The Prince and the Pauper - The Original Classic Edition. Twain Mark

      The Prince and The Pauper, Complete by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

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       Title: The Prince and The Pauper, Complete

       Author: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

       Release Date: August 20, 2006 [EBook #1837]

       Language: English

       *** PRINCE AND THE PAUPER ***

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       THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER

       by Mark Twain

       Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester, to Lord Cromwell, on the birth of the

       Prince of Wales (afterward Edward VI.).

       From the National Manuscripts preserved by the British Government.

       Ryght honorable, Salutem in Christo Jesu, and Syr here ys no lesse joynge and rejossynge in thes partees for the byrth of our prynce, hoom we hungurde for so longe, then ther was (I trow), inter vicinos att the

       byrth of S. J. Baptyste, as thys berer, Master Erance, can telle you.

       Gode gyffe us alle grace, to yelde dew thankes to our Lorde Gode, Gode of Inglonde, for verely He hathe shoyd Hym selff Gode of Inglonde, or rather an Inglyssh Gode, yf we consydyr and pondyr welle alle Hys procedynges with us from tyme to tyme. He hath over cumme alle our yllnesse with Hys

       excedynge goodnesse, so that we are now moor then compellyd to serve Hym, seke Hys glory, promott Hys wurde, yf the Devylle of alle Devylles be

       natt in us. We have now the stooppe of vayne trustes ande the stey of vayne expectations; lett us alle pray for hys preservatione. Ande I for

       my partt wylle wyssh that hys Grace allways have, and evyn now from the begynynge, Governares, Instructores and offyceres of ryght jugmente, ne

       optimum ingenium non optima educatione deprevetur.

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       Butt whatt a grett fowlle am I! So, whatt devotione shoyth many tymys butt lytelle dyscretione! Ande thus the Gode of Inglonde be ever with you in alle your procedynges.

       The 19 of October.

       Youres, H. L. B. of Wurcestere, now att Hartlebury.