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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: The Poems of Richard Corbet, late bishop of Oxford and of Norwich - 4th edition - -Author: Richard Corbet - Octavius Gilchrist - -Release Date: May 18, 2021 [eBook #65375] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -Produced by: Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at - https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images - generously made available by The Internet Archive/American - Libraries.) - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE POEMS OF RICHARD CORBET, LATE -BISHOP OF OXFORD AND OF NORWICH *** - - - - - - THE - POEMS - OF - RICHARD CORBET, - LATE BISHOP OF OXFORD AND OF NORWICH. - - THE FOURTH EDITION, - With considerable Additions. - - TO WHICH ARE NOW ADDED, - “ORATIO IN FUNUS HENRICI PRINCIPIS,” - FROM ASHMOLE’S MUSEUM, - _Biographical Notes, and a Life of the Author_, - BY - OCTAVIUS GILCHRIST, F.S.A. - - London: - PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME, - PATERNOSTER-ROW. - 1807. - - Invidebam devio ac solo loco - Opes camœnarum tegi: - At nunc frequentes, atque claros, nee procul, - Quum floreas inter viros. - - AUSONIUS. - - R. TAYLOR, and Co. Shoe Lane. - - - - -TO MY FRIEND THOMAS BLORE, ESQ. THIS VOLUME, UNDERTAKEN AT HIS -SUGGESTION, AND PROMOTED BY HIS ASSISTANCE, IS INSCRIBED BY THE EDITOR. - - - - -THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR. - - -The public interest has been of late years so strongly manifested in -favour of the poets of the seventeenth century, that little apology -appears necessary for the republication of the following Poems. It -would, however, be equally vain and foolish in the editor to claim for -the author a place among the higher class of poets, or to exalt his due -praise by depreciating the merits of his contemporaries.—Claiming only -for Cæsar what to Cæsar is due, it may without arrogance be presumed -that these pages will not be found inferior to the poems of others which -have been fortunately republished, or familiarised to the generality of -readers through the popular medium of selections. - -The author of the following poems (an account of whose life may be -considered as a necessary appendage to these pages) is said to have -descended from the antient family of the Corbets in Shropshire. It -were too laborious and pedantic in a work of this nature to trace his -pedigree, but I should be pleased to find any proofs of their attachment -to him: yet as the bishop did not usually “conceal his love,” I suspect -he received no mark of their regard, at least till his elevation -conferred rather than received obligation by acknowledgment. - -Richard Corbet, successively bishop of Oxford and Norwich, was born at -the village of Ewell in Surrey, in the year 1582: he was the only son -of Bennet, or Benedicta, and Vincent Corbet, who, from causes which I -have not discovered, assumed the name of Poynter. His father, a man of -some eminence for his skill in gardening, and who is celebrated by Ben -Jonson in an elegy[1] alike honourable to the subject, the poet, and -the friend, for his many amiable virtues, resided at Whitton, a hamlet -in the parish of Twickenham, where the poet passed his declining days. -Under the will of his father[2] he inherited sundry freehold lands and -tenements lying in St. Augustine’s parish, Watling-street, London, and -five hundred pounds in money, which was directed to be paid him by -Bennet, the father’s wife and sole executrix, upon his attaining the -age of twenty-five years. After receiving the rudiments of education at -Westminster School, he entered in Lent term 1597-8 at Broadgate Hall, -and the year following was admitted a student of Christ-Church College, -Oxford. In 1605 he proceeded Master of Arts, and became celebrated as a -wit and a poet. - -The following early specimen of his humour is preserved in a collection -of “Mery Passages and Jeastes,” Harl. MS. No. 6395: “Ben Jonson was at a -tavern, and in comes bishop Corbet (but not so then) into the next room. -Ben Jonson calls for a quart of _raw_ wine, and gives it to the tapster. -‘Sirrah!’ says he, ‘carry this to the gentleman in the next chamber, and -tell him I sacrifice my service to him.’ The fellow did, and in those -terms. ‘Friend!’ says bishop Corbet, ‘I thank him for his love; but -pr’ythee tell him from me that he is mistaken, for sacrifices are always -burnt.’” - -In 1612, upon the death of the amiable and accomplished Henry Prince of -Wales, - - “The expectancy and rose of the fair state,” - -and the theme of many a verse; the University, overwhelmed with grief, -more especially as he had been a student of Magdalen College under the -tutorage of Mr. John Wilkinson, (“afterwards the unworthy president of -that house,”) and desirous of testifying their respect for his memory, -deputed Corbet, then one of the proctors, to pronounce a funeral oration; -“who,” to use the words of Antony Wood, “very oratorically speeched it in -St. Maries church, before a numerous auditory[3].” On the 13th of March -in the following year he performed a similar ceremony in the Divinity -School on the interment of sir Thomas Bodley, the munificent founder of -the library known by his name. - -Amid the religious dissensions at this period, encouraged and increased -by James’s suspected inclination to popery, it was scarcely possible to -avoid giving offence to the supporters of the various doctrinal opinions -which in this confusion of faiths divided the people. At the head of the -Church was Dr. George Abbott, a bigoted and captious Puritan: opposed -to this disciple of Calvin was Laud, then growing into fame, who boldly -supported the opinions of Arminius. With the latter Corbet coincided: but -the undisguised publication of his faith had nearly proved fatal to his -future prospects; for, “preaching the Passion sermon at Christ-Church, -(1613,) he insisted on the article of Christ’s descending into hell, -and therein grated upon Calvin’s manifest perverting of the true sense -and meaning of it: for which, says Heylyn, he was so rattled up by the -Repetitioner, (Dr. Robert Abbott, brother of the archbishop,) that if -he had not been a man of a very great courage, it might have made him -afraid of staying in the University. This, it was generally conceived, -was not done without the archbishop’s setting on; but the best was, adds -Heylyn, that none sunk under the burthen of these oppressions, if (like -the camomile) they did not rise the higher by it[4].” - -When James, in 1605[5], visited Oxford in his summer progress, the wits -of the sister University vented their raillery at the entertainment -given to the royal visitor[6]. Cambridge, which had long solicited the -same honour, was in the year 1614-5 indulged with his presence. Many -students from Oxford witnessed the ceremonial of his reception; and the -local histories of the two Universities at that period, are replete -with pasquinades and ballads sufficiently descriptive of their mutual -animosities. An eye-witness declares, “Though I endured a great deal of -penance by the way for this little pleasure, yet I would not have missed -it, for that I see thereby the partiality of both sides—the Cambridge men -pleasing and applauding themselves in all, and the Oxford men as fast -condemning and detracting all that was done; wherein yet I commended -Corbet’s modesty, whilst he was there; who being seriously dealt withal -by some friends to say what he thought, answered, that he had left -his malice and judgment at home, and came there only to commend[7].” -Notwithstanding this conciliatory declaration, the opportunity of -retorting upon the first assailants was too tempting to Corbet’s wit to -be slighted; and immediately upon his return he composed the ballad, page -13, “To the tune of Bonny Nell.”—This humorous narrative excited several -replies; the most curious of which was the one, in Latin and English, -(at page 24,) written, perhaps, by sir Thomas Lake, afterwards secretary -of state, who performed the part of Trico in the Cambridge play of -Ignoramus, and who had a ring bequeathed him by the author, Ruggles[8]. - -Corbet appears, says Headley[9], to have been of that poetical party -who, by inviting Ben Jonson to come to Oxford, rescued him from the arms -of a sister University, who has long treated the Muses with indignity, -and turned a hostile and disheartening eye on those who have added most -celebrity to her name[10]. - -We do not find that Ben expressed any regret at the change of his -situation: companions whose minds and pursuits were similar to his own, -are not always to be found in the gross atmosphere of the muddy Cam, -though easily met with on the more genial banks of the Isis: - - Largior hic campos æther. - -In 1616 he was recommended by the Convocation as a proper person to be -elected to the college which Dr. Matthew Surtclyve, dean of Exeter, -had lately erected at Chelsea, for maintaining polemical Divines to be -employed in opposing the doctrines of Papists and Sectaries. Whether he -obtained his election I have not learned: nor is it of much moment; for -the establishment, as might be naturally foreseen from the circumstances -of the times, soon declined from its original purpose[11]. - -Being now in a situation to indulge his inclinations, he in 1618 made -a trip to France, from whence he wrote an “epistle to sir Thomas -Aylesbury,” in which he gently laughs at his friend’s astronomical -fondness; and composed a metrical description of his journey, from which -we may conclude that he returned less disgusted with his native country, -and