7o LETTERS OF THE [1639. nature we can not lone. Affter discours, call to minde wheather you haue bine to appt to take exceptions, or wheather any haue prouocked you, and examin your self how you tooke it. My deare Ned, you are to me next my oune hart; and this is the rule I take with me- self, and I thinke it is the best way to be aquanted with our owne harts, for we know not what is in vs, tell ocatons and temptation drawes out that matter which layes quiet ; and in a due obsaruation, we shall finde at last, in what we are proud, in what fearefull, andwhat will vexe and eate our harts with care and grefe. I can speake it of meself; theare are many things which I see wise men and women trubell themselfs with, that I blless my gratious God for they neuer tuched my hart; but I will not cleere meself, for theare are some things that of meself I can not beare them : so that if I should haue only obsarued meself in some thinges, should thinke I weare of so setteled a mind I would not be moued ; but I knowe theare are blastes that trubell any calme, which is not settled vpon that Rock, which is higher than our selfes. My deare Ned, I will not excus my lentgh of lines, tho it may be you may thinke it to long a letter ; but rather thinke vpon the affection with which I rwite it, whoo am Your most affectinat mother, BRILLIANA HARLEY Nour: the first, 1639. Bromton Castell. I haue sent you by this carrier a loyne of veale backed, if the cooke haue doun his part it is well. Remember my lone to your worthy tutor. Your father, I thanke God, came well home to night late. LIV. For my deare sonne Mr. Edward Harley, in Magdeline Hall, Oxford. Deare Ned -It is not many days since I rwit to you, yet I can not let this opertunity pas without inquireing how you doo, and that is biusness sufficient for a letter from me to you. Mr Braughton, I
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