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 who presents her service to you by me
 now, and says she will write next week,
 and so will I too, by Gods grace.  You for-
 get me absolutely and intirely, whensoever
 you forget me to that noble Countesse.  God
 blesse you in all, Amen.
 
 9 Martii. Your true servant in Jes. Chr.
 J. Donne.
 
 To the best Knight Sir H. G.
 
 sir,
 At your conveniency, I pray send my
 Lady Bedford this inclosed, but be
 pleased to put your self to some inconveni-
 ence, (if it be so) to kisse my Lady Ruthins
 hands in my name, and to present my very
 humble service to her, and tell her, that
 no ill conscience of having deserved her,
 but only an obedience to her command-
 ments, keeps me from saying to her self thus
 much; that this day I received a letter from
 my L. of Kent, written yesterday at Wrest:
 in that his Lordships sends me word, that
 [CW: that]
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