have nothing to present to him but sins and misery yet I know he looks not upon me now as I am of my self but as I am in my Saviour and hath given me even at this time some testimonies by his holy Spirit that I am of the number of his Elect I am full of joy and shall die in peace I must here look so far back as to tell the Reader that at his first return out of Essex his old Friend and Physician Dr. Fox a man of great worth came to him to consult his health who after a sight of him and some queries concerning his distempers told him That by Cordials and drinking milk twenty dayes together there was a probability of his restauration to health but he passionately denied to drink it Neverthelesse Dr. Fox who loved him most intirely wearied him with solicitations till he yielded to take it for ten dayes at the end of which time he told Dr. Fox he had drunk it more to satisfie him than to recover his health and that he would not drink it ten dayes longer upon the best morall assurance of having twenty years added to his life for he loved it not and he was so far from fearing death which is the King of terrours that he longed for the day of his dissolution It is observed that a desire of glory or commendation is rooted in the very nature of man and that those of the severest and most mortified lives though they may become so humble as to banish self-flattery and such weeds as naturally grow there yet they have not been able to kill this desire of glory but that like our radicall heat it will both live and die with us and many think it should do so and we want not sacred examples to justifie the desire of having our memory to out-live our lives which I mention because Dr. Donne by the perswasion of Dr. Fox yielded at this very time to have a Monument made for him but Dr. Fox undertook not to perswade how or what it should be that was left to Dr. Donne himself This being resolved upon Dr. Donne sent for a Carver to make for him in wood the figure of an Urn giving him directions for the compasse and height of it and to bring with it a board of the height of his body These being got and without delay a choice Painter was in a readiness to draw his picture which was taken as followeth Severall Charcole-fires being first made in his large study he brought with him into that place his winding-sheet in his hand and having put off all his clothes had his sheet put on him and so tied with knots at his head and feet and his hands so placed as dead bodies are usually fitted for the grave Upon this Urn he thus stood with his eyes shut and so much of the sheet turned aside as might shew his lean pale and death-like face which was purposely turned toward the East from whence he expected the second coming of our Saviour Thus he was drawn at his just height and when the picture was fully finished he caused it to be set by his bed-side where it continued and became his hourly object till his death and was then given to his dearest friend and Executor Dr. King who caused him to be thus carved in one entire piece of white Marble as it now stands in the Cathedrall Church of S. Pauls and by Dr. Donn's own appointment these words were to be affixed to it as his Epitaph JOHANNES DONNE Sac. Theol. Professor Post varia Studia quibus ab annis tenerrimis fideliter nec infeliciter incubuit Instinctu impulsu Sp. Sancti Monitu Hortatu REGIS JACOBI Ordines Sacros amplexus Anno sui Iesu 1614. suae aetatis 42. Decanatu hujus Ecclesiae indutus 27. Novembris 1621. Exutus morte ultimo Die Martii 1631. Hiclicet in Occiduo Cinere Aspicit Eum Cujus nomen est Oriens Upon Monday following he took his last leave of his beloved Study and being sensible of his hourly decay retired himself to his bed-chamber and that week sent at severall times for many of his most considerable friends with whom he took a solemn and deliberate farewell commending to their considerations some sentences usefull for the regulation of their lives and dismist them as good Iacob did his sons with a spirituall Benediction The Sunday following he appointed his servants that if there were any businesse undone that concerned him or themselves it should be prepared against Saturdy next for after that day he would not mix his thoughts with any thing that concerned this world nor ever did But as Iob so he waited for the appointed time of his dissolution And now he had nothing to do but die to do which he stood in need of no longer time for he had studied long and to so happy a perfection that in a former sickness he called God to witness * he was that minute ready to deliver his soul into his hands if that minute God would determine his dissolution In that sickness he begg'd of God the constancy to be preserved in that estate forever and his patient expectation to have his immortall soul disrob'd from her garment of mortality makes me confident he now had a modest assurance that his Prayers were then heard and his Petition granted He lay fifteen dayes earnestly expecting his hourly change and in the last hour of his last day as his body melted away and vapoured into spirit his soul having I verily believe some revelation of the Beatificall Vision he said I were miserable if I might not die and after those words closed many periods of his faint breath by saying often Thy kingdome come thy will be done His speech which had long been his ready and faithfull servant left him not till the last minute and then forsook him not to serve another Master but died before him for that it was