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A67470	The lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert written by Izaak Walton ; to which are added some letters written by Mr. George Herbert, at his being in Cambridge : with others to his mother, the Lady Magdalen Herbert ; written by John Donne, afterwards dean of St. Pauls.	Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683.	1670 (1670)	Wing W671; ESTC R15317	178,870	410

and as a Conqueror enters into a surprized City so Love having got that possession govern'd and made there such Laws and Resolutions as neither party was able to resist insomuch that she chang'd her name into Herbert the third day after this first Interview This haste might in others be thought a Love-phrensie or worse but it was not for they wooed so like Princes as to have select Proxies such as were friends to both parties such as well understood Mr. Herberts and her temper of mind and their Estates so well before this Interview that the suddenness was justifiable by the st●ictest Rules of prudence And the more because it prov'd so happy to both parties for the eternal lover of Mankind made them happy in each others mutual affections and compliance so happy that there never was any opposition betwixt them unless it were a Contest which should most incline to a compliance with the others desires And though this begot and continued in them such a mutual love and joy and content as was no way defective yet this mutual content and love and joy did receive a daily augmentation by such daily obligingness to each other as still added such new affluences to the former fulness of these divine Souls as was only improvable in Heaven where they now enjoy it About three months after his Marriage Dr. Curle who was then Rector of Bemerton in Wiltshire was made Bishop of Bath and Wells and not long after Translated to Winchester and by that means the presentation of a Clerk to Bemerton did not fall to the Earl of Pembroke who was the undoubted Patron of it but to the King by reason of Dr. Curles advancement But Philip then Earl of Pembroke for William was lately dead requested the King to bestow it upon his Kinsman George Herbert and the King said Most willingly to Mr. Herbert if it were worth his acceptance And the Earl as willingly and suddenly sent it him without seeking but though Mr. Herbert had formerly put on a resolution for the Clergy yet the apprehension of the last great Account that he was to make for the Cure of so many Souls made him fast and pray and consider for not less than a month in which time he had some resolutions to decline both the Priesthood and that living And in this time of considering He endur'd as he would often say such spiritual Conflicts as none can think but only those that have endur'd them In the midst of these Conflicts his old and dear friend Mr. John Woodnot took a journey to salute him at Bainton where he then was with his Wives Friends and Relations and was joyful to be an Eye-witness of his Health and happy Marriage And after they had rejoyc'd together some few dayes they two took a Journey to Wilton the famous Seat of the Earls of Pembroke at which time the King the Earl and the whole Court were there or at Salisbury which is near to it At which time Mr. Herbert presented his Thanks to the Earl for his presentation to Bemerton but had not yet resolv'd to accept of it and told him the reason why but that Night the Earl acquainted Dr. Laud the Archbishop of Canterbury with his Kinsmans irresolution And the Bishop did the next day so convince Mr. Herbert That the refusal of it was a sin that a Taylor was sent for to come speedily from Salisbury to Wilton to take measure and make him Canonical Cloaths against next day which the Taylor did and Mr. Herbert being so habited went with his presentation to the learned Dr. Davenant who was then Bishop of Salisbury and he gave him Institution immediately for Mr. Herbert had been made Deacon some years before and he was also the same day which was April 26. 1630. inducted into the good and more pleasant than healthful Parsonage of Bemerton which is a Mile from Salisbury I have now brought him to his Parsonage of Bemerton and to the Thirty sixth Year of his Age and must now stop and bespeak the Reader to prepare for an almost incredible story of the great sanctity of the short remainder of his holy life a life so full of Charity Humility and all Christian vertues that it deserves the eloquence of St. Chrysostom to commend and declare it A life that if it were related by a Pen like his there would then be no need for this Age to look back into times past for the examples of primitive piety for they might be all found in the life of George Herbert But now alas who is fit to undertake it I confess I am not and am not pleas'd with my self that must and profess my self amaz'd when I consider how few of the Clergy liv'd like him then and how many live so unlike him now But it becomes not me to censure my design is rather to assure the Reader that I have used very great diligence to inform my self that I might inform him of the truth of what follows and I will do that with sincerity When at his Induction he was shut into Bemerton Church being left there alone to Toll the Bell as the Law requires him he staid so much longer than an ordinary time before he return'd