be so much his servant, as to forget he was his friend; and to testify it, did always use him with much courtesy, appointing him a place at his own table, to which he esteemed his company and discourse to be a great ornament.

He continued that employment for the space of five years, being daily useful, and not meronary to his friends. During which time he I dare not say unhappily) fell into such a liking, (as with her approbation) increased into a love with a young gentlewoman that lived in that family, who was niece to the Lady Ellesmere, and daughter to Sir George Moor', then Chancellor of the Garter and Lieutenant of the Tower.

Sir George had some intimation of it, and knowing prevention to be a great part of wisdom, d.d therefore remove her with much haste from that to his own house at Lothesley, in the county

Or rather, Lady EGERTON, sister to Sir George Moor of 1xy-Farm, in the county of Surry, Knight, and widow of Sir John Wooley, of Pirford in Surry, Knight, and mother of that Sir Francis Wooley, who kindly took Dr. Donne and

wife under his protection. She died in January 1599. Là 1600, Sư Tho...as Egerton married the Countess Dowager of Derby, who continued to be called Lady Derby. In 1603 he was ma le Boron Ellesinere.

I gentleman was Treasurer or Receiver General of the rears of Henry Pance of Wales in 1604 In 1010, he was myle Chancellor of the Order of the Garter, and in 1615, Le tenant of the Tower.

(See Wood's A. O. vol. I. p. 492.)

of Surry; but too late, by reason of some faithful promises which were so interchangeably passed, as never to be violated by either party.

These promises were only known to themselves; and the friends of both parties used much diligence, and many arguments to kill or cool their affections to each other: but in vain; for love is a flattering mischief, that hath denied aged and wise men a foresight of those evils that too often prove to be the children of that blind father; a passion that carries us to commit errors with as much ease as whirlwinds remove feathers, and begets in us an unwearied industry to the attainment of what we desire. And such an industry did, notwithstanding much watchfulness against it, bring them secretly together (I forbear to tell the manner how), and at last to a marriage too, without the allowance of those friends, whose approbation always was, and ever will be necessary. to make even a virtuous love become lawful.

And that the knowledge of their marriage might not fall, like an unexpected tempest, on those that were unwilling to have it so; and that pre-appre hensions might make it the less enormous, when it was known, it was purposely whispered into the ears of many that it was so, yet by none that could affirm it. But to put a priod to the jealousies of Sir George (doubt often begetting more restless thoughts than the certain knowledge of what we fear) the news was, in favour to Mr. Donne, and with his allowance, made known to Sir George.

by his honourable friend and neighbour, Henry Earl of Northumberland: But it was to Sir George so immeasurably unwelcome, and so transported him, that as though his passion of anger and inconsideration might exceed theirs of love and error, he presently engaged his sister the Lady Ellesmere, to join with him to procure her Lord to discharge Mr. Donne of the place he held under his Lordship.-This request was followed with violence; and though Sir George were remembered, that errors might be over-punished, and desired therefore to forbear till second considerations might clear some scruples, yet he became restless until his suit was granted, and the punishment executed. And though the Lord Chancel

↑ HENRY PERCY, the ninth Earl of Northumberland of that nae, “a learned man himself, and the generous favourer of

all god learning," as he is called by Anthony Wood. This nuklean, upon the marriage of his youngest daughter Lady Inen Porv, a Fuly of the most distinguished wit and bemity, with the Loud Haye, afterwards created Viscount Done ister and

„li 'c, discovered the same harshness of disposition, The pro's "ly ceasured in the father-in-law of Dr. Donne. The truthent which he received from James I. to whom he a'wa; « showed the m› t futhful attachment affords one, among many instances, of the injustice of that monarch, who fined this Bufveman 39,000l. and "imprisoned him in the Tower from * 15 to 1519, upon a mere suspicion, without the least proof of his having had knowledge of the powder-plot, as Cecy!! b.: self confessed in a letter to Sir Thomas Edmunds, dated • Dec 2 1605."

(Birch's Vice of the Negatims, &c. p. 245.)

lor did not at Mr. Donne's dismission give him such a commendation, as the great Emperor Charles the Fifth did of his Secretary Eraso", when he presented him to his son and successor Philip the Second, saying, "That in his Eraso, "he gave to him a greater gift than all his estate, "and all the kingdoms which he then resigned to "him" yet the Lord Chancellor said, " He parted "with a friend and such a secretary as was fitter "to serve a king than a subject."

Immediately after his dismission from his service, he sent a sad letter to his wife, to acquaint her with it; and after the subscription of his name, writ,

JOHN DONNE, ANNE DONNE, UN-DONE;

and God knows it proved too true: For this bitter physic of Mr. Donne's dismission was not strong enough to purge out all Sir George's choler; for he was not satisfied till Mr. Donne and his sometime compupil in Cambridge that married him,

* On the 16th of January, 1556, his Majesty passed the act " of the Renunciation of the Crown of Spain and all its doma"nions to his son Philip, in the presence of Francis de Erasso "hus Secretary, and all the Spaniards then at Brussels.” (Stever's Translation of the History of Char ca V. written in Sparsh by D. F. Prudencio de Sandural, Bukop of Pari; kama, dc. p. 473.) It was probably at this very time that the Emperor recommended this faithful secretary to his son.

namely, Samuel Brook (who was after Doctor in Divinity, and Master of Trinity College), and his

*SAMUEL BROOK, descended from a respectable family at York, was the son of Robert Brook, an eminent merchant, and Lord Mayor of that city in 1582 and in 1595. He was admitted of Trinity College, in Cambridge, in 1596; and on September 26, 1612, being then Chaplain to Prince Henry, he was chosen Divinity Professor in Gresham College, on the recoinmendation of that Prince, whose unhappy death followed, Nov. fith ensuing. In 1613 he was elected one of the twelve preachers of the University, and the year following he wrote a Latin pastoral, which was acted with applau-e before King Junes in Trinity College Hall, on Friday, March 10. Copies of this performance are yet extant, with this title, Melanthe, Fabula ⚫ pastoralis, acta cùm Jacobus, Magnæ Brit. Franc, et Hiberniæ

Rex, Cantabrigiam suam nuper inviserat, ibidemque musarum • atque anumi gratià dies quinque commoraretur. Egerunt " Alumni Coll. San. et individuæ Trinitat's Cantabrigiæ. Ex"cudebat Cantrellus Legge, Mart. 27, 1615." In 1650 he is Rad to have composed an Armenian Treatise of Pre lestination, with which he acquainted Bishop Laud, who encouraged him in the work, recommending it to the revisal of Dr. Lindsey and Dr Bale, two great Armenians, and promising to peruse it Eraself, as appears by sundry letters. (Pryne's Canterbu_y's Dum. p. 167.) Of this tract Mr. Horsey, in the funeral orată în delivered in Trinity College Chapel, thus speaks : Nec - illam prætereo fatum nuperrime formatum de mano et * arcveto Prædestinationis Mysterio Disputatiomes."– Quanti nobis " esset a tineis et latebris redimere has pretiosas chartas, ut typis "fakelter excusa in manus omnium pervenireat!" In 1615 he was created D. D. and in 1618 was promoted to the Rectory of St. Margaret's Lothbury, in London. He resigned his Professorsap of Gresham College in 16.9, upon his app istment to the Masterslap of Trinity College in Cambridge, vacite 1 by the death of Dr. Leonard Maw, Bishop of Bath and Wells. In

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