Lives of Dr John Donne; Sir Henry Wotton; Mr Richard Hooker; Mr George Herbert; and Dr Robert Sanderson . ACROS AMPLEXUS ANNO SUIJESU, MDCXIV. ET SUiE iETATIS XLII. DECANATU HUJUS ECCLESI^ INDUTUS XXVII NOVEMBRIS, MDCXXI. vEXUTUS MORTE ULTIMO DIE MARTII MDCXXXI. HIC LICET IN OCCIDUO CINERE ASPICIT EUM CUJUS NOMEN EST ORIENS. And now having brought him through the many labyrinths and per-plexities of a various life, even to the gates of death and the grave, mydefire is, he may reft till I have told my reader, that I have feen manypidtures of him, in feveral habits, and at feveral ages, and in f
Lives of Dr John Donne; Sir Henry Wotton; Mr Richard Hooker; Mr George Herbert; and Dr Robert Sanderson . ACROS AMPLEXUS ANNO SUIJESU, MDCXIV. ET SUiE iETATIS XLII. DECANATU HUJUS ECCLESI^ INDUTUS XXVII NOVEMBRIS, MDCXXI. vEXUTUS MORTE ULTIMO DIE MARTII MDCXXXI. HIC LICET IN OCCIDUO CINERE ASPICIT EUM CUJUS NOMEN EST ORIENS. And now having brought him through the many labyrinths and per-plexities of a various life, even to the gates of death and the grave, mydefire is, he may reft till I have told my reader, that I have feen manypidtures of him, in feveral habits, and at feveral ages, and in feveralpoftures: And I now mention this, becaufe I have feen one pidure ofhim, drawn by a curious hand at his age of eighteen, with his fword and what fcription evidently allude to his polture. He was looking toward the eaft, from whence* he expe£led his Saviour. The critical reader will remember, that in vi. I2. the paffagcalluded to, fliould be rendered Behold the Man, whofe name is the branch, which theSeventy-Two tranflate A»aTo7,n «»of4<» «vts,—and the Vulgate Oriens nomen JOHLANNES DONKE. Noil am lit > M» JOHN DONNE. ST •what other adornments might then fuit with thepreient fafiiions of youthyand the giddy gayeties of that age ; and his motto then wau How much fliall I be changM, iJefore I am changd! And if that young, and his now dying pldure, were at this time fettogether, every beholder might fay, Lord! how much is Dr. Donne* already changed, before he is changed ? And the view of them mightgive my reader occafion to afk himfelf with fome amazement, Lord! how much may I alio that am now in health be changed, before I am changed ; before this vile, this changeable body fliall put off mortality ?and therefore to prepare for it. But this is not writ fo much for myreaders memento, as to tell him, thai Dr. Donne would often in his privatedifcourfes, and often publicly in his fermons, mention the many changesboth of his body and mind j efpeciall
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