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P.S. I have written a thing I may
send you called Grass is my garland.

Oak Hill Hampstead, N.W.

It will not take you a minute if
you are Uniting to send me Wood's
direction.

[Sketch labeled SIMEON THE STILEITE, showing a skeletal man in a fur or hair tunic, with a sort of halo, holding a scythe, sitting on a country stile. A pulley brings up a basket of bread loaves, three stars shine in the sky, and the man reads a newspaper with this text:

HIGH CHURCH
MAN
PILLAR OFORTHO[DOXY?]
WICKEDNESS
HIGH
PLACES
CHRISTIANS
BREADBASKET]

[Text resumes]

AN ESSAYE
MORALL AND POLITICAL
BY
FRANCIS LO. VERVLAM,
VISCOVNT ST. ALBAN

It was a good saying of Petronius Gallus
when Augustus Caesar would have him to
sign the Thirty-nine Articles, that he would
do that very willingly, for that oft times
the food of a Fool must be a Wise Man's
physick. So I think alsoe is Seneca to be
understanded Quot Corpora, Iot capita;
Every woman had a Boddice but not every
one Stays. There is a toye in Hungarie
which I set down for the better Memory
of it, which they use of one that hath
drunk deepe, and then afterward hath
suffered, that such come in with the
Highe Tide, and oute agen with the Ebbe.
Which I would not affirm to be all of all
Sorts and Differences true, but this I

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