153.00E.HE2 To the Countesse of %1Bedford%2. 153.00E.HE3 M#%9A#D#A#M#E%0, 153.00E.001 I Have learned by those lawes wherein I am a /little conversant, 153.00E.002 that he which bestowes any /cost upon the dead, obliges him 153.00E.003 which is dead, but /not the heire; I doe not therefore send this 153.00E.004 paper /to your Ladiship, that you should thanke me for /it, or 153.00E.005 thinke that I thank you in it; your favours /and benefits to me 153.00E.006 are so much above my merits, /that they are even above my 153.00E.007 gratitude, if that /were to be judged by words, which must expresse 153.00E.008 /it: But, Madame, since your noble brothers for-/tune being yours, 153.00E.009 the evidences also concerning it[CW:are] /[R2v]are yours: so his vertues being 153.00E.010 yours, the evi-/dences concerning that belong also to you, of which /by 153.00E.011 your acceptance this may be one peece, in which /qualitie I humbly 153.00E.012 present it, and as a testimony /how intirely your family 153.00E.013 possesseth 153.00E.014 Your Ladiships most humble 153.00E.015 and thankfull servant, 153.00E.016 I#%9O#H#N%0 D#%9O#N#N#E%0. 153.00E.0$$ Lines 14, 15, 16 indented. Lines 1(except for first word)-13 in italics.