IDENTILIN$$ F15400C|Ham-Letter|1639(CtY,MH,MiU)|sigs.Z5-Z6,pp.349-51 154.00C.HE2 %1To Sir%2 Robert Carr. [Z5] 154.00C.HE3 SIR, 154.00C.001 I Presume you rather trie what you can do in me, /than what I can 154.00C.002 doe in verse; you know my utter-/most when it was best, and even 154.00C.003 then I did best /when I had least truth for my subjects. In this 154.00C.004 pre-/sent case there is so much truth as it defeats all Po-/etry. 154.00C.005 Call therefore this paper by what name you /will, and, if it be 154.00C.006 not worthy of him, nor of you, nor of /me, smother it, and be that the 154.00C.007 sacrifice. If you had /commanded me to have waited on his body 154.00C.008 to Scot-/land and preached there, I would have embraced the 154.00C.009 /obligation with more alacrity; But, I thanke you /that you would 154.00C.010 command me that which I was loath /to doe for even that hath 154.00C.011 given a tincture of merit /to the obedience of 154.00C.012 Your poore friend and 154.00C.013 servant in Christ Iesus 154.00C.014 %1I.D.%2 [CW:%1An%2] 154.00C.$$ Line 12 indented 25 sp.; line 13, 28 sp.; line 14, 40 sp.; ll. 1-11 in italics.