Digital Donne: the Online Variorum
The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 12, cont. (p.34) |
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which I owe to your love, and to my self, who am bound to cherish it by my best of- fices. That by which it will deserve best acceptation, is, That neither the Roman Church need call it defective, because it abhors not the particular mention of the blessed Triumphers in heaven; nor the Reformed can discreetly accuse it, of attri- buting more then a rectified devotion ought to doe. The day before I lay down, I was at London, where I delivered your Let- ter for Sr Ed. Conway, and received another for you, with the copy of my Book, of which it is impossible for me to give you a copy so soon, for it is not of much lesse then 300 pages. If I die, it shall come to you in that fashion that your Letter desires it. If I warm again, (as I have often seen such beg-gers as my indisposition is, end them- selves soon, and the patient as soon) you and I shal speak together of that, before it be too late to serve you in that command- ment. At this time I onely assure you, that I have not appointed it upon any person, [CW: nor] |
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