Digital Donne: the Online Variorum
The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 43, cont. (p.136) |
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as good dispositions; and in saying so, I make account that I have taken my com- parison as high as I could goe; for in good faith, I beleeve yours to be so: but as those my daughters (who are capable of such considerations) cannot but see my desire to accommodate them in this world, so I think they will not murmure if heaven must be their Nunnery, and they associated to the B. virgins there: I know they would be content to passe their lives in a Prison, rather then I should macerate my self for them, much more to suffer the mediocrity of my house, and my means, though that cannot preferre them: yours are such too, and it need not that patience, for your for- tune doth not so farre exercise their pati- ence. But to leave all in Gods hands, from whose hands nothing can be wrung by whining but by praying, nor by pray- ing without the Fiat voluntas tua. Sir, you are used to my hand, and, I think have lei- sure to spend some time in picking out sense, in ragges; else I had written lesse, and [CW: in] |
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