II. 41, 42. I have attempted to make sense out of the

various readings of the editions and MSS.
1. 50. a tympany^ an abdominal swelling. 1. 52. The following two lines are inserted after this in 1669 —
" Whom dildoes, bed-staves, and her velvet glass Would be as loth to touch as Joseph was."
They occur also in the Farmer-Chetham and other MSS.
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p. 107. Elegy iv,
1.8. a cockatrice; i.e. a basilisk; whereof it was believed that all who caught its eye should die presently ; cf. among many possible illustrations, Rich. III., IV. i. —
"A cockatrice hast thou hatched to the world, Whose unavoided eye is murderous."
p. no. Elegy v.
Apparently written before some voyage ; possibly that of 1596 or 1597, but possibly also an unrecorded earlier one. Several portraits of Donne are mentioned in Bromley's Catalogue of Engraved Portraits. The "picture " of this Elegy may have been the original of one of these, perhaps No. 4-
1. By M. Dro[eshout] ; 4to ; This is the ' ' winding- sheet" portrait, prefixed to the Death's Duel of 1632, and described in the note to page li.
2. By Loggan.
3. By Lombart ; 4to. This belongs to the Letters of 1651 and 1654, but is occasionally found inserted in the Poetns of 1633.
4. By Marshall ; 8vo ; dated " Oct. 18, 1591.' This is found with the 1635 and subsequent editions of the Poems, and some copies, in quarto, appear to have originally belonged to the 1633 edition.
5. By M. Merian, jun., fol. This is part of the title- page to the Ser77ions of 1640. It is used again, with the date " Aet. 42 " (/. e. 1615), in the 1658 edition of Walton's Life.
In addition to these. Dr. Grosart has engraved, in the large paper copies of his edition, a miniature by Oliver, and an alleged Vandyke.
p. 114. Elegy vih.
1. 2. chafed musk cat's pores. The civet cat, or Hyena odorifera ; cf. Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epi- demica, iii. 4.
1. 10. Sansei'ra. Sancerre, near Bourges, a stronghold
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of the Huguenots, was besieged by the Catholics in 1573. The siege lasted nine months.
1. 23. Proserpine s white beauty-keeping chest. In the story of Cupid a?id Psyche told in Apuleius' Golden Ass (transl. William Adlington, 1566), Venus sends Psyche on a message to Proserpina, saying, " Take this box and go to Hell to Proserpina, and desire her to send me a little of her beauty, as much as will serve me the space of one day." Actually, however, the "mystical secret" of " divine beauty " put by Proserpina in the box proves to be "an infernal and deadly sleep."
p. 117. Elegy ix.
The heading first appeared in 1633.
In the Stephens MS. this Elegy is headed, A Paradox of an old Woman. In Lansd. MS. 740, f. 86, the words " Widow Herbert " are prefixed to it. This is explained by Walton, in his Life of Geo7-ge Herbert (1670), where he speaks of a friendship that grew up between Donne and Lady Herbert, mother of the poet, when she was residing with her eldest son, Edward Herbert, at Oxford, in about 1596-1600. He adds, " It was that John Donne, who was after Dr. Donne, and Dean of St. Pauls, Lon- don, and he, at his leaving Oxford, writ and left there, in verse, a character of the beauties of her body and mind." Of the first he says —
" No Spring nor Summer beauty has such grace As I have seen in an Autumnal face."
Of the latter he says —
" In all her words to every hearer fit. You may at revels or at councils sit.
The rest of her character may be read in his printed poems, in that elegy which bears the name of the "Autumnal Beauty." For both he and she were then past the meridian of man's life. There is some confusion in Walton's chronology. It appears from Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Autobiography, that he originally went up to Oxford in 1593-4. He did not matriculate, however, according to the University Registers, until May
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1595, and Wood gives this date for his entry as a gentleman-commoner at University College. Soon after he was recalled home by his father's death in 1597 ; he married on Feb. 28, 1598, and then, he says, " not long after my marriage I went again to Oxford, together with my wife and mother, who took a house, and lived for some time there." This brings the date of the Elegy to 1598 , or two or three years after, and as Donne was born in 1573, and Magdalen Newport in 1568, they were hardly " past the meridian of man's life." Walton also states that Donne was " near the foiirtieth year of his age (which was some years before he entered into sacred orders)." This also cannot be correct. Donne was not 40 until 1613. He was ordained in 1615.
