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I cannot beleeve Miracles are ceasd since I see your Constancy.

Death has more Dores then one & I will [ 'tr' deleted] try them all but I will find a Passage.

Your suspitions wrong me more then You beleeve my Treachery dos You:

Unlesse my presenting P. to You be a Treachery, I am guilty of none.

<To> A Place where meritt & Love have no Enemys, & where a Virtuous & a happy flame are the same thing.

The Gods will not so much tempt us to doubt their Providence, as to decline rewarding Your V on the same stage where it has so conspicuously shin'd; which were to make sin, Reason.

-But that his embracing Your offer will render him unworthy of it: for the receiving a resign'd up mistriss is like [ 'the' deleted] loosing a l.c. for a Friend, where that Act that makes the Obligation imposes an impossibility of Gratitude.

And will You give away what You have given Your self to?

With a looke as Cold as Temperate, & as farre above misfortune as she was unworthy any;

At the finishing these Words she left me as if life had [ 'so' deleted] done so.

-Izadora for theis[altered from 'her'] Reward, who can find none worthy of hir, but he that she raises to that height by hir esteeming him soe; & since she has created Perolla, not found him in that blest Condition, let hir impose what Commands she will on the worke of hir Creation; he will either act them, or not survive his impotency & disobedience.

-Leave no meanes unessay'd-(I will not so much wrong You as to limit them no further then honor shall direct.

My Intelligence was to be without witnesses or interruption.

My not unfruitfull Passion for Is. [ 'a Mis' deleted] fortune, since I feare it may deny me a Friendship, which is a blessing next to [hirs][unclear].

-is as greate a Demonstration of hir Partiality as of my happynesse.

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If I thought Your Justice were not as great as your Conquests.

-which she cloathes with the Name of a hih generosity.

Where he would have no guard but my fidelity.

-Who had they not scorn'd to owe their safety to a sin that had renderd them unworthy of it.

-How they had rather hazard their Empire then their Reputation.

-By permitting an ill act in an Epirote, which he had no interest in but what his Knowledge of it gave him.

-Had not hiher Consider. plac't limits to my just revenge.

-Endeavor to make me question his Mother's Faith which I should have done, did I not know one of the greatest Vices was to suspect she had any.

He endavor'd it obliquely.

That I might not suspect the first service I did him was by accident but Designe.