IDENTILIN$$  154DT1|Ham-Letter|Trinity College, Dublin MS 877 (Dublin MS I)|f.104r-v|mf T-LP 28Jul87
154.DT1.HE2  The Letter that was sent with these verses. [104v]
154.DT1.HE3  S%5r%6
154.DT1.001  I presume you rather trye what you can doe in mee /then what I can
154.DT1.002  doe in verse|.| you know my vttermost /when it was best. And even                                    
154.DT1.003  then I did best when I had /lesse truth for my subject.  In this
154.DT1.004  present case there is soe /much as it defeates al poetry|,|
154.DT1.005  cal therefore this paper by /what name you wil. and, if **#it bee
154.DT1.006  not worthy of him /nor of you nor of mee, smother it and bee that the
154.DT1.007  /sacrifice|.|  If you had commanded mee to have waited on /his body 
154.DT1.008  to Scotland and preached there, I should have /Embraced the
154.DT1.009  obligation with more alacrity|.| But I thanke /you, that you would
154.DT1.010  command that which I was loth to doe /for Even that hath
154.DT1.011  given a tincture of merit to the /obedience of
154.DT1.012  Yo%5r%6 
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154.DT1.$$   Follows text of poem.