less enamoured of the manners and habits of his new acquaintance, -than is usual with the modern visitors of our transmarine neighbours. - -He was now in holy orders; and, in the language of Antony Wood, “became -a quaint preacher, and therefore much followed by ingenious men.” None -of Corbet’s sermons are, I believe, in existence: the modesty that -withheld his poems from the press, during his life, prevented his adding -to the multitude of devotional discourses with which the country was -at this period infested[12]. Those who are at all acquainted with -the ecclesiastical oratory of James’s reign, will be at no loss to -comprehend “honest Antony’s” description; but to those who are not, it -may be sufficient to observe, that, of its peculiar excellencies and -demerits, the sermons of bishop King, his contemporary, (which have been -republished) are a complete “picture in little.” - -About this time he appears, from the following characteristic letter[13], -to have solicited promotion at the hands of Villiers duke of Buckingham: - - “May it please your Grace - - “To consider my two great losses this weeke: one in respect of - his Majesty to whom I was to preach; the other in respect of my - patron whom I was to visit. Yf this bee not the way to repare - the later of my losses, I feare I am in danger to bee utterly - undon. To press too neere a greate man is a meanness; to be put - by, and to stand too far off, is the way to be forgotten: so - Ecclesiasticus. In which mediocrity, could I hitt it, would I - live and dy, my lord. I would neather press neere, nor stand - far off; choosing rather the name of an ill courtier than a - sawsy scholer. - - “I am your Grace’s most humble servant, - - “RICHARD CORBET.” - - Christ’s Church, this 26 Feb. - -“Heer are newes, my noble lord, about us, that, in the point of -alledgeance now in hand, all the Papists are exceeding orthodox; the only -recusants are the Puritans.” - -Of the nature of the object thus supplicated, my inquiries have not -informed me: he was now dean of Christ-Church, vicar of Cassington near -Woodstock in Oxfordshire, and prebendary of Bedminster secunda in the -church of Sarum: it was, perhaps, the appointment of chaplain to the -King, which he received about this time; and if to this period may be -assigned the gratulatory poem at page 83, it should seem that Buckingham -was not solicited in vain. - -In 1619 he sustained a great loss in the decease of his amiable father, -at a very advanced age; whose praise he has celebrated in the most -honourable terms, and whose death he has lamented in the language of -rational and tender regret. - -When James paid a second visit to Oxford in 1621, Corbet, in his office -of chaplain, preached before the monarch[14], who had presented him -(as it seems) with a token of his favour, such as flattered in no -small degree the vanity of the dean. The progress of the court and its -followers is thus ludicrously described in an anonymous poem transcribed -from Antony Wood’s papers[15] in Ashmole’s Museum: - - The king and the court, - Desirous of sport, - Six days at Woodstock did lie; - Thither went the doctors, - And sattin-sleev’d proctors, - With the rest of the learned fry; - - Whose faces did shine - With beere and with wine, - So fat, that it may be thought - University cheere, - With college strong beere, - Made them far better fed than taught. - - A number beside, - With their wenches did ride, - (For scholars are always kind) - And still evermore, - While they rode before, - They were kissing their wenches behind. - - A number on foot, - Without cloak or boot, - And yet with the court go they would; - Desirous to show - How far they could go - To do his high mightiness good. - - The reverend Dean, - With his band starch’d clean, - Did preach before the King; - A ring was his pride - To his bandstrings tied, - Was not this a pretty thing? - - The ring, without doubt, - Was the thing put him out, - And made him forget what was next; - For every one there - Will say, I dare swear, - He handled it more than his text. - -With poetical badinage of this complexion the wits of the University of -Oxford, with Corbet at their head, “who loved this boy’s play to the -last,” abounded. While many of the pasquinades are lost, many, however, -are still preserved among Ashmole’s papers: on most occasions Corbet -was at least a match for his opponents, but this misfortune of the ring -became a standing jest against him: it is alluded to at page 233; and it -is demanded in another poem[16], if - - He would provoke court wits to sing - The _second_ part of bandstrings and the ring. - -Upon the evening of the same Sunday, the students of Christ-Church, -willing to show their respect for the royal visitor, obtained leave to -present a play before the King; and they chose, with no