IDENTILIN$$ F15400B|Ham-Letter|1635(CtY,MH,MiU)|sigs.Z5-Z6,pp.349-51 154.00B.HE2 %1To Sir%2 Robert Carr. [Z5] 154.00B.HE3 SIR, 154.00B.001 I Presume you rather trie what you can doe in me, /then what I can 154.00B.002 doe in verse; you know my utter-/most when it was best, and even 154.00B.003 then I did best /when I had least truth for my subjects. In this 154.00B.004 /present case there is so much truth as it defeats all /Po%Uetry. 154.00B.005 Call therefore this paper by what name /you will, and, if it be 154.00B.006 not worthy of him, nor of you, /nor of mee, smother it, and bee that the 154.00B.007 sacrifice. /If you had commanded me to have waited on his /body 154.00B.008 to Scotland and preached there, I would have /embraced the 154.00B.009 obligation with more alacritie; But, I /thank you that you would 154.00B.010 co%Mmand me that which I /was loath to doe, for, even that hath 154.00B.011 given a tincture /of merit to the obedience of 154.00B.012 Your poore friend and 154.00B.013 servant in Christ Iesus 154.00B.014 %1I.D.%2 [CW:%1An%2] 154.00B.$$ Line 12 indented 25 sp.; line 13, 28 sp.; line 14, 38 sp.; ll. 1-11 in italics.