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Without address.<br />

Letter CCIX. 2767<br />

It is your lot to share my distress, <strong>and</strong> to do battle on my behalf. Herein is proof of your<br />

manliness. God, who ordains our lives, grants to those who are capable of sustaining great<br />

fights greater opportunity of winning renown. You truly have risked your own life as a test<br />

of your valour in your friend’s behalf, like gold in the furnace. I pray God that other men<br />

may be made better; that you may remain what you are, <strong>and</strong> that you will not cease to find<br />

fault with me, as you do, <strong>and</strong> to charge me with not writing often to you, as a wrong on my<br />

part which does you very great injury. This is an accusation only made by a friend. Persist<br />

in dem<strong>and</strong>ing the payment of such debts. I am not so very unreasonable in paying the<br />

claims of affection.<br />

2767 Placed in 375.<br />

Without address.<br />

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