Upon the watery circles, then have been

By the stream's liquid snares and jaws sucked in
And sunk into the womb of that swollen bourne,
Leave the beholder desperate of return (p. 91).

(7) "Qualis hesterno madefacta rore,

Et novo tandem tepefacta sole,
Excutit somnum, tremulam coronam
Erigit herba,

Quae prius languens, recidens, recurva,
Osculum terrae dederat, iubarque
Denegatum tam diu nunc refulgens
Solis anhelat."

As a flower wet with last night's dew, and then
Warm'd with the new sun, doth shake off again
All drowsiness, and raise his trembling crown
Which crookedly did languish and stoop down
To kiss the earth and panted now to find
These beams return'd, which had not long time
shined (p. 142).

I have been unable to identify any of the Latin passages, except the second, which is of course the first of the well-known lines attributed to the Emperor Hadrian. Possibly the rest, which do not always scan, are of Donne's own writing.

APPENDIX F.

DEVOTIONS UPON EMERGENT
OCCASIONS.

SINCE Appendix B was written, Dr. Grosart has kindly called my attention to another poem, to which Donne seems to have some claim. It is the English version of the Latin lines prefixed to his Devotions upon Emergent Occasions. This book was written after his illness in 1623, and first published in 1624. The English version is written on two blank leaves before the title-page of a copy of the third edition of the Devotions (1627), in Dr. Grosart's possession, and Dr. Grosart is convinced that they are in Donne's handwriting. I append both the Latin and the English versions.

STATIONES SINE PERIODI IN MORBO, AD QUAS
REFERUNTUR MEDITATIONES SEQUENTES.

1. Insultus morbi primus;

2. Post, actio laesa;

3. Decubitus sequitur tandem ;
4. Medicusque vocatur;

5. Solus adest; 6. Metuit;

7. Socios sibi iungitur instat;

8. Et rex ipse suum mittit; 9. Medicamina scribunt ; 10. Lente et serpenti satagunt occurrere morbo,

11. Nobilibusque trahunt,

a cincto corde, venenum. Succis, et gemmis, et quæ

generosa ministrant
Ars, et Natura, instillant;
12. Spirante columba
Supposita pedibus, reuocantur
ad ima vapores;.

13. Atque malum genium,

numeroso stigmate, fassus,

Pellitur ad pectus, morbique
suburbia, morbus:

14. Idque notant criticis

medici euenisse diebus.

15. Interea insomnes noctes

ego duco diesque ;

16. Et properare meum clamant

e turre propinqua

Obstreperae campanae, aliorum
in funere, funus.

17. Nunc lento sonitu dicunt,

Morieris. 18. At inde,

Mortuus es, sonitu celeri,
pulsuque agitato.

19. Oceano tandem emenso,

aspicienda resurgit

Terra; vident iustis medici,
iam cocta mederi

Se posse iudiciis, 20. Id agunt
21. Atque annuit Ille,

Qui per eos clamat, Linquas
iam Lazare lectum;

22. Sit morbi fomes tibi

cura; 23. Metusque relabi.

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THE STATIONS OR PERIODS IN THE DISEASE TO

WHICH ARE REFERRED THE MEDITATIONS
FOLLOWING.

1. Sickness' first grudge: 2. Senses
and action fall:

3. We take our bed: 4. And the
physician call:

5. He comes alone: 6. Fears:
7. Craves more may unite:

8. The king himself sends his :

9. They medicines write :

10. They strive my grief as

slowly to oppose,

As, slowly and insensibly,
it grows.

11. Still'd juices, and consorted
pearls; what Art,

Or Nature can, are used,
to keep the heart

From quick infection: 12.
By a dying dove

The vapours downward to

the feet remove

13. Th' ingenuous sickness on

my spotted breast

His kind and his malignity
confess'd;

14. This too, the set days Critical discover;

15. Meanwhile I sleepless

nights and days pass over;

16. And, from the adjoining tower,

the noise of bells

For others' funerals

Mine own foretells:

17. Soft gentle tolling, now, says Thou must die;

18. Thou'rt dead, proclaims

the ringing out, by and bye.

19. At length the earth out of the sea doth rise,

And the physicians, from

just grounds, surmise

They may with drugs fight
the weak enemy;

20. They purge. 21. He prospers
who by them doth cry,

Now Lazarus, leave thy bed:

22. Wisely take care.

Of thy disease's fuel;

23. Relapse fear.