Digital Donne: the Online Variorum
  The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 90 (p.249) |
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To the Honourable Knight, Sir R o b e r t K a r r e. sir, Though I have left my bed, I have not left my bed-side; I sit there still, and as a Prisoner discharged, sits at the Prison doore, to beg Fees, so sit I here, to gather crummes. I have used this leisure, to put the meditations had in my sicknesse, into some such order, as may minister some ho- ly delight. They arise to so many sheetes (perchance 20.) as that without staying for that furniture of an Epistle, that my Friends importun'd me to Print them, I im- portune my Friends to receive them Printed. That, being in hand, through this long Trunke, that reaches from Saint Pauls, to Saint James, I whisper into your eare this question, whether there by any uncomli- nesse, or unseasonablenesse, in presenting matter of Devotion, or Mortification, to [CW: that] |
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