English poem
_I. D._
by John Donne
[Vpon Mr. _&c._ _1649_, _where it was placed with_ The Token (_p._ 72_), _at the end of the_ Funerall Elegies: _appeared originally in_ Coryats Crudities (_1611: see note_) _with heading_ Incipit Joannes Donne.]
[2 leavened _1611:_ learned _1649-69 and mod. edd._]
[7 longdst _1611:_ long'st _1649-69_]
[19 sometimes.] sometime _1611_]
[24 Gazettier. _1611:_ Garretteir _1649-69_]
[28 booke,] booke. _1611_]
[37 barrels; _1649-69:_ barrels, _1611_]
[56 board, _1611:_ board _1649-69_]
_In eundem Macaronicon._
_Quot, dos haec_, +Linguists+ perfetti, _Disticha_ fairont, _Tot_ cuerdos +States-men+, _hic_ livre fara _tuus_. Es _sat_ a my l'honneur estre hic inteso; Car +I leave+ L'honra, de personne nestre creduto, _tibi_.
_Explicit Joannes Donne._
[In eundem _&c. 1611, concluding the above_]
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_Viri seraphici Joannis Donne Qua- dragenarij Effigies vera, Qui post eam ætatem Sacris initiatus Ec- clesiæ S^{ti} Pauli Decanus obijt._
_Año { Do[~m] 1631º { Ætatis suæ 59º_
("A true portrait of that seraphic man John Donne at the age of 40; he was later ordained into holy orders and died Dean of St Paul's in the year of our Lord 1631 at the age of 59")
From the engraving prefixed to his son's edition of the _Letters to Several Persons of Honour_ 1651, 1654]
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