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POETICAL WORKS

OF

DR. JOHN DONNE,

DEAN OF ST. PAUL'S, LONDON.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

WITH THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

DONNE! the delicht of Phoebus and each Muse,

Who to hy one all other brains refuse;
Whose ev'ry work of thy most early wit
Came forth example, and remain so yet;
Longer a knowing than most wits do live,

And which no' affesion praise enough can give;
To it thy language, letters, arts, best life,
Which might with half mankind maintain a strife;
All which I mean to praise, and yet I would,
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But leave because I cannot as 1 should.

VOL. II.

BEN. JONSON.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR, AND UNDER THE DIRECTION OF, G. CAWTHORN, BRITISH LIBRARY, STRAND,

POETICAL WORKS

OF

DR. JOHN DONNE,

DEAN OF ST. PAUL'S, LONDON.

CONTAINING HIS

SONGS, SONNETS, DIVINE POEMS, & EPIGRAMS.

I will not draw the envy to engross
All thy perfections, or weep all our loss;
Those are too num'rous for an elegie,
And this too great to be express'd by me.
Tho' ev'ry pen should share a distinct part,
Yet thou art theme enough to try all art.
Let others carve the rest; it shall suffice
I on thy tomb this epitaph incise :

Here lies a king that rul'd, as he thought fit,
The universal monarchy of wit:

Here lie two flamens, and both those the best,
Apollo's first, at last the true God's priest.

VOL. II.

THO. CARY

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR, AND UNDER THE DIRECTION OF, G. CAWTHORN, BRITISH LIBRARY, STRAND.

POETICAL WORKS

OF

DR. JOHN DONNE,

DEAN OF ST. PAUL'S, LONDON.

CONTAINING HIS

SONGS, SONNETS, DIVINE POEMS, & EPIGRAMS.

I will not draw the envy to engross
All thy perfections, or weep all our loss;
Those are too num'rous for an elegie,
And this too great to be express'd by me.
Tho' ev'ry pen should share a distinct part,
Yet thou art theme enough to try all art.
Let others carve the rest; it shall suffice
I on thy tomb this epitaph incise :
Here lies a king that rul'd, as he thought fit,
The universal monarchy of wit:

Here lie two flamens, and both those the best,
Apollo's first, at last the true God's priest.

VOL. II.

THO. CARY

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR, AND UNDER THE DIRECTION OF, G. CAWTHORN, BRITISH LIBRARY, STRAND.

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