Digital Donne: the Online Variorum
The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 43, cont., and Letter 34 (p.137) |
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in longer time. Here is room for an Amen; the prayer ---- so I am going to my bedside to make for all you and all yours, with Your true friend and servant in Chr. Jesus J. Donne. A.V. Merced. sir, I write to you out of my poor Libra- ry, where to cast mine eye upon good Authors kindles or refreshes sometimes meditations not unfit to communicate to near friends; nor from the high way, where I am contracted, and inverted into my self; which are my two ordinary for- ges of Letters to you. But I write from the fire side in my Parler, and in the noise of three gamesome children;ii and by the side of her, whom because I have transplanted into a wretched fortune, I must labour to disguise that from her by all such honest devices, as giving her my company, and discourse, therefore I steal from her, all the [CW: time] |
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