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Dr. Donne's own appointment, these words were to be affixed to it as his epitaph:

"1631. I made a tombe for Dr. Donne, and sette it up in St. Paul's, London, for the which I was payed by Dr. Mountford, the sum of 120l. I took 601. in plate, in part of payment."-Walpole's Anecdotes, v. ii., p. 46.

A further entry gives the credit of the work to another hand :

"1631. Humphrey Mayor finisht the statue for Dr. Donne's monument, Sl." The figure of the Dean, as described in the text, beautifully sculptured in white marble, standing erect, with the feet in a sepulchral urn, was placed in a niche of black marble, on the south side of the choir, surmounted by a square tablet with garlands of fruit and leaves, and the arms of the deanery impaled with his own, viz., a wolf saliant. When the ancient church was finally destroyed, many monumental statues were broken to pieces, and the alabaster powdered for cement. few escaped, and are now preserved in the vaults of the new building apportioned to St. Faith.

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Mr. Gough writes: 'In St. Faith's vaults, May 19, 1783, I saw, with Dr. Hamilton, prebendary of St. Paul's, Mr. Orde and Mr. Brooke, the following figures of the old monuments, in tolerable preservation....: Dr. Donne's whole figure the urn flat at top, and never open, in the window of a separate vault; and fragments of his tomb are on the other side of the church."-Sep. Monum., v. ii., p. cccxxiv. Malcolm, in 1803, adds: Dr. Donne's figure, carved by Stone, stands erect, in a window, without its niche, and deprived of the urn in which the feet were placed.... Stone's work is really an admirable performance ... At the feet of Doctor Donne's statue lay fragments of monuments, pieces of pillars, arms, pedestals, and dust. Below the window on the floor, the urn belonging to the Doctor's figure; and a heap of rubbish, intermixed with bones thrown from graves at different periods.-Lond. Rediviv., v. iii., p. 61.

JOHANNES DONNE,

SAC. THEOL. PROFESS.

POST VARIA STVDIA, QVIBVS AB ANNIS
TENERRIMIS FIDELITER, NEC INFELICITER

INCVBVIT;

INSTINCTV ET IMPVLSV SP. SANCTI, MONITV
ET HORTATV

REGIS JACOBI, ORDINES SACROS AMPLEXVS,
ANNO SVI JESV, MDCXIV. ET SVÆ ÆTATIS XLII.
DECANATV HVJVS ECCLESIÆ INDVTVS,

XXVII. NOVEMBRIS, MDCXXI.

EXVTVS MORTE VLTIMO DIE MARTII, MDCXXXI.
HIC LICET IN OCCIDVO CINERE, ASPICIT EVM
CVJVS NOMEN EST ORIENS.*

And now, having brought him through the many labyrinths and perplexities of a various life, even to the gates of death and the grave; my desire is, he may rest, till I have told my reader that I have seen many pictures of him, in several habits, and at

* By translation into English, much of the original point is necessarily lost. The following, of archdeacon Wrangham, with Dr. Zouch's note, will best convey the meaning of the writer :

JOHN DONNE,
Doctor of Divinity,

After various studies, pursued by him from his earliest years
with assiduity, and not without success,-

entered into Holy Orders,

under the influence and impulse of the Divine Spirit,
and by the advice and exhortation of King James,
in the year of his Saviour, 1614, and of his own age 42.
Having been invested with the Deanery of this Church,
November 27th, 1621,

he was stripped of it by Death, on the last day of March, 1631:
and here, though set in dust, he beholdeth Him

Whose name is the Rising.

The concluding lines, observes Dr. Zouch, evidently allude to his posture. "He was looking towards the East, from whence he expected his Saviour;" and to the passage in Zech. vi., 12, " Behold the man whose name is the Branch;" which the Septuagint Greek and the Vulgate Latin render, "Whose name is the East, or the Rising."

In a letter to Sir Robert Karre, in Spain, Donne wrote: "Your way into Spain is Eastward, and that is the way to the land of perfumes and spices; their way hither is Westward, and that is the way to the land of gold and of mynes. The wise men who sought Christ, laid down with their perfumes and their gold at the feet of Christ, the prince of Peace. If All confer all to his glory, and to the peace of his church, Amen. But now I consider in cosmography better; they and we differ not in East and West: we are much alike Easterly. But yet Oriens nomen ejus, the East is one of Christ's names in one prophet: and Filius Orientis est Lucifer, the East is one of the devill's names in another; and these two differ diametrically, and so may things belonging to the worship of God. And so I think we shall. Amen."-Sir T. Mathews' Coll., p. 305.

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several ages, and in several postures: and I now mention this, because I have seen one picture of him, drawn by a curious hand, at his age of eighteen, with his sword, and what other adornments might then suit with the present fashions of youth, and the giddy gaieties of that age; and his motto then was—

How much shall I be changed,
Before I am changed!

* An engraving of the early portrait referred to, is prefixed to several editions of Donne's Poems, 1639-1654. It is in an oval, and represents an intelligent youth, in a dark coloured doublet, with a narrow plain band, and flowing hair. From the right ear, (the only one visible,) is pendant a jewelled cross; his right hand grasping the hilt of his sword. In the upper corner, on the left, are the words "Anno D'ni 1591. Ætatis suæ 18," the period when he made the campaign with the forces of the United Provinces: on the right, a shield, displaying a wolf saliant, a label in chief: and his adopted motto, "Antes Mverta que Mvdada,”—words, supposed by a Spanish author, to have been originally written on the sand, by a lady promising fidelity to her lover.

