Epitaph for Anne Donne [manuscript], 1601/1602 February 2.
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Title
Epitaph for Anne Donne [manuscript], 1601/1602 February 2.
Description
1 leaf ; 32 x 23 cm
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Summary
John Donne's cruciform epitaph for his wife. Includes a list of the knights of Loseley and Anne Donne's relationship to them (daughter, sister, grand-daughter, great grand-daughter), followed by lines praising of Anne Donne's qualities as a woman, wife and mother, references to her years of marriage, pregnancies, and circumstances of her death, and John Donne's pledge to have his ashes "wed" her ashes in a "new marriage."
Language Note
In Latin.
Note
Donne paid 15 pieces to Nicholas Stone to engrave this text a wall monument for his wife in St. Clement Danes Church. It no longer survives but was described in the 1633 edition of Stow.
In
Papers of the More family of Loseley Park, Surrey, 1489-1682 (bulk 1538-1630).
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L.b.541