Digital Donne: the Online Variorum
The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 34, cont., and Letter 35 (p.105) |
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Letter to you; and as such a token as I use to send, which use, because I wish rather they should serve (except you wish other- wise) I send no other; but after I have told you, that here at a Christning at Peckam, you are remembred by divers of ours, and I commanded to you so, I kisse your hands, and so seal to you my pure love, which I would not refuse to do by any la- bour or danger. Your very true friend and servant J. Donne. To Sr G. M. If you were here, you would not think me importune, if I bid you good mor- row every day; and such a patience will ex- cuse my often Letters. No other kinde of conveyance is better for knowledge, or love: What treasures of Morall knowledge are in Senecaes Letters to onely one Lucilius? and what of Naturall in Plinies? how much of the storie of the time, is in Ciceroes Let- [CW: ters?] |
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