Digital Donne: the Online Variorum
a href="target319.html">  The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 76, cont., and Letter 77 (p.213) |
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for I am more needy of it then you. And I know you well provided of Christian, and learned, and brave defences against all hu- mane accidents. I will make my best haste after your messenger: and if my self and the place had not been ill provided of hor- ses, I had been the messenger, for you have taught me by granting more to deny no request. Pyesford 3 a clock Your honest unprofitable friend just as yours came. J. Donne. To Sir H. G. sir, I cannot yet serve you with those books of which your Letter spake. In recom- pense I will tell you a story, which if I had had leasure to have told it you when it was fresh, which was upon Thursday last, might have had some grace for the rareness, and would have tried your love to me, how farre you would adventure to beleeve an improbable thing for my sake who re- [CW: lates] |
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