time, his Majesty was pleased to recommend him to the University to be made Doctor in Divinity: "all p-sed the gate of death, yet in the gates of heaven I "may meet you all, and there say to my Saviour and your Saviour, that which he sud to his father, “Of those whom “thou hast given me have I not lost one." Remember me thus, "you that stay in this kingdome of peace, where no sword is "drawn but the sword of justice, as I shall remember you "in those kingdomes, where ambition on one side and a "necessary defence from unjust persecution on the other "side hath drawn many swords; and Christ Jesus remember "us all in his kingdome; to which though we must sail “through a sea, it is the sea of his blood, where no soul "suffers shipwreck; though we must be blown with strange "winds, with sighs and groans for our sins, yet it is the "spirit of God that blows all this wind, and shall blow "away all contrary winds of diffidence or distrust in God's "mercy; where we shall be all souldiers of one army, the "Lord of Hostes, and children of one quire, the God of har"mony and consent: where all clients shall retain but one " counsellor, our advocate Christ Jesus, nor present him any "other fee but his own blood, and yet every client have a "judgment on his side, not only in a not guilty, in the re"mission of his sins, but in a tenite benedicti, în being called to "the participation of an immortal crown of glory: where "there will be no difference in affection nor in mind, but we shall agree as fully and perfectly in our allelujah and gloria “ in excelsis as God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, agreed "in the faciamus hominem at first; where we shall end and "yet begin but then; where we shall have continuall rest, " and yet never grow laze; where we shall be stronger to "resist and yet have no enemy; where we shall live and “ never die, where we shall meet and never part.” (A Sermon of l'alediction at his going into Germing, Lancoln's Inn, April 18, 1619. Donne's Sermont, vol. III. p. 230, 281. Dr. Harsnett (after Archbishop of York) was then Vice-Chancellor, who, knowing him to be the author of that learned book the "PseudoMartyr," required no other proof of his abilities, but proposed it to the University, who presently assented, and expressed a gladness that they had such an occasion to entitle him to be theirs'. Dr. SAMUEL Harnett, Master of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, was Vice-chancellor of that University in 1605 and in 1914, successively Bishop of Chichester and Norwich, and Archbishop of York. He died March 12, 1639. Strictness to historic truth precludes us from passing over in silence an andrtunate circumstance of his life, viz. his expulsion from the Mastership of Pembroke-Hall, for several practises exlisted against him in fifty-seven Articles; all of which are sad to have been so flagrant, that he chose rather to resign h.s Mastership than to undergo an inquiry. But as the purport of these Articles is unknown, and the nature of the charge brought against him has never been ascertained, we remain in doubt what degree of censure he deserved. The inscription on has tomb was evidently penned by him-elf. "He jacet · Samuel Harsnett, quondam Vicarius hujus Ecclesiæ, prunò 47 us I piscopus Cicestriensis, dein indignior Norviciensis, denum indignissimus Archiepiscopus." Ad forent account of this matter is given in two letters € Mr. Chanbe lan to S.r Dudley Carlton. In one date! Mar 1⁄4 16, 1014, he writes, "I had almost forgotten that at all the Courtiers went forth Masters of Arts, at the King - being there, but few or no Doctors, save only Yoo ge; was die by a mandat, beng son to Sr Pater, the chitmaster. The Vice-Chance br and University were exceeding strict in that pose, and refused many inprtunites of great men, ano, g whom was Mr. Secretary, His abilities and industry in his profession were so eminent, and he so known and so beloved by persons of quality, that within the first year of his entering into sacred orders he had fourteen advowsons of several benefices presented to him; but they were in the country, and he could not leave his beloved London, to which place he had a natural inclination, having received both his birth and education in it, and there contracted a friendship with many, whose conversation multiplied "that made great means for Mr. Westfield; but it would not be "neither the King's intreaty for John Dun would prevail; yet they are threatened with a mandate, which, if it is “come, it is like they will obey; but they are resolved to "give him such a blow withal, that he were better be with"out it." And in another letter of nearly the same date: " John Donne " and one Cheke went out Doctors at Cambridge with much "ado, after our coming away, by the King's express mandate ; "though the Vice-Chancellor and some of the Heads called "them openly Filios noctis et tenebriones,' that sought thas "to come in at the window, when there was a fair gate open. "But the worst is, that Donne had gotten a reversion of the "Deanery of Canterbury, if such grants could be lawful; whereby "he hath purchased himself a great deal of envy, that a man of "his sort should seek, per saltem, to intercept such a place from “so many more worthy and antient Divines.” When it is recollected how much Dr. Donne was attached to London, we are surprised to find that in one of his letters be speaks of play London. Let it be remarked, that this word had not at that tirse a burlesque sense. Donne, in one of his elegies, has "Death's plagay jaws," i. e. affected with the plague. the joys of his life: But an employment that might affix him to that place would be welcome, for he needed it. Immediately after his return from Cambridge his wife died, leaving him a man of a narrow unsettled estate, and (having buried five) the careful father of seven children then living, to whom he gave a voluntary assurance never to bring them under the subjection of a step-mother; which promise he kept most faithfully, burying with his tears all his earthly joys in his most dear and derving wife's grave", and betook himself to a most retired and solitary life. In this retiredness, which was often from the sight of his dearest friends, he became crucified to the world, and all those vanities, those imaginary pleasures that are daily acted on that restless stage; and they were as perfectly crucified to him. Nor is it hard to think (being passions which may be both changed and heightened by accidents) but that that abundant affection which once was betwixt him and her, who had long been the delight of his eyes and the companion of his youth; her, with whom He had divided so many pleasant sorrows and con Mrs. Donne died August 15, 1617, on the seventh day after the birth of her twelfth child, and was buried in the par charch of St. Clements, near Temple Bar. It appears that Nicholas Stone, a noted stata ry in the re gn of Junes 1. made a tomb for Mrs. Don e, to be placed in we church of St. Clement Dines, for the which he had fifteen gan the weary day in lamentations. And thus he continued till a consideration of his new engage ments to God, and St. Paul's "Wo is me if I "preach not the gospel," dispersed those sad clouds that had then benighted his hopes, and now forced him to behold the light. His first motion from his house was to preach, where his beloved wife lay buried (in St. Clement's Church, near Temple-Bar, London,) and his text was a part of the Prophet Jeremiah's Lamentation: “Lo, I am the man that have seen affliction "." And indeed his very words and looks testified him to be truly such a man; and they, with the addition of his sighs and tears, expressed in his sermon, did so work upon the affections of his hearers, as melted and moulded them into a companionable sadness, and so they left the congrega PLAMENTATIONS, ii. 1. “I am the man which have affliction seene, DONNE. During this time of his distress he was probably engaged in his Poetic Version of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, following for the most part the translation of Tremellius. s His eloquence in the pulpit is thus described in Darnelly's |