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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36298	Letters to severall persons of honour written by John Donne ... ; published by John Donne, Dr. of the civill law.; Correspondence. Selections	Donne, John, 1572-1631.; Donne, John, 1604-1662.	1651 (1651)	Wing D1864; ESTC R1211	107,493	328

J. Donne Micham the 14 August To Sir I. H. SIR I Would not omit this not Commodity but Advantage of writing to you This emptinesse in London dignifies any Letter from hence as in the seasons earlinesse and latenesse makes the sowrenesse and after the sweetnesse of fruits acceptable and gracious We often excuse and advance mean Authors by the age in which they lived so will your love do this Letter and you will tell your self that if he which writ it knew wherein he might expresse his affection or any thing which might have made his Letter welcommer he would have done it As it is you may accept it so as we do many China manufactures of which when we know no use yet we satisfie our curiosity in considering them because we knew not how nor of what matter they were made Near great woods and quarries it is no wonder to see faire houses but in Holland which wants both it is So were it for me who am as farre removed from Court and knowledge of forein passages as this City is now from the face and furniture of a City to build up a long Letter and to write of my self were but to inclose a poor handfull of straw for a token in a Letter yet I will tell you that I am at London onely to provide for Monday when I shall use that favour which my Lady Bedford hath afforded me of giving her name to my daughter which I mention to you as well to shew that I covet any occasion of a gratefull speaking of her favours as that because I have thought the day is likely to bring you to London I might tell you that my poor house is in your way and you shall there finde such company as I think you will not be loth to accompany to London Your very true friend J. Donne 6 Aug. 1608. To Sir H. Wootton SIR THat which is at first but a visitation and a civill office comes quickly to be a haunting and an uncivill importunity my often writing might be subject to such a misinterpretation if it were not to you who as you know that the affection which suggests and dictates them is ever one and continuall and uninterrupted may be pleased to think my Letters so too and that all the pieces make but one long Letter and so I know you would not grudge to read any intire book of mine at that pace as you do my Letters which is a leafe a week especially such Letters as mine which perchance out of the dulnesse of the place are so empty of any relations as that they oppresse not your meditations nor discourse nor memory You know that for aire we are sure we apprehend and enjoy it but when this aire is rarified into fire we begin to dispute whether it be an element or no so when Letters have a convenient handsome body of news they are Letters but when they are spun out of nothing they are nothing or but apparitions and ghosts with such hollow sounds as he that hears them knows not what they said You I think and I am much of one sect in the Philosophy of love which though it be directed upon the minde doth inhere in the body and find piety entertainment there so have Letters for their principall office to be seals and testimonies of mutuall affection but the materialls and fuell of them should be a confident and mutuall communicating of those things which we know How shall I then who know nothing write Letters Sir I learn knowledge enough out of yours to me I learn that there is truth and sirmnesse and an earnestness of doing good alive in the world and therefore since there is so good company in it I have not so much desire to go out of it as I had if my fortune would afford me any room in it You know I have been no coward nor unindustrious in attempting that nor will I give it over yet If at last I must confesse that I dyed ten years ago yet as the Primitive Church admitted some of the Jews Ceremonies not for perpetuall use but because they would bury the Synagogue honourably though I dyed at a blow then when my courses were diverted yet it wilplease me a little to have had a long funerall and to have kept my self so long above ground without putrefaction But this is melancholique discourse To change therefore from this Metaphoricall death to the true and that with a little more relish of mirth let me tell you the good nature of the executioner of Paris who when Vatan was beheaded who dying in the profession of the Religion had made his peace with God in the prison and so said nothing at the place of execution swore he had rather execute forty Huguenots then one Catholique because the Huguenot used so few words and troubled him so little in respect of the dilatory ceremonies of the others in dying Cotton the great Court Jesuite hath so importuned the Q. to give some modifications to the late interlocutory arrest against the Jesuits that in his presence the C. Soisons who had been present in the Court at the time of the arrest and Servin the Kings Advocate who urged it and the Premier president were sent for They came so well provided with their books out of which they assigned to the Q. so many so evident places of seditious doctrine that the Q. was well satisfied that it was fit by all means to provide against the teaching of the like doctrine in France The D. of Espernon is come to Paris with they say 600 horse in his train all which company came with him into the Court which is an insolency remarkable here They say that scarce any of the Princes appear in the streets but with very great trains No one enemy could wast the treasures of France so much as so many friends do for the Q. dares scarce deny any that so she may have the better leave to make haste to advance her Marquis of Ancre of whose greatnesse for matter of command or danger they have no great fear he being no very capable nor stirring man and then for his drawing of great benefits from the Q. they make that use of it that their suits passe with lesse opposition I beleeve the treasure is scattered because I see the future receipt charged with so very many and great pensions The Q. hath adventured a little to stop this rage of the Princes importunity by denying a late suit of Soissons which though the other Princes grudge not that Soisson should faile for he hath drawn infinite sums already yet they resent it somewhat tenderly that any of them should be denyed when the Marquis obtains That which was much observed in the Kings more childish age when I was last here by those whom his father appointed to judge by an assiduous observation his naturall inclination is more and more confirmed that his inclinations are cruell and tyrannous and when he is any

