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About the Vintage Spiritual Classics | |
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Preface to the Vintage Spiritual Classics Edition | |
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Chronology of the Life of John Donne | |
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Note on the Texts | |
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Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions | |
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The Stations of the Sickness | |
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The First Alteration, the First Grudging, of the Sickness | |
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The Strength and the Function of the Senses, and Other Faculties, Change and Fail | |
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The Patient Takes His Bed | |
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The Physician Is Sent For | |
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The Physician Comes | |
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The Physician Is Afraid | |
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The Physician Desires to Have Others Joined with Him | |
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The King Sends His Own Physician | |
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Upon Their Consultation They Prescribe | |
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They Find the Disease to Steal on Insensibly, and Endeavor to Meet with It So | |
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They Use Cordials, to Keep the Venom and Malignity of the Disease from the Heart | |
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They Apply Pigeons, to Draw the Vapors from the Head | |
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The Sickness Declares the Infection and Malignity Thereof by Spots | |
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The Physicians Observe These Accidents to Have Fallen upon the Critical Days | |
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I Sleep Not Day nor Night | |
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From the Bells of the Church Adjoining, I Am Daily Remembered of My Burial in the Funerals of Others | |
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Now, This Bell Tolling Softly for Another, Says to Me: Thou Must Die | |
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The Bell Rings Out, and Tells Me in Him, That I Am Dead | |
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At Last the Physicians, After a Long and Stormy Voyage, See Land: They Have So Good Signs of the Concoction of the Disease, as That They May Safely Proceed to Purge | |
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Upon These Indications of Digested Matter, They Proceed to Purge | |
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God Prospers Their Practice, and He, by Them, Calls Lazarus out of His Tomb, Me out of My Bed | |
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The Physicians Consider the Root and Occasion, the Embers, and Coals, and Fuel of the Disease, and Seek to Purge or Correct That | |
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They Warn Me of the Fearful Danger of Relapsing | |
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Death's Duel | |
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The Life of Dr. John Donne (1640) | |
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Notes | |
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Suggestions for Further Reading | |