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Latin, and the following is a translation made by 

 Archdeacon Francis Wrangham : — 



"JOHN DONNE, DOCTOR OP DIVINITY, 



after various studies pursued by him from bis earliest years with 

 assiduity and not without success, entered into Holy Orders 

 under the influence and impulse of the Divine Spirit and by 

 the advice and exhortation of King James, in the year of his 

 Saviour 1614, and of his own age forty-two; having been 

 invested with the Deanery of the Church, Nov. 27, 1621, he 

 was stripped of it by death on the last day of March 1631, 

 and here though set in dust, he beholdeth Him whose name is 

 the Rising." 



Donne wrote and published a great many 

 books, sermons and poetry. His Pseudo-Martyr 

 was written in answer to Bellarmine's justification 

 of Popish recusants. His secular poems are sup- 

 posed to have been published before he was 

 twenty-five at the latest, and he is always in- 

 cluded amongst the metaphysical poets of his 

 period. 



In 1651 Donne's son published a book his 

 father had in 1607 written entitled ^laddvaTo^, 

 "A Declaration of that Paradoxe, or Thesis, that 

 Selfe-homicide is not so naturally sinne, that it 

 may never be otherwise. Wherein the Nature and 

 the extent of all those Laws which seeme to be 

 violated by this Act, are diligently surveyed." He 

 says : '' It was written long since by my Father, 

 and by him forbid both the Press and the Fire, 



