Digital Donne: the Online Variorum
The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 8, cont., and Letter 9 (p.22) |
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I remember, I had this answer, That cer- tainly, there was a false thread in it, but not easily found: Keep it, I pray, with the same jealousie; let any that your discretion ad- mits to the sight of it, know the date of it; and that it is a Book written by Jack Donne, and not by D. Donne: Reserve it for me, if I live, and if I die, I only forbid it the Presse, and the Fire: publish it not, but yet burn it not; and between those, do what you will with it. Love me still, thus farre, for your own sake, that when you withdraw your love from me, you will finde so many un- worthinesses in me, as you grow ashamed of having had so long, and so much, such a thing as Line omitted Your poor servant in Chr. Jes. J. Donne. To the Countesse of Bedford. Madam, Amongst many other dignities which this letter hath by being received and seen by you, it is not the least, that it was [CW: pro-] |
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