rant in the learned'st--tricks
H'hath seen much more than much, I assure ye,
And will see_ New-Troy, Bethlem, _and_ Old-Jury
_Meanwhile (to give a taste of his first travel,
With streams of Rhetorick that get golden Gravel)
He tells how he to_ Venice _once did wander;
From whence he came more witty than a Gander:
Whereby he makes relations of such wonders,
That_ Truth _therein doth lighten, while_ Art _thunders,
All Tongues fled to him that at_ Babel _swerved,
Left they for want of warm months might have starved,
Where they do revel in such passing measure,
(Especially the_ Greek, _wherein's his pleasure.)
That (jovially) so_ Greek _he takes the guard of,
That he's the merriest_ Greek _that ere was heard of;
For he as 'twere his Mothers twittle twattle,
(That's Mother-tongue) the_ Greek _can prittle prattle.
Nay, of that Tongue he so hath got the Body,
That he sports with it at_ Ruffe, Gleek _or_ Noddy, _&c._

He died at _London_ in the midst of the Reign of King _James_ I. and
lieth buried in St. _Giles_ in the Fields.

* * * * *

Doctor _JOHN DONNE_.

This pleasant Poet, painful Preacher, and pious Person, was born in
_London_, of wealthy Parents, who took such care of his Education, that
at nine years of Age he was sent to study at _Hart-Hall_ in _Oxford_,
having besides the _Latine_ and _Greek_, attained to a knowledge in the
_French_ Tongue. Here he fell into acquaintance with that great Master
of Language and Art, Sir _Henry Wootton_; betwixt whom was such
Friendship contracted, that nothing but Death could force the
separation.

From _Oxford_ he was transplanted to _Cambridge_, where he much
improved his Study, and from thence placed at _Lincolns Inn_, when his
Father dying, and leaving him three thousand pound in ready Money; he
having a youthful desire to travel, went over with the Earl of _Essex_
to _Cales_; where having seen the issue of this Expedition, he left
them and went into _Italy_, and from thence into _Spain_, where by his
industry he attained to a perfection in their Languages, and returned
home with many useful Observations of those Countries, and their Laws
and Government.

These his Abilities, upon his Return, preferred him to be Secretary to
the Lord _Elsmore_, Keeper of the Great Seal; in whose Service he fell
in Love with a young Gentlewoman who lived in that Family, Neece to the
Lady _Elsmore_, and Daughter