great display of -taste, Barten Holyday’s ΤΕΧΝΟΓΑΜΙΑ, or “The Marriage of the Arts,” which -had been acted in Christ-Church hall the 13th of February, 1617. The play -was so little relished, that the king was with difficulty persuaded to -sit till its conclusion: the “enactors” became subjects of ridicule to -the University; and, though Corbet and King rhymed in their favour, the -laugh went against them. - -Indeed the Oxonians were not more unfortunate in their theatrical -representations on this than on former occasions. Upon the visit of -James, in 1605, two out of three dramatic exhibitions, prepared at great -expense and performed by the students, were, according to the testimony -of an eye-witness, received with tædium, and rewarded with unconcealed -disgust[17]. - -The writers of the poet’s life are silent as to the period of his -marriage; and if I am unable to communicate any information on this -point, it will not, I trust, be attributed to any parsimony of research, -or indifference as to fact when conjecture can be substituted. Those who -have made literary biography their study, know that it is frequently much -easier to write many pages than to ascertain a date, and hence but too -frequently ingenuity supplies the place of labour and inquiry: in the -present instance, every record that suggested a probability of containing -any memorial relative to the family of the subject of this biography has -been inspected personally; but before the passing of the Marriage Act, -nothing is more uncertain than the probable place of the celebration of -that ceremony[18]. - -In this dearth of fact as to dates, I shall presume to suppose he married -about 1625 Alice the only daughter of his fellow-collegian Dr. Leonard -Hutton, a man of some eminence in his day as a divine and an antiquary, -and whose character is thus drawn by Antony Wood with a felicity that -rarely accompanies his pencil: “His younger years were beautified with -all kind of polite learning, his middle with ingenuity and judgment, and -his reverend years with great wisdom in government, having been often -subdean of his college.” - -This union of wit and beauty was not looked upon with indifference, nor -was their epithalamium unsung, or the string touched by the hand of an -unskilful master: - - Come, all ye Muses, and rejoyce - At this your nursling’s happy choyce; - Come, Flora, strew the bridemaid’s bed, - And with a garland crown her head; - Or, if thy flowers be to seek, - Come gather roses at her cheek. - Come, Hymen, light thy torches, let - Thy bed with tapers be beset, - And if there be no fire by, - Come light thy taper at her eye: - In that bright eye there dwells a starre, - And wise-men by it guided are[19]. - -The offspring of this marriage were a daughter named Alice, and a son -born the 10th of November, 1627, towards whom the beautiful poem at page -150 is an undecaying monument of paternal affection. - -Of these descendants of the bishop I lament that I have discovered so -little: if this volume should be fortunate enough to excite attention to -its author, the loss may at some future period be supplied: they were -both living when their grandmother, Anne Hutton, made her will in 1642, -and the son administered to the testament in 1648. - -In 1628 Corbet suffered a severe privation in the loss of his patron -Villiers duke of Buckingham, assassinated by Felton on the 23d of -August, who, whatever were his political crimes, was, like his amiable -and indulgent master, a liberal promoter of literature and science, and -to his death an encourager of Corbet’s studies. If, however, this event -checked his hopes of promotion for a season, it did not leave him without -a patron; for, upon the translation of Hewson to the see of Durham, -(to make way for Dr. Duppa to be dean of that church,) he was elected -bishop of Oxford the 30th of July, was consecrated at Lambeth the 19th of -October, and installed the 3d of November, 1629; “though,” in the opinion -of Wood, “in some respects unworthy of such an office[20].” - -Warned by the many petulant remarks on the poetical character scattered -throughout the account of Oxford writers, one is little surprised at -this churlish remark on the part of honest Antony, who seems to have -considered all poetry as - - ... inopes rerum, nugæque canoræ, - -and its indulgence inconsistent with the clerical profession. Corbet was -certainly no “precisian,” and perhaps his only fault was possessing a -species of talent to which Antony had no pretension. - -The bishopric of Oxford he held but a short time, being translated to -a more active see, that of Norwich, in the month of April 1632; when a -dispute arose as to his right of claim to the glebe sown previous to his -vacating the vicarage: the opinion of the attorney-general, (Noy,) which -is preserved in