Letter from
John Donne
to
Sir Henry Goodere
, undated.
[p. 143]
To Sir H.G.
Sir, THis 14 of
November
last I received yours of the
9, as I was in the street going to sup with my Lady
Bedford
, I
found all that company forepossessed with a wonder why you came not last saturday.
I
perceive, that as your intermitting your Letters to me, gave me reason to hope for
you,
so some more direct addresse or conscience of your businesse here, had imprinted in
them
an assurance of your comming, this Letter shall but talke, not discourse; it shall
but
gossip, not consider, nor consult, so it is made halfe with a prejudice of being lost
by
the way. The King
is gone this day for
Royston
: and hath left with
the
Queen
a commandment to meditate upon [
p. 144
] a Masque for
Christmas, so that they grow serious about that already; that will hasten my Lady
Bedfords journey, who goes within ten days from hence to her Lord, but
by reason of this, can make no long stay there.
Bibliography
H&S, 10.491
Donne (1839), 6.343-5