_If Art that oft the Learn'd hath stammer'd, In one Iron Head-piece (yet no Hammer-Lead) May (joyn'd with Nature) hit Fame on the Cocks-comb, Then 'tis that Head-piece that is crown'd with_ Odcomb _For he, hard_ Head (_and_ hard, _sith like a_ Whet-stone) _It gives_ Wits _edge, and draws them too like_ Jet-stone) _Is_ Caput Mundi _for a world of School-tricks, And is not ignorant in the learned'st--tricks H'hath seen much more than much, I assure ye, And will see_ New-Troy, Bethlem, _and_ Old-Jury _Meanwhile (to give a taste of his first travel, With streams of Rhetorick that get golden Gravel) He tells how he to_ Venice _once did wander; From whence he came more witty than a Gander: Whereby he makes relations of such wonders, That_ Truth _therein doth lighten, while_ Art _thunders, All Tongues fled to him that at_ Babel _swerved, Left they for want of warm months might have starved, Where they do revel in such passing measure, (Especially the_ Greek, _wherein's his pleasure.) That (jovially) so_ Greek _he takes the guard of, That he's the merriest_ Greek _that ere was heard of; For he as 'twere his Mothers twittle twattle, (That's Mother-tongue) the_ Greek _can prittle prattle. Nay, of that Tongue he so hath got the Body, That he sports with it at_ Ruffe, Gleek _or_ Noddy, _&c._ He died at _London_ in the midst of the Reign of King _James_ I. and lieth buried in St. _Giles_ in the Fields. * * * * * Doctor _JOHN DONNE_. This pleasant Poet, painful Preacher, and pious Person, was born in _London_, of wealthy Parents, who took such care of his Education, that at nine years of Age he was sent to study at _Hart-Hall_ in _Oxford_, having besides the _Latine_ and _Greek_, attained to a knowledge in the _French_ Tongue. Here he fell into acquaintance with that great Master of Language and Art, Sir _Henry Wootton_; betwixt whom was such Friendship contracted, that nothing but Death could force the separation. From _Oxford_ he was transplanted to _Cambridge_, where he much improved his Study, and from thence placed at _Lincolns Inn_, when his Father dying, and leaving him three thousand pound in ready Money; he having a youthful desire to travel, went over with the Earl of _Essex_ to _Cales_; where having seen the issue of this Expedition, he left them and went into _Italy_, and from thence into _Spain_, where by his industry he attained to a perfection in their Languages, and returned home with many useful Observations of those Countries, and their Laws and Government.