37 'High victorious numbers' is not bad, and the whole passage does bare justice to Donne's mastery of the graver epicede, which equalled Jonson's of the lighter.
41 beholden] Some versions have the common form 'beholding'.
44 'Wit'—in that seventeenth-century sense of which Sir Henry Craik has so well defined the object—'not to excite laughter but to compel attention'—was regarded, and rightly, as Donne's special glory, and the best thing written on his death was Carew's
A king who ruled as he thought fit
The universal monarchy of Wit.
49 For 'Unto thy hearse' the Walton version reads 'Thy memory'.
An Elegy upon the most victorious King of Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus.
[Killed at the battle of Lützen, Nov. 6, 1632.]
Like a cold fatal sweat which ushers death,