must be remembered that the younger Donne was also editor of the 1650 edition of his father's poems, and allowed Soul's Joy to stand there. For other poems in the Pembroke and Ruddier volume, which have been claimed for Donne, see note to p. 79, and the Appendices.

I have printed in the footnotes the variant readings of Lansd. MS. 777. Wounds for words in line 17 seeins to me to improve the sense.

In George Herbert's The Temple (1633) is included A Parodie, of which the following is the first verse—

"Soul's joy, when thou art gone,

And I alone,

Which cannot be,

Because Thou dost abide with me,
And I depend on Thee;"

There is also an apparent reference to Soul's Joy in a poem by Sir K. Digby, written probably after the death of Lady Digby in 1633 (see Mr. Bright's Roxburghe Club edition of Digby's Poems, page 8). The following are the lines in point

"And I see those books are false which teach

That absence works between two souls no breach,
When they with love

To each other move,

And that they (though distant) may meet, kiss and play;

For our body doth so clog our mind,

That here no means of working it can find

On things absent,

Or judging present,

Till the corporal senses first do lead the way."

There is another protest against the theories of presence in absence as expounded by Donne here and in the Valediction forbidding Mourning, to be found in Cartwright's No Platonic Love. It begins

"Tell me no more of minds embracing minds,
And hearts exchanged for hearts;

That spirits spirits meet, as winds do winds,
And mix their subtlest parts;

That two unbodied essences may kiss,

And then, like angels, twist and feel one bliss."

p. 76. FAREWELL TO LOVE.

First printed in the edition of 1635.

1. 12. Presumably his highness was made of gilt gingerbread.

p. 78. A LECTURE UPON THE SHADOW.

First printed in the edition of 1635, under the heading Song. The present heading was added in 1650.

p. 79. A DIALOGUE BETWEEN SIR HENRY
WOTTON AND MR. DONNE.

This poem was first printed in the edition of 1635, on p. 195, among the Verse Letters, from which I have transferred it. It is printed, with the initial "P," in Pembroke and Ruddier's Poems (1660); but on the small authority of this collection, see note to Soul's Joy, p. 75. In Harl. MS. 3910, f. 22, and in Harl. MS. 4064, f. 252, the first three verses are ascribed to the Earl of Pembroke, and the second three to Sir Benjamin Ruddier. In Addl. MS. 23, 229, the first three verses are also given to Pembroke, and the second three headed The Answer. In T. C. Dublin MS. G. 2. 21, ff. 424, 426, the first three verses are given to Dr. Corbet, and the second three to Donne and Rudyard jointly. No division of the verses between the two authors is given in any of the editions of Donne. I have attempted to supply one, conjecturally. On Sir Henry Wotton and his friendship with Donne, see the note to vol. ii. p. 7.

p. 80. THE TOKEN.

First printed in 1650, on p. 264, after the Funeral Elegies.

p. 81. SELF-LOVE.

First printed in 1650, p. 391, without any title. It occurs together with Elegy xviii., between Ben Jonson's verses and the Elegies upon Donne.

EPITHALAMIONS.

THE three poems included in this section were all first printed in 1633, and appear, with little textual variation, in the later editions. As to the dates, the Princess Elizabeth was married on Feb. 14, 1613, and the Earl of Somerset on Dec. 26, 1613. The Epithalamion made at Lincoln's Inn probably dates from Donne's residence there in 1592-1596.

p. 83. AN EPITHALAMION, OR MARRIAGE SONG ON THE LADY ELIZABETH AND COUNT PALATINE BEING MARRIED ON ST. VALENTINE'S DAY.

In 1669, the heading is An Epitha[la]mion on Frederick Count Palatine of the Rhene, and the Lady Elizabeth, being married on St. Valentine's day.

