ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the text of John Donne's poems, from the epigrams, songs and satires written for fellow young men about town, to the more mature verse-epistles and memorial elegies written for his patrons. Donne's output is tremendously varied in style and form and demonstrates his ability to exercise his rhetorical capabilities according to context and occasion. Wesley Milgate that in MSS the poem occurs juxtaposed to one or other of the elegies on Lady Markham and Mistress Bulstrode, and therefore probably accompanied one of them. Lady Bedford's followers were assiduous and prolific in their tributes: Sir Arthur Gorge's, wrote Upon the Death of the Young Lord Harington later in 1614 he dedicated his translation of Lucan's Pharsalia to Lady Bedford. Bridget Harington, daughter of Lady Bedford's uncle Sir James, had in 1598 married Sir Anthony Markham, who died in 1604.
