Digital Donne: the Online Variorum
The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 1, cont. (p.2) |
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and no body left worth the killing. Where- soever you are, there is London enough: and it is a diminishing of you to say so, since you are more then the rest of the world. When you have a desire to work a miracle, you will return hither, and raise the place from the dead, and the dead that are in it; of which I am one, but that a hope that I have a room in your favour keeps me alive; which you shall abundantly confirme to me, if by one letter you tell me, that you have received my six; for now my letters are grown to that bulk, that I may divide them like Amadis the Gaules book, and tell you, that this is the first letter of the second part of the first book. Strand S. Peters day at nine. Your humblest, and affectionate servant J. D. [CW: To] |
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