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SIR, Your Highness's most devoted, &c. Decemb. 1697. The wits of the present age being so very numerous and penetrating, it seems the grandees of Church and State begin to fall under horrible apprehensions lest these gentlemen, during the intervals of a long peace, should find leisure to pick holes in the weak sides of religion and government.
To these have now to be added, as written since Aug. 1646, two other scraps viz.: the Sonnet marked XIV. in most of our modern editions of his Poems, and the Latin Ode to John Rous which generally appears at or near the end of the Latin portion of these editions. Catherine Thomson, my Christian friend, deceased 16 Decemb. 1646." We have no other information about this Mrs.
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