]
[Footnote 21: Five are to the Countess of Bedford--'Reason
is', 'Honour is', 'You have refin'd', 'To have written then',
and 'This Twy-light'.
[Footnote 21: Five are to the Countess of Bedford--'Reason
is', 'Honour is', 'You have refin'd', 'To have written then',
and 'This Twy-light'.
John Donne
43), will follow down to _A
Valediction: forbidding mourning_ (p. 49). He must then turn
back to the beginning and follow the list down till he comes
to _The Curse_ (p. 41), and then resume at _The Extasie_ (p.
51). If the seven poems, _The Message_ to _A Valediction_:
_forbidding mourning_, were brought to the beginning, the
order of the _Songs and Sonets_ in _1635-69_ would be the same
as in _1633_.
The editor of _1633_ began a process, which was carried on
in _1635_, of naming poems unnamed in the manuscripts, and
re-naming some that already had titles. The textual notes
will give full details regarding the names, and will show that
frequently a poem unnamed in _D_, _H49_, _Lec_ remains unnamed
in _1633_. ]
[Footnote 19: There is one exception to this which I had
overlooked. In _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _The Undertaking_ (p. 10)
comes later, following _The Extasie_. ]
[Footnote 20: When in 1614 Donne contemplated an edition of
his poems he wrote to Goodyere: 'By this occasion I am made a
Rhapsoder of mine own rags, and that cost me more diligence
to seek them, than it did to make them. This made me aske to
borrow that old book of you,' &c. _Letters_ (1651), p. 197.
]
[Footnote 21: Five are to the Countess of Bedford--'Reason
is', 'Honour is', 'You have refin'd', 'To have written then',
and 'This Twy-light'. One is to the Countess of Huntingdon,
'Man to Gods image'; one to the Countess of Salisbury, 'Fair,
great and good'; and one to Lady Carey, 'Here where by all. ']
[Footnote 22: In citing this collection I use _TC_ for the two
groups _TCC_, _TCD_. ]
[Footnote 23: Additional lines to the _Annuntiation and
Passion_, 'The greatest and the most conceald impostor', 'Now
why should Love a footeboys place despise', 'Believe not him
whom love hath made so wise', 'Pure link of bodies where
no lust controules', 'Whoso terms love a fire', _Upon his
scornefull Mistresse_ ('Cruel, since that thou dost not fear
the curse'), _The Hower Glass_ ('Doe but consider this small
Dust'), 'If I freely may discover', _Song_ ('Now you
have kill'd me with your scorn'), 'Absence, heare thou my
protestation', _Song_ ('Love bred of glances'), 'Love if a god
thou art', 'Greate Lord of Love how busy still thou art', 'To
sue for all thy Love and thy whole hart'. ]
[Footnote 24: 'Believe not him whom love hath made so wise',
_On the death of Mris Boulstred_ ('Stay view this stone'),
_Against Absence_ ('Absence, heare thou my protestation'),
'Thou send'st me prose and rhyme', _Tempore Hen: 3_ ('The
state of Fraunce, as now it stands'), _A fragment_ ('Now why
shuld love a Footboyes place despise'), _To J. D. from Mr. H.
W. _ ('Worthie Sir, Tis not a coate of gray,' see II. p.
141), 'Love bred of glances twixt amorous eyes', _To a Watch
restored to its mystres_ ('Goe and count her better houres'),
'Deare Love continue nyce and chast', 'Cruell, since thou
doest not feare the curse', _On the blessed virgin Marie_ ('In
that, o Queene of Queenes'). ]
[Footnote 25: Of 128 items in the volume 99 are by Donne, and
I have excluded some that might be claimed for him. The poems
certainly not by Donne are 'Wrong not deare Empresse of my
heart', 'Good folkes for gold or hire', 'Love bred of glances
twixt amorous eyes', 'Worthy Sir, Tis not a coat of gray'
(here marked 'J. D'. ), 'Censure not sharply then' (marked 'B.
Valediction: forbidding mourning_ (p. 49). He must then turn
back to the beginning and follow the list down till he comes
to _The Curse_ (p. 41), and then resume at _The Extasie_ (p.
51). If the seven poems, _The Message_ to _A Valediction_:
_forbidding mourning_, were brought to the beginning, the
order of the _Songs and Sonets_ in _1635-69_ would be the same
as in _1633_.
The editor of _1633_ began a process, which was carried on
in _1635_, of naming poems unnamed in the manuscripts, and
re-naming some that already had titles. The textual notes
will give full details regarding the names, and will show that
frequently a poem unnamed in _D_, _H49_, _Lec_ remains unnamed
in _1633_. ]
[Footnote 19: There is one exception to this which I had
overlooked. In _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _The Undertaking_ (p. 10)
comes later, following _The Extasie_. ]
[Footnote 20: When in 1614 Donne contemplated an edition of
his poems he wrote to Goodyere: 'By this occasion I am made a
Rhapsoder of mine own rags, and that cost me more diligence
to seek them, than it did to make them. This made me aske to
borrow that old book of you,' &c. _Letters_ (1651), p. 197.
]
[Footnote 21: Five are to the Countess of Bedford--'Reason
is', 'Honour is', 'You have refin'd', 'To have written then',
and 'This Twy-light'. One is to the Countess of Huntingdon,
'Man to Gods image'; one to the Countess of Salisbury, 'Fair,
great and good'; and one to Lady Carey, 'Here where by all. ']
[Footnote 22: In citing this collection I use _TC_ for the two
groups _TCC_, _TCD_. ]
[Footnote 23: Additional lines to the _Annuntiation and
Passion_, 'The greatest and the most conceald impostor', 'Now
why should Love a footeboys place despise', 'Believe not him
whom love hath made so wise', 'Pure link of bodies where
no lust controules', 'Whoso terms love a fire', _Upon his
scornefull Mistresse_ ('Cruel, since that thou dost not fear
the curse'), _The Hower Glass_ ('Doe but consider this small
Dust'), 'If I freely may discover', _Song_ ('Now you
have kill'd me with your scorn'), 'Absence, heare thou my
protestation', _Song_ ('Love bred of glances'), 'Love if a god
thou art', 'Greate Lord of Love how busy still thou art', 'To
sue for all thy Love and thy whole hart'. ]
[Footnote 24: 'Believe not him whom love hath made so wise',
_On the death of Mris Boulstred_ ('Stay view this stone'),
_Against Absence_ ('Absence, heare thou my protestation'),
'Thou send'st me prose and rhyme', _Tempore Hen: 3_ ('The
state of Fraunce, as now it stands'), _A fragment_ ('Now why
shuld love a Footboyes place despise'), _To J. D. from Mr. H.
W. _ ('Worthie Sir, Tis not a coate of gray,' see II. p.
141), 'Love bred of glances twixt amorous eyes', _To a Watch
restored to its mystres_ ('Goe and count her better houres'),
'Deare Love continue nyce and chast', 'Cruell, since thou
doest not feare the curse', _On the blessed virgin Marie_ ('In
that, o Queene of Queenes'). ]
[Footnote 25: Of 128 items in the volume 99 are by Donne, and
I have excluded some that might be claimed for him. The poems
certainly not by Donne are 'Wrong not deare Empresse of my
heart', 'Good folkes for gold or hire', 'Love bred of glances
twixt amorous eyes', 'Worthy Sir, Tis not a coat of gray'
(here marked 'J. D'. ), 'Censure not sharply then' (marked 'B.
