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THE COUNTESS OF CHESTERFIELD.
that I may sometimes at your best leasure heare from you, you
will be obliging- if you please to descant me with a little news
from your world. You know Darbysheris a dull place, and needs
some thing to make it pleasint. I will assure you I know nothing
will please me better than hearing from you, writ whatever you
will. I suppose my Lady Dencell’s discretion will lett her be a
little decent this winter. Pray God she be not condemnd to
Darbysher at last for ever, as sume body was about ten or twelf
yeare agoe,* for that pockie gallant’s mistress have that ill for
them if they doe not behave themselves wisely, they are packed out
of their heaven London. I am glad to heare my Lady Freschwell
is coming to towne, because pore Moll may have somebody to
hang upon besids yc weake La. Northumberland. I am obliged
to you for wishing- me at London this winter, though I shall be
more desirous of it next, for now theare are none of being theare
except your good selfe. I know not whether the Grand Passer
is a lover of me or noe now, haveing not sine him a long- time, I
thinke it is no o-reate mater whether he be or noe, if I am not hated
by you, I will be soe contented with that good fortten, that noe
other things shall trouble
Your affect, humble servant,
E. Chesterfield.
“ Pray pardon a thoussand blotts here, for I am so neare my
time that I am ill at ease, and cannot mend my faults now.”
Macky observes of Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, that
“ he was very subtle and cunning, never entered into the measures
of King William, nor ever did make any great appearance in any
other reign.” On which Dean Swift says, a If it be old Chester-
field, I have heard he was the greatest knave in England.”—Ed.]
* There is no date to this letter, and by the words ten or twelf yeare ayoe, it
may probably be written by the Earl of Chesterfield’s third wife, Lady Elizabeth
Dornier, eldest daughter and co-heiress to Charles Earl of Caernarvon. She died
in 1679.
THE COUNTESS OF CHESTERFIELD.
that I may sometimes at your best leasure heare from you, you
will be obliging- if you please to descant me with a little news
from your world. You know Darbysheris a dull place, and needs
some thing to make it pleasint. I will assure you I know nothing
will please me better than hearing from you, writ whatever you
will. I suppose my Lady Dencell’s discretion will lett her be a
little decent this winter. Pray God she be not condemnd to
Darbysher at last for ever, as sume body was about ten or twelf
yeare agoe,* for that pockie gallant’s mistress have that ill for
them if they doe not behave themselves wisely, they are packed out
of their heaven London. I am glad to heare my Lady Freschwell
is coming to towne, because pore Moll may have somebody to
hang upon besids yc weake La. Northumberland. I am obliged
to you for wishing- me at London this winter, though I shall be
more desirous of it next, for now theare are none of being theare
except your good selfe. I know not whether the Grand Passer
is a lover of me or noe now, haveing not sine him a long- time, I
thinke it is no o-reate mater whether he be or noe, if I am not hated
by you, I will be soe contented with that good fortten, that noe
other things shall trouble
Your affect, humble servant,
E. Chesterfield.
“ Pray pardon a thoussand blotts here, for I am so neare my
time that I am ill at ease, and cannot mend my faults now.”
Macky observes of Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, that
“ he was very subtle and cunning, never entered into the measures
of King William, nor ever did make any great appearance in any
other reign.” On which Dean Swift says, a If it be old Chester-
field, I have heard he was the greatest knave in England.”—Ed.]
* There is no date to this letter, and by the words ten or twelf yeare ayoe, it
may probably be written by the Earl of Chesterfield’s third wife, Lady Elizabeth
Dornier, eldest daughter and co-heiress to Charles Earl of Caernarvon. She died
in 1679.