Digital Donne: the Online Variorum
  The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 128, cont., and Letter 129 (p.316) |
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and come as a visitor and overseer of this Hospitall of mine, and dine or sup at this miserable chezmey. Your humble and thankfullest servant 4 Jan. 1626. J. Donne. To my Noble friend Mris Cokain at Ashburne. My noblest sister, But that it is sweetned by your command, nothing could trouble me more, then to write of my self. Yet, if I would have it known, I must write it my self; for, I neither tell children, nor servants, my state. I have never good temper, nor good pulse, nor good appetite, nor good sleep. Yet, I have so much leasure to recol- lect my self, as that I can thinke I have been long thus, or often thus. I am not alive, [CW: because] |
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