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ELEGANT EPISTLES.

BOOK THE SECOND.

Modern of early Date.

PART I.

LETTER I.

WILLIAM DE LA POLE, DUKE OF SUFFOLK, TO

HIS SON.

April, 1450.

My dear and only well beloved Son,

I BESEECH Our Lord in Heaven, the maker of all the world, to bless you, and to send you ever grace to love him, and to dread him, to the which, as far as a father may charge a child, I both charge you, and pray you to set all your spirits and wits to do, and to know his holy laws and commandments, by the which ye shall, with his great mercy, pass all the great tempests and troubles of this wretched world. And that, also weetingly, ye do

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