Donne with the world

Shakespeare: *clearly satisfied* I have mind to use that in my work!

Johnson: Wow, pretentious aren't we?

Anne is fuming over my flirtations with another young lady in towne today. I didn't think much of it and the remnants of my younger self fancied it quite a bit, but she is in near refusal to so much as speak to me. I know not what to do for her to make her happy again.

Spencer's sonnets are so engaging. Far more so than Shakespeare. A far more intellectual form.

My beloved wife Anne and I met and married despite the wishes of my employer at the time Sir Thomas Egerton, her uncle. It got me thrown into prison for a short time but it is well worth it. She has given me ten lovely children and I will mourn her greatly when she departs from the earth

I was born to a Roman-Catholic family in a time of great persecution in England. Fortunately, my father avoided negative attention of the government. My father died when i was merely four years of age, leaving my mother to raise their six children. At eleven years of age, I was enrolled in  Hart Hall, Oxford. After 3 years I began study at the University of Cambridge. My younger self indulged himself in women, literature, travel, and other fineries. I was then appointed Chief Secretary to Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, Sir Thomas Egerton. I received a doctorate in divinity in 1615, and became a Royal Chaplain, triggering a string of positions across England. I died in 1631 of stomach cancer.