IDENTILIN$$  F15400E|Ham-Letter|1650(CtY,MH)|sigs.Y6-Y7,pp.331-33
154.00E.HE2  %1To Sir%2 Robert Carr. [Y6]
154.00E.HE3  SIR,
154.00E.001  I Presume you rather trie what you can doe in me, than what /I can
154.00E.002  doe in verse; you know my uttermost when it was /best, and even
154.00E.003  then I did best when I had least truth for my /subjects.  In this
154.00E.004  present case there is so much truth as it de-/feats all Poetry.
154.00E.005  Call therefore this paper by what name you /will, and if it be
154.00E.006  not worthy of him, nor of you, nor of me, /smother it, and be that the
154.00E.007  sacrifice.  If you had commanded me /to have waited on his body 
154.00E.008  to Scotland and preached there, /I would have imbraced the
154.00E.009  obligation with more alacrity; /But, I thanke you that you would
154.00E.010  command me that which I /was loath to doe, for even that hath
154.00E.011  given a tincture of merit /to the obedience of
154.00E.012  Your poore friend and
154.00E.013  servant in Christ Iesus
154.00E.014  %1I.D.%2
154.00E.$$   Line 12 indented 25 sp.; line 13, 28 sp.; line 14, 40 sp.; ll. 1-11 in italics.