AN
ANATOMIE
OF THE WORLD.
John Donne
PAGE =227=. TO THE LADY BEDFORD.
l. 1. _You that are she and you, that's double shee_: The old
punctuation suggests absurdly that the clause 'and you that's double
she' is an independent co-ordinate clause.
l. 7. _Cusco. _ I note in a catalogue, 'South America, a very early
Map, with view of Cusco, the capital of Peru'.
l. 44. _of Iudith. _ 'There is not such a woman from one end of the
earth to the other, both for beauty of face and wisdom of words. '
Judith xi. 21.
AN ANATOMIE OF THE WORLD.
The _Anatomie of the World_ and _Of The Progresse of the Soule_ were
the first poems published in Donne's lifetime. The former was
issued in 1611. It is exceedingly rare. The copy preserved in Lord
Ellesmere's library at Bridgewater House is a small octavo volume
of 26 pages (_Praise of the Dead, &c. _ 3 pp. , _Anatomy_ 19 pp. , and
_Funerall Elegie_ 4 pp. , all unnumbered), with title-page as given on
the page opposite.
In 1612 the poem was reissued along with the _Second Anniversary_. A
copy of this rare volume was sold at the Huth sale on the thirteenth
of June this year. With the kind permission of Mr. Edward Huth and
Messrs. Sotheby, Mr. Godfrey Keynes made a careful collation for
me, the results of which are embodied in my notes. The separate
title-pages of the two poems which the volume contains are here
reproduced.
