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Title: Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions
Together with Death's Duel

Author: John Donne

Release Date: December 8, 2007 [EBook #23772]

Language: English

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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 161

_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 anothe