Your very affectionate
friend and servant
J. Donne.
Vigilia St Tho.
1614.
[lxvi.]
To the worthy Knight Sir Tho. Lucy.
SIR,
YOUR letter comes to me, at Grace after supper; it is part of the prayer of that Grace, that God will blesse you, and all yours with his best blessings of both kinds. I would write you news; but your love to me, may make you apt to over-beleeve news for my sake. And truly all things that are upon the stage of the world