COLLECTION O F ORIGINAL LETTERS; Written by the most EMINENT. PERSONS, ON VARIOUS ENTERTAINING SUBJECTS, And on many Important Occafions: From the Reign of HENRY the Eighth,. IN TWO VOLUME S. VOL. II. LOND. 0 N: Printed for J. and J. RIVINGTON, in St. Paul's M.DCC.LV Staatsbibliothek A SELECT COLLECTION O F LETTER S. LETTER I. 1 Mr. Waller to Lady Lucy, Sifter to Lady Dorothy Sydney. Madam, N this common Joy at Penshurst, I know to whom Complaints may come lefs unfeasonable than to your Ladyfhip; the Lofs of a Bedfellow being almoft equal to that of a Miftrefs, and therefore you ought at least to pardon, if you confent not to, the Imprecations of the Deferted, which juft Heaven no doubt will hear. May my Lady Dorothy, if we may yet call her fo, fuffer as much, and have the like Paffion for this young Lord, whom fhe has preferred to the reft of Mankind, as others have had for her; and may this Love, before the Year go about, make her tafte of the firft Curfe impofed VOL. II. B on |