Other poems from Donne to this lady will be found on p. 156, and vol. ii. p. 43. 'The poem on The Primrose (p. 64) was written at her castle near Montgomery. On her life, see the note to p. 156.
1. 29. Xerxes' strange Lydian love, the platane tree. Dr. Grosart refers to Pliny, Nat. Hist., xii. 1-3 ; xvi. 44.
In the 1635- 1669 editions, there comes between the present Elegies x. and xi. the poem "Language, thou art too narrow and too weak," which will be now found among the Epicedes and Obsequies (vol. ii. p. 93).
p. 120. Elegy xi.
First printed in 1635, with the heading The Bracelet. The heading in the text appeared in 1650,
The following note is taken from Ben yonson's Con- versations with William Druminond (ed. D. Laing, Shakespeare Society, 1842) —
" He esteemeth John Done the first poet in the world for some things : his verses of the Lost Chain he hath by heart ; and that passage of the Calme, TJiat dust and feathers do not stir, all was so quiet. Afifirmeth Done to have written all his best pieces ere he was 25 years old. "
1. 59. so?ne dread conjurer. The loss of a chain and its recovery by the aid of a conjurer is an incident in The Puritafi.
1. 77. An allusion to the mediaeval ninefold classifica- tion of angels invented by Pseudo-Dionysius, De Coelesti
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Hierarchia. The three orders are Seraphim, Cherubim, and Thrones ; Dominations, Virtues, Powers ; Principali- ties, Archangels, Angels.
p. 125. Elegy xii.
First printed in 1635.
11, 57-76. These lines are not found in the printed copies. They were added by Dr. Grosart in his edition from the British Museum MSS. {Addl. 10,309, f. 46, Harl. 3910, f. 18, Harl. 4064, f. 249). Lansd. MS. 740, f. 105, in which the poem also occurs, is without them, but on the whole there appears to be no reason to doubt their authenticity.
p. 128. Elegy xiil
This Elegy appeared in an imperfect form in 1635- 1650. Some sixty lines, indicated in the footnotes to this edition, were added in 1669. In T. C. Dublin MS. G. 2. 21, f, 460, this Elegy is ascribed to Sir Francis Wriothesley.
p. 132. Elegy xiv.
First printed in 1635.
1. 13. Majituan. I suppose the allusion to be to the "flammisquearmataChimaera" of Virgil, Aeneid, vi. 289, and not to the Carmelite Baptista Spagnoli, the "good old Mantuan " of Love's Labour's Lost, IV. ii. 97. Both poets were born at Mantua.
1. 14. Mastix, Scourge : cf. the title of Dekker's play, the Satiromastix, and of Prynne's pamphlet, the Histrio- nomastix.
p, 133. Elegy xv.
First printed in 1635. The date appears, from the allusions in hnes 21-27, to be about 1609-10.
1. 21. the plaguing bill: cf. p. 12. The weekly bill of deaths by the plague reached 40, during parts of every year from 1606 to 16 10.
1. 23. the Virgi7iia.n plot. Expeditions were sent out to re-colonize Virginia on Jan. i, 1607, and again in 1609.
Ward. This pirate is mentioned in Capt. John Smith's Travels and Observations {1629, ed. Arber, p. 914) as "a poor English sailor," who "lived like a Bashaw in
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Barbary," some time after 1603. Daborne has a play, A Christian turned Turk, or the Tragical Lives and Deaths of the two famous Pirates, Ward and Dansiker (1612), which is taken from an account of these two pirates by Andrew Barker (1609). It appears from Barker that Ward was notorious during 1607-9. ^'s head-quarters were at Tunis. He is alluded to as " that ocean terror" in Randolph's Efiihalamium to Mr. F. H. (Works, ed. Hazlitt, p. 571.)
1.25. the Britain Burse, or the "New Exchange," opened as a rival to the Royal Exchange, on April 11, i6o9. For some time it had very little success.
1. 27. Aldgate. The rebuilding was completed in 1609.
Moor-field, fields to the north of the City ; laid out in walks in 1606.
p. 136. Elegy xvi.
