Letters to Severall Persons of Honour

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Donne John. Letters to Severall Persons of Honour

NOTE

[i.]

[ii.]

[iii.]

[iv.]

[v.]

[vi.]

[vii.]

[viii.]

[ix.]

[x.]

[xi.]

[xii.]

[xiii.]

[xiv.]

[xv.]

[xvi.]

[xvii.]

[xviii.]

[xix.]

[xx.]

[xxi.]

[xxii.]

[xxiii.]

[xxiv.]

[xxv.]

[xxvi.]

[xxvii.]

[xxviii.]

[xxix.]

[xxx.]

[xxxi.]

[xxxii.]

[xxxiii.]

[xxxiv.]

[xxxv.]

[xxxvi.]

[xxxvii.]

[xxxviii.]

[xxxix.]

[xl.]

[xli.]

[xlii.]

[xliii.]

[xliv.]

[xlv.]

[xlvi.]

[xlvii.]

[xlviii.]

[xlix.]

[l.]

[li.]

[lii.]

[liii.]

[liv.]

[lv.]

[lvi.]

[lvii.]

[lviii.]

[lix.]

[lx.]

[lxi.]

[lxii.]

[lxiii.]

[lxiv.]

[lxv.]

[lxvi.]

[lxvii.]

[lxviii.]

[lxix.]

[lxx.]

[lxxi.]

[lxxii.]

[lxxiii.]

[lxxiv.]

[lxxv.]

[lxxvi.]

[lxxvii.]

[lxxviii.]

[lxxix.]

[lxxx.]

[lxxxi.]

[lxxxii.]

[lxxxiii.]

[lxxxiv.]

[lxxxv.]

[lxxxvi.]

[lxxxvii.]

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[lxxxix.]

[xc.]

[xci.]

[xcii.]

[xciii.]

[xciv.]

[xcv.]

[xcvi.]

[xcvii.]

[xcviii.]

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NOTES

THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY

I

II

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

XI

XII

XIII

XIV

XV

XVI

XVII

XVIII

XIX

XXI

XXII

XXIII

XXIV

XXV

XXVI

XXVII

XXVIII

XXIX

XXX

XXXI

XXXII

XXXIII

XXXIV

XXXV

XXXVI

XXXVII

XXXVIII

XXXIX

XL

XLI

XLII

XLIII

XLIV

XLV

XLVI

XLVII

XLVIII

XLIX

L

LI

LII

LIII

LIV

LV

LVI

LVII

LVIII

LIX

LX

LXI

LXII

LXIII

LXIV

LXV

LXVI

LXVIII

LXIX

LXX

LXXI

LXXII

LXXIII

LXXIV

LXXV

LXXVI

LXXVII

LXXVIII

LXXIX

LXXX

LXXXI

LXXXII

LXXXIII

LXXXIV

LXXXV

LXXXVI

LXXXVII

LXXXVIII

LXXXIX

XC

XCI

XCII

XCIII

XCIV

XCV

XCVII

XCVIII

XCIX

C

CI

CII

CIII

CVI

CVII

CVIII

CIX

CX

CXI

CXII

CXIV

CXV

CXVI

CXVII

CXIX

CXX

CXXI

CXXII

CXXIII

CXXIV

CXXV

CXXVI

CXXVIII

CXXIX

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It is an argument of the Immortality of the Soul, that it can apprehend, and imbrace such a Conception; and it may be some kinde of Prophecy of the continuance and lasting of these Letters, that having been scattered, more then Sibyls leaves, I cannot say into parts, but corners of the World, they have recollected and united themselves, meeting at once, as it were, at the same spring, from whence they flowed, but by Succession.

But the piety of Æneas to Anchises, with the heat and fervour of his zeale, had been dazelled and extinguished by the fire of Troy, and his Father become his Tombe, had not a brighter flame appeared in his Protection, and Venus herself descended with her embraces, to protect her Martiall Champion; so that there is no safer way to give a perpetuity to this remnant of the dead Authour, but by dedicating it to the Altar of Beauty and perfection; and if you, Madam, be but pleased to shed on it one beame of your Grace and Favour, that very Adumbration will quicken it with a new Spirit, and defend it from all fire (the fate of most Letters) but the last; which, turning these into ashes, shall revive the Authour from his Urne, and put him into a capacity of celebrating you, his Guardian Angell, who has protected that part of his Soul, that he left behinde him, his Fame and Reputation.

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The courtesies that you conferre upon the living may admit of some allay, by a possibility of a Retaliation; but what you bestow upon the Dead is a Sacrifice to pure Virtue; an ungifted Deity, ’tis true, without Oblation, Altar, or Temple, if she were not enshrined in your noble brest, but I must forever become her votary, if it be but for giving me this Inclination, and desire of being

since I saw you,

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