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  The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 88, cont. (p.245) |
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to preserve his memory: but I have a grea- ter vantage then so; for since there is a Re- ligion in friendship, and a death in absence, to make up an intire frame there must be a heaven too: and there can be no heaven so proportionall to that Religion, and that death, as your favour. And I am gladder that it is a heaven, then that it were a Court, or any other high place of this world, because I am likelier to have a room there then here; and better cheap. Madam my best treasure, is time; and my best im- ployment of that, is to study good wishes for you, in which I am by continuall medi- tation so learned, that your own good An- gell, when it would do you most good, might be content to come and take in- structions from Your humble and affectionate servant J. Donne. [CW: To] |
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