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(c) Drummond of Hawthornden made the following note of a remark of Ben Jonson’s to him, in 1618–19 (Conversations, ed. Laing, p. 8)—

“He esteemeth John Done the first poet in the world in some things: his verses of the Lost Chain he hath by heart; and that passage of the Calm, That dust and feathers doe not stirr, all was so quiet. Affirmeth Done to have written all his best pieces ere he was 25 years old.”

(d) The evidence of Walton and Jonson is supported by John Chudleigh in his Elegy, printed with the Poems of 1650.