become uselesse to him that now conversed with God on earth as Angels are said to do in heaven onely by thoughts and looks Being speechless he did as S. Stephen look stedfastly towards heaven till he saw the Son of God standing at the right hand of his Father and being satisfied with this blessed sight as his soul ascended and his last breath departed from him he closed his own eyes and then disposed his hands and body into such a posture as required no alteration by those that came to shroud him Thus variable thus vertuous was the Life thus excellent thus exemplary was the Death of this memorable man He was buried in that place of S. Pauls Church which he had appointed for that use some yeares before his death and by which he passed daily to pay his publick Devotions to Almighty God who was then served twice a day by a publick form of Prayer and Praises in that place but he was not buried privately though he desired it for beside an unnumbred number
faithfull friend and Executor of whose Care and Justice I make no more doubt then of Gods blessing on that which I have conscienciously collected for them and this I declare as my unalterable resolution The reply to this was onely a promise to observe his request Within a few dayes his distempers abated and as his strength increased so did his thankfulnesse to Almighty God testified in his book of Devotions which he published at his recovery In which the reader may see the most secret thoughts that then possest his soul Paraphrased and make publick a book that may not unfitly be called a Sacred picture of spirituall extasies occasioned and applyable to the emergencies of that sicknesse which being a composition of Meditations disquisitions and prayers he writ on his sick-bed herein imitating the holy Patriarchs who were wont to build their Altars in that place where they had received their blessings This sicknesse brought him so neer to the gates of death and he saw the grave so ready to devour him that he would often say his recovery was supernaturall But God that restor'd his health continued it to him till the fifty-ninth year of his life And then in August 1630. being with his eldest Daughter Mrs. Harvie at Abury hatch in Essex he there fell into a fever which with the help of his constant infirmity vapors from the spleene hastened him into so visible a Consumption that his beholders might say as St Paul of himself He dies daily and he might say with Iob my welfare passeth away as a cloud the dayes of my affliction have taken hold of me and weary nights are appointed for me Reader this sicknesse continued long not onely weakening but wearying him so much that my desire is he may now take some rest and that before I speake of his death thou wilt not think it an impertinent digression to look back with me upon some observations of his life which whilst a gentle slumber gives rest to his spirits may I hope not unfitly exercise thy consideration His marriage was the remarkable errour of his life an errour which though he had a wit able very apt to maintain Paradoxes yet he was very farre from justifying though his wives Competent yeares and other reasons might be justly urged to moderate severe Censures yet he would occasionally condemn himself for it and doubtlesse it had been attended with an heavy Repentance if God had not blest them with so mutuall and Cordiall affections as in the midst of their sufferings made their bread of sorrow taste more pleasantly then the banquets of dull and low-spirited people The recreations of his youth were Poetry in which he was so happy as if nature and all her varieties had been made onely to exercise his sharpe wit and high fancy and in those pieces which were facetiously Composed and carelesly scattered most of them being written before the twentieth year of his age it may appear by his choice Metaphors that both Nature and all the Arts joyn'd to assist him with their utmost skill It is a truth that in his penitentiall yeares viewing some of those pieces loosely scattered in his youth he wish't they had been abortive or so short liv'd that his own eyes had witnessed their funeralls But though he was no friend to them he was not so fallen out with heavenly Poetry as to forsake that no not in that in his declining age witnessed then by many Divine Sonnets and other high holy and harmonious Composures Yea even on his former sick-bed he wrote this heavenly Hymne expressing the great joy that then possest his soul in the Assurance of Gods favour to him An Hymne to God the Father Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun Which was my sin though it were done before Wilt thou forgive that sin through which I run And do run still though still I do deplore When thou hast done thou hast not done For I have more Wilt thou forgive that sin which I have wonne Others to sin and made my sin their doone Wilt thou forgive that sin which I did shun A year or two but wallowed in a score When thou hast done thou hast not done For I have more I have a sin of fear that when I 've spun My last thred I shall perish on the shore But swear by thy self that at my death thy Son Shall shine as he shines now and heretofore And having done that thou hast done I fear no more I have the rather mentioned this Hymne for that he caus'd it to be set to a most grave and solemn tune and to be often sung to the Organ by the Choristers of that Church in his own hearing especially at the Evening Service and at his return from his Customary Devotions