Digital Donne: the Online Variorum
The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 32, cont., and Letter 33 (p.96) |
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bold to deliver my poor Letters to her La- diships hands, through yours, whilest I am abroad though I shall ever account my self at home, whilest I am in your me- mory. Your affectionate servant and lover J. Donne. To Sir H. G. sir, Nature hath made all bodies alike, by mingling and kneading up the same elements in every one. And amongst men, the other nature, Custome, hath made every minde like some other; we are patterns, or copies, we informe, or imitate. But as he hath not presently attained to write a good hand, which hath equalled one excellent Master in his A, another in his B, much lesse he which hath fought all the excellent Masters, and imployed all his time to ex- ceed in one Letter, because not so much an excellency of any, not every one, as an even- nesse and proportion, and respect to one [CW: another] |
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