153.00B.HE2  %1To the Countesse of%2 Bedford. [R6]
153.00B.HE3  M%9ADAME%0,
153.00B.001  I Have learned by those lawes wherein I am a lit-/tle conversant,
153.00B.002  that hee which bestowes any cost /upon the dead, obliges him
153.00B.003  which is dead, but not /the heire; I doe not therefore send this
153.00B.004  paper to your /Ladyship, that you should thanke me for it, or
153.00B.005  think /that I thanke you in it; your favours and benefits to /me
153.00B.006  are so much above my merits, that they are even /above my 
153.00B.007  gratitude, if that were to bee judged by /words, which must expresse
153.00B.008  it: But, Madame, /since your noble brothers fortune being yours,
153.00B.009  the /evidences also concerning it are yours: so his ver-/tues being
153.00B.010  yours, the evidences concerning that /belong also to you, of which by
153.00B.011  your acceptance this /may be one peece, in which qualitie I humbly
153.00B.012  pre-/sent it, and as a testimony how intirely your family
153.00B.013  /possesseth
153.00B.014  Your Ladiships most humble
153.00B.015  and thankfull servant,
153.00B.016  I%9OHN%0 D%9ONNE%0.  [CW:%1Obsequies%2]
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