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  The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 121 (p.304) |
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To your selfe. Sir, If I shall never be able to do you any reall service, yet you may make this profit of me, that you be hereafter more cautelous in receiving into your knowledge, per- sons so uselesse, and importune. But be- fore you come to so perfect a knowledge of me, as to abandon me, go forward in your favours to me, so farre, as to deliver this Letter according to the addresse. I think I should not come nearer his presence then by a Letter: and I am sure, I would come no other way, but by you. Be you therefore pleased, by these noble favours to me, to continue in me the comfort which I have in being Your very humble and thankfull servant Drury house, 23 Sept. J. Donne. [CW: To] |
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