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only it troubles me greatly what they tell me⁠—that once I have tasted it I will eat my hands off after it;

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and if that is so it will not come very cheap to me; though to be sure the maimed have a benefice of their own in the alms they beg for; so that one way or another thou wilt be rich and in luck. God give it to thee as he can, and keep me to serve thee. From this castle, the 20th of July, 1614.

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