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THE TIMES OF CHARLES THE SECOND.

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body's buying them, for she had got the money of old St. Alban's, and she won't be permitted to buy her pennyworth for a penny. After such a pretty expression, and being come to my fourth page, 'tis time to bid you good-night, and assure you I am unalterably yours,

A. S.

Mr. Godolphin, I believe, will best like your saying nothing to him on that subject, for I dare swear there neither is, nor ever will be, any such thing as his marriage.^[1]

LADY SUNDERLAND TO MR. SIDNEY.

December 26.

That you had no letter from me last post was not my fault, but my being sick, and taking phy-

↑ Mr. Godolphin married Mrs. Blagge, one of the Maids of Honour. She died in childbed of her first child. "She died," says Evelyn, "in the 26th yeare of her age, to the inexpressible affliction of her deare husband and all her relations, but of none of the world more than of myselfe, who lost the most excellent and inestimable friend that ever lived. Never was a more virtuous and inviolable friendship—never a more religious, discreet, and admirable creature—beloved of all, admired of all, for all possible perfections of her sex." Godolphin did not marry again.—Evelyn's Mem. i. 501.

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[1] Mr. Godolphin married Mrs. Blagge, one of the Maids of Honour. She died in childbed of her first child. "She died," says Evelyn, "in the 26th yeare of her age, to the inexpressible affliction of her deare husband and all her relations, but of none of the world more than of myselfe, who lost the most excellent and inestimable friend that ever lived. Never was a more virtuous and inviolable friendship—never a more religious, discreet, and admirable creature—beloved of all, admired of all, for all possible perfections of her sex." Godolphin did not marry again.—Evelyn's Mem. i. 501.

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