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makes liis testament. 1 2 He arranges for his burial and leaves 
his plate and other goods to his followers. His followers, in 
turn, are left to his king, Richard I. 
As an example of the satirical use of the testament in the 
XVI Century we have Lawrence Lucifer's Last Will and Testa¬ 
ment as given in The Black Book of Thomas Middleton, a 
prose tract printed in 1604. 2 ‘In this the devil is made to make 
his testament, in which appropriate metaphorical gifts, to¬ 
gether with many wicked instructions, are given to certain in¬ 
dividuals representing different classes of evil-doers. 
A prose piece of like character is The Testament of the Devil 
included in Thomas Dekker’s A Strange Horse Pace (1613). 3 
The devil is represented as falling sick and making his will. 
He leaves appropriate legacies to wanton ladies, usurers, gal¬ 
lants, punks, bawds, bankrupts, brokers, corrupt officers, and 
others. All the infernal states are called to witness the will, 
and it is dated “in the yeare of our Ranging in the World, 
5574.” 
The testament as a form of literary expression was not by 
any means neglected by English writers during the half cen¬ 
tury following Shakspere’s death. With Donne it seems to 
have been a favorite form. Doctor Donne's Farewell to the 
World, (c. 1630), which has been attributed to John Donne, 
may be classed with the adieu testament. 4 In the Anatomy of 
the World (Of the Progress of the Soul, The Second Anniver¬ 
sary,) 5 Donne urges a contemplation of the death bed: 
Think that thou hear’st thy knell, and think no more 
But that, as bells called thee to church before, 
So this to the triumphant church calls thee; 
Think Satan’s sergeants round about thee be, 
And think that but for legacies they thrust, 
Give one thy pride, to another give thy lust; 
Give them those sins, which they gave thee before, 
And trust the immaculate blood to wash thy score. . . . 
In the touching little poem, The Funeral (1633), Donne 
1 W. C. Hazlitt, Old English Plays. VIII, 247. 
2 A. H. Bullen, The Works of Thomas Middleton, L., 1886, VIII, 1. 
s Grossart, The Non-Dramatic Works of Th. Dekker, 1885, III, 351. 
4. E. K. Chambers, Poems of John Donne, L., 1896, II, 273. 
5 Ibid. II, 130, lines, 105 ff. 
