153.00C.HE2 To the Countesse of %1Bedford%2. [R4] 153.00C.HE3 M#%9A#D#A#M#E%0, 153.00C.001 I Have learned by those lawes wherein I am a lit-/tle conversant, 153.00C.002 that he which bestowes any cost /upon the dead, obliges him 153.00C.003 which is dead, but not /the heire; I doe not therefore send this 153.00C.004 paper to your /Ladiship, that you should thanke me for it, or 153.00C.005 thinke /that I thank you in it; your favours and benefits to /me 153.00C.006 are so much above my merits, that they are even /above my 153.00C.007 gratitude, if that were to be judged by /words, which must expresse 153.00C.008 it: But, Madame, /since your noble brothers fortune being yours, 153.00C.009 the /evidences also concerning it are yours: so his ver-/tues being 153.00C.010 yours, the evidences concerning that /belong also to you, of which by 153.00C.011 your acceptance this /may be one peece, in which qualitie I humbly 153.00C.012 pre-/sent it, and as a testimony how intirely your family 153.00C.013 /possesseth 153.00C.014 Your Ladiships most humble 153.00C.015 and thankfull servant, 153.00C.016 I#%9O#H#N%0 D#%9O#N#N#E%0. [CW:%1Obsequies%2] 153.00C.0$$ Lines 14, 15, 16 indented. Lines 1(except for first word)-13 in italics.