in that place did occasionally say to a friend The words of this Hymne have restored to me the same thoughts of joy that possest my soul in my sicknesse when I composed it And Oh the power of Church-musick that Harmony added to it has raised the affections of my heart and quickned my graces of zeal and gratitude and I observe that I alwaies return from paying this publick duty of Prayer and Praise to God with an unexpressible tranquillity of mind and a willingnesse to leave the world After this manner did the Disciples of our Saviour and the best of Christians in those Ages of the Church nearest to his time offer their praises to Almighty God And the reader of St. Augustines life may there find that towards his dissolution he wept abundantly that the enemies of Christianity had broke in upon them and prophaned and ruin'd their Sanctuaries and because their Publick Hymns and Lauds were lost out of their Churches And after this manner have many devout soules lifted up their hands and offered acceptable Sacrifices unto Almighty God in that place where Dr. Donne offered his But now oh Lord Before I proceed further I think fit to informe the reader that not long before his death he caused to be drawn a figure of the body of Christ extended upon an Anchor like those which painters draw when they would present us with the picture of Christ Crucified on the Crosse his varying no otherwise then to affixe him to an Anchor the Embleme of hope this he caused to be drawn in little and then many of these figures thus drawn to be ingraven very small in Hâ—litropian Stones and set in gold and of these he sent to many of his dearest friends to be used as Seales or Rings and kept as memorialls of him and his affection His dear friends Sir Henry Goodier and Sir Robert Drewry could not be of that number for they had put off mortality and taken possession of the grave before him But Sir Henry Wootton and Dr. Hall the late deceased Bishop of Norwich were and so were Dr. Duppa Bishop of Salisbury and Dr. Henry King Bishop of Chicester both now living-men in whom there was and is such a Commixture
of generall Learning natural eloquence and Christian humility that they deserve a Commemoration by a pen equall to their own which none hath exceeded And in this enumeration of his friends though many must be ommitted yet that man of primitive piety Mr. George Herbert may not I mean that George Herbert who was the Author of the Temple or Sacred Poems and Ejaculations A book in which by declaring his own spirituall Conflicts he hath raised many a dejected and discomposed soul and charmed them into sweet and quiet thoughts A book by the frequent reading whereof and the assistance of that Spirit that seemed to inspire the Author the Reader may attain habits of peace and piety and all the gifts of the Holy Ghost and Heaven and by still reading still keep those sacred fires burning upon the Altar of so pure a heart as shall be freed from the anxieties of this world and fixt upon things that are above betwixt him and Dr. Donne there was a long and dear friendship make up by such a' Sympathy of inclinations that they coveted and joyed to be in each others Company and this happy friendship was still maintained by many sacred indearments of which that which followeth may be some Testimony To Mr. George Herbert with one of my Seales of the Anchor and Crest A sheafe of Snakes used heretofore to be my Seal the Crest of our poor Family Qui prius assuetus serpentum falce tabellas Signare haec nostrae Symbola parva domus Adscitus domui domini Adopted in Gods family and so My old Coat lost into new Arms I go The Crosse my seal in Baptism spread below Does by that form into an Anchor grow Crosses grow Anchors bear as thou should'st do Thy Crosse and that Crosse grows an Anchor too But he that makes our Crosses Anchors thus Is Christ who there is crucify'd for us Yet with this I may my first Serpents ho'd God gives new blessings and yet leaves the old The Serpent may as wise my pattern be My poyson as he feeds on dust that 's me And as he rounds the earth to murder sure He is my death but on the Cross my cure Crucifie nature then and then implore All grace froÌ„ him crucify'd there before When all is Crosse and that Crosse Anchor grown This seales a Catechisme not a seal alone Under that little seal great gifts I send Both workes and prayers pawnes and fruits of a friend Oh may that Saint that rides on our great Seal To you that beare his names large bounty deal I Donne In Sacram Anchoram Piscatoris GEO. HERBERT Quod Crux nequibat fixa Clavique additi Tenere ChristuÌ„ scilicet ne ascenderet Tuive Christum Although the Cross could not Christ here detain When nail'd unto 't but he ascends again Nor yet thy eloquence here keep him still But onely whilst thou speak'st this Anchor will Nor canst thou be content unless thou to This certain Anchor add a seal and so The water and the earth both unto thee Do owe the Symbole of their certaintie Let the world reel we all ours stand sure This Holy Cable 's from all storms secure Love neere his death desir'd to end With kind expressions to his friend He writ when 's hand could write no more He gave his soul and so gave o're G. HERBERT I return to tell the Reader that besides these verses to his dear Mr. Herbert and that Hymne that I mentioned to be sung in the Quire of S. Pauls Church he did also shorten and beguile many sad hours by composing other sacred Ditties and he writ an Hymn on his death-bed which beares this title An Hymn to God my God in my sicknsse March 23. 