way affected his stammering is so extreme as he can utter nothing They cannot draw him to look upon a son of the Marquis whom they have put into his service And he was so extremely affectionate towards the younger son of Beaufort that they have removed him to a charge which he hath as he is made Prieur of Malta but yet there passe such Letters between them by stealth and practise as though it be between children it is become a matter of State and much diligence used to prevent the Letters For the young Marquis of Vervueil the K. speaks often of transplanting him into the Church and once this Christmas delighted himself to see his young brother in a Cardinalls habit Sir it is time to take up for I know that any thing from this place as soon as it is certain is stale I have been a great while more mannerly towards my Lady Bedford then to trouble her with any of mine own verses but having found these French verses accompanied with a great deal of reputation here I could not forbear to aske her leave to send them I writ to you by M r. Pory the 17 of Jan. here and he carried that Letter to Paris to gather news like a snow-ball He told me that Pindar is gone to Constantinople with Commission to remove and succeed Glover I am afraid you have neglected that businesse Continue me in M. Martins good opinion I know I shall never fall from it by any demerit of mine and I know I need not fear it out of any slacknesse or slipperinesse in him but much businesse may strangle me in him When it shall not trouble you to write to me I pray do me the favour to tell me how many you have received from me for I have now much just reason to imagine that some of my Pacquets have had more honour then I wished them which is to be delivered into the hands of greater personages then I addressed them unto Hold me still in your own love and proceed in that noble testimony of it of which your Letter by M. Pory spoke which is the only Letter that I have received since I came away and beleeve me that I shall ever with much affection and much devotion joine both your fortune and your last best happinesse with the desire of mine own in all my civill and divine wishes as the only retribution in the power of Your affectionate servant Jo. Donne To the Honorable Knight Sir H. Goodere SIR IF I would go out of my way for excuses or if I did not go out of my way from them I might avoid writing now because I cannot chuse but know that you have in this town abler servants and better understanding the persons and passages of this Court But my hope is not in the application of other mens merits to me however abundant Besides this town hath since our comming hither afforded enough for all to say That which was done here the 25 of March and which was so long called a publication of the marriages was no otherwise publique then that the Spa. Ambassador having that day an audience delivered to the Queen that his Master was well pleased with all those particulars which had been formerly treated And the French Ambassador in Spain is said to have had instruction to do the same office in that Court the same day Since that that is to say these 4 last days it hath been solemnized with more outward bravery then this Court is remembred to have appeared in The main bravery was the number of horses which were above 800 Caparazond Before the daies the town was full of the 5 Challengers cartells full of Rodomontades but in the execution there were no personall reencounters nor other triall of any ability then running at the Quintain and the Ring Other particulars of this you cannot chuse but hear too much since at this time there cometoyouso many French men But lest you should beleeve too much I presentyou these 2 precautions that for their Gendarmery there was no other trial then I told you for their bravery no true stuffe You must of necessity have heard often of a Book written against the Popes jurisdiction about three moneths since by one Richer a D r and Syndique of the Sorbonists which Book hath now been censured by an assembly of the Clergie of this Archbishoprick promoved with so much diligence by the Cardinall Peroun that for this businesse he hath intermitted his replie to the Kings answer which now he retires to intend seriously I have not yet had the honour to kisse his Graces hand though I have received some half-invitations to do it Richer was first accused to the Parliament but when it was there required of his delators to insist upon some propositions in his Book which were either against Scripture or the Gallican Church they desisted in that pursuit But in the censure which the Clergie hath made though it be full of modifications and reservations of the rights of the King and the Gallican Churches there is this iniquitie that being to be published by commandement of the Assembly in all the Churches of Paris which is within that Diocese and almost all the Curates of the Parishes of Paris being Sorbonists there is by this means a strong party of the Sorbonists themselves raised against Richer yet against this censure and against three or four which have opposed Richer in print he meditates an answer Before it should come forth I desired to speak with him for I had said to some of the Sorbonist of his party that there was no proposition in his Book which I could not shew in Catholique authors of 300 years I had from him an assignation to meet and at the hour he sent me his excuse which was that he had been traduced to have had conference with the Ambassadors of England and the States and with the D. of Bovillon and that he had accepted a pension of the King of England and with all that it had been very well testified to him that day that the Jesuits had offered to corrupt men with rewards to kill him Which I doubt not but he apprehended for true because a messenger whom I sent to fixe another time of meeting with him found him in an extreme trembling and irresolutions so that I had no more but an intreaty to forbear comming to his house or drawing him out of it till it might be without danger or observation They of the Religion held a Synod at this time in this Town in which the principall businesse is to rectifie or at least to mature against their Provinciall Synod which shall be held in May certain opinions of Tilenus a Divine of Sedan with which the Churches of France are scandalized The chief point is Whether our salvation be to be attributed to the passive merit of Christ which is his death or to his active also which is his fulfilling of the Law But I doubt not but