ABSTRACT

And he quotes from The second Anniversary the six lines beginning 'She, of whose soule, if wee may say, 'twas Gold' (lines 241-6), which include the image of 'her pure, and eloquent blood' speaking in her cheeks so that 'one might almost say, her body thought'. Again 'Dr Donne' is acknowledged in the margin. Finally he cites the Virgin Mary, once more finding an apt quotation from The second Anniversary-... that it is true what our best of Poets [Dr Donnes Poems-marginal gloss] said,