Digital Donne: the Online Variorum

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and no body left worth the killing. Where-
soever you are, there is London enough: and
it is a diminishing of you to say so, since
you are more then the rest of the world.
When you have a desire to work a miracle,
you will return hither, and raise the place
from the dead, and the dead that are in it;
of which I am one, but that a hope that I
have a room in your favour keeps me alive;
which you shall abundantly confirme to
me, if by one letter you tell me, that you
have received my six; for now my letters
are grown to that bulk, that I may divide
them like Amadis the Gaules book, and tell
you, that this is the first letter of the second
part of the first book.

Strand S. Peters
day at nine. Your humblest, and affectionate
servant J. D.
[CW: To]
p.2

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