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Passages in the Life of the Faire Gospeller, Mistress Anne Askew
Passages in the Life of the Faire Gospeller Mistress Anne Askew Author:Nicholas Moldwarp Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SECTION III. How Sir William put me in Charge. JEW brooms fweep clean. "Tis a homely proverb to apply to a Lady. Ne'erthelefs, our new Lady cleaned us... more » up to that ftate of polifh that we fhone again. Miftrefs Britain had gracefully yielded up the keys, and returned to London, though preffed to ftay : and took with her her fon Ned, whom I was full forry to part withal, the youngfter took to his ftudies fo bravelie. Great was the wail Miftrefs Anne made for him. " Oh, deareft Ned, and muft we part ?" (this in the Pleached Alley, when they wift not I was in the Arbour.) " How fhall I fare without thee ? Who will correct my Sums ? and help me in parfing ? and tell me the conjugations ?" " Nay, coz, you muft do all that for your- felf now. 'Tis expedient I fhould not be with you always, or you would be but a left-hand glove all your life. Your wit fhall now be feton new work." " But I've none, Ned ; I don't believe I've anie at all." " Oh yes, you have; a great deal for a girl, onlie Mafter Moldwarp doefn't let you know it, for fear it fhould make you vain." " Why, whenever I tranflate fome dull epiftle into Latin, he fays ' Tully would not have done it fo.'" " No, becaufe he knows the exact word Tully would have ufed ; and I'll tell you how he knows, fince I'm going away."?(Oh, the villain !) " Mafter Moldwarp takes a fhort epiftle of Tully's, fuited to your capacity,?fay, one of thofe ' to Terentia, to my deareft Tullia, and to my Son.' . . ." " Ah, I love that," quoth Miftrefs Anne. " I mould like you to write me juft fuch letters, Ned, when you get to London, all full of love and grief?" " Well, perhaps I may ; only you muft not look to have much grief, Nan ; becaufe, you fee, 'tis long fmce I was in London?when I was quite a Boy "?(what was he now ?)? " and ther...« less