This poem was included in the collection of verses called Underwoods, which first appeared in the second folio edition (1641) of Ben Jonson's works. It is No. 58 in Cunningham's edition. I see no reason, however, to take it from Donne. It appeared in two editions, 1633 and 1635, during Jonson's life ; the Underwoods is posthumous, and of no great authority ; and both style and sentiment are characteristic of Donne. Many points in the Elegy, for instance, may be paralleled from Elegy xi. , 1. 91, sqq., from Woman's Constancy (p. 5), and from The Curse (p. 42). It is signed J. D. in William Drummond's Hawthomden MS. 15.
p. 139. Elegy xvii.
This appeared in 1635-1669 among the Epicedes and Obsequies. In 1669 it is simply headed Elegy. It belongs more properly to the present section. It may perhaps be referred to 161 1, with the lyrical poem to his wife headed, A Valediction forbidding Mourni?ig {■^. 51), and the Song "Sweetest Love" (p. 16). See the notes to those poems, and compare the close of the present Elegy with what Walton says about Mrs. Donne's "divining souL"
p. 141. Elegy xvin.
First printed in the Appendix to the edition of 1650. VOL. I. 16
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p. 144. Elegy xix.
First printed with the heading among Donne's Poems in 1669. But it had previously appeared in " Wit and Drollery. Bv Sir J. M.. J. S., Sir W. D., J. D. and the most refined Wits of the Age, 1661." I have only given in the text and foot-notes the more important of the many variant readings of the 1661 version.
Mr. W. C. Hazlitt states in his Handbook that pages 95-98 of the 1669 Poems, containing Elegy xix., all but the first two lines, and Elegy xx., all but the last ten lines, were suppressed.
p. 148. Elegy xx. First printed with the heading in 1663.
DIVINE POEMS.
The larger number of these poems appeared in 1633. The Holy Sonnets, i. , iii., v., and viii., the lines Upon the Translation of tlie Psalms (p. 188). the Ode (p. 190), the lines To Mr. Tilnian, and the Hymn to God, my God (p. 2Ti), were added in 1635 ; the poems to George Herbert (p, 214) and the translation from Gazaeus {p. 216) in 1650. The Sonnet to Lady Herbert (p. 156) is printed from Walton's Life of George Herbert (1670). This is the latest group of Donne's poems. Some at least of the Sonnets were probably written before 1607, and from them he appears to have occasionally written religious poems up to the last year of his life. It is possible to more or less definitely date a good many of them ; viz. the Annunciation and Passion (p. 170) in 1609, the Litariy (p. 174) in 1610, the Good Friday (p. 172) in 1613, the translation of the Lamentations (p. 194) in 1617 (?), the Hymn to Christ (p. 193) in 1619, the lines Upon the Translation of the Psalms (p. 188) after 1621, the Hymn to God the Leather (p. 213) in 1627, and the Hymn to God, my God (p. 211) in 1631.
p. 151. To THE E[ARL] of D[oNCASTER].
This poem is found in all the seventeenth-century editions amongst the Verse Letters, headed " To E. of D." The full title is taken from the Stephens MS. I liave trans- ferred it to the present section. It evidently refers to the "La Corona" Sonnet^ which follow, although only six of them appear to b ive been finished when it was written.
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The heading is not quite correct, for there was no Earl of Doncaster. James Hay was a Scotch gentleman who came to England with James, and was high in favour at court. He was knighted, and created successively Lord Hay in the Scotch peerage (1606), Lord Hay of Sawley 1615), Viscount Doncaster (1618), and Earl of Carlisle 1622). He was a courtier, at once shrewd and extrava- gant, rather than a statesman, but he was employed on several important missions, amongst them one to France in 1616, and another to Germany to support the Elector Palatine in 1619. On the latter of these occasions Donne accompanied him. (See notes to the Hymn to Christ, p. 193.) Hay married, firstly, Honora, daughter of Lord Denny (1607) ; secondly, Lucy Percy, Strafford's Lady Carlisle (1617),
1. 2. Cf. Antony and Cleopatra, IL vii. 29: "Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud by the opera- tion of your sun : so is your crocodile."
p. 156. To THE Lady Magdalen Herbert.
Lady Herbert was by birth Magdalen Newport, and married Sir Richard Herbert of Montgomery Castle. Her husband died early, in 1597, and she devoted herself to the care of her children, amongst whom Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, George Herbert, and Sir Henry Herbert, Master of the Revels, attained distinction. On her friendship with Donne, see note to Elegy ix. A letter of Donne's preserved at Loseley ends as follows, " From Sir John Danvers' house at Chelsey (of which house and my lord Carlils at Hanworth I make up my Tusculum), 12. Julii. 1625." In 1608 she took, as her second husband. Sir John Danvers. In 1627, Donne preached her funeral sermon, which was afterwards published with some Greek and Latin verses by her son George.
