety but my fruition hath been disturbed and I could not escape discovery Though this little corner of the world be unknown both to the ancient and moderne Geography and Mercator speakes no more of it then Ptolomy my ill fate ha's pleas'd to bring it into reputation since my comming to it and it is now depriv'd of that sweet and peaceable obscurity wherein things unknown do rest All the Prose and Verse in Christendome have learnt the way thither Paraphrases and Comments Orations and Panegyricks flock to it from all parts but especially Letters which claime a right to be admitted from the farthest Countries of the earth and do verily believe they come to their own home because I have written volumes of them They do me much honour I confess it This persecution is too glorious for me But yet it is still a persecution to a spirit over-charged and that is no longer able I fret and repine here in vaine against this glory there is no way to acquit me from it but by escaping into some place of freedome where there is not only a porter to tell them I am not within but a Captain to speak it with authority and repell curiosity from searching after me You do me the favour my Lord to offer me this place of refuge wherein I may hope to be in security and I know well enough that without need either of Captain or Souldiers you have no house but your Name alone fortifies It is the safeguard of other mens and War respects it even upon the door of a cottage How can I fear my quiet then when so powerfull an authority assures it to me and your goodness vouchsafes to own me of whom I am and will ever be passionately all my life My Lord Your c. Janua 5. 1645. LETTER XIX To my Lord the Duke de la Roche-foucaut Peer of France My Lord IT is a great reproach to me to be so neer a neighbour to you and make so little improvement of that advantage But it would be a kind of lesser treason to live in your territories and repose my self under your protection without expressing one thought of gratitude for it It troubles me I am not able to say an action of it and I heartily wish it were possible for me to venture so far But my repose being grown to an incapacity of motion I am constrained my Lord to render you my duty in my mind and be of the Court of Vertevill in the same manner I am of the Academy of Paris that is without stirring from hence to either My indisposition sowes thornes for me every where it meets with precipices in the eevenest wayes and the infirmities of age do already so over-press me that if they encrease never so little more I shall not dare to go out of my Chamber till I have made my will In this pitious estate you preceive cleerly my Lord my faults are rather from necessity then choice and that I am not guilty of my unhappiness I lose so much in the want of your commerce your person hath so many Qualities to render it desireable abstracted from those of your condition that were I naturally an Enemy of greatness I should not be so much my own foe as to keep at distance from my good when it were in my power to approach it There needs not more for this but common sense and self-love and as in some mens judgment I have some of this love to spare so in my own opinion I do not altogether fail in the rationall part You may please to permit me this little act of vaine glory upon this occasion I will receive it as a favour from you But on the otherside you will do me justice in this honourable beliefe of me that there is no person more truly in his heart then my self My Lord Your c. Apr. 12. 1639. LETTER XX. To Monsieur the Count de la Vauguion SIR THe day you had the goodness to come and visit me my spirits were so enfeebled with a restless night and I was so incapable of all reasonable Society that if you went not away with a very low opinion of me you did an act of very high charity Since that time the disgrace of that unlucky half hour hath lain upon my heart and I have often fancied what you might conceive of the testimonies and approbation of the publique Questionless Sir you accused the people either of simplicity or imposture you judg'd that they had suffer'd themselves to be deluded by a very unable man or else they would deceive others for his sake had I but an indifferent esteem of you I should comfort my self up against all you could speak thereupon but I knowing your valour great as your valew I must confess Sir I have doubtfull apprehensions of my reputation for I am afraid I have either utterly lost it with you or extreamly endangered it To piece my self up again some way or other and try to shew my self to you at a more advantagious light then you saw me I have just now resolved to send you the discourse I was obliged to make Of the conversation of the Romans You will find there what you sought in mine at least you cannot be ill entertain'd in a place where Consuls and Dictatours make up the honour of the house I shall think my labour happy if it please you better then I have done but I should esteem my self much happyer then my labour and believe I had repaired my detriment with advantage could I but evidence to you with what respect I am SIR Your c. Mar. 28. 1640. LETTER XXI To the Reverend Father Stephen de Bourges a Capuchin Preacher Reverend Father YOu ought to commiserate me instead of complaining of me You know well on whom the unhappiness of your seperation falls or at least who loses most by it since you will be so good as to take a share in the mishap For my justification be pleas'd to consider only the present estate of things You are the distributer of the favours

