Digital Donne: the Online Variorum
The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 15, cont., and Letter 16 (p.41) |
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of you familiar and ordinary in me, though they have seldome the help of this conveyance to your knowledge: I am loth to leave; for as long as in any fashion, I can have your brother and you here, you make my house a kinde of Dorvey; but since I cannot stay you here, I will come thither to you; which I do, by wrapping up in this paper, the heart of Line omitted Your most affectionate servant J. Donne. To Sir Thomas Roe. sir, It is an ease to your friends abroad, that you are more a man of businesse then heretofore; for now it were an injury to trouble you with a busie Letter. But by the same reason I were inexcusable if I should not write at all, since the lesse, the more ac- ceptable; therefore, Sir, though I have no more to say, but to renew the obligations I have towards you, and to continue my [CW: place] |
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