Heaven be thy rest, on earth thy lot was toyle; Thy private loss, ment to thy countryes gayne, Bredde grief of mynde, which in thy brest did boyle, Confyning cares whereof the scarres remayne. Enjoy by death such passage into lyfe As frees thee quyte from thoughts of worldly stryfe. WM. GOODERE. Camden transcribes his epitaph: An ill yeare of a Goodyere us bereft, Who gon to God much lacke of him here left; Full of good gifts, of body and of minde, Wise, comely, learned, eloquent and kinde. The Epitaph is probably by the same author as the _Verses_, a nephew perhaps. Sir Henry's son predeceased him. PAGE =183=, l. 1. It is not necessary to change 'the past' of _1633-54_ to 'last' with _1669_. 'The past year' is good English for 'last year'. PAGE =184=, l. 27. _Goe; whither? Hence; &c._ My punctuation, which is that of some MSS., follows Donne's usual arrangement in dialogue, dividing the speeches by semicolons. Chambers's textual note misrepresents the earlier editions. He attributes to _1633-54_ the reading, 'Go whither? hence you get'. But they have all 'Goe, whither?', and _1633_ has 'hence;' _1635-54_ drop this semicolon. In _1669_ the text runs, 'Goe, whither. Hence you get,' &c. The semicolon, however, is better than the full stop after 'Hence', as the following clause is expansive and explanatory: 'Anywhere will do so long as it is out of this. In such cases as yours, to forget is itself a gain.' l. 34. The modern editors, by dropping the comma after 'asham'd', have given this line the opposite meaning to what Donne intended. I have therefore, to avoid ambiguity, inserted one before. Sir Henry Goodyere is not to be asham'd to imitate his hawk, but is, _through shame_, to emulate that noble bird by growing more sparing of extravagant display. 'But the sporte which for that daie Basilius would principally shewe to Zelmane, was the mounting at a Hearne, which getting up on his wagling wings with paine ... was now growen to diminish the sight of himself, and to give example to greate persons, that the higher they be the lesse they should show.' Sidney's _Arcadia_, ii. 4. Goodyere's fondness for hawking is referred to in one of Donne's prose letters, 'God send you Hawks and fortunes of a high pitch' (_Letters_, p. 204), and by Jonson in _Epigram LXXXV_. l. 44. _Tables, or fruit-trenchers._ I have let the 'Tables' of _1633-54_ stand, although 'Fables' has the support of _all_ the MSS. T is easily confounded with F. In the very next poem _1633-54_ read 'Termers' where I feel sure that 'Farmers' (spelt 'Fermers') is the correct reading. Moreover, Donne makes several references to the 'morals' of fables: The fable is inverted, and far more A block inflicts now, then a stork before. _The Calme_, ll. 4-5.