to his Friends that staid expecting him at the Church-door that his Friend Mr. Woodnot looked in at the Church-window and saw him lie prostrate on the ground before the Altar at which time and place as he after told Mr. Woodnot he set some Rules to himself for the future manage of his life and then and there made a vow to labour to keep them And the same night that he had his Induction he said to Mr. Woodnot I now look back upon my aspiring thoughts and think my self more happy than if I had attain'd what I so ambitiously thirsted for And I can now behold the Court with an impartial Eye and see plainly that it is made up of Fraud and Titles and Flattery and many other such empty imaginary painted Pleasures Pleasures that are so empty as not to satisfie when they are enjoy'd but in God and his service is a fulness of all joy and pleasure and no satiety And I will now use all my endeavours to bring my Relations and Dependants to a love and reliance on him who never fails those that trust him But above all I will be sure to live well because the vertuous life of a Clergy-man is the most powerful eloquence to perswade all that see it to reverence and love and at least to desire to live like him And this I will do because I know we live in an Age that hath more need of good examples than precepts And I beseech that God who hath honour'd me so much as to call me to serve at his Altar that as by his special grace he hath put into my heart these good desires and resolutions so he will be his assisting grace enable me to bring the same to good effect and that my humble and

most glad to renew his intermitted friendship with those whom he so much loved and where he had been a Saul though not to persecute Christianity or to deride it yet in his irregular youth to neglect the visible practise of it there to become a Paul and preach salvation to his beloved brethren And now his life was as a Shining light among his old friends now he gave an ocular testimony of the strictness and regularity of it now he might say as St Paul adviseth his Corinthians Be ye followers of me as I follow Christ and walk as yee have me for an example not the example of a busie-body but of a contemplative a harmless an humble and an holy life and conversation The love of that noble society was expressed to him many wayes for besides fair lodgings that were set apart and newly furnished for him with all necessaries other courteesies were daily added indeed so many and so freely as if they meant their gratitude should exceed his merits and in this love-strife of desert and liberality they continued for the space of two years he preaching ●uthfully and constantly to them and● they liberally requiting him About which time the Emperour of Germany died and the Palsgrave who had lately married the Lady Elizabeth the Kings onely daugher was elected and crowned King of Bohemia the unhappy beginning of many miseries in that Nation King James whose Motto Beati pacifici did truly speak the very thoughts of his heart endeavoured first to prevent and after to compose the discords of that discomposed State and amongst other his endeavours did then send the Lord Hay Earl of Doncaster his Ambassadour to those unsetled Princes and by a special command from his Majesty Dr Donne was appointed to assist and attend that employment to the Princes of the Union for which the Earl was most glad who had alwayes put a great value on him and taken a great pleasure in his conversation and discourse and his friends of Lincolns Inne were as glad for they feared that his immoderate study and sadness for his wives death would as Jacob said make his daies few and respecting his bodily health evil too and of this there were some visible signs At his going he left his friends of Lincolns-Inne and they him with many reluctations for though he could not say as S. Paul to his Ephesians Behold you to whom I have preached the Kingdom of God shall from henceforth see my face no more yet he believing himself to be in a Consumption questioned and they feared it all concluding that his troubled mind with the help of his unintermitted studies hastened the decays of his weak body And God turned it to the best for this employment to say nothing of the event of it did not onely divert him from those too serious studies and sad thoughts but seemed to give him a new life by a true occasion of joy to be an eye-witness of the health of his most dear and most honoured Mistress the Qu. of Bohemia in a forraign Nation and to be a witness of that gladness which she expressed to see him Who having formerly known him a Courtier was much joyed to see him in a Canonical habit and more glad to be an ear-witness of his excellent and powerful Preaching About fourteen moneths after his departure out of England he returned to his friends of Lincolns-Inne with his sorrows moderated and his health improved and there betook himself to his constant course of Preaching About a year after his return out of Germany Dr. Cary was made Bishop of Exeter and by his removal the Deanry of St. Pauls being vacant the King sent to Dr. Donne and appointed him to attend him at Dinner the next day When his Majesty was sate down before he had eat any meat he said after his pleasant manner Dr. Donne I have invited you to Dinner and though you sit not down with me yet I will carve to you of