the Harleian collection of manuscripts[21], was in his -favour, _in as much as the translation was not his own act merely_. - -On the 9th of March, 1633, he preached before the king at Newmarket[22]. - -Scarcely was he seated in the episcopal chair of Norwich when Abbott -died, and Laud, who had long exercised the authority of metropolitan, -was two days afterwards (August 6th, 1633) preferred to the see of -Canterbury. Having now “no rival near his throne,” in the warmth of -his zeal he immediately applied himself to reform abuses and exact -a conformity to the established church, the discipline of which had -exceedingly relaxed during the ascendancy of his calvinistic predecessor. -For this purpose Laud issued certain orders and instructions to the -several bishops, insisting upon a strict examination into the state of -religion and its ceremonies in their several dioceses; the result of -which was transmitted to that prelate, and by him laid before the King. -These representations, many of which are curious, are printed in the -nineteenth volume of Rymer’s Fœdera. On his part, Corbet certified that -he had suppressed the lectures of some factious men, and particularly -that he had suspended one Bridges, curate of St. George’s parish, -Norwich; but, upon submission, he had taken off his suspension. Among -others, he had heard complaint of Mr. Ward[23], of Ipswich, for words in -some sermons of his, for which he was called before the High Commission. - -From the following conciliating epistle I conclude that Ward submitted, -and was restored to his cure: - - “Salutem in Christo. - - “My worthie friend, - - “I thank God for your conformitie, and you for your - acknowledgment: stand upright to the church wherein you - live; be true of heart to her governours; think well of - her significant ceremonyes; and be you assured I shall - never displace you of that room which I have given you in - my affection; proove you a good tenant in my hart, and noe - minister in my diocese hath a better landlord. Farewell! God - Almightie blesse you with your whole congregation. - - “From your faithful friend to serve you in Christ Jesus, - - “RICH. NORWICH[24].” - - Ludham Hall, the 6 of Oct. 1633. - -The zeal of Laud did not rest here: he set sedulously about suppressing -the Dutch and Walloon congregations, of which there were several in -London, Norwich, and other places. - -It will be perhaps necessary to observe, that the Dutch, the Walloons, -and the French, who had continued to refuge in England from the reign -of Edward the Sixth, had obtained many privileges from former kings, -and among others, the liberty of celebrating divine service after -their own, that is, the presbyterian, manner. Their congregations were -scattered over the kingdom; and at this period there was at Norwich one -of the Dutch, and one of the Walloons, the latter of which carried on -an extensive manufacture of woollen cloths, for the vending of which, -they in 1564 obtained a lease of the chapel of St. Mary the Less, which -they fitted up as a hall or market-place for that purpose. Where they -performed divine service before the year 1619 I know not, but in that -year Samuel Harsnet licensed the Walloon congregation to use during his -pleasure the Bishop’s chapel, or chapel of the Virgin Mary[25]. This -indulgence was continued during the government of his successor, Francis -White. But the intolerance of Laud would be content with nothing short -of conformity; Corbet consequently prepared to dislodge them by the -following characteristic letter: - - “To the minister and elders of the French church, - in Norwich, these: - - “Salutem in Christo. - - “You have promised me from time to time to restore my stolen - bell, and to glaze my lettice windows. After three yeeres - consultation (bysides other pollution) I see nothing mended. - Your discipline, I know, care not much for a consecrated place, - and anye other roome in Norwiche that hath but bredth and - length may serve your turne as well as the chappel: wherefore I - say unto you, without a miracle, _Lazare, prodi foras!_ Depart, - and hire some other place for your irregular meetings: you - shall have time to provide for yourselves betwixte this and - Whitsontide. And that you may not think I mean to deale with - you as Felix dyd with St. Paul, that is, make you afraid, to - get money, I shall keepe my word with you, which you did not - with me, and as neer as I can be like you in nothinge. - - “Written by me, Richard Norwich, with myne own hand, Dec. 26, - anno 1634.” - -The congregation remonstrated to Laud, in the February following, -against the commands of their poetical pastor; but the archbishop -insisted that his instructions should stand, and obedience be yielded to -his injunctions[26]. - -While, under the direction of the Archbishop, he was