153.VA2.HE2 To the Countesse /of Bedford. [f. 49] 153.VA2.HE3 Madame! 153.VA2.001 I haue learnt by those lawes in which /I am not a little conuersant, 153.VA2.002 that he which bes=/towes any cost vpon the dead, obliges him 153.VA2.003 which is dead, but not the heire. I do not therefore send /this 153.VA2.004 paper to your Ladiship that you should thanke /me for it, or 153.VA2.005 thinke that I thanke you in it. your /fauours and benefitts to me 153.VA2.006 are so much aboue =/my meritts that they are euen aboue my 153.VA2.007 gratitude /too if that were to be iudged by words which =/must expresse 153.VA2.008 it. But Maddam since your noble /Brothers fortunes are yours, 153.VA2.009 the euedences also /concerninge them are yours, his vertues beinge 153.VA2.010 =/yours, the euidence also concerninge that belonge /to you: of which (by 153.VA2.011 your acceptance) this may be /one peice, in which I humbly 153.VA2.012 present it: as a testemony how entirely your family 153.VA2.013 possth. 153.VA2.014 Your La:%5shipps%6 humble /deuoted 153.VA2.015 /& thankfull /Seruant 153.VA2.016 Iohn Donn. 153.VA2.0$$ Same as NY1