IDENTILIN$$  F15400G.LTR|Ham-Letter|1669(CtY,L)|sigs.Y3v-Y4v,pp.326-28
154.00G.HE2  %1To Sir%2 Robert Carr. [Y3v]
154.00G.HE3  SIR,
154.00G.001  I Presume you rather trie what you can do in me, than what /I can
154.00G.002  do in verse; you know my uttermost when it was best, /and even
154.00G.003  then I did best, when I had least truth for my subjects.  /In this
154.00G.004  present case there is so much truth as it defeats all Poe-/try.
154.00G.005  Call therefore this paper by what name you will, and if /it be
154.00G.006  not worthy of him, nor of you, nor of me, smother it, and be /that the
154.00G.007  sacrifice.  If you had commanded me to have waited /on his body 
154.00G.008  to Scotland and preached there, I would have im-/braced the
154.00G.009  obligation with more alacrity; But I thank you that /you would
154.00G.010  command me that which I was loath to do, for even /that hath
154.00G.011  given a tincture of merit to the obedience of
154.00G.012  Your poor friend and
154.00G.013  servant in Christ Jesus
154.00G.014  I.D. [CW:%1An%2]
154.00G.$$   HE3 indented 2 sp.; line 12, 25 sp.; line 13, 28 sp.; line 14, 40 sp.; ll. 1-11 in italics.