ence of the younger Donne himself. It has the following title-page—
Poems | By J. D. | with | Elegies | ON THE AUTHOR’S DEATH. | To which | Is added divers copies under his own hand | never before in print. | London. | Printed for John Marriot, and are | to be sold by Richard Marriot at his shop | by Chancery Lane end over against the Inner | Temple gate, 1650.
The Printer to the Understanders is replaced by the dedication to Lord Craven; and this is followed by the Hexastichon Bibliopolae, the Hexastichon ad Biblipolam, and Ben Jonson’s lines beginning “Donne, the delight of Phoebus and each Muse.” At the end of the Divine Poems is inserted a kind of appendix, containing, besides some additional poems, two other sets of verses on Donne from Ben Jonson’s Epigrams of 1616, a prose sketch entitled News from the very Country, already printed in the sixth edition of Sir Thomas Overbury’s Characters (1615), a burlesque Latin Catalogus Librorum (see Appendix D), and what appears to be a Latin address to Convocation.
In the 1635 and all following editions the Elegy by Tho. Browne was omitted, and three were added, signed respectively by Daniel Darnelly, Sidney Godolphin, and J. Chudleigh. The sixth edition of 1654 resembles that of 1650, except that it is ‘‘Printed by J. Flesher, and are to be sold by John Sweeting at the Angel in Popeshead Alley, 1654.”
The seventh and last of the seventeenth-century editions is that of 1669. This again has a new title-page, on which the author’s name appears for the first time in full—
POEMS, etc. | By | John Donne, | late Dean of St. Pauls | with ELEGIES | ON THE | AUTHOR’S DEATH. | To which is added | Divers Copies under his own hand, | Never before printed. | In the SAVOY, | Printed by T. N. for Henry Herringman, at the Sign of | the Anchor, in the lower-walk of the | New Exchange, 1669.
