IDENTILIN$$  154SN2.LTR|Ham-Letter|MS 2060|F. 186v.|EWS Original 6-17-86
154.SN2.HE2  To S%5r%6 %1Robert Carr%2 knight /Maister of the priuie purse /for his maiestye.
154.SN2.HE3  S.%5r%6
154.SN2.001  I presume you rather trye what you can can doe /in mee than what I can
154.SN2.002  doe in verse, you knew /my vtermost when it was at the best, and euen
154.SN2.003  /then I did best when I had lest truth for my /subiect.  In the
154.SN2.004  present case their is so much /truth as defaits al'l poetrye.  Call
154.SN2.005  therefore /this paper by what name you will, and if it be /not
154.SN2.006  worthye of him nor of you nor of mee, /smother it and be that the
154.SN2.007  sacrifice.  If you /had commanded mee to haue waited vpon his /body to
154.SN2.008  Scotland, and preached there his /funerall sermon I should haue embraced /that
154.SN2.009  obligation w%5t%6 more alacritye.  But I /thank you yee would
154.SN2.010  com%Mand that which I /was loath to doe, for euen that has giuen
154.SN2.011  a teincture of merite to this obedience /of
154.SN2.012  your poore freind &
154.SN2.013  seruant /In %YIesus%Z christ Iesus
154.SN2.014  Io: Donne.
154.SN2.$$   Poem omitted.  Leaf stuck in MS.  Left margin next to heading "The copie /of Doctor /Dons letter /to S%5r%6 R Ker /Ancrum"  Letter in Drummond's hand.