Milton's Comus. Джон Мильтон

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the College, this 13 of April, 1638.

      Sir,

      It was a special favour, when you lately bestowed upon me here the first taste of your acquaintance, though no longer than to make me know that I wanted more time to value it, and to enjoy it rightly; and, in truth, if I could then have imagined your farther stay in these parts, which I understood afterwards by Mr. H., I would have been bold, in our vulgar phrase, to mend my draught (for you left me with an extreme thirst), and to have begged your conversation again, jointly with your said learned friend, at a poor meal or two, that we might have banded together some good authors of the antient time; among which I observed you to have been familiar.

      I should think that your best line will be through the whole length of France to Marseilles, and thence by sea to Genoa, whence the passage into Tuscany is as diurnal as a Gravesend barge. I hasten, as you do, to Florence, or Siena, the rather to tell you a short story, from the interest you have given me in your safety.

      Your friend as much to command

       as any of longer date,

      HENRY WOTTON.

      Postscript.

      JOHN, LORD VISCOUNT BRACKLEY,

      Son and Heir-Apparent to the Earl of Bridgewater, etc.

      My Lord,

      Your faithful and most humble Servant,

      H. LAWES.

       THE PERSONS.

      The Attendant Spirit, afterwards in the habit of Thyrsis.

       Comus, with his Crew.

       The Lady.

       First Brother.

       Second Brother.

       Sabrina, the Nymph.

      The Chief Persons which presented were:—

      The Lord Brackley;

       Mr. Thomas Egerton, his Brother;

       The Lady Alice Egerton.

       Table

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