Letters of Mounsieur de Balzac. 1. 2. 3. and 4th parts (1654)
Balzac, Jean-Louis Guez, seigneur de, 1597-1654 · London, Printed for J. Williams and F. Eaglesfield · leaf 446
thftanding, it prevents the cffcfts of them, and hinders that he benot perf«<;«rMf in print. This high favour which flowe* from that c-fteeiB, which you did alwaiei bear to his irrir/n/i, did invite me tocolled with all diligence, theferare pr$du£ii8nt of hisfpirit, for thecontentation of yours.… … formablc to his mlmthns, Yonr woytb ij fo evidently known,thatnone fhoald imagine 1 could choofc a SimCiHtry more noble or morepTOp.titm % and the general cuntnt of mens affcdions to doc yoa fer-vi€c, isfo/y/jni^andhigh, that I could not (hnnihis Dntj. Ai forroe, I eonfeffc I am exceedingly pleafed…
Baker, Richard, Sir, 1568-1645
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