[Lxx.]
To Sir T. R.
SIR,
I Have bespoke you a New-years-gift, that is, a good New year, for I have offered your name with my soul heartily to God in my mornings best Sacrifice: If for custome you will doe a particular office in recompense, deliver this Letter to your Lady, now, or when the rage of the Mask is past. If you make any haste into the Country, I pray let me know it. I would kisse your hands before you goe, which I doe now, and continue
Your affectionate servant
and lover
J. Donne.
Micham, the last of 1607.
as I remember.