Digital Donne: the Online Variorum
The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 5, cont. (p.10) |
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in your obedience to him, in your own sickness, cannot be doubted to dispute with him, about any part of you, which he shall be pleased to require at your hands. The dif- ference is great in the loss, of an arme, or a head; of a child, or a husband: but to them, who are incorporated into Christ, their head, there can be no beheading; upon you, who are a member of the spouse of Christ the Church, there can fall no wi- dowhead, nor orphanage upon those chil- dren, to whom God is father. I have not another office by your husbands death; for I was your Chaplaine before, in my daily prayers; but I shall inlarge that office with other Collects, then before, that God will continue to you, that peace which you have ever had in him, and send you quiet, and peaceable dispositions in all them with whom you shall have any thing to do, in your temporall estate and matters of this world. Amen. Your Ladiships very humble and At my poor house at S. thankfull servant in Christ Pauls. 26. Octob. 1624. Jesus J. Donne. [CW: To] |
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