Digital Donne: the Online Variorum
The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 11, cont., and Letter 12 (p.31) |
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of; but with the last and the next weeks heart and affection. Line omitted Yours very truely and affectionately J. Donne. To Sir H.G. sir, This letter hath more merit, then one of more diligence, for I wrote it in my bed, and with much pain. I have occasi- on to sit late some nights in my study, (which your books make a prety library) and now I finde that that room hath a wholesome emblematique use: for having under it a vault, I make that promise me, that I shall die reading, since my book and a grave are so near. But it hath another as unwholesome, that by raw vapors rising from thence, (for I can impute it to nothing else) I have contracted a sicknesse which I cannot name nor describe. For it hath so much of a continuall Cramp, that it wrests the sinews, so much of a Tetane, that it withdraws and puls the mouth, and [CW: so] |
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