This sonnet is not in any of the seventeenth-century editions of Donne, but it is given in Walton's Life of George Herbert (1670), with this accompanying letter:
" Madam,
"Your favours to me are every where; I use them, and have them. I enjoy them at London, and leave them there, and yet find them at Mitcham. Such
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riddles as these become things unexpressible ; and such is your goodness. I was almost sorry to find your servant here this day, because I was loth to have any witness of my not coming home last night, and indeed of my coming this morning : but my not coming was ex- cusable, because earnest business detained me, and my coming this day is by the example of your S. Mary Magdalen, who rose early upon Sunday to seek that which she loved most, and so did I. And, from her and myself, I return such thanks as are due to one to whom we owe all the good opinion that they whom we need most have of us. By this messenger, and on this good day, I commit the enclosed holy hymns and sonnets (which for the matter, not the workmanship, have yet escaped the fire) to your judgment, and to your protec- tion too, if you think them worthy of it, and I have ap- pointed this enclosed sonnet to usher them to your happy hand.
" Your unworthiest servant,
" Unless your accepting him " Have mended him,
" Jo. Donne.
** Mitcham, Inly 11, 1607."
Walton adds: "These hymns are now lost to us, but doubtless they w ere such as they two now sing in heaven." This would seem to imply that the "Holy Sonnets" which follow were not those sent to Lady Herbert, but some later ones. But Walton may be referring to some lost hymns, as distinguished from the sonnets ; and in any case, this poem will serve as a preface to the rest of Donne's religious verse. In Harl. 4955, the divine sonnets {Holy Sonnets and La Corona) are said to have been " made 20 years since." The MS. includes a poem dated 1629.
1. 2. Bethina, Bethany : Magdalo, the castle of Migdol, from which the name Magdalene may have been derived.
1. 8. It is not a question whether there was more than one Magdalen, but rather whether Mary Magdalene, " out of whom Jesus cast seven devils," is identical with Mary of Bethany, the sinner who anointed his feet and
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wiped them with the hair of her head in the house of Simon the leper. They are treated as one in Vaughan's poem, St. Mary Magdalene.
p. 157. Holy Sonnets.
Of these Holy Sonnets, i. , iii., v., viii., and xi. were first printed in 1635, the rest in 1633.
p. 162. Sonnet x.
1. I. This sonnet is probably earlier than the palinode in the Elegy on Mrs. Bouhtred (vol. ii. p. 89) —
" Death, I recant, and say, ' Unsaid by me, Whate'er hath slipp'd, that might diminish thee.' "
Some have called thee so. Cf. the address to ' ' eloquent, just, and mighty Death," at the close of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of tJie World. This however is prob- ably later than Donne's sonnet.
p. i6g. Resurrection.
1. 14. tincture. Cf. the note to elixir (page 41) ; and the following stanza from George Herbert's poem The Elixir —
' ' All may of thee partake : Nothing can be so mean Which with this tincture, for Thy sake, Will not grow bright and clean."
A variant reading is " His tincture."
p. 170. The Annunciation and Passion.
The Stephens MS. has for title, "Upon the Annunci- ation and Passion falling upon one day 1608." The date of the poem will therefore be March 25, i6c>f-. Sir John Beaumont has a poem " Upon the two great feasts of the Annunciation and Resurrection falling on the saiiie day, March 25, 1627," and George Herbert one in Latin, In Natales et Pascha concurrentes. I observe that Dr. Grosart translates Natales by "Annunciation," and
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Pascha by " Passion," and states that Donne's poem and George Herbert's "probably were both written on the same occasion." See his editions both of Donne and Herbert.
p. 172. Good-Friday, 1613, Riding Westward,
In Addl, MS. 25,707, f. 36, this poem is headed — " Mr. J. Dun, going from Sir H[enryJ G[oodyere] : on Good- Friday sent him back this Meditation on the way." In Harl. MS. 4955, f. no, it is " Riding to Sir Edward Herbert in Wales." Sir Flenry Goodyere's house was at Polesworth in Warwickshire.
p. 174. A Litany.
