_Guyanaes
harvest is nip'd in the spring.
John Donne
TO M^r R.
W.
l. 3. _brother. _ _W_ reads 'brethren', and Morpheus _had_ many
brothers; but of these only two had with himself the power of assuming
what form they would, and of these two Phantasus took forms that lack
life. Donne, therefore, probably means Phobetor, but a friend copying
the poem thought to amend his mythology. See Ovid, _Metam. _ xi.
635-41.
PAGE =210=. TO M^r R. W.
l. 18.
_Guyanaes harvest is nip'd in the spring. _ See introductory
note to the _Letters_.
l. 23. _businesse. _ The use of 'businesse' as a trisyllable with
plural meaning is quite legitimate: 'Idle and discoursing men, that
were not much affected, how businesse went, so they might talke of
them. ' _Sermon_, Judges XX. 15. p. 7.
PAGE =211=. TO M^r S. B.
Probably Samuel Brooke, the brother of Christopher. He officiated at
Donne's marriage and was imprisoned. He was later Chaplain to Prince
Henry, to James I, and to Charles I; professor of Divinity at Gresham
College (1612-29) and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1629.
l. 3. _brother. _ _W_ reads 'brethren', and Morpheus _had_ many
brothers; but of these only two had with himself the power of assuming
what form they would, and of these two Phantasus took forms that lack
life. Donne, therefore, probably means Phobetor, but a friend copying
the poem thought to amend his mythology. See Ovid, _Metam. _ xi.
635-41.
PAGE =210=. TO M^r R. W.
l. 18.
_Guyanaes harvest is nip'd in the spring. _ See introductory
note to the _Letters_.
l. 23. _businesse. _ The use of 'businesse' as a trisyllable with
plural meaning is quite legitimate: 'Idle and discoursing men, that
were not much affected, how businesse went, so they might talke of
them. ' _Sermon_, Judges XX. 15. p. 7.
PAGE =211=. TO M^r S. B.
Probably Samuel Brooke, the brother of Christopher. He officiated at
Donne's marriage and was imprisoned. He was later Chaplain to Prince
Henry, to James I, and to Charles I; professor of Divinity at Gresham
College (1612-29) and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1629.
