The version of
Tremellius
runs: 'Expirarunt
quum quaererent escam sibi, qua reficerent se ipsos.
quum quaererent escam sibi, qua reficerent se ipsos.
John Donne
_accite_, the reading of _B_, _O'F_ as well as
_1635-69_, I have not yet found elsewhere in Donne's works, but
doubtless it occurs. Shakespeare uses it once:
He by the Senate is accited home
From weary wars against the barbarous Goths.
_Tit. Andr. _ I. i. 27-8.
ll. 75-6. _for they sought for meat
Which should refresh their soules, they could not get_.
Chambers has printed this poem from _1639_, noting occasionally the
readings of _1635_ and _1650_, but ignoring consistently those of
_1633_. Here _1633_ has the support of _N_, _TCD_; _B_ reads 'they none
could get'; and _O'F_, if I may trust my collation, agrees with
_1635-69;_ Grolier follows _1633_ but conjectures 'the sought-for
meat'. This is unnecessary. It is quite in Donne's style to close with
an abrupt 'they could not get'. Modern punctuation would change the
comma to a semicolon.
The version of Tremellius runs: 'Expirarunt
quum quaererent escam sibi, qua reficerent se ipsos. ' The Vulgate,
'consumpti sunt, quia quaesierunt cibum sibi ut refocillarent animum. '
PAGE =357=, l. 81. _Of all which heare I mourne_: i. e. 'which hear
that I mourn. ' The construction is harsh, and I was tempted for a
moment to adopt the 'me' of _N_, but Donne is translating Tremellius,
and 'me in gemitu esse' is not quite the same thing as 'me gementem'.
Grosart and Chambers and the Grolier Club editor would not have
followed _1639_ in changing 'heare' to 'here' had they consulted the
original poem which Donne is paraphrasing in any version. The Vulgate
runs: 'Audierunt quia ingemisco ego, et non est qui consoletur me. '
PAGE =359=, l. 161. _poure, for thy sinnes_. The 'poure out thy
sinnes' of _1635-69_ which Grosart and Chambers follow is obviously
wrong. The words 'for thy sinnes' have no counterpart in the Latin of
Tremellius or the Vulgate. The latter runs: 'Effunde sicut aquam cor
tuum ante conspectum Domini.
_1635-69_, I have not yet found elsewhere in Donne's works, but
doubtless it occurs. Shakespeare uses it once:
He by the Senate is accited home
From weary wars against the barbarous Goths.
_Tit. Andr. _ I. i. 27-8.
ll. 75-6. _for they sought for meat
Which should refresh their soules, they could not get_.
Chambers has printed this poem from _1639_, noting occasionally the
readings of _1635_ and _1650_, but ignoring consistently those of
_1633_. Here _1633_ has the support of _N_, _TCD_; _B_ reads 'they none
could get'; and _O'F_, if I may trust my collation, agrees with
_1635-69;_ Grolier follows _1633_ but conjectures 'the sought-for
meat'. This is unnecessary. It is quite in Donne's style to close with
an abrupt 'they could not get'. Modern punctuation would change the
comma to a semicolon.
The version of Tremellius runs: 'Expirarunt
quum quaererent escam sibi, qua reficerent se ipsos. ' The Vulgate,
'consumpti sunt, quia quaesierunt cibum sibi ut refocillarent animum. '
PAGE =357=, l. 81. _Of all which heare I mourne_: i. e. 'which hear
that I mourn. ' The construction is harsh, and I was tempted for a
moment to adopt the 'me' of _N_, but Donne is translating Tremellius,
and 'me in gemitu esse' is not quite the same thing as 'me gementem'.
Grosart and Chambers and the Grolier Club editor would not have
followed _1639_ in changing 'heare' to 'here' had they consulted the
original poem which Donne is paraphrasing in any version. The Vulgate
runs: 'Audierunt quia ingemisco ego, et non est qui consoletur me. '
PAGE =359=, l. 161. _poure, for thy sinnes_. The 'poure out thy
sinnes' of _1635-69_ which Grosart and Chambers follow is obviously
wrong. The words 'for thy sinnes' have no counterpart in the Latin of
Tremellius or the Vulgate. The latter runs: 'Effunde sicut aquam cor
tuum ante conspectum Domini.
