So that this vapour, never resting stound,
Stands never still, but makes his motion round,
Posteth from Pole to Pole, and flies amain
From Spain to India, and from Inde to Spain.
Sylvester, Du Bartas, First Week, Second Day.
l. 18. prisoners, which lye but for fees, i.e. the fees due to the gaoler. 'And as prisoners discharg'd of actions may lye for fees; so when,' &c.
Deaths Duell (1632), p. [9]. Thirty-three years after this poem was written, Donne thus uses the same figure in the last sermon he ever preached.
Page 176, l. 38. I, and the Sunne. The 'Yea, and the Sunne' of Q shows that 'I' here is probably the adverb, not the pronoun, though the passage is ambiguous. Modern editors have all taken 'I' as the pronoun.
ll. 49-50.