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The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 49, cont., and Letter 50 (p.151) |
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good Lady emptied of businesse and plea- sure, present my humble thanks; you can do me no favour, which I need not, nor any, which I cannot have some hope to de- serve, but this; for I have made her opinion of me, the ballance by which I weigh my self. I will come soon enough to deliver my thanks to Sir J. Harr. for your ease, whom I know I have pained with an ilfa- voured Letter, but my heart hath one style, and character; and is yours in wishing, and in thankfulnesse. J. Donne. Peckham Monday afternoon. To the Honourable Sir R. D. Sir, I gave no answer to the Letter I received from you upon Tuesday, both because I had in it no other commandment by it but to deliver your Letter therein, which I did, and because that Letter found me under very much sadnesse, which (according to the proportion of ills that fall upon me) [CW: is] |
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