Volume 1 — INDEX OF FIRST LINES.

(VOL. II.)

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A learned Bishop of this Land 53

Amongst the Poets Dacus numbered is 101

An ill year of a Goodyere us bereft 145

As in tymes past the rusticke shepheards sceant 171

Esteemed knight take triumph over death 145

Goe catch a star that's falling from the sky 12

Henrie the greate, greate both in peace and war 261

How often hath my pen (mine hearts Solicitor) 103

Loe her's a man worthy indeede to travell 129

No want of duty did my mind possess 7

Stay, view this Stone, and if thou beest not such 213

This Lifes a play groaned out by natures Arte 268

Thou send'st me prose and rimes, I send for those 160

Though Ister have put down the Rhene 261

'Tis not a coate of gray or Shepheardes Life 141

Titus the brave and valorous young gallant 101

Whoso termes love a fire, may like a poet 52

Wotton the country and the country swaine 141

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Although Scotland had accepted the Gregorian calendar in 1600, until 1752, England still followed the Julian calendar (after Julius Caesar, 44 B.C.), and celebrated New Year's Day on March 25th (Annunciation Day). Most Catholic countries accepted the Gregorian calendar (after Pope Gregory XIII) from some time after 1582 (the Catholic countries of France, Spain, Portugal, and Italy in 1582, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Switzerland within a year or two, Hungary in 1587, and Scotland in 1600), and celebrated New Year's Day on January 1st. England finally changed to the Gregorian calendar in 1752.

This is the reason for the double dates in the early months of the years in some parts of this book. e.g., there is a statement, on page 134, that "He died February 7, 1627/8. (i.e. 1627 in England; 1628 in Scotland). Only after March 25th (Julian New Years Day) was the year the same in the two countries. The Julian calendar was known as 'Old Style', and the Gregorian calendar as 'New Style' (N.S.).

Page lxiv, Footnote 9: 'Garrard att his quarters in ??' Perhaps 'ϑermyte' with U+03D1 GREEK THETA SYMBOL: thermyte ? perhaps meaning "(at the sign of) The Hermit"? (The printer, rightly or wrongly, seems to have used a 'theta' at the beginning of the word).

Page lxv, a facsimile of a Title Page, split a cross-page paragraph. One sentence was on page lxiv; the rest of the paragraph was on page lxvi. In the interest of a link to the page, it seemed beneficial to leave the paragraph as it was split.

Page lxv: 'VVith' is as printed.

Page lxxxvi: 'Lo:' retained, although 'Ld.' is printed above. From the context, 'Lo:' may not be a typo, as this form occurs elsewhere.

and the Obsequies to the Lo: Harrington."

Page cxvi, footnote 39 (cont.: '17-8.' corrected to '17-18.'. "To Sr Henry Wotton, p. 180, ll. 17-18."

Page cxxx: 'p. 406' corrected to 'p. 412'

"'Dear Love, continue nice and chaste' (p. 412)"

Pages cxxxi-cxxxii: missing word at page-turn? 'and' added in brackets.

"And as one is ascribed to Roe on indisputable (and) three on very strong evidence,...

Page 23: 'll. 140-6' corrected to 'll. 440-6'

"The Second Anniversary, ll. 440-6 (p. 264)

Page 34: 'coporales' corrected to 'corporales'.

"'quanto subtilius huiusmodi immutationes occultas corporales perpendunt.'"

Some poems have associated music pages (starting p. 54). Html links have been added to playable and printable music files (prepared by the transcriber).

Page 57: This is only the first page of the original two pages (28 and 29) from William Corkine's "Second Book of Ayres" (1612), for 'Page 46. The Baite'. It is possible that John Donne wrote "The Baite" for a different melody, which no longer exists. The melody on page 57 may have been intended for Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love:

As Donne's 'The Baite' ("Come live with me and be my love...."), was a parody of Marlowe's "Come live with me....", the same tune may have later been used for both.

The PDF and Midi files are an approximate transcription of the melody line for the first 16 bars, i.e., the first stanza, up to the first double barline. There appear to be only 11 bars in this section, but it can be seen from the image that a lot of the barlines are missing. These have been restored in the PDF and Midi files, so that the transcription actually makes sense, and fits the words.

The melody was transcribed using John Dowland's lute fretting chart, which gives the open strings, ascending, as: G, C, F, A, D, G, with open string, a, first fret, b, then c, d, e, f, g, h, i, k, l.

Page 84: 'p. 308, ll. 27-8' corrected to p. 308, ll. 317-8

"in the Progresse of the Soule, p. 308, ll. 317-8:"

Page 214: p. 416 corrected to p. 422.

"For the relation of this _Elegie_ to that beginning 'Death, be not proud' (p. 422) see Text and Canon, &c., p. cxliii."

Page 213: 'p. 404' corrected to p. 410'

"('Shall I goe force an Elegie,' p. 410)"

Pages 235, 263: The inscriptions have a character which looks like a reversed capital C, but which is actually a ROMAN NUMERAL REVERSED ONE HUNDRED (U+2183).

(Note: This works in compliant browsers.)

On Page 235, the date of Anne (More) Donne's death is given as CIↃ. DC. XVII. i.e. hundreds, ten, (1000) plus 600 plus 17, or the year 1617, which is correct.

On Page 263, the date given is CIↃ. IↃC. XXIII. CIↃ = 1000; IↃC = 500+100 (600), XXIII = 23, so the date is 1623.

(Reference for page 263: [http:// hypotheses.org/17871] ... 'Le latin de Locke ... Goudae apud Justum Ab Hoeve

CIↃ IↃC LXXXIX ... CIↃ = 1000 IↃC se décompose en IↃ = 500 + C = 100 soit 600 LXXXIX = 89 La date correspondante est 1689 ¹⁰.

¹⁰ 2011 serait CIↃ CIↃ XI '.)

(Thus 2015 would be CIↃ CIↃ XV.)

Page 251: S69 corrected to S96

"S96 and O'F differ from the third group...."

Page 275: Erratum, p. 274.... This has been corrected.

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