The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn 15 – VIII · Verses Across
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The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn 15To Anne Boleyn
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Literature · Romance
The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn 15
To Anne Boleyn
VIIIEnglish
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,
