Donne's father died suddenly in 1576, and left the three children to be raised by their mother, Elizabeth, the daughter of John Heywood, epigrammatist, and a relative of Sir Thomas More.

多恩1576年猝亡，留给他母三个孩子抚养。他母是讽刺诗人约翰·海伍德女儿，是托马斯·摩尔戚。

A poet calling himself Satyrical Dick wrote how a “jolly wine-cooper” could combine a “pint of old port” with some rough Spanish wine and thus “could counterfeit claret the best of the sort”.

一个自称讽刺迪克诗人就写过一个“快乐箍桶匠”是“一品脱陈年波特酒”里混入些粗制西班牙葡萄酒，从而“炮制出极品波尔多红酒”。