thus severe with -the heterodox, he was equally zealous in supporting the establishment -of which he was a dignitary: exertions were now making by the King, the -Clergy, and indeed all orders of people, for the restoring Saint Paul’s -cathedral, which had remained in ruins since its second destruction by -fire, early in Elizabeth’s reign. In 1631 a special commission was -issued by the King, for the purpose of collecting money, to be applied -to this purpose. The subscription went on tardily till Laud contributed -a hundred pounds, to be renewed annually, and “Corbet bishop of Norwich -(then almoner to the king) giving four hundred pounds, multitudes of -others, says Stowe, for eleven years together brought in their monies -very plentifully[27].” Nor did his liberality stop here: Wood says[28] -that in addition to this contribution, which at the time we speak of was -an enormous bounty, he gave money to many needy ministers, thereby to -excite the donations of their wealthier brethren; and he pronounced the -following admonitory, persuasive and satirical address[29] to the clergy -of his diocese: - -“Saint Paul’s church! One word in the behalf of Saint Paul; he hath -spoken many in ours: he hath raised our inward temples. Let us help to -requite him in his outward. We admire commonly those things which are -oldest and greatest: old monuments, and high buildings, do affect us -above measure: and what is the reason? Because what is oldest cometh -nearest God for antiquity: and what is greatest, comes nearest his works -for spaciousness and magnitude: so that in honouring these we honour -God, whom old and great do seem to imitate. Should I commend Paul’s to -you for the age, it were worth your thought and admiration. A thousand -years, though it should fall now, were a pretty climacterical. See the -bigness, and your eye never yet beheld such a goodly object. It’s worth -the reparation, though it were but for a land mark; but, beloved, it is a -church, and consecrated to God. From Charles to Ethelbert she hath been -the joy of princes. It was once dedicated to Diana (at least some part of -it); but the idolatry lasted not long. And see a mystery in the change: -Saint Paul confuting twice the idol, there in person, where the cry was, -‘Great is Diana of the Ephesians!’ and here: by proxy. Paul installed, -where Diana is thrust out. It did magnify the creation, it was taken -out of the darkness: light is not the clearer for it, but stronger and -more wonderful: and it doth beautify this church, because it was taken -from pollution. The stones are not the more durable, but the happier -for it. It is worthy the standing for the age, the time since it was -built, and for the structure, so stately an edifice is it: it is worthy -to stand for a memorial of it from which it is redeemed, but chiefly for -his house that dwells therein. We are bound to do it, for the service -sake that is done in it. Are we not beholden to it, every man, either to -the body, or the choir: for a walk or a warbling note: for a prayer or -a thorough-path? Some way or other, there is a topick may make room for -your benevolence. - -“It hath twice suffered Martyrdom: and both by fire, in the time of Henry -the Sixth and the third of Elizabeth. - -“Saint Paul complained of Stoning twice; his church of firing: stoning -she wants, indeed, and a good stoning would repair her. - -“Saint Faith holds her up, I confess. Oh that works were sainted to -keep her upright! The first way of building churches was by ways of -benevolence; but then there needed no petition: men came on so fast that -they were commanded to be kept back, but repairing now, needs petition. -Benevolence was a fire once had need to be quenched: it is a spark, now -and needs blowing on it: blow it hard, _and put it out_. Some petitions -there are, for pulling down of such an isle, or changing lead for thack: -so far from reparation, that our suit is to demolish. If to deny this -be persecution, if to repair churches be innovation, I’ll be of that -religion too. - -“I remember a tale in Henry Steevens, in his Apology for Herodotus, or -in some of the Colloquies of Erasmus, which would have us believe that -times were so depraved in popery, that all œconomical discipline was lost -by observing the œcumenical; that if an ingenious person would ask his -father’s blessing, he must get a dispensation and have a licence from the -bishop. - -“Believe me when I match this tale with another. Since Christmas I was -sued to (and I have it under the hands of the minister and the whole -parish) that I would give way to the adorning of the church within and -without, to build a stone wall about the church-yard which till now -had but a hedge. I took it for a flout at first, but it proved a suit -indeed; they durst not mend a fault of forty years, without a licence. -Churchwardens, though they say it not, yet I doubt me most of them think -it, that foul spirits in the Gospel said, ‘O thou Bishop or Chancellor, -what! art thou come to torment us before the time, that all is come down -to the ground?’ The truth went out once in this phrase: ‘Zelus domûs tuæ -exedit ossa mea,’ but now vice versa, it is, ‘Zelus meus exedit domum -tuam.’ I hope I gall none here. - -“Should Christ say that to us now which he said once to the Jews, -‘Destroy this temple, and in three days I will build it up again:’ we -would quickly know his meaning not to be the material temple. Three years -can scarce promoove three foot. - -“I am verily persuaded, were it not for the pulpit and the pews, (I do -not now mean the altar and the font for the two sacraments, but for the -pulpit and the stools as you call them;) many churches had been down -that stand. Stately pews are now become tabernacles, with rings and -curtains to them. There wants nothing but beds to hear the word of God -on; we have casements, locks and keys, and cushions; I had almost said, -bolsters and pillows: and for those we love the church. I will not guess -what is done within them, who sits, stands, or lies asleep, at prayers, -communion, &c., but this I dare say, they are either to hide some vice or -to proclaim one; to hide disorder, or proclaim pride. - -“In all other contributions justice precedes charity. For the King, -or for poor, as you are rated you must give and pay. It is not so in -benevolence. Here Charity rates herself; her gift is arbitrary, and her -law is the conscience. He that stays till I persuade him, gives not all -his own money: I give half that have procured it. He that comes persuaded -gives his own; but takes off more than he brought, God paying use for -nothing. But now comes your turn to speak, or God in you by your hands: -for so he useth to speak many times by the hands of Moses and Aaron, -and by the hands of Esay and Ezekiel, and by the hands of you his minor -prophets. Now prosper, O Lord! the works of these hands! O prosper Thou -our handy work! Amen.” - -He was not fated, however, to witness the elevation of the temple in -favour of which he was thus active and benevolent; indeed he was then -consuming with lingering disorders. “Corbet, bishop of Norwich,” says the -garrulous correspondent of lord Strafford, “is dying; the best poet of -all the bishops in England. He hath incurable diseases upon him, and hath -been said to be dead[30].” This was written on the 30th of July, 1635, -and he had rested from his labours two days preceding. He was buried in -the cathedral church of his diocese, where a large stone was laid over -his remains, to which a brass plate was affixed, bearing his arms and the -following inscription: - - Ricardus Corbet, Theologiæ Doctor, - Ecclesiæ Cathedralis Christi Oxoniensis - Primum Alumnus, deinde Decanus, exinde - Episcopus, illinc huc translatus, et - Hinc in cœlum Jul. 28. An. 1635. - -By his will “he commits and commends the nurture and maintenance of his -son and daughter to the faythful and loving care of his mother-in-law -Anne Hutton;” from which, and the total silence as to his wife, I -conclude he outlived her—and with a legacy of one thousand pounds to his -daughter Alice, to be paid at her attaining the age of seventeen, or -upon her marriage, he enjoins her not to marry without the consent of her -grandmother. By the further provisions of his testament, his son was to -be joined with Anne Hutton in the administration upon his attaining the -age of seventeen; and in case of the decease of both, the whole was to -devolve upon his daughter Alice. - -Such was the end of this learned and ingenious prelate and poet, of whose -works I have undertaken the revision, and in collecting the scattered -memorials for whose biography, - - et etiam disjecta membra poetæ, - -I have, I hope not unprofitably to myself or others, employed some -leisure hours. - -His person, if we may rely upon a fine portrait of him in the hall of -Christ-Church, Oxford, was dignified, and his frame above the common -size: one of his companions[31] says he had - - A face that might heaven to affection draw: - -and Aubrey says, he had heard that “he had an admirable grave and -venerable aspect.” - -In no record of his life is there the slightest trace of malevolence or -tyranny: “he was,” says Fullers[32], “of a courteous carriage, and no -destructive nature to any who offended him, counting himself plentifully -repaired with a jest upon him.” Benevolent, generous and spirited in his -public character; sincere, amiable, and affectionate in private life; -correct, eloquent, and ingenious as a poet; he appears to have deserved -and enjoyed through life the patronage and friendship of the great, and -the applause and estimation of the good. - -Apology