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lxxxviii I love her as my child, and I hope you will not think me too bold if I use her as such.

"May I ask your thoughts on what I am sure you must have heard, though it may not be with the sad particulars I have, of a friend of yours; if you see the Bishop of Lincoln inquire of him, it really grieves and frightens me.

"Nanny says she loves Mamma, Aunt Pen, and Dad, and Neddy, dearly, and all her friends, but that she does not go to them for fear she should not come to me again.

"We have had four days of fine weather, and I hope that summer is come at last." Lady Sunderland survived her friend Eyelyn about ten years; she died on the 16th of April, 1715. Another of Sidney's distinguished correspondents is Sir William Temple, who, though in no way related to him, or to any of the Sunderland family, was so intimately connected with the Sidneys by personal and hereditary ties, that he may fairly be considered as forming one in the family picture.

Sir William Temple was born in London, in the year 1628; his grandfather, Sir William Temple,