[67 as, _1613:_ as _1633-69_] [69 So is't to] So is' to _1669_] [71 Fate _1633-69:_ Faith _1613_] [72 thinks; _Ed:_ thinks, _1613_, _1633-69_] [73 come, _1633-69:_ joine; _1613_ so steale in _1633-69:_ to steal-in _1613_] [77 proofe _1633-69:_ proofes _1613_] [78 some. _1633:_ some, _1635-69_] [80 hee. _1633:_ hee, _1635-69_] [82 and we are. _1633-54:_ we are. _1613_, _1669_] [83 I would not _1633-54:_ would not I _1669_] [91 Who _Ed:_ who _1633-69_] [92 shee, _1633-69:_ she. _Chambers_] [97 So much, as you, _1633-69:_ So, much as you _Chambers_] _To the Countesse of_ Bedford. MADAME, _I have learn'd by those lawes wherein I am a[1] little conversant, that hee which bestowes any cost upon the dead, obliges him which is dead, but not the[2] heire; I do not therefore send this paper to your Ladyship, that you should thanke mee for it, or thinke that I thanke you in it; your favours and benefits to mee are so much above my merits, that they are even above my gratitude, if that were to be judged by words which must expresse it: But, Madame, since your noble brothers fortune being yours, the evidences also concerning it are yours,[3] so his vertue[4] being yours, the evidences concerning it,[5] belong also to you, of which by your acceptance this may be one peece, in which quality I humbly present it, and as a testimony how intirely your familie possesseth_ Your Ladiships most humble and thankfull servant JOHN DONNE. [To the Countesse _&c._ _1633-69_, _and in most of the MSS. as next page_] [Footnote 1: a _1633-54:_ _om. 1669_] [Footnote 2: the] his _1669_] [Footnote 3: yours, _1633:_ yours: _1635-69_] [Footnote 4: vertue _1633:_ vertues _1635-69_] [Footnote 5: it, _1633:_ that _1635-69_] _Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, brother to the Lady Lucy, Countesse of Bedford._