Digital Donne: the Online Variorum
The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 65, cont. (p.196) |
|
at least pardon my advising you, to place those sums, which by your retiring I pre- sume you do imploy upon payment of debts, in such places as that these particu- lar friends be not forced to leave being so. I confesse, the going about to pay debts, hastens importunity. I finde in my self, that where I was not asked money before, yet when I offered to pay next Terme, they seem loth to afford me that time, which might justly have been desperate before: but that which you told me out of the Countrey, with the assistance which I hope to finde here, (especially if your inde- vour may advance it at Dorset house) I hope will inable me to escape clamor, and an ill conscience, in that behalf. One thing more I must tell you; but so softly, that I am loath to hear my self: and so softly, that if that good Lady were in the room, with you and this Letter, she might not hear. It is, that I am brought to a necessity of prin- ting my Poems, and addressing them to my L. Chamberlain. This I mean to do [CW: forth-] |
|