Digital Donne: the Online Variorum
 The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 1 (p.1) |
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COLLECTION of Letters written to severall Persons of Honour. To the worthiest Lady Mrs. Bridget White. Madame, I could make some guesse whe- ther souls that go to heaven, retain any memory of us that stay behinde, if I knew whether you ever thought of us, since you enjoyed your heaven, which is your self, at home. Your going away hath made London a dead carkasse. A Tearm, and a Court do a little spice and embalme it, and keep it from putrefaction, but the soul went away in you: and I think the onely reason why the plague is somewhat slack- ned, is, because the place is dead already, [CW: and] |
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