LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SANCROFT. IJ 



loves not to make comparisons,) as he that told 

 it, or he that heard it : but if they will not suf- 

 fer him to be quiet where he is, will return, he 

 saith, if not to Palsgrave Court, to some place 

 nigh it. I wish you had given the landlord 

 there the wages for removing, and replacing his 

 books ; and, I pray, do it yet : but, for the two 

 panes of glass, one we found broken when we 

 entered, and my man broke the other. As for 

 Fleetwood Shepherd's buffooneries; a satyrist 

 observes, that great men heretofore affected to 

 keep natural fools in their houses, to convince 

 the w^orld that there were some in it who had 

 less wit than themselves ; but the modern 

 humour of keeping those about them which 

 pretend to have more wit, and affect to show it 

 too, I understand not. At, at, fruantur (quo- 

 niam ita volunt) hac insania : ego autem (cha- 

 rissime) fida vestra et perpetua amicitia. Vale. 



'' W. C. 



*' I say nothing of the steward, because I 

 suppose him upon his way towards ns. But 

 my kindest respects, I pray, to my Lords of N. 

 and P. and to all my dear friends nigh you." 



" Fresingfieldj September 23d, 1691. 



** Dear Friend, 



'' We are preparing our diet drink, 

 with all the ingredients you mention; except 



