XXXVII. To Sir L. D. in the Tower.
SIR,
TO help the passing away of your weary hours between those disconsolat Walls, I have sent you a King of your own name to bear you company Lewis the thirteenth, who, though dead three yeer•…•… since, may peradventure afford you som entertainment, and I think that dead men of this nature are the fittest companions, for such that are buried alive as you and I are. I doubt not but you who have a spirit to overcom all things, will overcom the sense of this hard condition, that you may survive these sad times and see better days, I doubt not, as weak as I am, but I shall bee able to doe it my self, in which confidence I stile my self,
Fl•…•…t, 15 Feb. 1646.
Your most obliged and ever faithfull Servant, J. H.
My most humble Service to Sir J. St: and Sir H. V.