Harriot, Thomas, Mss. 6789

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            <s xml:space="preserve"> the last of Vieta's problemes you have to speake
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            of because (you say) I had a letter of you, which was
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            more universal and more easilie demonstrated, and fi-
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            deth the point,
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            . as wel out of the plaine of the tri-
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            angle given, as in the plaine. I pray here holpe
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            my memorie or understandinge, for although I have
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            bethought my selfe
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            ; I cannot admember
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            or conceave what proposition you meane. if I have
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            had such a one of you, tel me what one it is and by
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            what tokens I may know it. for you know how much I love
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            your things and of all ways of teaching for richnesse
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            & fullnesse for stuffe & forme, yours unto me are
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            incomparablie most satisfactorie. if your leasure give
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            you time importe also unto me somewhat els of your
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            riches in this </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> Let me intreate you advise & direct this bearer
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            Mr Vaughan wher and how to provide himselfe of a
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            fit sphere; that by the contemplation of that our
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            imaginations here may be extended in manie spe-
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            culations that perplexe our understandings with dia-
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            grammes
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            . He hath monie to provide doe
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            you but tell him wher they are to be had and what
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            manner of sphere (I meane with what & how many
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            circles) wilbe most usefull for us to thes studies.
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            after all this I must needs tell you my sorrowes. god
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            that gave him, hath taken from me my onlie sun, by con-
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            tinual & strange fits of epylepsie or Apolepsie, when
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            in appearance, as he was most pleasant & good,
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            was most
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            healthie. but amongst other things, I have learnt of you to
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            setle & submit my desires to the will of god; onlie my
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            wife with more greife beares this affliction, yet now againe
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            she begins to be comforted. let me heare from </s>
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