.236 Reliquite Wottoniance. 



to your Family, was yet so humble, as to 

 acknowledge me to be his Friend; and 

 died in a belief that I was so. 



2. " My other reason of this boldness, 

 is, an incouragement(very like a command) 

 from your worthy Cousin, and my Friend, 

 Mr. Charles Cotton." 



Among the Reliquice Wottoniance. are 

 " Letters to several Persons," including 

 Lord Bacon, Milton, and Walton. In one 

 "To Iz. Wa., In answer of a Letter re- 

 questing him to perform his promise of 

 writing the Life of Dr. Donne," which is 

 not dated, but from the closing lines was 

 evidently written in the spring, Sir Henry 

 Wotton says : 



" MY WORTHY FRIEND, I am not able 

 to yield any reason, no, not so much as 

 may satisfie myself, why a most ingenuous 

 Letter of yours hath lain so long by me (as 

 it were in Lavender) without an Answer, 

 save this only, The pleasure I have 

 taken in your Style and Conceptions, to- 

 gether with a Meditation of the subject 

 you propound, may seem to have cast 

 me into a gentle slumber. But being 

 now awaked, I do herein return you most 

 hearty thanks for the kind prosecution of 

 your ist motion, touching a just Office, 

 due to the memory of our ever memorable 



