Digital Donne: the Online Variorum
The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 26, cont., and Letter 27 (p.78) |
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Bastile, likely to be presently tortured; all his friends here commanded to their houses, and the Queens com- panies of light horse sent already thitherward, and foot companies preparing; which troops being sent against a place, so much concerning those of the Religion to keep, and where they abound in number and strength, cannot chuse but produce effects worthy your hearing in the next Letter. To Sir H. G. sir Because I am in a place and season where I see every thing bud forth, I must do so too, and vent some of my meditations to you; the rather because all other buds being yet without taste or virtue, my Let- ters may be like them. The pleasantnesse of the season displeases me. Every thing re- freshes, and I wither, and I grow older and not better, my strength diminishes, and my load growes, and being to passe more and more stormes, I finde that I have not only cast out all my ballast which nature [CW: and] |
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