1630. If these fall under the censure of a soul whose too much mixture with earth makes it unfit to judge of these high illuminations let him know that many holy devout men have thought the soul of Prudentius to be most refined when not many dayes before his death he charged it to present his God each morning and evening with a new and spirituall song justified by the example of King David and the good King Hezekâ—as who upon the renovation of his years paid his thankfull vowes to Almighty God in a royall Hymn which he concludes in these words The Lord was ready to save therefore I will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the dayes of my life in the temple of my God The latter part of his life may be said to be a continued study for as he usually preached once a week if not oftner so after his Sermon he never gave his eyes rest till he had chosen out a new Text and that night cast his Sermon into a forme and his Text into divisions and next day betook himself to consult the Fathers and so commit his meditations to his memory which was excellent But upon Saturday he usually gave himself and his mind a rest from the weary burthen of his weeks meditations and spent that day in visitation of friends and other diversions of his thoughts and would say that he gave both his body and mind that refreshment that he might be enabled to do the work of the day following not faintly but with courage and cheerfulness Nor was his age onely so industrious but in the most unsetled days of his youth his bed was not able to detain him beyond the hour of four in a morning and it was no common business that drew him out of his chamber till past ten All which time was employed in study and if it seem strange it may gain a belief by the visible fruits of his labours some of which remain as testimonies of what is here written for he left the resultance of 1400. Authors most of them abridged and analysed with his own hand he left also sixscore of his Sermons all written with his own hand also an exact and laborious Treatise concerning self-murther called Biathanatos wherein all the Lawes violated by that Act are diligently surveyed and judiciously censured a Treatise written in his younger dayes which alone might declare him then not onely perfect in the Civil and Canon Law but in many other such studies and arguments as enter not into the consideration of many that labour to be thought great Clerks and pretend to know all things Nor were these onely found in his study but all businesses that past of any publick consequence either in this or any of our neighbour-nations he abbreviated either in Latine or in the Language of that Nation and kept them by him for a memoriall So he did the copies of divers Letters and cases of Conscience that had concerned his friends with his observations and solutions of them and divers other businesses of importance all particularly and methodically digested by himself He did prepare to leave the world before life left him making his will when no faculty of his soul was damp'd or made defective by sickness or
be demanded as once Pompeys poor bondman was he was then alone on the Sea-shore gathering the scattered pieces of an old broken Boat to burn the neglected body of his dead Master Who art thou that preparest the funerals of Pompey the Great Who I am that so officiously set the Authors Memory on fire I hope the question will have in it more of wonder then disdain wonder indeed the Reader may that I who professe my self artlesse should presume with my faint light to shew forth his Life whose very Name maketh it illustrious But be this to the disadvantage of the person represented certain I am 't is much to the advantage of the beholder who shall here see the Authors picture in a naturall dresse which ought to beget faith in what is spoken for he that wants skill to deceive may safely be trusted And if the Authors glorious spirit which now is in heaven can have the leisure to look down and see me the meanest of all his friends in the midst of this officious duty confident I am he wil not disdain this well-meant sacrifice to his memory for whilst his conversation made me many others happy below I know his humility and gentlenesse was eminent and I have heard Divines say That those vertues which were but sparks upon earth become great and glorious stars in heaven This being premised I proceed to tell the Reader the Author was born in London of good and vertuous parents and though his own learning and other multiplied merits may justly seem sufficient to dignifie both himself and his posterity yet the Reader may be pleased to know that his Father was masculinely and lineally descended from a very ancient Family in Wales where many of his name now live that deserve and have great reputation in that Countrey By his Mother he was descended of the Family of the famous and learned Sir Tho. Moor sometime L. Chancelour of Engl. as also from that worthy and laborious Iudge Rastall who left Posterity the vast Statutes of the Law of this Nation most exactly abridged He had his first breeding in his Fathers house where a private Tutor had the care of him untill the nineth year of his age and in his tenth year was sent to the University of Oxford having at that time a good command both of the French and Latine Tongue This and some other of his remarkable abilities made one give this censure of him That this age had brought forth another