Digital Donne: the Online Variorum
a href="target311.html">  The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 72, cont., and Letter 73 (p.207) |
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lest by the Jailors fault this Letter stick long, I must tell you, that I writ and sent it 12o Decemb. 1600. Your friend and servant and lover J. Donne. 12. Decemb. 1600. To your self. sir, I send you here a Translation; but it is not onely to beleeve me, it is a great in- vention to have understood any piece of this Book, whether the gravity of the mat- ter, or the Poeticall form, give it his incli- nation, and principium motus; you are his center, or his sphere, and to you as to his proper place he addresses himself. Besides that all my things, not onely by obligation, but by custome, know that that is the way they should goe. I spake of this to my L. of Bedford, thinking then I had had a co- py which I made long since, at Sea, but be- cause I finde it not, I have done that again: [CW: when] |
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