John Donne, Sermon no. 18 in XXVI. Sermons (London, 1661), pp. 257-269; George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, eds, The Sermons of John Donne, 10 vols (Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1953-1962), I, pp. 236-251; Peter McCullough, ed., The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume I: Sermons Preached at the Jacobean Courts, 1615-1619 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), pp. 43-58.
This sermon was preached in the late morning at court, two days after the forty-third birthday of Queen Anne of Denmark. See Potter and Simpson, eds, The Sermons of John Donne, I, pp. 134-138; McCullough, ed., The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume I, pp. 185-87. Manuscript witnesses of the sermon are discoverable in the 'Merton' Manuscript (Bodleian Library, MS. Eng. th. c. 71) and the 'Ellesmere' Manuscript (Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 8469).
Peter McCullough, ed., The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume I: Sermons Preached at the Jacobean Courts, 1615-1619 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015); Hannah Yip.
Written in a small, slanted secretary hand with italic forms.