WALrONIANA. 



that was betwixt him and your parents, by which 

 he entailed a love upon yourfelf, even in your in- 

 fancy, which was encreafed by the early teftimonies 

 of your growing merits, and by them continued, 

 till D. Donne put on immortality; and fo this 

 mortall was turned into a love that cannot die. 



And Sir, 'twas pity he was loft to you in your 

 minority, before you had attained a judgement to 

 put a true value upon the living beauties and 

 elegancies of his converfation ; and pitty too, that 

 fo much of them as were capable of fuch an expref- 

 fion, were not drawn by the penfil of a 'Tytian or a 

 'Tentoret, by a pen equall and more lafting then 

 their art; for his life ought to be the example of 

 more then that age in which he died. And yet 

 this copy, though very much, indeed too much 

 ihort of the Originall, will prefent you with fome 

 features not unlike your dead friend, and with 

 fewer blemifhes and more ornaments than when 

 'twas firft made publique : which creates a con- 

 tentment 



