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Notes

[1]

The Poems of John Donne (1912), I, 119-121, 89-90, 211. Subsequent references will be made in the text.

[2]

Falconer Madan, Oxford Books (1912), II, 86; Gomersall, Poems (1633), p. 8; Original Poems, Never Before Published, of William Browne, ed. Sir Egerton Brydges (1815), p. 92.

[3]

There are, for instance, copies of the elegy in MS. Ashmole 38, p. 63, and according to H. J. L. Robbie, "An Undescribed MS. of Donne's Poems," RES, III (1927), 415, in Cambridge University MS. Additional 5778.

[4]

Clay Hunt, Donne's Poetry (1954), p. 17.

[5]

See, for example, Jonson's The Case is Altered (1609), V.i.24, and Every Man out of his Humour (1616), II.i.113, and the "Epistle Dedicatorie" of Nashe's Haue with you to Saffron-walden (1596).

[6]

"The Early References to John Donne," Notes and Queries, CXCV (1950), 247.

[7]

It is absurdly endorsed with the name "Dr. [Richard] Corbet" in MS. Ashmole 47, fol. 73.

[8]

Reprinted by John S. Farmer, National Ballad and Song (1897), III, 51.

[9]

Ed. J. O. Halliwell [-Phillipps] (1850), p. 37.

[10]

Gibbons set only Dowland's first stanza; it also appears as a separate piece in the O'Flahertie MS. of Donne's poems, Harvard MS. Norton 4504, p. 290. Dowland's second stanza was printed from manuscript by Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (1813), p. 130.

[11]

William Chappell, Popular Music of the Olden Time [1855], I, 173; Edmon-stoune Duncan, Lyrics from the Old Song Books (1927), p. 165.