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make a Letter long enough to send
Sir, you see what unconcerning things I am fain to write of, lest I should write of myself, who am so little a history or tale, that I should not hold out to make a Letter long enough to send over a Sea to you; for I should dispatch my self in this one word that I am Your affectionate servant and lover J. Donne.
— from Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by John Donne

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