p. 98. A HYMN TO THE SAINTS AND TO MARQUIS HAMILTON.

This appears among the Divine Poems in all the seventeenth-century editions.

The Marquis Hamilton died March 26, 1625. He was born in 1589, and succeeded his father as second marquis in 1604. He filled various high offices under James I., and was spoken of as a husband for the Princess Elizabeth. In 1619 he was made Earl of Cambridge in the English peerage.

To Sir Robert Carr. Many of Donne's prose letters are addressed to this gentleman, who must be distinguished from the Earl of Somerset (vol. i. p. 88, note). Like his namesake he was a Scotchman and a courtier; he was created Earl of Ancrum in 1633. A version of some Psalms in English verse, by his hand, is among the Hawthornden MSS.

This letter to Carr is printed in Rebecca Warner's Epistolary Curiosities, from a copy endorsed by Sir Henry Herbert, Miserum est ab iis laedi de quibus non possis quaeri. The editor suggests that this points to Hamilton as the "malicious whisperer" who told King James, soon after Donne was appointed to St. Paul's in 1621, that the Dean was preaching against his ecclesiastical tendencies. Some of Donne's letters contain allusions to his being in disfavour at court, but this identification is rather far-fetched.

1. 14. The household... the garter. Hamilton was made Lord Steward of the Household on Feb. 28, 1624, and created a Knight of the Garter on April 15, 1623.

p. 100. ON HIMSELF.

This poem and the next appear to be only two versions of the same Elegy. Both are given in all the seventeenth-century editions except that of 1633. In 16351654, however, the shorter version appears among the Divine Poems, the longer among the Funeral Elegies.

AN ANATOMY OF THE WORLD.

THE Anatomy of the World was Donne's first, almost his only, published poem. No entry of it is to be found in the Stationers' Registers, but in 1611 the first edition, containing the First Anniversary only, together with the Funeral Elegy, was "printed for Samuel Macham." Only two copies of this edition are known to exist. The Second Anniversary was added, with a separate titlepage, to the second edition, "printed by M. Bradwood for S. Macham" of 1612. All three poems were again reprinted in 1621 "by A. Mathewes for Tho. Dewe," and in 1625 "by W. Stansby for Tho. Dewe," as well as in the 1633 and later editions of the Poems.

I regret that I have only been able to consult the editions of 1621 and 1625 in preparing this volume. That of 1625 has a curiously decorated border to the title-pages; it consists of a series of vignettes, representing feminine virtues and graces. I gather from a communication, signed T. R. O'FI., in Notes and Queries, 8th S. i. 440, that a similar border appears in the 1611 edition.

Elizabeth Drury was the only surviving daughter of Sir Robert Drury of Hawsted in Suffolk, and of his wife Anne, daughter of Sir Nicholas Bacon, and sister of Francis Bacon. She is said to have been the intended bride of Prince Henry, but in 1610, at the age of 15, she died. On her monument in Hawsted Church and in a portrait she is represented as dressed in white, her head leaning upon her hand. This has given rise to a legend that her death was due to a box on the ear from her father. Local tradition has it that the inscriptions upon

her monument and that of her father, who died in 1615, are from Donne's pen. The latter contains the following lines to the memory of Elizabeth's sister Dorothy, who died in childhood

"She little promised much,

Too soon untied.

She only dreamt she lived,
And then she died."

Cf. Cullum, History and Antiquities of Hawsted. I suppose that the Funeral Elegy is really the first part of the poem. It was presumably written in 1610, and the two Anniversaries in 1611 and 1612 respectively. It appears from the passages from Donne's letters quoted below that he never saw Elizabeth Drury. Perhaps Sir Robert Drury's attention was called to Donne by the Elegies on his kinswoman Mrs. Boulstred (cf. p. 92, note). In any case he became his chief patron, took him abroad in Nov. 1611 (vol. i. p. 51, note), and gave him the use of a house near Drury Lane until his own death in 1615.

