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your irrefiftible obligations, and with the consent and joy of my own mind.

Judge then, whether I am willing my fhadow fhould be in poffeffion of one, with whom my heart is; and to whom all that I am, had I any thing befides my heart worth the prefenting, doth belong. Sir GODFREY, I doubt not, will make it very like. If it were poffible for his pencil to make it a fpeaking Picture; it fhould tell you every day, how much I love and esteem you: and how pleas'd I am, to be, fo much as in effigie, near a Perfon with whom I fhould be glad to fpend an age to come.

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TO THE. SAM E.

DEAR SIR,

Oates 11 September 1704.

E that has any thing to do with H you, muft own that Friendship is the natural product of your conftitution and your foul, a noble foil, is

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'enrich'd with the two most valuable qualitys of humane nature, Truth, and Friendship. What a treasure have I then in fuch a Friend, with whom I can converfe, and be enlightned about the higheft fpeculations! When one hears you upon the principles of knowledge, or the foundations of government, one would hardly imagine your thoughts ever defcended to a brush, or a curry-comb, or other fuch trompery of life; and yet, if one employ you but to get a pair of fhoe-buckles, you are as ready and dextrous at it, as if the whole bufinefs of your life had been with nothing but shocbuckles.

As to my Lady's Picture, pray, in the firft place fee it, and tell me how you like it. In the next place, pray get Sir GODFREY to write upon it, on the backfide, LADY MASHAM 1704; and on the backside of mine, JOHN LOCKE 1704. This he did on Mr. MoL YNEUX's, and mine, the last he drew: and this is neceffary to be done, or else the Pictures of private perfons are lost in two or three generations; and fo the Picture

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Picture looses of its value, it being not known whom it was made to reprefent.

TO THE SAME.

Oates 1 October 1704.

DEAR SIR,

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O compleat the fatisfaction I have lately had here, there has been

nothing wanting but your com

pany. The coming of his Father-in-law *, joyn'd with the ftraitnefs of the lodging in this houfe, hindred me from having my Cofin KING, and you together; and fo cut off one part of the enjoyment which' you know is very valuable to me. I must leave it to your kindness and charity, to make up this lofs to me. How far the good company I have had here, has been able to raife me into a forgetfulness of the decays of age, and the un

Sir PETER KING'S Father-in-law.

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eafinefs of my indifpofition, my Cofin KING is judge. But this, I believe, he will affure you, that my infirmitys prevail so fast on me, that unless you make haft hither, I may loofe the fatisfaction of ever feeing again a Man, that I value in the first rank of those, that I leave behind me t.

† Mr. Locke dy'd on the 28th of October 1704; that is, 27 days after the writing of this Letter.

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knew no better way to take care of him, than to put him, and what I defign'd for him, into your hands and management. The knowledge I have of your Virtue of all kinds, fecures the trust, which, by your permiffion, I have placed in you: and the peculiar efteem and love, I have obferv'd in the young Man for you; will

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