Lives of Dr John Donne; Sir Henry Wotton; Mr Richard Hooker; Mr George Herbert; and Dr Robert Sanderson . take notice, thatwhen Do£tor Donnes Sermons were firft printed, this was then my excufefor daring to write his life ; and, I dare not now apx)ear without it. Philip, the frcecl-man of Pompey, watched the dead body of his mafter, till the multi-tude had fatisficd their curiofity; and then wafhing it with fea-water, he wrapt it up in agarment of his own, and finding fome rotten planks of a little filhermans boat, he gatheredthem together for a funeral pile. Lucan has given a long defcription
Lives of Dr John Donne; Sir Henry Wotton; Mr Richard Hooker; Mr George Herbert; and Dr Robert Sanderson . take notice, thatwhen Do£tor Donnes Sermons were firft printed, this was then my excufefor daring to write his life ; and, I dare not now apx)ear without it. Philip, the frcecl-man of Pompey, watched the dead body of his mafter, till the multi-tude had fatisficd their curiofity; and then wafhing it with fea-water, he wrapt it up in agarment of his own, and finding fome rotten planks of a little filhermans boat, he gatheredthem together for a funeral pile. Lucan has given a long defcription of Pompeys unhappydeftiny. According to his account, the body was thrown into the fea, and Servius Codrus,once his qux-ftor and his friend, brought it to fliore, and paid the laft honours to it. E latebris pavidus decuriit ad aequora CodrusQuiuHor ab Idalio Cinyrxx litoie Cypri:In faullus magnl fuerat comes: ille per umbrasAufus ferre gradum, viflum pietate timoremConipulit, ut mediis quxfitum corpus in undisDuceret ad temm, traheietq; ad litora magnum. LvcAN. L. VIIT. ver. 7*0*/* Plutarchs Lives,. W. JOHN DONNE. THE LIFE OF JOHN DONNE. MASTER John Donne was born in London, in the year 1573, of goodand virtuous parents: and though his own learning and other mul-tipUed merits may juftly appear fufficient to dignify both himfelf and hispofterity, yet the reader may be pleafed to know, that his father was mal-cuUnely and lineally defcended from a very ancient family in Wales, wheremany of his name now live, that deferve and have great reputation in thatcountry. Ey his mother he was defcended of the family of the famous and learnedSir Thomas Moor*^, fometime Lord Chancellor of England; as alfo fromthat worthy and laborious Judge Raftall^ who left pofterity the vaft ftatutesof the law of this nation moft exactly abridged. He had his firft breeding in his fathers houfe, where a private tutor hadthe care of him, until the tenth year of his age; and in his eleventh yearwas fent to th
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