Digital Donne: the Online Variorum
The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 42, cont., and Letter 43 (p.134) |
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generall wishes of you own good, then I am in my particular, of which none rises in me, that is not bent upon your enjoying of peace and reposednesse in your fortunes, in your affections, and in your conscience; more then which I know not how to wish to Paris the 9 Apr. Your very affectionate servant and 1612. here. lover J. Donne. To Sir H. Wotton. Octob. the 4th 1622. almost ad midnight. sir, All our moralities are but our out- works, our Christianity is our Citadel; a man who considers duty but the dignity of his being a man, is not easily beat from his outworks, but from his Christianity never; and therefore I dare trust you, who contemplates them both. Every distem- per of the body now, is complicated with the spleen, and when we were young men [CW: we] |
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