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So fall the Idols and the Slaves of Rome.
I am asham'd to have detain'd your Lordship so long and so unprofitably, and therefore shall only add, that as I shall faithfully pursue my Instructions here, so I hope my Zeal for my Country, and Attachment to your Lordship, stand in need of no Professions, and especially from one, who has so often sacrific'd his Fortune and Interest, to the little Services he has been so happy to render to both, and to the Honour of being
My Lord, your Lordship's, &c.
Hertford.
I Write this with Mr. Secretary's Cypher, having unhappily mislaid the one you order'd for me.
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