Dr. Grosart notices an allusion to Donne's Anatomy in John Davies of Hereford's Funeral Elegy on Mrs. Dutton, printed in his The Muse's Sacrifice (1612). Elizabeth Dutton, who died in 1611, was the eldest daughter of Donne's former chief, Sir Thomas Egerton. The lines are perhaps worth quoting

"I must confess a priest of Phoebus late
Upon like text so well did meditate,
That with a sinless envy I do run

In his Soul's Progress, till it all be DONNE.
But he hath got the start in setting forth
Before me, in the travel of that worth:
And me out-gone in knowledge every way
Of the Soul's Progress to her final stay.
But his sweet Saint did usher mine therein,
Most blest in that-so, he must needs begin,
And read upon the rude Anatomy

Of this dead World, that now doth putrify.
Yet greater will to this great enterprise-
Which in great matters nobly doth suffice-

He cannot bring than I; nor can-much less-
Renown more worth than is a Worthiness!
Such were they both; for such a worthy Pair
Of lovely virtuous maids, as good as fair,
Self-Worthiness can scarce produce, sith they
Lived like celestial spirits, immured in clay.
And if all-powerful Love can all perform,
That in it hath rare matter, or like form,
Then should my lines have both so accomplished,
As from the grave to Heaven should draw the dead;
Or with her taper-pointed-beaming name

Nail her to Heaven, and in Heaven clench the same."

There are also interesting references to the poem in Donne's own correspondence. The first is in a letter to Mr. George] G[arrard], which is dated Paris, April 14, 1612 (Alford, vi. 353).

"Of my Anniversaries, the fault that I acknowledge in myself, is to have descended to print anything in verse, which though it have excuse even in our times, by men who profess and practise much gravity; yet I confess I wonder how I declined to it, and do not pardon myself. But for the other part of the imputation of having said too much, my defence is, that my purpose was to say as well as I could; for, since I never saw the gentlewoman, I cannot be understood to have bound myself to have spoken just truths; but I would not be thought to have gone about to praise her or any other in rhyme, except I took such a person as might be capable of all that I could say. If any of those ladies think that Mistress Drewry was not so, let that lady make herself fit for all those praises in the book, and they shall be hers."

"

Donne writes in almost precisely similar terms to an unnamed correspondent (Alford, vi. p. 338), while to Sir G. F. (Alford, vi. p. 333) he says

"I hear from England of many censures of my book, of Mris Drury; if any of those censures do but pardon me my descent in printing any thing in verse, (which if they do, they are more charitable than myself; for I do not pardon myself, but confess that I did it against my conscience, that is, against my own opinion, that I should not have done so), I doubt not but they will soon give over that other part of that indictment which is that I

have said so much; for nobody can imagine, that I who never saw her, could have any other purpose in that, than that when I had received so very good testimony of her worthiness, and was gone down to print verses, it became me to say, not what I was sure was just truth, but the best that I could conceive; for that had been a new weakness in me, to have praised anybody in printed verses, that had not been capable of the best praise that I could give."

There is also an allusion in Ben Jonson's Conversations with William Drummond (1618-19, ed. Laing, p. 3).

That Done's Anniversarie was profane and full of blasphemies: that he told Mr. Done, if it had been written of the Virgin Marie it had been something; to which he answered, that he described the Idea of a Woman, and not as she was. That Done, for not keeping of accent, deserved hanging."

The marginal analysis disappears after 1633. It is given in the text as it stands in 1621.

p. 102. TO THE PRAISE OF THe Dead, and THE ANATOMY.

This poem is evidently written, not by Donne, but to Donne. I suppose that Jonson's remark on the Harbinger (see note to The Harbinger to the Progress, p. 125) refers to this also, and that the writer is Joseph Hall.

p. 104. AN ANATOMY OF THE WORLD. THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY.

1. 115. Stag... raven. Cf. Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, iii. 9.

1. 180. The poisonous tincture, the stain of original sin. For the use of tincture," cf. vol. i. p. 169, note.

1. 260. New stars. In 1604 a bright new star appeared in Ophiuchus, and remained visible for a few months before it disappeared.

1. 311. that ancient, i. e. Pythagoras.

1. 343. a compassionate turquoise. The turquoise was