And dates her letters from thy face
When she doth write.
Herbert, The British Church.
Compare, however, the rest of Donne's poem with Herbert's description of Rome and Geneva, and also: 'Trouble not thy selfe to know the formes and fashions of forraine particular Churches; neither of a Church in the Lake, nor a Church upon seven hils'. Sermons 80. 76. 769.
Page 331. The Crosse.
Donne has evidently in view the aversion of the Puritan to the sign of the cross used in baptism.
With the latter part of the poem compare George Herbert's The Crosse.
Page 332, l. 27. extracted chimique medicine. Compare:
Only in this one thing, be no Galenist; To make
Courts hot ambitions wholesome, do not take