216 APPENDIX. plotts generative begetting plotts. I was tould of the Douer busines that morning I came out of toun, but knew nothing to wt now ; for I haue spoken with one who sawe the com'ission itself, which was directed to one Increse Collins, quondam captain of the blockhous ther vnder the D. of R. and L. his gra. The partees apprehended, as ye Maior of Dover, &c., were brought to Maidston and ther examined yesterday, from whence I heer they will send them vp. I strain to lode intelligence, that we may be refreshed with some by return from the Mint. My wife came from church very ill on Christmas day, but, God be praised ! is better now (a good condition for all the sex). Freedom bids me salute you with what I conceived vpon the coniunction of the two great planetts (which you may; impart to Spencer, that great astronomer,) Christmas and Fast:- Quondam festa dies nunc jeiunantibus apta es, Ut queis non prosunt gaudia, moesta invent. A holy day I was : and am sue still. For holy fasting saues wher riotts kill. Soe rests, " Tuus dum sum," WESTMORLAND.. St. Jhos day (1644 ?). Directed -" To my loving cosen, Collonell Edward Harley, at Westminster." Col. HARLEY to his brother Thomas. Deare Brother -I have now exchanged the sweet country aire and sports for the dirt, fogs, and trouble of the city. The employment there, is to chase the poore hare, or crafty fox ; heere, to pursue one another. The forest whence I came, hath not beasts more savage as we meete every day. The lustfull goat, fawning dog, greedy wolf range freely, and what is worst, every one abounds with these wild inhabitants, and want sagacity to pursue and courage to destroy them. If every private person would be an honest hunter, we should not complaine of so many Nimrods. If you have re-
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