John Donne was born in Bread Street, London in 1572 to a prosperous Roman Catholic family, a precarious thing at a time when anti-Catholic sentiment was rife in England.

• 约翰·多恩于1572年出生在伦敦布拉德大街的一个富裕的天主教徒家庭。那时在英国有一种普遍性的不稳定的反天主教情绪。