Digital Donne: the Online Variorum
The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 10, cont., and Letter 11 (p.26) |
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and my writing this Sermon is too equall: that that your Ladiship heard in a hoarse voyce then, you read in a course hand now: but in thankfulnesse I shall lift up my hands as clean as my infirmities can keep them, and a voyce as clear as his spirit shall be pleased to tune in my prayers in all places of the world, which shall either sustain or bury Line omitted Your Ladiships humble servant in Christ Iesus J. D. To Sir H.R. If a whole year be but Annus ab Annulo, because it returnes into it self, what An- nulus shall be diminutive enough, to express our weekly revolutions? In chaines the least linkes have most curiosity, but that can be no emblem of us: but they have also the most strength, and that may. The first sphere onely which is resisted by nothing, absolves his course every day; and so doth true friendship well placed, often iterate in act [CW: or] |
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