Picus Mirandula of whom Story sayes That he was rather born than made wise by study There he remained in Hart-Hall having for the advancement of his studies Tutors of severall Sciences to attend and instruct him till time made him capable and his learning expressed in publick exercises declared him worthy to receive his first degree in the Schooles which he forbore by advice from his friends who being for their Religion of the Romish perswasion were conscionably averse to some parts of the Oath that is alwaies tendered at those times and not to be refused by those that expect the titulary honour of their studies About the fourteenth year of his age he was transplanted from Oxford to Cambridge where that he might receive nourishment from both Soiles he staid till his seventeenth yeare all which time he was a most laborious Student often changing his studies but endeavouring to take no degree for the reasons formerly mentioned About the seventeenth yeare of his age he was removed to London and then admitted into Lincolns Inne with an intent to study the Law where he gave great testimonies of his Wit his Learning and of his Improvement in that profession which never served him for other use than an Ornament and Self-satisfaction His Father died before his admission into this Society and being a Merchant left him his portion in money it was 3000 l. His mother and those to whose care he was committed were watchfull to improve his knowledge and to that end appointted him Tutors in the Mathematicks and all the Liberall Sciences to attend him But with these Arts they were advised to instill particular principles of the Romish Church of which those Tutors profest though secretly themselves to be members They had almost obliged him to their faith having for their advantage besides many opportunities the example of his dear and pious Parents which was a most powerfull perswasion and did work much upon him as he professeth in his Pseudo-Martyr a book of which the Reader shall have some account in what followes He was now entred into the eighteenth year of his age and at that time had betrothed himself to no Religion that might give him any other denomination than a Christian And Reason and Piety had both perswaded him that there could be no such sin as Schisme if an adherence to some visible Church were not necessary He did therefore at his entrance into the nineteenth year of his age though his youth and strength then promised him a long life yet being unresolved in his Religion he thought it necessary to rectifie all scruples that concerned that and therefore waving the Law and betrothing himself to no Art or Profession that might justly denominate him he begun to survey the Body of Divinity as it is controverted betwixt the Reformed and the Roman Church And as Gods blessed Spirit did then awaken him to the search and in that industry did never forsake him they be his own words * so he calls the same holy Spirit to witnesse this protestation that in that disquisition and search he proceeded with humility and diffidence in himself and by that which he took to be the safest way namely his frequent prayers and an indifferent affection to both parties Being to undertake this search he believed the Cardinall Bellarmine to be the best defender of the Roman cause and therefore betook himself to the examination of his Reasons The Cause was weighty and wilfull delayes had been inexcusable both towards God and his own conscience he therefore proceeded in this search with all moderate haste and before the twentieth yeare of his age did shew the then Dean of Glocester whose name my memory hath now lost all the Cardinals works marked with many weighty observations under his own hand which works were bequeathed by him at his death as a Legacy to a most dear Friend The year following he resolved to travell and the Earl of Essex going first the Cales and after the Island voyages he took the advantage of these opportunities waited upon his Lordship and was an eye-witnesse of those happy and unhappy employments But he returned not back into England till he had staid some years first in Italy and then in Spain where he made many usefull observations of those Countreys their Laws and manner of Government and returned into England perfect in their Languages The time that he spent in Spain was at his first going into Italy designed for travelling the Holy Land and for
of others many persons of Nobility and of eminency for Learning who did love and honour him in his life did shew it at his death by a voluntary and sad attendance of his body to the grave where nothing was so remarkable as a publick sorrow To which place of his Buriall some mournful Friend repaired and as Alexander the Great did to the grave of the famous Achilles so they strewed his with an abundance of curious and costly Flowers which course they who were never yet known continued morning and evening for many dayes not ceasing till the stones that were taken up in that Church to give his body admission into the cold earth now his bed of rest were again by the Masons art levelled and firmed as they had been formerly and his place of buriall undistinguishable to common view Nor was this all the Honour done to his reverend Ashes for as there be some persons that will not receive a reward for that for which God accounts himself a debter persons that dare trust God with their Charity and without a witness so there was by some gratefull unknowne friend that thought Dr. Donne's