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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36298	Letters to severall persons of honour written by John Donne ... ; published by John Donne, Dr. of the civill law.; Correspondence. Selections	Donne, John, 1572-1631.; Donne, John, 1604-1662.	1651 (1651)	Wing D1864; ESTC R1211	107,493	328

no other fault in eating the Apple but that he did it Ne contristaretu● delicias suas I am not carefull what I write because the inclosed Letters may dignifie this ill favoured bark and they need not grudge so course a countenance because they are now to accompany themselves my man fetched them and therefore I can say no more of them then themselves say M ris Meauly intreated me by her Letter to hasten hers as I think for by my troth I cannot read it My Lady was dispatching in so much haste for Twicknam as she gave no word to a Letter which I sent with yours of Sir Tho. Bartlet I can say nothing nor of the plague though your Letter bid me but that he diminishes the other increases but in what proportion I am not clear To them at Hammersmith and M ris Herbert I will do your command If I have been good in hope or can promise any little offices in the future probably it is comfortable for I am the worst present man in the world yet the instant though it be nothing joynes times together and therefore this unprofitableness since I have been and will still indevour to be so shall not interrupt me now from being Your servant and lover J. Donne To the best Knight Sir H. Wootton SIR VVHen I saw your good Countesse last she let me think that her message by her foot-man would hasten you up And it furthered that opinion in me when I knew how near M. Mathews day of departing this kingdome was To counterpoyse both these I have a little Letter from you brought to me to Micham yesterday but left at my lodging two days sooner and because that speaks nothing of your return I am content to be perplexed in it and as in all other so in this perplexity to do that which is safest To me it is safest to write because it performes a duty and leaves my conscience well and though it seem not safest for the Letter which may perish yet I remember that in the Crociate for the warres in the Holy Land and so in all Pilgrimages enterprised in devotion he which dies in the way enjoyes all the benefit and indulgences which the end did afford Howsoever all that can encrease the danger of your Letter encrease my merit for as where they immolate men it is a a scanter devotion to sacrifice one of many slaves or of many children or an onely child then to beget and bring up one purposely to sacrifice it so if I ordain this Letter purposely for destruction it is the largest expressing of that kinde of piety and I am easie to beleeve because I wish it your hast hither Not that I can fear any slacknesse in that business which drew you down because your fortune and honour are a paire of good spurs to it but here also you have both true businesse and many Quasi negotia which go two and two to a businesse which are visitations and such as though they be not full businesses yet are so near them that they serve as for excuses in omissions of the other As when abjurations was in use in this land the State and law was satisfied if the abjuror came to the sea side and waded into the sea when windes and tydes resisted so we think our selves justly excusable to our friends and our selves if when we should do businesse we come to the place of businesse as Courts and the houses of great Princes and officers I do not so much intimate your infirmity in this as frankly confesse mine own The master of Latine language says Oculi aures aliorum te speculantur custodiunt So those two words are synonimous only the observation of others upon me is my preservation from extream idlenesse else I professe that I hate businesse so much as I am sometimes glad to remember that the Roman Church reads that verse A negotio perambulante in tenebris which we reade from the pestilence walking by night so equall to me do the plague and businesse deserve avoiding but you will neither beleeve that I abhor businesse if I inlarge this Letter nor that I would afford you that ease which I affect Therefore returne to your pleasures Your unprofitablest friend Jo. Donne March 14. 1607. It is my third Letter which I tell you because I found not M r. Rogers but left the Letter which I sent last with a stranger at Cliffords Inne To Sir H. G. SIR THis 14 of November last I received yours of the 9 as I was in the street going to sup with my Lady Bedford I found all that company forepossessed with a wonder why you came not last saturday I perceive that as your intermitting your Letters to me gave me reason to hope for you so some more direct addresse or conscience of your businesse here had imprinted in them an assurance of your comming this Letter shall but talke not discourse it shall but gossip not consider nor consult so it is made halfe with a prejudice of being lost by the way The King is gone this day for Royston and hath left with the Queen a commandment to meditate upon a Masque for Christmas so that they grow serious about that already that will hasten my Lady Bedfords journey who goes within ten days from hence to her Lord but by reason of this can make no long stay there Justinian the Venetian is gone hence and one Carraw come in his place that State hath taken a fresh offence at a Friar who refused to absolve a Gentleman because he would not expresse in confession what books of Father Paul and such he knew to be in the hands of any others the State commanded him out of that territory in three hours warning and he hath now submitted himself and is returned as prisoner for Mantua and so remains as yet Sir H. Wootton who writ hither addes also that upon his knowledge there are 14000 as good Protestants as he in that State The Duke Joyeuse is dead in Primont returning from Rome where M. Mole who went with the L. Rosse is taken into the Inquisition and I see small hope of his recovery for he had in some translations of Plessis books talked of Babylon and Antichrist Except it fall out that one Strange a Jesuit in the Tower may be accepted for him To come a little nearer my self Sir Geffery Fenton one of his Majesties Secretaries in Ireland is dead and I have made some offer for the place in preservation whereof as I have had occasion to imploy all my friends so I have not found in them all except Bedford more hast and words for when those two are together there is much comfort even in the least then in the L. Hay In good faith he promised so roundly so abundantly so profusely as I suspected him but performed what ever he undertook and my requests were the measures of his undertakings so readily and truly that his complements became obligations