On D E A T FI. 
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LETTER XVII. 
To the fame , 
Madam, 
F ROM Langford we direded our courfe for the moft part 
over delightful downs about twelve miles to widgate. 
Here you beguiled the way with very intereRing and affeding 
Rories of your departed friends, how entirely they were recon- 
ciled to death. 
It is a very different thing to “ blazon the king of terrors 
“ with the tongue, and to fee him with the eye.” Thofe 
who have wrote, or talked moR familiarly of him, have not 
therefore been the leaR afraid. A very little Rudy has made 
complete philofophers of fome, when all the efforts of a long 
and laborious life has not accompliRied this important buRnefs 
in others. 
It is alfo a bold thing to fay, but I think, madam, there are 
more pradical philofophers from habit of mind, and pious re- 
Rgnation, of your fex, than of mine. Could a seneca or a so- 
crates have behaved with more fortitude and reRgnation, or 
been more lovely in death, than Mifs y* **•****», who took her 
leave of this world, with as eafy an indifference, as if Rie had 
been going to a ball ? 
I was much Rruck when I read shakesp ear’s henry vi. I 
believe it is the king who attends cardinal beaufort in his laR 
moments, and fays, 
H 
“ Lord 
