Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions; Together with Death's Duel

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JOHN DONNE
DEVOTIONS
UPON EMERGENT OCCASIONS
Together with
DEATH'S DUEL
ANN ARBOR PAPERBACKS
The University of Michigan Press
First edition as an
ANN ARBOR PAPERBACK 1959
Published in the United States of America by
the University of Michigan and simultaneously
in Toronto, Canada, by Ambassador Books, Ltd.
Manufactured in the United States of America

CONTENTS
THE LIFE OF DR.
JOHN DONNE
v
DEVOTIONS
1
DEATH'S DUEL
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THE LIFE OF DR. JOHN DONNE
(Taken from the life by Izaak Walton).
Master John Donne was born in London, in the year 1573, of
good and virtuous parents: and, though his own learning
and other multiplied merits may justly appear sufficient
to dignify both himself and his posterity, yet the reader
may be pleased to know that his father was masculinely and
lineally descended from a very ancient family in Wales,
where many of his name now live, that deserve and have
great reputation in that country.
By his mother he was descended of the family of the famous
and learned Sir Thomas More, sometime Lord Chancellor of
England: as also, from that worthy and laborious Judge
Rastall, who left posterity the vast Statutes of the Law
of this nation most exactly abridged.
He had his first breeding in his father's house, where a
private tutor had the care of him, until the tenth year of
his age; and, in his eleventh year, was sent to the
University of Oxford, having at that time a good command
both of the French and Latin tongue. This, and some other
of his remarkable abilities, made one then give this
censure of him: That this age had brought forth another
Picus Mirandula; of whom story says, that he was rather
born than made wise by study.
There he remained for some years in Hart Hall, having, for
the advancement of his studies, tutors of several sciences

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