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To the Countesse of Bedford
sistr to the L.d Harrington
Madame. [172]
I haue learnd by those lawes wherein I am a little conversant,
that hee w.ch bestowes any cost vpon the dead, obliges him
w.ch is dead but not the heyre. I doe not therefore send this
paper to yor La.pp that you should thanke mee for it, or
thinke that I thanke you in it. yor fauors and benefits to mee
are so much aboue my merits that they are even aboue my
Gratitude, if that were to bee iudged by words w.ch must exprsse
it. But, Madame, since yor Noble Brothers fortunes beeing yours
the Evidences also concerning
it ar yours, so his vertues beeing yours, that
Evidences concerning that belong also to
yo
u.
Of w.ch. by yor acceptance, this may bee one part. In w.ch, quality I humbly
prsent it, and as a testimony how entirely yor family
possesseth
Yor La.pps most humble
and fayth*full srvt.
Iohn Donne

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