Dr. Grosart tries to make out that this Litany was one of Donne's earliest poems. As a matter of fact its date can be more or less precisely fixed by Donne's corre- spondence. In a letter to Sir Henry Goodyere (AJford, vi. 311) he speaks of it as follows —
" Since my imprisonment in my bed, I have made a meditation in verse, which I call a Litany ; the word you know imports no other than supplication, but all churches have one form of supplication, by that name. Amongst ancient annals, I mean some eight hundred years, I have met two Litanies in Latin verse, which gave me not the reason of my meditations, for in good faith I thought not upon them then, but they give me a defence, if any man, to a layman, and a private, impute it as a fault, to take such divine and public names, to his own little thoughts. The first of them was made by Ratpertus, a monk of Suevia ; and the other by S, Notker, of whom I will give you this note by the way, that he is a private saint, for a few parishes ; they were both but monk"^, and the Litanies poor and barbarous enough ; yet Pope Nicholas V, valued their devotion so much, that he canonized both their poems, and commanded them for public service in their churches : mine is for lesser chapels, which are my friends, and though a copy of it were due to you, now, yet I am so unable to serve myself with writing it for you at this time (being some thirty staves of nine hnes), that I must entreat you to take a promise
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that you shall have the first, for a testimony of that duty which I owe to your love, and to myself, who am bound to cherish it by my best offices. That by which it will deserve best acceptation, is that neither the Roman church need call it defective, because it abhors not the particular mention of the blessed triumphers in heaven ; nor the Reformed can discreetly accuse it, of attributing more than a rectified devotion ought to do."
The letter can be dated by the mention of a book of Lis, apparently the Pseudo-Martyr, as still in MS. It was printed in 1610.
p. 188. Upon the Translation of the Psalms
BY Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of
Pembroke, his Sister.
First printed in 1635. Tliese Psalms, of which i, — xliii. are by Sir Philip Sidney, the rest by Lady Pem- broke, remained in IMS. until 1823, when they were pub- lished from a copy in the autograph of John Davies of Hereford. They are also to be found in Bodl. Rawl, Poet. MS. 25, Brit. Mus., Addl. MSS. 12,047 and 12,048, and a MS. in Trin. Coll. Camb. It appears from 1. 53 that Donne's verses were written after Lady Pem- broke's death in 1621.
p. 190. Ode.
First printed in 1635. In Rawl. Poet. MS. 31, f. 13, it is said to have been written to George Herbert.
p. 191. To Mr. Tilman, after he had taken
Orders.
First printed in 1635.
p. 193. A Hymn to Christ, at the Author's last going into Germany.
This going into Germany was on a mission with the Earl of Doncaster, after the election of the Palsgrave as King of Bohemia, in 1619.
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p. 194, The Lamentations of Jeremy, for the
MOST PART according TO TREMELLIUS.
This poem probably dates from the death of Donne's wife in 1617. Walton (1658) speaks of the great grief into which he fell. " Thus, as the Israelites sat mourning by the waters of Babylon, when they remembered Sion, so he gave some ease to liis oppressed heart by thus vent- ing his sorrows : thus he began the day and ended the night, ended the restless night and began the weary day in lamentations." Ke adds : " His first motion from his house to preach where his beloved wife lay buried, in St. Clement's Church, near Temple Bar, London ; and his text was a part of the prophet Jeremy's Lamentation, ' Lo, I am the man that have seen affliction.' "
p. 211. Hymn to God, my God, in my Sickness.
First printed in 1635.
Walton [Life, ed. 1670) states that this hymn was written on Donne's death-bed. He quotes stanzas i and 6, and the first two and a half hues of stanza 2, with the date March 23, 1637. A copy amongst Sir Julius Caesar's papers (Addl. MS. 34,324, f. 316) is endorsed " D. Dun, Dean of Paul's, his verses in his great sickness in December 1623."
Trcmelluis : Emanuel Tremellins (1510-1580) pub- lished a Latin translation of the Bible at Frankfort, in
1575-1579-
p. 213. A Hymn to God the Father.
This hymn is quoted by Walton, not in the 1640, but in the 1670 edition of the Life. Walton says : " Even on his former sickbed [in 1623] he wrote this heavenly hymn, expressing the great joy that then possessed his soul, in the assurance of God's favour to him when he composed it."
