Are satisfy'd with _joyes essentiall_. Dwell on this joy my thoughts; oh, doe not call[6] Griefe back, by thinking of his Funerall; Forget hee lov'd mee; Waste not my sad yeares; (Which hast to _Davids_ seventy,) fill'd with feares And sorrow for his death; Forget his parts, Which finde a living grave in good mens hearts; And, (for, my first is dayly payd for sinne) Forget to pay my second sigh for him: Forget his powerfull preaching; and forget I am his _Convert_. Oh my frailty! let My flesh be no more heard, it will obtrude This lethargy: so should my gratitude, My flowes[7] of gratitude should so be broke; Which can no more be, than _Donnes_ vertues spoke By any but himselfe; for which cause, I Write no _Encomium_, but this _Elegie_,[8] Which, as a free-will-offring, I here give Fame, and the world, and parting with it grieve I want abilities, fit to set forth A monument, great, as Donnes matchlesse worth. IZ. WA. FOOTNOTES [1] In the edition of 1633, the poem opens thus:-- Is _Donne_, great _Donne_ deceas'd? then England say Thou'hast lost a man where language chose to stay And shew it's gracefull power, &c. [2] _La Corona_. [3] for piety and wit,--1633. [4] As none but hee did, or could do? They know (Such as were blest to heare him know) 'tis truth.--1633. [5] _age_ in the edition of 1633. [6] My thoughts, Dwell on this _Joy_, and do not call--1633. [7] _vowes_ in the edition of 1633. [8] Write no _Encomium_, but an _Elegie_. Here the poem closed in the edition of 1633. * * * * * LINES ON A PORTRAIT OF DONNE IN HIS EIGHTEENTH YEAR. 1635. [Engraved under William Marshall's Portrait of Donne, "Anno Domini. 1591. Aetatis suae 18," prefixed to the second edition of Donne's Poems, 1635.] _On a Portrait of_ DONNE _taken in his eighteenth year._ This was for youth, Strength, Mirth, and wit that Time Most count their golden Age; but t'was not thine. Thine was thy later yeares, so much refind From youths Drosse, Mirth & wit; as thy pure mind Thought (like the Angels) nothing but the Praise Of thy Creator, in those last, best Dayes. Witnes this Booke, (thy Embleme) which begins With Love; but endes, with Sighes, & Teares for sin's. IZ: WA: * * * * * COMMENDATORY VERSES PREFIXED TO THE MERCHANTS MAPPE OF COMMERCE. 1638. [The Merchants Mappe of Commerce: wherein the Universall Manner and Matter of Trade, is compendiously handled. By Lewes Roberts, Merchant. At London, Printed by R.O. for Ralph Mabb MDCXXXVIII. _fol._ --The Second Edition, Corrected and much Enlarged. London, MDCLXXI. _fol._] _In praise of my friend the Author, and his Booke._