dedication to Lord Craven, by Dr. John Donne, the fon, and a copy of verfes to Dr. Donne, by B. JoN. i. e. Ben Jonfon. Prefixed to the volume is a print of the Author in a fuit of armour, with eight verfes under it, by Izaak Walton. There is another edition of the poems in 1669, 8vo.

VI. "LXXX SERMONS," 1640, folio, with a print of the Author, æt. 42, M. Merian, jun. fc. With a Dedication to King Charles, and Izaak Walton's Life of Dr. Donne.

VII. "L SERMONS; the Second Volume," 1649, folio.This volume contains two dedications; the first "To Bafil, Earl of Denby;" and the fecond "To Bolftred Whitlock, Richard Keeble, and John Leile, Lords Commiffioners of the Great Seale."

VIII. "XXVI SERMONS; the third Volume," 1661.With a dedication "To King Charles II."

Many of the fermons in the preceding volumes were printed feparately at different times.

IX. "LETTERS to feveral Perfons of Honour. Published by John Donne, Doctor of the Civill Law." London, 1654, 4to; and dedicated by him "To the most virtuous and excellent Lady Mrs. Bridget Dunch."

X. "ESSAYS in DIVINITY, &c. being feveral Difquifitions interwoven with Meditations and Prayers." Written by him before he went into holy orders.

1651, 12mo.

XI. "PARADOXES, PROBLEMS, ESSAYS, CHARACTERS, &c. To which is added, a Book of Epigrams, written in Latin by the fame Author, tranflated into English by J. Mayne, D. D. As alfo Ignatius his Conclave, a Satyr, tranflated out of the original Copy written in Latin by the fame Author; found lately amongit his own Papers." London, 1653, 12mo.

Several parts of this volume were printed before under different titles.

Of the tract "Ignatius his Conclave," it must be observed, that it was originally written in Latin with this title; "Conclave Ignatii, five ejus in nuperis inferni comitiis Inthronifatio : ubi varia de Jefuitarum indole, de novo inferno creando, de ecclefiâ lunaticà inftituendâ per Satyram congefta funt. Acceffit et Apologia pro Jefuitis."

This little volume is printed without the name of the author or printer, and without any intimation of time or place. It contains many fevere and ironical invectives against Ignatius Loyola, who founded the order of the Jefuits in 1540. The author defcribes himfelf in a vifion. "Eram in extasi, et

"Animula vagula blandula
"Comes hofpesque corporis

per omnia liberè vagata eft, omnes cœlorum contignationes "numerabat et volumina: omnes infularum natantium om

" niumque in firmamento hærentium fitus, dimenfiones, naturas, populos, etiam et politeias complexa eft."-He proceeds; "Ictu "oculi etiam et inferos video in confpectu meo pofitos."—" Ad "penitiora progrefsus vidi locum fecretiorem ipfique Lucifero " ferè proprium, ad quem ineundum iis tantùm jus erat qui ita "aliquid novi in vitâ moliti fuerant, ut antiquitati barbam vel"lerent, et dubia et anxietates fcrupulosque injicerent, et poft "invectam quidvis opinandi licentiam tandem prorfus contraria "iis quæ antè ftatuta fuerant ftatuerent."

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Many candidates claim an admiffion into the infernal regions, as Copernicus, Paracelfus, Machiavel, &c. To them Ignatius Loyola is preferred: Lucifer entertains him as a bofom friend and counsellor, and proposes to him the acquifition of a territory in the moon. "Illuc Jefuitæ omnes transfretabunt, ecclefiam. 66 que lunaticam Romanæ conciliabunt.”

In the mean time it is publicly announced that the Pope is prevailed upon to canonize Ignatius: "Iniquum enim efse, cùm " omnes artifices laniique prophani peculiares quos invocarent "divos haberent, folis laniis fpiritualibus et regicidis fuus "deefset."

Ignatius cafting his eyes on the throne next that of Lucifer, afks by whom it is filled. When he hears the name of Boniface, he breaks out into a violent reproach against him, and drives him from his place, in which he feats himself with the approbation of Lucifer. And here the vision ends.

The tract concludes with a pretended defence of the Jefuits: "Tandem ad apologiam pro Jefuitis accedendum, id eft, de illis "filendum. Favet enim illis quifquis de illis tacet. Nec certè "cuiquam diutifsimè locuto (etfi ei Oceanus Clepsydra efset) "unquam deerit quod de eorum flagitiis addere pofsit."

