Digital Donne: the Online Variorum
The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 60, cont., and Letter 61 (p.184) |
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little in your contemplation. Sixteen letters from M. Gherard, could not (I think) per- swade a Middlesex Jury of so much disho- nesty in Your true servant J. Donne. To the Honourable Knight Sir G. P. sir, I would have intermitted this week with- out writing, if I had not found the name of my Lady Huntington in your Letter. The devotion which I owe, and (in good faith) pay in my best prayers for her good, in all kinde awakens me to present my humble thanks for this, that her Ladiship retains my name in her memory: she never laid obligation upon any man, readier to ex- presse his acknowledgement of them, to any servant of her servants; I am bound to say much of this, for your indemnity; because though I had a little preparation to her knowledge in the house where I served [CW: at] |
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