For Marriage, tho' it sullies not, it dies.
The Monument of a Faire Maiden Lady.
Page 248, l. 83. said History is a strange phrase, but it has the support of all the editions which can be said to have any authority.
l. 92. and then inferre. Compare: 'That this honour might be inferred on some one of the blood and race of their ancient king.' Raleigh (O.E.D.). Donne's sense of 'commit', 'entrust', is not far from Raleigh's of 'confer', 'bestow', and both are natural extensions of the common though now obsolete sense, 'bring on, occasion, cause':
Inferre faire Englands peace by this Alliance.
Shakespeare, Rich. III, IV. iv. 343.
l. 94. thus much to die. To die so far as this life is concerned.
OF THE PROGRESSE OF THE SOULE.
THE SECOND ANNIVERSARIE.
Page 252, l. 43.