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The Physician Comes
The Physician ComesSolus AdestMeditationJohn Donne AS sickness is the greatest misery, so the greatest misery of sickness is solitude; when the infectiousness of the disease deters them who…The Physician Is Afraid
The Physician Is AfraidMetuitMeditationJohn Donne I OBSERVE the physician with the same diligence as he the disease; I see he fears, and I fear with him; I overtake him, I overrun him, in his…The physician desires to have others joined with him
The physician desires to have others joined with himSocios Sibi Jungier InstatMeditationJohn Donne THERE is more fear, therefore more cause. If the physician desire help, the burden grows…John Donne: Expostulation VII. Socios sibi jungier instat
ExpostulationJohn Donne MY God, my God, thy blessed servant Augustine begged of thee that Moses might come and tell him what he meant by some places of Genesis: may I have leave to ask of…John Donne: Prayer VII. Socios sibi jungier instat
PrayerJohn Donne O ETERNAL and most gracious God, who gavest to thy servants in the wilderness thy manna, bread so conditioned, qualified so, as that to every man manna tasted like that which…The King Sends His Own Physician
The King Sends His Own PhysicianEt Rex Ipse Suum MittitMeditationJohn Donne STILL when we return to that meditation that man is a world, we find new discoveries. Let him be a world, and…John Donne: Expostulation VIII. Et rex ipse suum mittit
ExpostulationJohn Donne MY God, my God, I have a warning from the wise man, that “when a rich man speaketh every man holdeth his tongue, and, look, what he saith, they extol it to the clouds…John Donne: Prayer VIII. Et rex ipse suum mittit
PrayerJohn Donne O ETERNAL and most gracious God, who, though thou have reserved thy treasure of perfect joy and perfect glory to be given by thine own hands then, when, by seeing thee as…Upon their consultation they prescribe
Upon their consultation they prescribeMedicamina ScribuntMeditationJohn Donne THEY have seen me and heard me, arraigned me in these fetters and received the evidence; have cut up mine own…They find the disease to steal on insensibly, and endeavour to meet with it so
They find the disease to steal on insensibly, and endeavour to meet with it soLente et Serpenti Satagunt Occurre re MorboMeditationJohn Donne THIS is nature's nest of boxes: the heavens…