a dish that I know you love well for knowing you love London I do therefore make you Dean of Pauls and when I have dined then do you take your beloved dish home to your study say grace there to your self and much good may it do you Immediately after he came to his Deanry he employed work-men to repair and beautifie the Chappel suffering as holy David once vowed his eyes and temples to take no rest till he had first beautified the house of God The next quarter following when his Father-in-law Sir George Moor whom Time had made a lover and admirer of him came to pay to him the conditioned summe of twenty pounds he refused to receive it and said as good Jacob did when he heard his beloved son Joseph was alive It is enough You have been kind to me and mine I know your present condition is such as not to abound and I hope mine is or will be such as not to need it I will therefore receive no more from you upon that contract and in testimony of it freely gave him up his bond Immediately after his admission into his Deanry the Vicarage of St. Dunstan in the West London fell to him by the death of Dr. White the Advowson of it having been given to him long before by his honourable friend Richard Earl of Dorset then the Patron and confirmed by his brother the late deceased Edward both of them men of much honour By these and another Ecclesiastical endowment which fell to him about the same time given to him formerly by the Earl of Kent he was enabled to become charitable to the poor and kind to his friends and to make such provision for his children that they were not left scandalous as relating to their or his Profession and Quality The next Parliament which was within that present year he was chosen Prolocutor to the Convocation and about that time was appointed by his Majesty his most gracious Master to preach very many occasional Sermons as at St. Paul's Cross and other places All which employments he performed to the admiration of the Representative Body of the whole Clergy of this Nation He was once and but once clouded with the Kings displeasure and it was about this time which was occasioned by some malicious whisperer who had told his Majesty that Dr. Donne had put on the general humour of the Pulpits and was become busie in insinuating a fear of the Kings inclining to Popery and a dislike of his Government and particularly for his then turning the Evening Lectures into Catechising and expounding the Prayer of our Lord and of the Belief and Commandments His Majesty was the more inclineable to believe this for that a Person of Nobility and great note betwixt whom and Dr. Donne there had been a great friendship was at this very time discarded the Court I shall forbear his name unless I had a fairer occasion and justly committed to prison which begot many rumours in the common people who in this Nation

many of high parts and piety have undertaken to clear the Controversie yet for the most part they have rather satisfied themselves than convinced the dissenting party And doubtless many middle-witted men which yet may mean well many Scholars that are not in the highest Form for Learning which yet may preach well men that shall never know till they come to Heaven where the questions stick betwixt Arminius and the Church of England will yet in this world be tampering with and thereby perplexing the Controversie and do therefore justly fall under the reproof of St. Jude for being Busie-bodies and for medling with things they understand not And here it offers it self I think not unfitly to tell the Reader that a friend of Sir Henry Woltons being designed for the imployment of an Ambassador came to Eaton and requested from him some experimental Rules for his prudent and safe carriage in his Negotiations to whom he smilingly gave this for an infallible Aphorism That to be in safety himself and serviceable to his Countrey he should alwayes and upon all occasions speak the truth it seems a State-Paradox for sayes Sir Henry Wotton you shall never be believed and by this means your truth will secure your self if you shall ever be called to any account and 't will also put your Adversaries who will still hunt counter to a loss in all their disquisitions and undertakings Many more of this nature might be observed but they must be laid aside for I shall here make a little stop and invite the Reader to look back with me whil'st according to my promise I shall say a little of Sir Albertus Morton and Mr. William Bedel whom I formerly mentioned I have told you that are the Readers that at Sir Henry Wottons first going Ambassador into Italy his Cosin Sir Albert Morton went his Secretary and am next to tell you that Sir Albertus dyed Secretary of State to our late King but cannot am not able to express the sorrow that possest Sir Henry Wotton at his first hearing the news that Sir Albertus was by death lost to him and this world and yet the Reader may partly guess by these following expressions The first in a Letter to his Nicholas Pey of which this that followeth is a part And My dear Nick When I had been here almost a fortnight in the midst of my great contentment I received notice of Sir Albertus Morton his departure out of this World who was dearer to me than mine own being in it what a wound it is to my heart you that knew him and knew me will easily believe but our Creators Will must be