Digital Donne: the Online Variorum
  The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 84, cont., and Letter 85 (p.237) |
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her Ladiship: say what you will (if you like not this expression) that may make her Ladiship know, that I shall never let fall the memory, nor the just valuation of her noble favours to me, nor leave them unrequited in my Exchequer, which is, the blessings of God upon my prayers. If I should write another sheet, I should be able to serve your curiosity no more of Dukes nor LL. nor Courts, and this half line serves to tell you, that I am truly Your poor friend and humble servant in Chr. Jes. J. Donne. To my honoured friend G. G. Esquire. sir, Neither your Letters, nor silence, needs excuse; your friendship is to me an abundant possession, though you remem- ber me but twice in a year: He that could have two harvests in that time, might just- ly value his land at a high rate; but, Sir, as we doe not onely then thank our land, [CW: when] |
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