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15 | <Metadata name="Title">Primary Sources: Selections from King Henry VIII's love letters to Anne Boleyn</Metadata>
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34 | <p align="center">&nbsp;<br>
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36 | <img border="0" src="_httpdocimg_/ablovelett.gif" alt="Primary Sources: Selections from King Henry VIII's love letters to Anne Boleyn" width="452" height="113"><p align="center">&nbsp;</td>
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44 | <td valign="top" width="48%" bgcolor="#FFFFE8"><font size="2">These famous
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45 | love letters from King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn are undated.&nbsp; They
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46 | were found in the Vatican Library, possibly stolen from Anne and sent to
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47 | the papacy during Henry VIII's struggle for an annulment of his marriage
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48 | to Katharine of Aragon.&nbsp; Though Henry argued for an annulment on the
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49 | basis of his conscience (he stated that the marriage was in direct
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50 | contradiction to the Bible), most people believed he simply wanted to
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51 | marry Anne Boleyn.</font><p><font size="2">Anne's replies to these letters
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52 | are lost.</font></p>
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53 | <p><font size="2">The letters were written in French.</font></td>
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57 | <p>My mistress and friend:&nbsp; I and my heart put ourselves in your
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58 | hands, begging you to have them suitors for your good favour, and that
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59 | your affection for them should not grow less through absence.&nbsp; For
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60 | it would be a great pity to increase their sorrow since absence does it
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61 | sufficiently, and more than ever I could have thought possible reminding
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62 | us of a point in astronomy, which is, that the longer the days are the
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63 | farther off is the sun, and yet the more fierce.&nbsp; So it is with our
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64 | love, for by absence we are parted, yet nevertheless it keeps its fervour,
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65 | at least on my side, and I hope on yours also:&nbsp; assuring you that
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66 | on my side the ennui of absence is already too much for me:&nbsp; and when
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67 | I think of the increase of what I must needs suffer it would be well nigh
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68 | unbearable for me were it not for the firm hope I have and as I cannot
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69 | be with you in person, I am sending you the nearest possible thing to that,
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70 | namely, my picture set in a bracelet, with the whole device which you already
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71 | know.&nbsp; Wishing myself in their place when it shall please you.&nbsp;
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72 | This by the hand of </p>
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74 | <p align="left">Your loyal servant and friend</p>
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75 |
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76 | <p align="left">H. Rex</p>
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77 | <hr>
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78 | <p>No more to you at this present mine own darling for lack of time but that
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79 | I would you were in my arms or I in yours for I think it long since I kissed
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80 | you.&nbsp; Written after the killing of an hart at a xj. of the clock minding
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81 | with God's grace tomorrow mightily timely to kill another: by the hand
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82 | of him which I trust shortly shall be yours.</p>
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84 | <p>Henry R.</p>
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88 | <p>Mine own sweetheart, these shall be to advertise you of the great loneliness
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89 | that I find here since your departing, for I ensure you methinketh the
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90 | time longer since your departing now last than I was wont to do a whole
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91 | fortnight:&nbsp; I think your kindness and my fervents of love causeth
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92 | it, for otherwise I would not have thought it possible that for so little
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93 | a while it should have grieved me, but now that I am coming toward you
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94 | methinketh my pains been half released....&nbsp; Wishing myself (specially
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95 | an evening) in my sweetheart's arms, whose pretty dukkys I trust shortly
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96 | to kiss.&nbsp; Written with the hand of him that was, is, and shall be
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97 | yours by his will.<p>H.R.<p>&nbsp;</p>
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100 | <font size="2">to the Anne
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101 | Boleyn website</font></a></p>
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