done and unrepiningly received by his own Creatures who is the Lord of all Nature and of all Fortune when he taketh to himself now one and then another till that expected day wherein it shall please him to dissolve the whole and wrap up even the Heaven it self as a Scrole of parchment This is the last Philosophy that we must study upon Earth let us therefore that yet remain here as our dayes and friends waste reinforce our love to each other which of all vertues both spiritual and moral hath the highest priviledge because death it self cannot end it And my good Nick c. This is a part of his sorrow thus exprest to his Nick Pey the other part is in this following Elogy of which the Reader may safely conclude 't was too hearty to be dissembled Tears wept at the Grave of Sir Albertus Morton by Henry Wotton SIlence in truth would speak my sorrow best For deepest wounds can least their feelings tell Yet let me borrow from mine own unrest A time to bid him whom I lov'd farewell Oh my unhappy Lines you that before Have serv'd my youth to vent some wanton cryes And now congeal'd with grief can scarce implore Strength to accent Here my Albertus lies This is that Sable stone this is the Cave And womb of earth that doth his Corps embrace While others sing his praise let me ingrave These bleeding numbers to adorn the place Here will I paint the Characters of woe Here will I pay my tribute to the dead And here my faithful tears in showres shall flow To humanize the flints on which I tread Where though I mourn my matchless loss alone And none between my weakness judge and me Yet even these pensive walls allow my moan Whose doleful Echoes to my plaints agree But is he gone and live I riming here As if some Muse would listen to my lay When all dis-tun'd sit waiting for their dear And bathe the Banks where he was wont to play Dwell then in endless bliss with happy souls Discharg'd from natures and from fortunes trust Whil'st on this fluid Globe my Hour-glass rowls And runs the rest of my remaining dust H. Wotton This concerning his Sir Albertus Morton And for what I shall say concerning Mr. William Bedel I must prepare the Reader by telling him That when King James sent Sir Henry Wotton Ambassador to the State of Venice he sent also an Ambassador to the King of France and another to the King of Spain with the Ambassador of France went Joseph Hall late Bishop of Norwich whose many and useful works speak his great merit with the Ambassador of Spain went Ja. Wadsworth and with Sir Henry Wotton went William Bedel These three Chaplains to these three Ambassadors were all bred in one University all of one Colledge all Benefic'd in one Diocess and all most dear and int●●e Friends But in Spain Mr. Wadsworth met with temptations or reasons such as were so powerful as to perswade him who of the three was formerly observ'd to be the most averse to that Religion that calls itself Catholick to disclaim himself a Member of the Church of England and declare himself for the Church of Rome discharging himself of his attendance on the Ambassador and betaking himself to a Monasterial life in which he lived very regularly and so dyed When Dr. Hall the late Bishop of Norwich came into England he wrote to Mr. Wadsworth 't is the first Epistle in his printed Decads to perswade his return or the reason of his Apostasie the Letter seemed to have in it many sweet expressions of love and yet there was something in it that was so unpleasant to Mr. Wadsworth that he chose rather to acquaint his old friend Mr. Bedel with his motives by which means there past betwixt Mr. Bedel and Mr. Wadsworth very many Letters which be extant in Print and did well deserve it for in them there seems to be a controversie not of Religion on only but who should answer each other with most love and meekness which I mention the rather because it seldom falls out so in a Book-War There is yet a little more to be said of Mr. Bedel for the greatest part of which the Reader is referred to this following Letter of Sir Henry Wottons writ to our late King Charles May it please Your

were some of the reasons by which Mr. Herbert instructed his Congregation for the use of the Psalms and the Hymns appointed to be daily sung or said in the Church-service He inform'd them when the Priest did pray only for the Congregation and not for himself and when they did only pray for him as namely after the repetition of the Creed before he proceeds to pray the Lords prayer or any of the appointed Collects the Priest is directed to kneel down and pray for them saying The Lord be with you And then they pray for him saying And with thy spirit and he assur'd them that when there is such mutual love and such joint prayers offered for each other then the holy Angels look down from Heaven and are ready to carry such charitable desires to God Almighty and he as ready to receive them and that a Christian Congregation calling thus upon God with one heart and one voyce and in one reverend and humble posture look as beautifully as Jerusalem that is at peace with it self He instructed them why the prayer of our Lord was pray'd often in every full service of the Church namely at the conclusion of the several parts of that Service and pray'd then not only because it was compos'd and commanded by our Jesus that made it but as a perfect pattern for our less perfect Forms of