Note 5 — I LADY DANVERS 1561-1627
Reading edition
Dr. Donne’s conceit about the ages of his friends is better handled in the young Cartwright’s
“Chloe, why wish you that your years,”
a little later. It is not impossible that Cartwright, an Oxonian and an observer, may have drawn upon Donne’s report of this very wedding for his charming and ingenious lyric.