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[Transcriptions are not provided for noncanonical poems, elegies on Donne by other authors, or prose compositions.] [f. 28] |
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To Mr T. W. |
Hast thee harsh Verse as fast as thy lame measure |
will giue thee leaue, words blotted: to him my payne & pleasure. |
I haue giuen thee, & yet thou art to weake |
feete, & a reasoning Soule & tong to speake. |
line blotted: Plead for me, and so by thyne & my labor, |
line blotted: I ame thy Creator, thou my Sauior. |
Tell him all questions wch Men haue defended |
line blotted: Both of the place & paynes of hell are ended. |
line blotted: And tis decreed yt hell is but priuation |
line blotted: Of him, at least in this Earths habitation. |
And tis wher I ame, wher in euery streete |
Infections follow, overtake and meete. |
Live I, or dy by you my Love is sent |
And you are my or els my testament. |