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The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn 15To Anne Boleyn

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To Anne Boleyn

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MINE own SWEETHEART, this shall be to advertise you of the great elengeness that I find here since your departing; for, I ensure you methinketh the time longer since your departing now last, than I was wont to do a whole fortnight. I think your kindness and my fervency of love causeth it; for, otherwise, I would not have thought it possible that for so little a while it should have grieved me. But now that I am coming towards you, methinketh my pains be half removed; and also I am right well comforted in so much that my book maketh substantially for my matter; in looking whereof I have spent above four hours this day, which causeth me now to write the shorter letter to you at this time, because of some pain in my head; wishing myself (especially an evening) in my sweetheart's arms, whose pretty dukkys I trust shortly to kiss.
Written by the hand of him that was, is, and shall be yours by his own will,
H. R.

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VIII — The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn (King of England Henry VIII) (author lived 1491–1547). Public Domain. King of England Henry VIII, The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn; public domain in the US; text from Project Gutenberg #32155. Source

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