brothers to their mother, Elizabeth, the daughter of John Heywood, epigrammatist, and a relative of Sir Thomas Moore. Donne's initial teachers were Jesuits and it was not long before John began to study at the University of Oxford. He studied there for three years. After studying at the University of Oxford, he then studied at the University of Cambridge for three more years, but would not earn a degree because he would not take the "Oath of Supremacy," which declared the king as head of the church. Donne later went on to study law until 1593, when his brother died of a fever while serving time in jail. This
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