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A36309 Dr. Donne's Last will and testament, July 21, 1657 Donne, John, 1604-1662. 1662 (1662) Wing D1875; ESTC R31977 1,934 1

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Dr. DONNE'S Last Will and Testament July 21. 1657. Video meliora proboque A dieu mon Droit Dieu est mon Droit IN the Name of God Amen I John Donne by the Mercy of Christ Jesus being at this time in good and perfect understanding do hereby make My last Will and Testament in manner and form following First I give my good and gracious God an Intire Sacrifice of Body and Soul with my most humble Thanks for that his Blessed Spirit imprints in me now an assuredness of Salvation of one and the Resurrection of the other and for that constant and Cheerful Resolution which the same Spirit Established in me to live and dye in the same Religion Established in England by the known Law In Expectation of the Resurrection I desire that my Body may be buried in the most private manner that may be in the Church-yard of the Parish where I now live without the Ceremony of Calling any Officers And I desire to be carried to my Grave by the ordinary Bearers of the Dead without troubling any of my Friends or letting them know of my Death by any means but by being put into the Earth And I desire my Executor to interpret my meaning in this Request by my Word and not by his own Discretion who peradventure for fashion sake and apprehending we shall never meet may think to order things Better for my Credit God be thanked I have not lived by Jugling therefore I desire to dye and be buried without any And not having as I hope been burdensome to my Friends in my Life I would not load their shoulders being Dead I desire and appoint the Right Honourable Jerome Earl of Portland to be my Executor hoping that for all his Cares of me and Kindnesses to me he will undertake to see this my Will punctually performed Especially concerning my Burial To the Most Excellent Good Kind Vertuous Honorable Lady Portland I give all the Rest that I have in this Will unbequeathed And I do not this foolishly as may at the first sight appear because My Lord is My Executor but because I know it will please the Gaiety of her Humour which ought to be preserv'd for all their sakes that have the honour and happiness to be known unto her To the Right Honourable The Lord Newport I bequeath the Picture of St. Anthony in a round Frame To my very good friend Mr. John Harvy the Picture of the Samaritan by whose kindness I have been often refreshed To my good friend Mr. Chr. Gise Sir Thomas Moor's Head which upon my Conscience I think was not more Ingenious then his own And I write this rather as a Commemoration then a Legacy for I have alwaies made a difference between Kindnesses and Courtesies To Mr. George Pitt I give the Picture of my Dutch Fair which is full of Business but where there is alwaies room for a Kindness And I brag of the favours I received from him because they came not by Chance To my Cousin Henry Stafford Son to my kind friend Mr. William Stafford I give all my Printed Books which although they are of no great value yet they may seem proportionable to his youth and may serve as a Memorial to encline him to be as indulgent to poor Scholars as his Father and Grand-father have been before him And by this means I give not only a Legacy but entayle it upon other men that deserve their kindness To my honourable Friend Sir Allen Broderick I give my Cedar Table to add a fragour to his Excellent Writing To my kind Friend Mr. Tho. Killigrew I give all my Doves that something may descend upon a Courtier that is an Emblem of Kindness and Truth To my Servant Mary Web if she be with me at the time of my death I give all my Linnen that belongs to my personal use and Forty Shillings above her Wages if it does not appear that she hath occasioned my death which I have often liv'd in fear of but being alone could never help although I have often complained of my sad Condition to my nearest Relations 't was not fit to trouble others To Mr. Isaac Walton I give all my Writings under my Father's hand which may be of some use to his Son if he makes him a Scholar To the Reverend Bishop of Chicchster I return that Cabinet that was my Fathers now in my Dining-Room and all those Papers which are of Authors Analysed by my Father many of which he hath already received with his Common-Place-Book which I desire may pass to Mr. Walton's Son as being more likely to have use for such a help when his age shall require it These four sides of this small Paper being written by my own hand I hope will be a sufficient Testimony that this is my last Will. And such Trivial things were not fit for a greater Ceremony than my own Hand and Seal for I have lived alwaies without all other Witnesses but my own Conscience and I hope I have honestly discharged that I have in a Paper annexed something at this present and may do some things hereafter which I presume my most honourable good Lord of Portland will see performed Witnesses Marleburgh Will. Glascocke JOHN DONNE JOHN DONNE When I made this Will I was alone afterwards I desired my good Friends the Earl of Marleburgh and Mr. Glascocke to Witness it Which was in Novemb. the 2d 1661. Non curo quid de me Judicet haeres Hor. Printed February 23. 1662.