to meet you perhaps at Rochel when some holy necessity has removed you a hundred leagues from thence If I travell those hundred leagues to see you you it may be will give me the slippe the same day I arrive there and Monsieur the Archbishop of Bourdeaux may come to take you from thence with his Navy And yet more you will go to sanctifie the VVar in AFRICA or ASIA if either the Churches good or the KINGS service require it of you So that this corragious piety and magnanimous zeale which you profess oppose all my good designes and are the cause that I have no probability to hope for you but by the Treaty of that is the restitution of all that War has usurped from us My impatience is to no purpose we cannot enjoy you sooner for you and peace are two gifts of God which he will send us together But when you are sent I beseech you let us be they that shall receive you and not the Gascons nor the Rochellers After so many journies and expeditions it is fit the Crown be the center of your rest and that its extent circumscribe the Plus Vltra of your ambition You cannot chuse out a retire of a more lucky Omen that will afford you greater serenity and glorious dayes or less interrupted silence to your devout meditations When this comes to pass you may easily believe so glorious a neighbourhood will give me much occasion of pride and that I will indeavour my utmost to improve a friendship so beneficiall as yours The fresh assurances you are pleased to give me of it by words that speak the zeal of antient Christianity are new chaines that bind me yet closer to you and force me Reverend Father but with the delight of those that receive liberty to be if possible yet more then I was Octo. 8. 1639. Your c LETTER XXVIII To Monsieur de Voiture Councellour to the KING c. SIR I Am not minded to write you a Letter I am too religious an observer of our old wont and fear to put your civility to too much trouble For that per adventure might oblige you to another This scrowle requires no more of you but your marke without writing or an impression of your Seal Vt nescio quae agrestis Musa tutò adeat nostrum illum Illustrissimum Qui Regum solet adversos componere motus Qui Gallum atque Aquilam conciliare potest Et Marti dare vincla terris pellere diras Et Sanctum optatae condere Pacis opus If you are nor very confident I love you honour you and esteem you infinitely you are very ill informed of what passes in my heart and your familiar spirit does not give you a faithfull account of the things that are done a hundred leagues from you Esto mihi tu Sol testis tu Dia Carenta Vos Nymphae Num me Veneres laudare pudicas Victuri urbanosque sales artemque placendi Audistis solidumque altis in rebus acumen Et bona vera animi cum me dicente vel ips● Costardus siluit facundior ille nepote Atlantis licet et Victuri maxima cura Costardus c. LETTER XXIX To Monsieur de Lyonne Councellour to the KING and Scretary to my Lord the Cardinall Mazarin SIR I Am affected by you without having the honour of being known to be so I had no designes of requesting any favour from you and you have taken pleasure to oblige me I but now understand how much I am bound to you and you forbid me to testifie my acknowledgements This is not Sir the manner of common goodness and I confess the rarity of it ha's surprized me I Questioned at first whether this action were done at Paris or in the fortunate Islands the corruption of the yeare one thousand six hundred forty four or the purity of the Golden Age. However it be I must not permit you so much advantage over me The prohibition you make me is noble and honest but my obedience to it will not be so It seems you would be so highly generous as to make me appeare ungratefull or as if you had a design to purchase glory with the loss of my reputation This is indeed too much and your generosity must be measured by charity and moderation Accustome your self to magnanimous actions as much as you please profess a sublime and difficult vertue but leave me at least the easiest and ordinary duties the last and meanest member of that society wherein you have thought me fit to be enrolled I mean Sir that of receiving and oweing thankfully that which binds the poor as well as the rich and whereof I conceive my self able to discharge my self since the heart is sufficient to do it I have one yet good enough to be capable of such a rationall resentment and if I cannot by my merits warrant the testimony you have given of me to his Eminence yet I hope by my passion and respects to maintain the happiness I enjoy in your favour resolving to be perfectly as long as I live SIR Your c. Jan. 7. 1644. LETTER XXX To Monsieur Colletet SIR I Will neither violate my oath by writing Letters nor injure our friendship by returning you no answer Therefore if you please receive this in the Quality of a Ticket and so I shall acquit my self of what I owe you without prejudice to an other obligation What can I say to that excellent present which you have sent me Your Muses have alwayes some new favours for me and your Poems are the daily recreations of my mind But you over-valew the testimony I have given of them which expresses my intention as imperfectly as it does their merit Believe it were I the Apollo of the Poets and were to distribute their Chaplets you should not receive one of the faintest verdure or made with the least care For the Collection you speak of notwithstanding all the paines I took I cannot easily give you satisfaction in it Since our Scevolaes dyed our Abels have been almost ever sick and if there can be any other who can purge the Municipall Oratours and Poets of their old and scurvy signification as I know one that can who is so grave and serious that he would hardly be brought to let his mind stoop so low as matters of joy your Collection may then me made without us or to use the phrase of your Letter your body may rove up and down the Country freely there is none to oppose you But I beseech you do not complaine of the smallness of it the biggest are usually the worst and we have lately seen that a whole Army of Banditti were not worth one Company of a Low-Country Regiment I proceed further I shall fall unawares into the inconvenience which I counsell you to avoid at least this Billet would be a Giant amongst others of that name and might hazard to be reckoned in the number of Letters That must be carefully declined