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returned to our house at Hunsdon, we have been perfectly well, and have

not, at present, one sick person, God be praised; and I think, if you

would retire from Surrey, as we did, you would escape all danger. There is

another thing that may comfort you, which is, that, in truth in this

distemper few or no women have been taken ill, and what is more, no person

of our court, and few elsewhere, have died of it. For which reason I beg

you, my entirely beloved, not to frighten yourself nor be too uneasy at

our absence; for wherever I am, I am yours, and yet we must sometimes

submit to our misfortunes, for whoever will struggle against fate is

generally but so much the farther from gaining his end: wherefore comfort

yourself, and take courage and avoid the pestilence as much as you can,

for I hope shortly to make you sing, la renvoye. No more at present,

from lack of time, but that I wish you in my arms, that I might a little

dispel your unreasonable thoughts.



Written by the hand of him who is and alway will be yours,



Im- H. R. -mutable.