Elizabeth, daughter of James I. and Anne of Denmark, was born in 1596, and brought up in ardent Protestant principles by Lord Harrington at Combe Abbey. In 1612 she was betrothed to the Elector Palatine Frederick V. as an incident of the alliance between England and the Protestant Union of Germany. The marriage was delayed by the death of Henry, Prince of Wales, in Nov. 1612, but it took place on the following Feb. 14 with great ceremony. A description of the festivities may be found in Nichols' Progresses of James I. After a few years of gaiety Elizabeth fell on troublous_days. In 1619 Frederick was chosen King of Bohemia. In the inevitable religious conflict which followed the election of the Emperor Ferdinand, he lost his dominions, and

the rest of his life and the queen's were spent in unsuccessful efforts to recover them. Frederick died in 1632, and in 1661 Elizabeth moved to England, where she died in the following year. Her beauty, her wit, and her misfortunes earned her the title of the "Queen of Hearts, and the generous devotion of the cavaliers and poets of the time. Lord Craven and Sir Henry Wotton were among her special admirers: the former was believed to have been secretly married to her (see note on page xlix); the latter wrote in her honour his best verses, those beginning, "Ye meaner beauties of the night."

1. 7. On the sparrow cf. The Progress of the Soul, Stanza xx (vol. ii. p. 158).

1. 103. It was a commonElizabethan custom to serenade a bride and bridegroom on the morning after a wedding. Cotgrave states that the song sung on such an occasion was called the Hunt's up.

p. 88. ECLOGUE.

Robert Carr, or Ker, was a Scotchman who came over with James I.; he was knighted in 1607, created Viscount Rochester in 1611, and Earl of Somerset in 1613. He fell in love with the Countess of Essex, who obtained a decree of nullity in order to marry him. This marriage was vehemently opposed by Carr's friend, Sir Thomas Overbury, chiefly on political grounds, since the Countess, by birth Frances Howard, was of the Spanish or pro-Catholic party. In revenge she got Overbury thrown into the Tower, and subsequently had him poisoned, probably with Carr's connivance. The crime remained a secret, and the marriage took place on December 26, 1613. Besides Donne's Epithalamion, Campion celebrated the occasion with a masque, and Jonson with a set of verses. He had already written his masque of Hymenaei for the bride's former wedding. Afterwards Carr fell into disfavour with James: the murder was discovered in 1615; the murderers were prosecuted by Bacon, condemned, reprieved, committed to the Tower until 1622, and then allowed to live in retirement. Their career forms the subject of Marston's Insatiate Countess. The following is a postscript to a letter to Sir Robert Drury (Alford, vi. 349): “I cannot

tell you so much, as you tell me, of anything from my Lord of Somerset, since the Epithalamium, for I heard nothing." There is another Sir Robert Carr, afterwards Earl of Ancrum, who was a friend and frequent correspondent of Donne's, and must not be confused with the Earl of Somerset. See a letter to him in vol. ii. p. 97, and the note there.

1. 87. sued livery. Land held by feudal tenure lapsed to the lord at the death of a tenant, until it was ascertained if the heir was of age; if so he took possession at once, on payment of a year's profits, known as primer seisin; if not, the estate remained in the lord's hands, as his guardian, until he became so, when he could claim livery, or delivery, of wardship, by suing for a writ of ouster le main and paying half a year's profits.

1. 161. a cypress, a crape veil.

1. 204. Cf. with the opening of this stanza the Song, "Go and catch a falling star," on p. 4.

1. 215. Cf. Sir T. Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, iii. 21, 46 Why some lamps included in close bodies have burned many hundred years, as that discovered in the sepulchre of Tullia, the sister of Cicero, and that of Olibius many years after, near Padua?" Browne's editor refers to Hutton, Ozanam's Philosophical Recreations, vol. i. p. 496.

p. 98. EPITHALAMION MADE AT LINCOLN'S INN.

Donne became a student at Lincoln's Inn on May 6, 1592, and the Epithalamion was probably written within the next two or three years. It is less likely that it belongs to the period 1616-1622, when Dr. Donne was reader to the same learned society.