IDENTILIN$$  F154LP1.LTR|Ham-Letter|PRO SP.9/51/17|f. 2r.|EWS original 6-7-85
154.LP1.HE2  om [f. 2r]
154.LP1.HE3  om
154.LP1.001  om om om om y what you om om om om om om om om om
154.LP1.002  om om se; you know my vttermost when it om om om om
154.LP1.003  hen I did best, when I had least truthe for my subject.  In om
154.LP1.004  sent Case there is so much truthe, as it defeats all poetry /al
154.LP1.005  therfore this paper by what name you will, And if it be not
154.LP1.006  /woorthie of him, nor of you, nor of me, smother it, And be that /the
154.LP1.007  Sacrifice.  If you had commanded me to haue wayted on his /Body to
154.LP1.008  %1Scotland%2 and preached there, I should haue embraced the
154.LP1.009  /Obligation w%5th%6 more alacrity.  But I thanke you that you woould
154.LP1.010  /command that w%5ch%6 I was lothe to do, for even that hathe giuen
154.LP1.011  a /tincture of meritt to the obedience of
154.LP1.012  Yo%5r%6 poore ffrend and
154.LP1.013  servant /in Christ Iesus./
154.LP1.014  om
154.LP1.$$   Much of letter lost to tear.