are _To
my Lo: of Denbrook_ (_sic.
my Lo: of Denbrook_ (_sic.
John Donne
]
[Footnote 28: The poems not by Donne are _A Satire: To Sr
Nicholas Smith_, 1602 ('Sleep next society'); Sir Thomas
Overbury's 'Each woman is a Breefe of Womankind' and his
epitaph 'The spann of my daies measurd, here I rest'; a poem
headed _Bash_, beginning 'I know not how it comes to pass';
_Verses upon Bishop Fletcher who married a woman of France_
('If any aske what Tarquin ment to marrie'); _Fletcher Bishop
of London_ ('It was a question in Harroldrie'); 'Mistres
Aturney scorning long to brooke'; 'Wonder of Beautie, Goddesse
of my sence'; 'Faire eyes doe not thinke scorne to read
of Love'; two sonnets apparently by Sir Thomas Roe; six
consecutive poems by Sir John Roe (see pp. 401-6, 408-10);
'Absence heare thou,'; _To the Countess of Rutland_ ('Oh may
my verses pleasing be'); _To Sicknesse_ ('Whie disease dost
thou molest'); 'A Taylor thought a man of upright dealing';
'Unto that sparkling wit, that spirit of fier'; 'There hath
beene one that strove gainst natures power. ']
[Footnote 29: _Satyra Sexta_ ('Sleepe next Society'), _Elegia
Undecima_ ('True Love findes wit'), _Elegia Vicesima_ ('Behold
a wonder': see Grosart ii. 249), _Elegia Vicesima Secunda_
('As unthrifts mourne'), _Elegia vicesima septima_ ('Deare
Tom: Tell her'), _To Mr. Ben: Jonson_ 9? _Novembris 1603_ ('If
great men wronge me'), _To Mr. Ben: Jonson_ ('The state
and mens affairs'), 'Deare Love, continue nice and chaste',
'Wherefore peepst thou envious Daye', 'Great and good, if she
deride me', _To the Blessed Virgin Marie_ ('In that o Queene
of Queenes'), 'What if I come to my Mistresse bed', 'Thou
sentst to me a heart as sound', 'Believe your glasse', _A
Paradox of a Painted Face_ ('Not kisse! By Jove I will'). ]
[Footnote 30: The poems not by Donne are not numerous, but
they are assigned to him without hesitation. They are 'As
unthrifts grieve in straw', 'Thou sentst me Prose', 'Dear
Love continue', 'Madam that flea', _The Houre Glass_ ('Doe
but consider this small dust'), _A Paradox of a Painted Face_
('Not kiss, by Jove'), 'If I freely may discover', 'Absence
heare thou', 'Love bred of glances'. ]
[Footnote 31: Note the readings I. 58 'The Infanta of London',
IV. 38 'He speaks no language'. ]
[Footnote 32: The other poems here ascribed to J. D.
are _To
my Lo: of Denbrook_ (_sic. _, i. e. Pembroke), 'Fye, Fye, you
sonnes of Pallas', _A letter written by Sr H. G. and J.
D. alternis vicibus_ ('Since every tree'), 'Why shuld not
Pillgryms to thy bodie come', 'O frutefull Garden and yet
never till'd', _Of a Lady in the Black Masque_. See Appendix
C, pp. 433-7. ]
[Footnote 33: 'The Heavens rejoice in motion', 'Tell her if
she to hired servants show', 'True love finds wit', 'Deare
Love continue nice and chaste', 'Shall I goe force an
Elegie? ', 'Men write that Love and Reason disagree', 'Come
Fates: I feare you not', 'If her disdaine'. The authorship of
these is discussed later.
A note on the first page in a modern hand says, 'The pieces
which I have extracted for the "Specimens" are, Page 91, 211,
265. ' What 'Specimens' are referred to I do not know: the
pieces are 'You nimble dreams', signed H. (i.
[Footnote 28: The poems not by Donne are _A Satire: To Sr
Nicholas Smith_, 1602 ('Sleep next society'); Sir Thomas
Overbury's 'Each woman is a Breefe of Womankind' and his
epitaph 'The spann of my daies measurd, here I rest'; a poem
headed _Bash_, beginning 'I know not how it comes to pass';
_Verses upon Bishop Fletcher who married a woman of France_
('If any aske what Tarquin ment to marrie'); _Fletcher Bishop
of London_ ('It was a question in Harroldrie'); 'Mistres
Aturney scorning long to brooke'; 'Wonder of Beautie, Goddesse
of my sence'; 'Faire eyes doe not thinke scorne to read
of Love'; two sonnets apparently by Sir Thomas Roe; six
consecutive poems by Sir John Roe (see pp. 401-6, 408-10);
'Absence heare thou,'; _To the Countess of Rutland_ ('Oh may
my verses pleasing be'); _To Sicknesse_ ('Whie disease dost
thou molest'); 'A Taylor thought a man of upright dealing';
'Unto that sparkling wit, that spirit of fier'; 'There hath
beene one that strove gainst natures power. ']
[Footnote 29: _Satyra Sexta_ ('Sleepe next Society'), _Elegia
Undecima_ ('True Love findes wit'), _Elegia Vicesima_ ('Behold
a wonder': see Grosart ii. 249), _Elegia Vicesima Secunda_
('As unthrifts mourne'), _Elegia vicesima septima_ ('Deare
Tom: Tell her'), _To Mr. Ben: Jonson_ 9? _Novembris 1603_ ('If
great men wronge me'), _To Mr. Ben: Jonson_ ('The state
and mens affairs'), 'Deare Love, continue nice and chaste',
'Wherefore peepst thou envious Daye', 'Great and good, if she
deride me', _To the Blessed Virgin Marie_ ('In that o Queene
of Queenes'), 'What if I come to my Mistresse bed', 'Thou
sentst to me a heart as sound', 'Believe your glasse', _A
Paradox of a Painted Face_ ('Not kisse! By Jove I will'). ]
[Footnote 30: The poems not by Donne are not numerous, but
they are assigned to him without hesitation. They are 'As
unthrifts grieve in straw', 'Thou sentst me Prose', 'Dear
Love continue', 'Madam that flea', _The Houre Glass_ ('Doe
but consider this small dust'), _A Paradox of a Painted Face_
('Not kiss, by Jove'), 'If I freely may discover', 'Absence
heare thou', 'Love bred of glances'. ]
[Footnote 31: Note the readings I. 58 'The Infanta of London',
IV. 38 'He speaks no language'. ]
[Footnote 32: The other poems here ascribed to J. D.
are _To
my Lo: of Denbrook_ (_sic. _, i. e. Pembroke), 'Fye, Fye, you
sonnes of Pallas', _A letter written by Sr H. G. and J.
D. alternis vicibus_ ('Since every tree'), 'Why shuld not
Pillgryms to thy bodie come', 'O frutefull Garden and yet
never till'd', _Of a Lady in the Black Masque_. See Appendix
C, pp. 433-7. ]
[Footnote 33: 'The Heavens rejoice in motion', 'Tell her if
she to hired servants show', 'True love finds wit', 'Deare
Love continue nice and chaste', 'Shall I goe force an
Elegie? ', 'Men write that Love and Reason disagree', 'Come
Fates: I feare you not', 'If her disdaine'. The authorship of
these is discussed later.
A note on the first page in a modern hand says, 'The pieces
which I have extracted for the "Specimens" are, Page 91, 211,
265. ' What 'Specimens' are referred to I do not know: the
pieces are 'You nimble dreams', signed H. (i.
