Mad paper stay, and grudge not here to burne
With all those sonnes [sunnes B, S96] whom my braine did create.
To Mrs. M. H. H., p. [216].
I am thy sonne, made with thyself to shine.
Holy Sonnets, II. 5.
Sweare by thyself, that at my death thy sonne
Shall shine as hee shines now, and heretofore.
A Hymn to God the Father.
'This day both Gods Sons arose: The Sun of his Firmament, and the Son of his bosome.' Sermons 80. 26. 255. 'And when thy Sun, thy soule comes to set in thy death-bed, the Son of Grace shall suck it up into glory.' Ibid. 80. 45. 450.
Correctly read the line has a satiric quality which Donne's lines rarely want, and in which this stanza abounds. I have chosen the spelling 'Sonns' as that which is most commonly used in the MSS. for 'sonnes' and 'sunnes'.