Beneath, are the following lines by Izaak Walton:-

This was for youth, strength, mirth, and wit,-that time
Most count their golden age; but was not thine.

Thine was thy later yeares, so much refined

From youth's drosse, mirth and wit, as thy pure mind
Thought (like the angels) nothing but the praise
Of thy Creator, in those last, best dayes.
Witness this booke, thy embleme, which begins

With love, but endes with sighes and teares for sins.

The engravings commonly known as portraits of Dr. Donne, partake of the worst qualities of a low state of art-the absence of any probable resemblance of humanity! and are wretched enough. That engraved for Dr. Zouch's edition of Walton's Lives, and its copy, accompanying the edition of more pretence as to engraved illustration, issued by Major, appear to have been taken from that unhappy, print prefixed to the first volume of Sermons, 1640. As portraits, it would be too complimentary to describe as caricature, that which discovers no personal resemblance.

The portrait recognized by his son as a true likeness, was prefixed to his "Letters to several Persons of Honor," (a work repeatedly quoted in this edition,) published in 4to. in 1651; and reprinted in 1654. It is an oval; and represents the bust, in a tunic, the neck bare. It is indeed a life-like portrait, the habitation of a masculine mind; and bears a strong resemblance to the marble effigy, which Walton has described as "a lively representation of his dead friend;" and Sir Henry Wotton that it seemed to breathe faintly, and would be viewed by posterity as an artificial miracle.

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And if that young, and his now dying picture, were at this time set together, every beholder might say, "Lord! how much is Dr. Donne already changed before he is changed!" And the view of them might give my reader occasion to ask himself, with some amazement, "Lord! how much may I also, that am now in health, be changed before I am changed; before this vile, this changeable body shall put off mortality!" and therefore to prepare for it. But this is not writ so much for my reader's memento, as to tell him, that Dr. Donne would often in his private discourses, and often publicly in his sermons, mention the many changes both of his body and mind; especially of his mind from a vertiginous giddiness; and would as often say, His great and most blessed change was from a temporal to a spiritual employment; in which he was so happy, that he accounted the former part of his life to be lost; and the beginning of it to be from his first entering into sacred orders, and serving his most merciful God at his altar.

Upon Monday, after the drawing this picture, he took his last leave of his beloved study; and, being sensible of his hourly decay, retired himself to his bed-chamber; and that week sent, at several times, for many of his most considerable friends, with whom he took a solemn and deliberate farewell, commending to their considerations some sentences useful for the regulation of their lives; and then dismissed them, as good Jacob did his sons, with a spiritual benediction.* The Sunday following, he appointed his servants, that if there were any business yet undone, that concerned him or themselves, it should be prepared against Saturday next; for after that day he would not mix his thoughts with anything that concerned this world,—not ever did; but, as Job, so he waited for the appointed day of his dissolution.

And now he was so happy as to have nothing to do but to die s to do which, he stood in need of no longer time; for he had studied it long, and to so happy a perfection, that in a former sickness he called God to witness; he was that minute ready to

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deliver his soul into his hands, if that minute God would determine his dissolution. In that sickness he begged of God the constancy to be preserved in that estate for ever; and his patient expectation to have his immortal soul disrobed from her garment of mortality, makes me confident, that he now had a modest assurance that his prayers were then heard, and his petition granted. He lay fifteen days earnestly expecting his hourly change; and in the last hour of his last day, as his body melted away, and vapoured into spirit, his soul having, I verily believe, some revelation of the beatifical vision, he said, "I were miserable if I might not die;" and after those words, closed many periods of his faint breath by saying often, "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done." His speech, which had long been his ready and faithful servant, left him not till the last minute of his

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be relieved from hisearthly bonds, which marked that period of his despondency, when he had no apparent hold of the world, no sphere of action for his vigorous mind, no discernible allotted part to act. His Meditations, on the contrary, are distinguished by a patient resignation to the will of God. On Med. VI., The Physician is afraid," his prayer was: "O most mighty and merciful God, the God of all true sorrow, and true joy, of all feare, and of all hope; as thou hast given me a repentance, not to be repented of, so give me, O Lord, a feare, of which I may not be afraid; that as I joy with them that joy, and mourn with them that mourn, so I may feare with them that feare. And since thou hast vouchsafed to discover to me, in his feare whom thou hast admitted to be my assistance in this sicknesse, that there is danger therein, let me not, O Lord, goe about to overcome the sense of that feare, so far as to pretermit the fitting and preparing of my selfe for the worst that may be feared, the passage out of this life. Many of thy blessed martyrs have passed out of this life without show of feare; but thy most blessed Son himselfe did not so. Thy martyres were knowne to be but men, and therefore it pleased thee to fill them with thy spirit, and thy power; in that they did more than men. Thy Son was declared by thee, and by himselfe to be God; and it was requisite that he should declare himselfe to be man also, in the weakness of man. Let me not therefore, O my God, be ashamed of these feares, but let me feele them to determine, where his feare did, in a present submitting of all to thy will. And when thou shalt have inflamed and thawed my former coldnesses and devotions, and rectified my former presumptions and negligences with these feares, bee pleased, O Lord, as one made so by thee, to think me fit for thee; and whether it be thy pleasure to dispose of this body, this garment so, as to put it to a further wearing in this world, or to lay it up in the common wardrobe, the grave, for the next, glorifye thy selfe in thy choice now, and glorifie it then, with that glory, which thy Son our Saviour Christ Jesus bath purchased for them whom thou makest partakers of his Resurrection. Amen."

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