Digital Donne: the Online Variorum
The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 47, cont. (p.147) |
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this papers opposed to those, with which you trusted me. It is (I cannot say the waigh- tyest, but truly) the saddest lucubration and nights passage that ever I had. For it exercised those hours, which, with extreme danger of her, whom I should hardly have abstained from recompensing for her company in this world, with accompany- ing her out of it, encreased my poor family with a son. Though her anguish, and my fears, and hopes, seem divers and wild di- stractions from this small businesse of your papers, yet because they all narrowed themselves, and met in Via regia, which is the consideration of our selves, and God, I thought it time not unfit for this dispatch. Thus much more then needed I have told you, whilest my fire was lighting at Tri- combs 10 a clock. Yours ever intirely J. Donne. [CW: To] |
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