No More Learning

7. ]

[Footnote 13: _Calendar of State Papers. _ Ireland, 1606-8,
p. 538. I owe this and the last reference to Mr. Murray L. R.
Beavan, University Assistant in History, Aberdeen University. ]

[Footnote 14: Other poems by Pembroke are found in the
manuscript collections of Donne's poems. A scholarly edition
of the poems of Pembroke and Rudyard would be a boon. Many
ascribed to them by the younger Donne in his edition of 1660
could be removed and others added from manuscript sources. ]

[Footnote 15: It is one of the worst printed in _1635_ and
_1669_ (where it first appeared in full), and has admitted
of many emendations from the manuscripts. Grosart has already
introduced some from the Hazlewood-Kingsborough MS. , but he
left some gross errors. In the lines,

That I may grow enamoured on your mind,
When my own thoughts I there reflected find,

all the three modern editions are content still to read,

When my own thoughts I there neglected find

--a strange reason for being enamoured.
Some difficult and
perhaps corrupt lines still remain. ]

[Footnote 16: In forming this Appendix it was not my intention
to remove these poems dogmatically from under the aegis of
Donne's name. I wished rather to separate them from those
which are indubitably his and facilitate comparison. Further
evidence may show that I have erred as to one or other. This
letter is the only one about which I feel any doubt myself. I
have taken as much trouble with their text as with the rest of
the poems. ]

[Footnote 17: _H40_ has no ascription. In the poem
just discussed the ascription made correctly, at least
intelligibly, in _RP31_, was transposed in _H40_. This must be
the later collection. See II. p. cxiv. ]

[Footnote 18: _Absence_ is printed, again unsigned, in _Wit
Restored in severall Select Poems not formerly published_.
(1658. )]




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[Sidenote: _Metaphysical Poetry.