153.HH1.HE2  To y%5e%6 countesse of Bedford
153.HH1.HE3  Madame
153.HH1.001  I haue learn't, by those lawes wherin I am a /little conversant,
153.HH1.002  y%5t%6 hee w%5ch%6 bestowes any cost upon y%5e%6 /dead, obliges him
153.HH1.003  y%5t%6 is dead but not y%5e%6 heire. I doe /not therefore send this
153.HH1.004  pap%P to y%5r%6 La%5p%6. y%5t%6 you should /thanke me for it, or
153.HH1.005  thinke y%5t%6 I thanke you in it: y%5r%6 /favours & benefits to me
153.HH1.006  are so farre above my merits, /y%5t%6 they are ever above my 
153.HH1.007  gratitude, if y%5t%6 were to bee /judged by words w%5ch%6 must expresse
153.HH1.008  it. But Madame /since, y%5r%6 noble brothers fortune being y%5rs%6,
153.HH1.009  y%5e%6 evidences /allsoe concering y%5t%6 
153.HH1.010  belong allsoe to you: of w%5ch%6 by
153.HH1.011  y%5r%6 /acceptance this may be one peece, In w%5ch%6 quality I /humbly
153.HH1.012  p%5r%6sent it, & as a testimony howe entirely y%5r%6 fa=/mily
153.HH1.013  possesseth
153.HH1.014  Your La%5p%6 most humble
153.HH1.015  & thankefull servant
153.HH1.016  Io: Donne
153.HH1.0$$  Line 1 indented 8 sp.; ll. 14 & 15 run together & indented 8 sp.; l. 16 indented 16 sp.