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Original Letters of Eminent Literary Men (1843)
Original Letters of Eminent Literary Men - 1843 Author:Henry Ellis Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: other may perhaps light upon the same in dissiphring. And thus for this tyme, I will take my leave of your Mrship, purposing else- whan to troble yow with the ta... more »ulk of longer lettres, if I may lern that your gentlenes will warrant my boldnes there in. The Lord kepe yow, my good Lady Cecill, and all yours. From Villacho in Carinthia the xij of July 1552. Yours and commaunde me, R. Askham. The right honorable Sr Willm Cecyl, Knight, one of the two principall Secretaries to the King's Majestic. Roger Ascham to Sir William Cecil; desires to return to Cambridge and spend his life there, rather than abroad, or in the Court. [MS. Lansd. 3. art. 39. On,,.] if I shold write oft ye might think me to bold, and if I dyd leave of, ye might judge me eyther to forget your jentlenesse or to mistrust your good will, who hath allreadye so bownd me unto yow as I shall rather forget myself, and wisshe God also to forget me, than not labor with all diligence and service to applie myself holie to your will and purpose. And that ye shall well know how moch I assure my self on your goodnesse, I will passe a peece of good manners, and be bold to borow a litle of your smaull leysor from your weightie affaires in the comon welth. Therfore, if my letters shall find yow at any leysor, thei wol troble yow a litle in telling yow at lenght, as I promised in my last letters deliverd unto yow by Mr. Francis Yaxeley, whi I am more desirous to have your help for my staye at Cambridge styll, than forany other kynde of living else where. I having now som experience of liffe led at home and abrode, and knowing what I can do most fitlie, and how I wold live most gladlie, do wel perceyve their is no soch quietnesse in England, nor pleasur in strange contres, as even in S. Jons Colledg to kepe company wi...« less