Digital Donne: the Online Variorum
The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 31, cont., and Letter 32 (p.92) |
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I protest earnestly to you, it troubles me much more to dispatch a pacquet into Eng- land, without a Letter to her, then it would to put in three. But I have been heretofore too immodest towards her, and I suffer this Purgatory for it. We make account to leave this place within 8 or 10 days, and hence to make our best haste to the Count Maurice, where we think to finde again the young Palatine: all this I tell you only because when you know, that we shall run too fast to write any more Letters, you may easily pardon the importunities and impertinen- cies of this, and cast into no lower place of your love Spâ, 26 July here Your very true friend and servant 1612. J. Donne. To my Lord G. H. sir, I am near the execution of that purpose for France; though I may have other ends, yet if it do but keep me awake, it recom- [CW: penses] |
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