JOHN DONNE
EFFIGIES REUERENDISS: UIRI IOHANNIS DONNE NUPER ECCLES: PAULINÆ DECANI
Corporis hæc Animæ sit Syndon Syndon Jesu
Amen
Martin [DR monogram] scup And are to be sould by RR and Ben: ffisher
("Portrait of the very reverend John Donne, lately Dean of St Paul's." The meaning of the second line is highly obscure; possibly "May this be the shroud of my body, Jesus the shroud of my soul"; or possibly: "May this be the shroud of my body, Jesus's shroud that of my soul". The monogram is that of Martin Droeshout)
From the frontispiece to Death's Duel, 1632