POETICAL WORKS

OF

DR. JOHN DONNE,

DEAN OF ST. PAUL'S, LONDON.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

WITH THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

DONNE! the delight 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' affec ion 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,
But leave because I cannot as I should.

BEN. JONSON.

VOLA I.

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POETICAL WORKS

OF

DR. JOHN DONNE,

DEAN OF ST. PAUL'S, LONDON.

CONTAINING HIS

SATIRES AND EPITHALAMIONS.

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 aking 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.

THO. CARY.

VOL. I.

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THE LIFE OF

DR. JOHN DONNE.

MR. John Donne was born in London, of good and virtuous parents; and though his own learning and other multiplied merits may justly appear sufficient to dignify both himself and his posterity, yet the reader may be pleased to know that his father was lineally descended from a very ancient family in Wales, where many of his name now live, that deserve and have great reputation in that country..

By his mother he was descended of the family of the famous and learned Sir Thomas More, some time Lord Chancellor of England; as also from that worthy and laborious Judge Rastall, who left posterity the vast statutes of the law of this nation most exactly abridged.

He had his first breeding in his father's house, where a private tutor had the care of him, until the ninth year of his age, and in his tenth year was sent to the university of Oxford, haying at that time a good com mand both of the Frenely and Latin tongue. This, and some other of his remarkable abilities, made one give this censure of him, That this age had brought forth another Picus Mirandula, of whom story says, that he was rather born than made wise by study.

There he remained in Hart-Hall, having, for the advancement of his studies, tutors of several sciences