XII. « ΒΙΑΘΑΝΑΤΟΣ. A Declaration of that Paradoxe or Thefis, that Self-homicide is not fo naturally Sin, that it may never be otherwife. Wherein the Nature and Extent of all thofe Lawes, which feem to be violated by this Act, are diligently furveyed." London, printed by John Dawfon.-4to.

This work was published by the author's fon, with a dedication to the Lord Philip Herbert, dated from his house in CoventGarden, 28; no mention is made of month or year here or in the title-page. At the end of the book we find " 20 Sept. 1644, imprimatur Jo. Rushworth."

In the University library at Cambridge are three copies of this book, in two of which are written letters by the editor. One. copy, which contains the letter to Mr. Lee, was Bishop Moore's; the other, containing the letter to Mr. Carter, belonged to Mr. Lucas, who founded the Lucasian Professorship at Cambridge.

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LETTER I.

FOR HIS MUCH HONORED FRINDE MR. LEE, AT THE COCKPITT.

SIR,

"I take the bouldnefse to prefent to your hands this booke, "hopinge that it may bee welcome to you, even for the pa-, "trone's fake who has receaved it foe nobly, that I cannot doubt "but that all his frinds will entertaine it as fome thinge that "belongs to my Lorde Herbert, and has lyen ftill these fivftie "laft years to expect a pâtrone noble enough to entertaine a peece that is an abfolute originall, and, I thincke, drawen by "noe very ill a hande.

"Sir, your moft humble fervant,

COVENT-GARDEN, Oct. 26.

LETTER II.

"JO. DONNE."

"FOR THE RIGHT WORSHIPFULL EDWARD CARTER, ESQ. 65 SIR,

"I have here fent you a booke that may peradventure give you fome entertainement out of the noveltie of the fubject, "but that is not all my reafon of prefentinge it to you at this "time; for, fince I lived in this parish, I have published a vo"lume of eighty fermons preached by my father; and have pre"pared fixty more, which are licensed and entered in the Prin"ter's Halle; which is, as farr as I can drive them, untill the "times allter. I was encouradged to undertake this worke by the' "learnedeft men in the kingdome of all profefsions, and was "often told that I fhould deferve better by doinge foe, then by. keepinge them to my owne ufe, for by this meanes I did not only preach to the prefent adge, but to our children's children. "Sir, I write this to you that you may judg what a fad con"dition a fcholler is in; when at a public veftry in this parish, "I was told by a pittifull ignorant baker, I was an idle man, and never preached.

*Your humble fervant,

"JO. DONNE."

Another edition of the Biathanatos appeared in 1648.

A Satirical Poem, called "A Scourge for Paper Perfecutors, by I. D. 1025, 4to, has been attributed to Dr. Donne. It was written by John Davies of Hereford, and is printed in his "Scourge of Folly," 8vo. which is not inferted by Wood among the works of Davies. See "Wood's Ath. Ox." Vol. I. col. 444.

Dr. Donne is efteemed the author of a Latin Epitaph, infcribed on a monument erected in the church of Hansted in Suffolk, to the memory of Mrs. Elizabeth Drury, eldest daughter of Sir Robert Drury, Knight, who died in 1610, in the 15th year of her age. She was the heiress of an immenfe fortune, and is faid to have been destined for the confort of Henry Prince of Wales. The Lines by Dr. Donne, inferted in "The Spectator," No. 41, and affirmed to allude to his mistress, were really written on this lady, the innocent and lovely daughter of his friend. Tradition reports, that fhe died of a box on the ear, which her father gave her. This conceit rofe probably from her being represented on her monument as reclining her head on one hand; juft as the ftory of Lord Rufsel's daughter dying of a prick of her finger, took its origin from her ftatue in Westminster Abbey, which reprefents her as holding down her finger, and pointing to a Death's head at her feet.

In the fame church of Hanfted, is another monument, with an infcription, supposed to be written by Dr. Donne, commemorating both Sir William Drury, (who, in 1589, was killed in a duel, in France, by Sir John Borough, Knight,) and Sir Robert Drury, Knight, his fon, who died in 1615. See "Hift. and Antiq. of Hanfted," p. 143.

"A Copy of Verses, by Dr. Donne," is prefixed to "Captain Smith's History of Virginia, 1626." Fol.

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