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inn. In 1619, he accompanied Hay earl of Boncafter, on 
an embafly to the German princes. After his return, 
the king conferred upon him tire deanery of St. Paul’s, 
with which lie enjoyed the living of St. Dunftan’s in the 
Weft, and another benefice. A dangerous illnefs with 
which he was atfedted, gave occafion to his book of De¬ 
votions upon emergent Occafions, in which the fervour 
-of his foul is ftrongly exprefled. He recovered and lived 
in good "health, till he was feized with a fever in 1630, 
after which he began to decline. He preached in his turn 
at court in Lent, 1631 ; and his difcourfe, on this occa¬ 
fion, was termed by,the houfehold, “ the doctor’s own 
funeral fermon.” He died on March 31 cf that year, and 
was buried in St. Paul’s cathedral. 
Dr. Donne was a writer both in profe and verfe, but he 
is chiefly remembered as a poet; and in that capacity it is 
rather his name than his works which may be faid to fur- 
vive. He is, however, worthy of notice, as (landing al- 
moll at the head of a particular clafs, and uniting in a 
high degree its excellences and defeats. This is the witty 
clafs, underftanding the word wit to mean the faculty of 
aftembling and alfociating the molt difcordant images, 
and prefenting a thought under its remoteft and moft 
fanciful afpects. The ftrong fenfe and wit of his fatires 
induced Pope to employ himfelf in verfifying (as he juftly 
called it) two of them, but they are not among that poet’s 
moft pleafing produdtions. Dr. Donne was among thofe 
Englifti poets who wrote Latin verfe with elegance. A 
collection was publifhed in 1633, infilled, Fafciculus Pve- 
matum et Epigrammatim mifcellaneorum ,which contains a book 
of epigrams by him. Of his profe works, one of the moft 
remarkable is that intitled Biathanatos ; or, a Declaration 
of that Paradox or Thefts, that Self-homicide is not fo na¬ 
turally a Sin, that it may not be otherwife. This feerns to 
have been a juvenile fport of the underftanding, in fup- 
porting a nice argument with no other view than as an 
exercife of the faculties. Dr. Donne alio wrote Eftays on 
Divinity; Sermons, 3 vols. folio; Letters; andotherpieces; 
many of which are configned to oblivion. 
DONNEMARI'E, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Seine and Marne, and chief place of a can¬ 
ton, in the diftritt of Provins : three leagues fouth-weft 
of Provins. 
DONNERAI'LE, a town of Ireland, in the county of 
Cork: nineteen miles north of Cork, and twenty-fix fouth 
©f Limerick 
DON'NERSMARK,orCsoTORTOKHELY,orSTWAR- 
tek, a town of Hungary : feven miles north-north-weft 
©f Kapfdorf. 
DON'NINGTON, or Dunnington, a market town 
cf Lincolnfliire, diftant one hundred and ten miles from 
London, ten from Spalding, and eleven from Bofton. 
The market-day is Saturday ; and there are two large 
fairs; one on the 25th of May, the other on the 17th of 
October. The town, which is very much improved 
within the laft ten years, is noted for an extenfive trade 
in hemp and hemp-feed ; it has a port for barges, by 
which goods are carried to and from Bofton and the 
Wadies. A firm rampart of earth, of a confiderable 
breadth, has lately been made from hence, through the 
fens, to Sempringham, in which the road has been ren¬ 
dered paflable in winter, which before was attended with 
great danger. Here is a large free-fchool, fupported by 
a donation of about five hundred pounds a-year, given by 
lord Cowley. 
DON'NOE, a fmall ifland in the North Sea, near the 
coaft of Norway. Lat. 66. 5. N. Ion. 29. E. Ferro. 
DO'NOR,/. [fromttao, Lat.] A giver; a beftower j 
©ne who gives any thing : the perfon receiving which is 
called the donee .—It is a mighty check to beneficent tem¬ 
pers to confider how often good defigns are fruftrated 
and perverted to purpofes, which, could the donors thern- 
felves have foreseen, they would have been very loth to 
promote. Atterhury. 
BOO 
DON'SHAL, a town of Egypt: ten miles north-freft 
of Foua. 
DO'NSHIP, f . Quality or rank of a gentleman or 
knight: 
I’m none of thofe, 
Your bofom-friends, as you fuppofe ; 
But Ralph himfelf, your trufty (quire, 
Wh’ has dragg’d yoiir donjhip out o’ th’ mire. Hudibras. 
DONSKA'IA, a town and fortrefs of Ruflia, in the 
country of the Colfacks, on the Don: 220 miles eaft- 
north-eaft of Azoph. 
DONSKA'IA, a fortrefs of Rufiia, in the government 
of Caucafus -. 116 miles weft-north-iveft of Ekaterinograd. 
DON'ZEL, f. [Hal.] A young attendant.—No, you 
(hall fpare his dowcets, my dear donzels. Beaumont and 
Fletcher .—He is efquire to a knight-errant, donzel to- the 
damfels. Butler. 
DONZENAC', a town of France, in the department 
of the Correze, and chief place of a canton, in the diftridt 
of Brive : three leagues and a half weft-fouth-weft of 
Tulle. 
DONZE'RE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Drome, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift 
of Montelimart : two leagues and a half fouth of Mon- 
telimart. 
DON'ZY, a town of France, in the department of 
Nievre, and chief place of a canton, in the diftridt of 
Cofne : five leagues and a half fouth-weft of Clameey. 
DON'ZY, a town of France, in the department of the 
Rhone and Loire : five miles eaft of Feurs. 
DOO'AB, a province of Hindooftan, between the river 
Ganges and Jumnah : belonging to the nabob of Qude. 
DOO'BAUNT, or Dooboont, a lake, about feventy 
miles long, and thirty broad : fituated fouth-eaft of the. 
head of Chefterfield inlet, in New South Wales. 
DOO DLE, f. [a cant word, perhaps corrupted from 
,do little .] A trifler ; an idler. 
DOOLE, f. [_deuil, Fr.] Sorrow:. 
That angry foole 
Which follow’d her, with curled hands uncleane- 
Whipping her horfe, did with his fmarting toole 
Oft whip her dainty felfe, and much augment her doole* 
DOO'LY, f. [Indian.] A kind of open box, made of 
light wood, large enough for a perfon to lie at full length. 
It is ufually fulpended from poles of bamboo, and car¬ 
ried on the (boulders of four men. Moft gentlemen in 
the army take one to the field for the double purpofe of 
travelling, and ufing as a bed. They are alfo extremely 
convenient for removing the fick and wounded. It is the 
bier of the Eait Indians. 
To DOOM, v.a. [beman, Sax.] To judge: 
Him through malice fall’n, 
Father of mercy and grace ! thou didft not doom 
So (iridtly, but much more to pity incline. Milton , 
To condemn to any punifhment; to fentence : 
He may be doom'd to chains,To flume, to death, 
While proud Hippolitus (hall mount his throne. Smith*. 
To pronounce condemnation upon any : 
Minos, the drift inquifitor, appears, 
And lives and crimes, with his afleflors, hears; 
Round in his urn the blended balls he rowls, 
Abfolves the juft, and dooms the guilty fouls. Dryden . 
To command judicially or authoritatively : 
Have I a tongue to doom my brother’s death, 
And (hall that tongue give pardori to a (lave ? Skakefp . 
To deftine; to command by uncontrollable authority ; 
I have no will but what your eyes ordain; 
Dcltin’d to love, as they are doom'd to reign. Granville . 
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