'May thy son never become a royal
ward, to be handed over to the guardianship of some courtier who will
plunder his estate.
ward, to be handed over to the guardianship of some courtier who will
plunder his estate.
John Donne
But in regard to all the references
in these letters we can only grope in darkness. As Professor
Saintsbury would say, we do not _really know_ to whom one of the
letters was addressed.
PAGE =214=, ll. 11-12. These lines from _W_ make the sense more
complete and the transition to the closing invocation less abrupt.
'Sacrifice my heart to that beauteous Sunne; and since being with her
you are in Paradise where joy admits of no addition, think of me
at the sacrifice'; and then begins the prayer to his friend as an
interceding saint. See note to p. 24, l. 22.
The lines seem to have been dropped, not in printing, but at some
stage in transcription, for I have found them in no MS. but _W_.
l. 20. _Thy Sonne ne'r Ward_: i. e.
'May thy son never become a royal
ward, to be handed over to the guardianship of some courtier who will
plunder his estate. ' Sir John Roe's father, in his will, begs his wife
to procure the wardship of his son that he be not utterly ruined.
The series of letters which this to Mr. I. L. closes was probably
written during the years 1597 to 1608 or 1610. Donne's first Letters
were _The Storme_ and _The Calme_. These were followed by Letters to
Wotton before and after he went to Ireland, and this series continues
them during the years of Donne's secretaryship and his subsequent
residence at Pyrford and Mitcham. They are written to friends of his
youth, some still at college. Clearly too, what we have preserved is
Donne's side of a mutual correspondence. Of Letters to Donne I have
printed one, probably from Thomas Woodward. Chance has preserved
another probably in the form in which it was sent. Mr. Gosse has
printed it (_Life, &c. _, i, p. 91).
in these letters we can only grope in darkness. As Professor
Saintsbury would say, we do not _really know_ to whom one of the
letters was addressed.
PAGE =214=, ll. 11-12. These lines from _W_ make the sense more
complete and the transition to the closing invocation less abrupt.
'Sacrifice my heart to that beauteous Sunne; and since being with her
you are in Paradise where joy admits of no addition, think of me
at the sacrifice'; and then begins the prayer to his friend as an
interceding saint. See note to p. 24, l. 22.
The lines seem to have been dropped, not in printing, but at some
stage in transcription, for I have found them in no MS. but _W_.
l. 20. _Thy Sonne ne'r Ward_: i. e.
'May thy son never become a royal
ward, to be handed over to the guardianship of some courtier who will
plunder his estate. ' Sir John Roe's father, in his will, begs his wife
to procure the wardship of his son that he be not utterly ruined.
The series of letters which this to Mr. I. L. closes was probably
written during the years 1597 to 1608 or 1610. Donne's first Letters
were _The Storme_ and _The Calme_. These were followed by Letters to
Wotton before and after he went to Ireland, and this series continues
them during the years of Donne's secretaryship and his subsequent
residence at Pyrford and Mitcham. They are written to friends of his
youth, some still at college. Clearly too, what we have preserved is
Donne's side of a mutual correspondence. Of Letters to Donne I have
printed one, probably from Thomas Woodward. Chance has preserved
another probably in the form in which it was sent. Mr. Gosse has
printed it (_Life, &c. _, i, p. 91).