prayer and therefore fittest to sum up and conclude all our imperfect Petitions He instructed them that as by the second Commandment we are requir'd not to bow down or worship an Idol or false god so by the contrary Rule we are to bow down and kneel or stand up and worship the true God And he instructed them why the Church requir'd the Congregation to stand up at the repetition of the Creeds namely because they did thereby declare both their obedience to the Church and an assent to that faith into which they had been baptiz●d And he taught them that in that sho●ter Creed or Doxology so often repeated daily they also stood up to testifie their belief to be that the God that they trusted in was one God and three persons the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost to whom the Priest gave glory And because there had been Heretic ●s that had denied some of these three persons to be God therefore the Congregation stood up and honour'd him by con●essing and saying It was so in the beginning is now so and shall ever be so World without end And as gave their assent to this be●●ef by saying Amen He instructed them what benefit they had by the Churches appointing the ● elebration of Holy-dayes and the excellent use of them namely that they were set apart for particular Commemorations of particular mercies received from Almighty God and as Reve●end Mr. Hooker sayes to be the Land mar●s to distinguish times for by them we are taught to take notice how the years pass by us and that we ought not to let them pass without a Celebration of praise for those mercies which they give us occasion to remember and therefore the year is appointed to begin the 25th day of March a day in which we commemorate the Angels appearing to the B. Virgin with the joyful tydings that she should conc●ive and bear a Son that should be the redeemer of Mankind and she did so Forty weeks after this joyful salutation namely at our Christmas a day in which we commemorate his Birth with joy and praise and that eight dayes after this happy Birth we celebrate his Circumcision namely in that which we call New-years day And that upon that we call Twelfth-day we commemorate the manifestation of the unsearchable riches of Jesus to the Gentiles And that day we also celebrate the memory of his goodness in sending a Star to guide the three wise men from the East to Bethlem that they might there worship and present him with their oblations of Gold Frankincense and Myrrhe And he Mr. Herbert instructed them that Jesus was Forty dayes after his Birth presented by his blessed mother in the Temple namely on that day which we call the Purification of the blessed Virgin Saint Mary And he instructed them that by the Lent-fast we imitate and commemorate our Saviours humiliation in fasting Forty dayes and that we ought to endeavour to be like him in purity And that on Good fryday we commemorate and condole his Crucifixion And at Easter commemorate his glorious Resurrection And he taught them that after Jesus had manifested himself to his Disciples to be that Christ that was crucified dead and buried that then by his appearing and conversing with them for the space of Forty dayes after his Resurrection he then and not till then ascended into Heaven in the sight of his Disciples namely on that day which we call the Ascension or Holy Thursday And that we then celebrate the performance of the promise which he made to his Disciples at or before his Ascension namely that though he left them yet he would send them the Holy Ghost to be their Comforter and he did so on that day which the Church calls Whit sunday Thus the Church keeps an Historical and circular Commemoration of times as they pass by us of such times as ought to incline us to occasional praises for the particular blessings which we do or might receive at those holy times He made them know why the Church hath appointed Ember-weeks and to know the reason why the Commandements and the Epistles and Gospels were to be read at the Altar or Communion Table why the Priest was to pray the Litany Kneeling and why to pray some Collects standing and he gave them many other observations fit for his plain Congregation but not fit for me now to mention for I must set limits to my Pen and not make that a Treatise which I intended to be a much shorter account than I have made it but I have done when I have told the Reader that he was constant in Catechising every Sunday in the Afternoon and that his Catechising was after his second lesson and in the Pulpit and that he never exceeded his half hour and was always so happy as to have a full Congregation But to this I must add That if he were at any time too zealous in his Sermons it was in reproving the indecencies of the peoples behaviour in the time of Divine Service and of those Ministers that hudled up the Church-prayers without a visible reverence and affection namely such as seem'd to say the Lords prayer or a Collect in a breath but for himself his custom was to stop betwixt every Collect and give the people time to consider what they had pray'd and to force their desires affectionately to God before he engag'd them into new Petitions And by this account of his diligence to make his Parishioners understand what and why they pray'd and prais'd and ador'd their Creator I hope I shall the more easily obtain the Readers belief