Digital Donne: the Online Variorum

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Previous image Next imageThe 1654 Prose Letters  Letter 73, cont., and Letter 74 (p.208)




when you finde it not unseasonable, let her
see it; and if you can think it fit, that a thing
that hath either wearied, or distasted you,
should receive so much favour, put it
amongst her papers: when you have a
new stomach to it, I will provide you
quickly a new Copy.
At my Micham Your very true friend and servant
Hospitall, Aug. 10. and lover J. Donne.

To the gallant Knight Sir Tho. Lucy.

sir,
Because in your last Letter, I have an in-
vitation to come to you, though I ne-
ver thought my self so fallen from my in-
terest, which, by your favour, I prescribe in,
in you, and therefore when in the spring I
hoped to have strength enough, to come in-
to those parts, upon another occasion, I
always resolved to put my self into your
presence too, yet now I aske you more par-
ticularly how you dispose of your self; for
though I have heard, that you purpose a
[CW: jour-]
p.208

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