The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn 17 – VIII · Verses Across
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The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn 17To Anne Boleyn
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Literature · Romance
The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn 17
To Anne Boleyn
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The reasonable request of your last letter, with the pleasure also that I take to know them true, causeth me to send you these news. The legate which we most desire arrived at Paris on Sunday or Monday last past, so that I trust by the next Monday to hear of his arrival at Calais: and then I trust within a while after to enjoy that which I have so long longed for, to God's pleasure and our both comforts.
No more to you at this present, mine own darling, for lack of time, but that I would you were in mine arms, or I in yours, for I think it long since I kissed you.
Written after the killing of a hart, at eleven of the clock, minding, with God's grace, to-morrow, mightily timely, to kill another, by the hand which, I trust, shortly shall be yours.
