Digital Donne: the Online Variorum
The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 23, cont., and Letter 24 (p.68) |
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use your style and old fashion of the Court towards me, and pay me with a Pardon. Here therefore I humbly kisse your Ladi- ships fair learned hands, and wish you good wishes and speedy grants. Your Ladiships servant J. Donne. To the Honourable Knight Sir H. Goodere. Because things be conserved by the same means, which established them, I nurse that friendship by Letters, which you be- got so; though you have since strengthened it by more solid aliment and real offices. In these Letters from the Country there is this merit, that I do otherwise willingly turn mine eye or thoughts from my books, com- panions in whom there in no falshood nor frowardnesse: which words, I am glad to observe that the holy Authors often joyne as expressers and relatives to one another, because else out of a naturall descent to that unworthy fault of frowardnesse, furthered [CW: with] |
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