Digital Donne: the Online Variorum
The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 54, cont., and Letter 55 (p.171) |
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present of his; and I have had a third of- fer. The businesse of your last weeks Let- ter concerning the widow, is not a subject for a feverous mans consideration. There- fore I only send you back those Letters which you sent; and aske you leave to make this which I am fain to call my good day, so much truly good, as to spend the rest of it with D. Layfield, who is, upon my summons, at this hour come to me. My Physicians have made me afraid, that this disease will work into my head, and so put me into lightnesses, therefore I am desi- rous that I be understood before any such danger overtake me. 14. March. Your true poor servant J. Donne. To the Honourable Knight Sir H. G. Sir, After I have told you, that the Lady Hay dyed last Tuesday, and that to her end she was anguished with the memory [CW: of] |
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