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One of Donne's missing epigrams?

Featuring probably the first publication of what might be one of them (though also might not be)

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Victoria
Jul 06, 2023
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John Donne must certainly have written a great deal of Latin verse, both as part of his education, and, very probably, in the years afterwards. He lived and wrote during pretty much the peak of Latin verse culture in England, at a time when the regular composition of Latin verse was, for boys and young men, a routine part of educational experience and o…

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