He adds : " I have the rather mentioned this hymn, for that he caused it to be set to a most grave and solemn tune, and to be often sung to the organ by the choristers of St. Paul's Church in his own hearing ; especially at
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ihe evening service, and at his return from his customary devotions in that place did occasionally say to a friend : ' The words of this hymn have restored to me the same thoughts of joy that possessed my soul in my sickness when I composed it. And, O the power of church music ! that harmony added to this hymn has raised the affections of my heart and quickened my graces of zeal and gratitude ; and I observe that I always return from paying this public duty of prayer and praise to God, with an unexpressible tranquillity of mind, and a willingness to leave the world.'"
This poem appears in BriL Mus. Eg. MS. 2013, f. 13, set to music by John Hillton, and beginning, " Wilt thou forgive the sins where I begun." I do not know whether this was the setting used at St. Paul's. The date of the MS. is probably before 1644.
The "former sickbed " mentioned by Walton is doubt- less that of the fifty-fourth year of his age, 1623, upon which he also composed his Book of Devotions,
p. 214. To George Herbert.
First printed in 1650.
Walton [Life, 1670) has a passage on the friendship between Donne and George Herbert. He says —
"Betwixt this George Herbert and Dr. Donne, there was a long and dear friendship, made up by such a sympathy of inclinations that they coveted and joyed to be in each other's company ; and this happy friendship was still maintained by many sacred endearments, of which that which foUoweth may be some testimony." He then goes on to quote the first two and a half lines of Donne's Latin poem, and the whole of the English one ; together with portions of answering poems by George Herbert, which are printed in full in the 1650 edition of Donne. I add them here —
(■^
In Sacram Anchoram Piscatoris G. Herbert.
Quod crux nequibat fixa, clavique addita — Tenere Christum scilicet, ne ascenderet —
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Tuive Christum devocans facundia Ultra loquendi tempus ; addit Anchora : Nee hoc abunde est tibi, nisi certae anchorae Addas Sigillum ; nempe symbolum suae Tibi debet unda et terra certitudinis. Quondam fessus Amor, loquens amato, Tot et tanta loquens amica, scripsit : Tandem et fessa manus dedit Sigillum.
Suavis erat, qui scripta, dolens, lacerando recludi, Sanctius in regno magni credebat Amoris, In quo fas nihil est rumpi, donare Sigillum 1
Munde, fluas fugiasque licet, nos nostraque fixi : Deridet motus sancta catena tuos.
This is followed by an English version.
Although the Cross could not Christ here detain, Though nail'd unto it, but He ascends again, Nor yet thy eloquence here keep Him still. But only while thou speakest, this Anchor will. Nor canst thou be content, unless thou to This certain Anchor add a Seal ; and so The water and the earth both unto thee Do owe the symbol of their certainty.
When Love, being weary, made an end Of kind expressions to his friend, He writ ; when 's hand could write no more, He gave the Seal, and so left o'er.
How sweet a friend was he, who, being grieved His letters were broke rudely up, believed 'Twas more secure in great Love's commonweal Where nothing should be broke, to add a Seal I
Let the world reel, we and all ours stand sure ; This holy cable 's of all storms secure.
The following is from Walton's Life of George Herbert J1670) — "I shall therefore add only one testimony to what is also mentioned in the Life of Dr. Donne, namely,
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that a little before his death he caused many seals to be made, and in them to be engraven the figure of Christ crucified on an anchor — which is the emblem of hope — and of which Dr. Donne would often say Crtix mihi anchora. These seals he sent to most of those friends on which he put a value ; and at Mr. Herbert's death these verses were found wrapped up with that seal which was by the Doctor given to him :
When my dear friend could write no more, He gave this Seal, and so gave o'er. When winds and waves rose highest, I am sure, This Anchor keeps my faith, that, me secure.
Some of these seals, including that given to Walton himself, have been handed down to our day. ^0.0. Notes and Queries (2nd Series, viii. 170, 216 ; 6th Series, x. 426, 473). .
The Latin version of George Herbert's verses is also found with the Jacula Prudentum (1651), a volume con- sisdng mostly of "Outlandish Proverbs" collected by Herbert, and reprinted from the 1640 edition of Wit's Recreations. It is also in Herbert's Poems. Doubtless the English version is his also.
p. 216. Translated out of Gazaeus, "Vota Amico Facta," fol. 160.
First printed in 1650.
En6e de Gaza, at the end of the fifth century, wrote a dialogue on ImmortaHty and the Resurrection, called Theophrastus. An edition was published at Zurich in 1559-60.
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