IDENTILIN$$  F154C10|Ham-Letter|Luttrell MS|ff.54-55|mf T-LP 24Jul87
154.C10.HE2  To S%5r%6 Robert Carr. [54]
154.C10.HE3  S%5r%6.
154.C10.001  I presume you rather trye what you can doe in me /then what I can
154.C10.002  doe in verse. you knew my vttermost /when it was at best: and euen                                    
154.C10.003  then I did best, when I /had least truth for my Subiect. In this
154.C10.004  p%5r%6sent case there /is so much Truth as it defeats all Poetry.
154.C10.005  Call therfore /this paper by what name you will, and if it bee
154.C10.006  not /worthy of him, nor of you, nor of me, smother it and bee /that the
154.C10.007  Sacrifice.  If you had com%Manded me to haue /wayted vpon his corps 
154.C10.008  to Scotland, and preached there, /I should haue embraced the
154.C10.009  obligation with more alacritye. /But I thanke you that you would
154.C10.010  com%Maund that, which /I was loth to doe. ffor euen that hath
154.C10.011  giuen a Tincture /of meritt to the obedience of
154.C10.012  Your poore freind &
154.C10.013  S%5r%6vant 
154.C10.014  Jo:Donne.
154.C10.$$   HE3 and l. 1 run together; ll. 12 & 13 run together; l. 12(+13) indented 40 sp; l. 14 indented 48 sp.