Wert Thee To
Write As Well As Friend Edmund, Whose Speeches I Often See In Our
Papers, It Would Be The Very Self Same Thing; Thee Wouldst Be
Equally Accused Of Idleness, And Vain Notions Not Befitting Thy
Condition.
Our colonel would be often coming here to know what it is
that thee canst write so much about.
Some would imagine that thee
wantest to become either an assembly-man or a magistrate, which God
forbid; and that thee art telling the king's men abundance of
things. Instead of being well looked upon as now, and living in
peace with all the world, our neighbours would be making strange
surmises: I had rather be as we are, neither better nor worse than
the rest of our country folks. Thee knowest what I mean, though I
should be sorry to deprive thee of any honest recreation. Therefore
as I have said before, let it be as great a secret as if it was some
heinous crime; the minister, I am sure, will not divulge it; as for
my part, though I am a woman, yet I know what it is to be a wife. - I
would not have thee, James, pass for what the world calleth a
writer; no, not for a peck of gold, as the saying is. Thy father
before thee was a plain dealing honest man, punctual in all things;
he was one of yea and nay, of few words, all he minded was his farm
and his work.
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