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  The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 71 (p.205) |
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To Sir Henry Goodere. Sir, I speak to you before God, I am so much affected with yesterdaies accident, that I think I prophane it in that name. As men which judge Nativities, consider not single Starres, but the Aspects, the concurrence and posture of them; so in this, though no particular past arrest me, or divert me, yet all seems remarkable and enormous. God, which hath done this immediately, without so much as a sickness, will also immediately without supplement of friends, infuse his Spirit of comfort, where it is needed and deserved. I write this to you from the Spring Garden, whither I withdrew my self to think of this; and the intensenesse of my thinking ends in that, that by my help Gods work should be imperfected, if by any means I resisted the amasement. Your very true friend J. Donne. [CW: To] |
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