memory ought to be perpetuated an hundred Marks sent to his two faithfull Friends * and Executors towards the making of his Monument It was not for many years known by whom but after the death of Dr. Fox it was known that he sent it and he lived to see as lively a representation of his dead friend as Marble can express a Statue indeed so like Dr. Donne that as his friend Sir Henry Wotton hath expressed himself it seems to breath faintly and Posterity shall look upon it as a kind of artificiall Miracle He was of Stature moderately tall of a straight and equally-proportioned body to which all his words and actions gave an unexpressible addition of Comelinesse The melancholy and pleasant humor were in him so contempered that each gave advantage to the other and made his Company one of the delights of mankind His fancy was unimitably high equalled onely by his great wit both being made usefull by a commanding judgement His aspect was cheerfull and such as gave a silent testimony of a clear knowing soul and of a Conscience at peace with it self His melting eye shewed that he had a soft heart full of noble compassion of too brave a soul to offer injuries and too much a Christian not to pardon them in others He did much contemplate especially after he entred into his Sacred Calling the mercies of Almighty God the immortality of the soul and the joyes of Heaven and would often say Blessed be God that he is God divinely like himself He was by nature highly passionate but more apt to reluct at the excesses of it A great lover of the offices of humanity and of so mercifull a spirit that he never beheld the miseries of mankind without pity and relief He was earnest and unwearied in the search of knowledge with which his vigorous soul is now satisfied and imployed in a continued praise of that God that first breathed it into his active body which once was a Temple of the Holy Ghost and is now become a small quantity of Christian dust But I shall see it reinanimated J. W. To all my friends Sir H. Goodere SIR I Am not weary of writing it is the course but durable garment of my love but I am weary of wanting you I have a mind like those bodies which have hot Livers and cold stomachs or such a distemper as travelled me at Paris a Fever and dysentery in which that which is physick to one infirmity nourishes the other So I abhor nothing more then sadnesse except the ordinary remedy change of company I can allow my self to be Animal sociale appliable to my company but not gregale to herd my self in every troup It is not perfectly true which a very subtil yet very deep wit Averroes says that all mankind hath but one soul which informs and rules us all as one Intelligence doth the firmament and all the Stars in it as though a particular body were too little an organ for a soul to play upon And it is as imperfect which is taught by that religion which is most accommodate to sense I dare not say to reason though it have appearance of that too because none may doubt but that that religion is certainly best which is reasonablest That all mankind hath one protecting Angel all Christians one other all English one other all of one Corporation and every civill coagulation or society one other and every man one other Though both these opinions expresse a truth which is that mankind hath very strong bounds to cohabit and concurre in other then mountains and hills during his life First common and mutuall necessity of one another and therefore naturally in our defence and subventions we first fly to our selves next to that which is likest other men Then naturall and inborn charity beginning at home which perswades us to give that we may receive and legall charity which makes us also forgive Then an ingraffing in one another and growing together by a custome of society and last of all strict friendship in which band men were so presumed to be coupled that our Confessor King had a law that if a man be killed the murderer shall pay a summe felago suo which the interpreters call fide ligato comiti vitae All these bands I willingly receive for no man is less of himself then I nor any man enough of himself To be so is all one with omnipotence And it is well marked that in the holy Book wheresoever they have rendred Almighty the word is Self-sufficient I think sometimes that the having a family should remove me far from the curse of Vaesoli But in so strict obligation of Parent or Husband or Master and perchance it is so in the last degree of friendship where all are made one I am not the lesse alone for being in the midst of them Therefore this oleum laetitiae this balme of our lives this alacrity which dignifies even our service to God this gallant enemy of dejection and sadnesse for which and wickednesse the Italian allows but one word Triste And in full condemnation whereof it was prophesied of our blessed Saviour Non erit tristis in his conversation must be sought and preserved diligently And since it grows without us we must be sure to gather it from the right tree They which place this alacrity onely in a good conscience deal somewhat too roundly with us for when we ask the way they shew us the town afar off Will a Physician consulted for health and strength bid you have good sinews and equal temper It is true that this conscience is the resultance of all other particular actions it is our triumph and banquet in the haven but I would come towards that also as Mariners say with a merry wind Our nature is Meteorique we respect because