is not necessary for his writings, or it might be urged that -they were not intended for publication by their author. “His merits are -disclosed,” and, at the distance of near a century and a half, are now -again submitted to the censure of the public. - -His panegyric is liberal without grossness, and complimentary without -servility: his satires on the Puritans, a pestilent race which Corbet -fortunately did not live to see ascendant, and which soon after his -decease sunk literature and the arts in “the Serbonian bog” of ignorance -and fanaticism, evince his skill in severe and ludicrous reproof; and -the addresses to his son and his parents, while they are proofs of his -filial and parental regard, bear testimony to his command over the finer -feelings. But the predominant faculty of his mind was wit, which he -employed with most success when directed ironically: of this the address -“to the Ghost of Wisdome,” and “the Distracted Puritane,” are memorable -examples. Indeed he was unable to overcome his talent for humour, even -when circumstance and character concurred to repress its indulgence. Of -this propensity the following anecdotes, copied _verbatim_ from Aubrey’s -MSS. in Mus. Ashmole[33], are curious proofs, and may not improperly -close this account of a character which they tend forcibly to illustrate. - -“After he was doctor of divinity, he sang ballads at the Crosse at -Abingdon; on a market-day he and some of his comrades were at the taverne -by the Crosse, (which, by the way, was then the finest of England; I -remember it when I was a freshman; it was admirable curious Gothicque -architecture, and fine figures in the nitches; ’twas one of those built -by king ... for his queen.) The ballad-singer complayned he had no -custome—he could not put off his ballads. The jolly Doctor puts off his -gowne, and puts on the ballad-singer’s leathern jacket, and being a -handsome man, and a rare full voice, he presently vended a great many, -and had a great audience. - -“After the death of Dr. Goodwin, he was made deane of Christ-Church. He -had a good interest with great men, as you may finde in his poems; and -that with the then great favourite the duke of Bucks, his excellent wit -ever ’twas of recommendation to him. I have forgot the story; but at the -same time Dr. Fell thought to have carried it, Dr. Corbet put a pretty -trick on him to let him take a journey to London for it, when he had -alreadie the graunt of it. - -“His conversation was extreme pleasant. Dr. Stubbins was one of his -cronies; he was a jolly fat doctor, and a very good housekeeper. As -Dr. Corbet and he were riding in Lob-lane in wet weather, (’tis an -extraordinary deepe dirty lane,) the coach fell, and Corbet said, that -Dr. S. was up to the elbows in mud, and he was up to the elbows in -Stubbins. - -“A. D. 1628, he was made bishop of Oxford; and I have heard that he had -an admirable grave and venerable aspect. - -“One time as he was confirming, the country people pressing in to see -the ceremonie, said he, ‘Beare off there! or I’ll confirm ye with my -staffe.’—Another time, being to lay his hand on the head of a man very -bald, he turns to his chaplaine, and said, ‘Some dust, Lushington,’ to -keepe his hand from slipping.—There was a man with a great venerable -beard; said the bishop, ‘You, behind the beard!’ - -“His chaplaine, Dr. Lushington, was a very learned and ingenious man, and -they loved one another. The Bishop would sometimes take the key of the -wine-cellar, and he and his chaplaine would go and lock themselves in -and be merry; then first he layes down his episcopal hood, ‘There layes -the doctor;’ then he putts off his gowne, ‘There layes the bishop;’ then -’twas, ‘Here’s to thee, Corbet;’—‘Here’s to thee, Lushington.’” - -One word on the subject of the former editions; which bear dates 1647, -1648, and 1672. The first and last impressions correspond in their -contents, and the publisher of the latter has also copied, for the most -part, the errors of his predecessor, which are so numerous as to render -the poems not unfrequently unintelligible. I must observe, however, -from the information of Mr. Park, that many copies of the first edition -conclude at page 53. The additions extend the volume to 85 pages. The -only impression with any pretension to accuracy is that of 1648, which, -from its internal evidence, I suspect was published under the eye of the -Bishop’s family; I have therefore retained the Preface. It contains only -twenty-four poems. - -An edition bearing the date of 1663 is cited in Willis’s Cathedrals; but, -it is believed, through mistake. - - - - -CONTENTS. - - -[_Additions to the former Impressions of Corbet’s Poems are distinguished -by an Asterisk, thus_: *] - - Page - - * Life of the Author v - - Preface to the Edition of 1648 lxiii - - * Commendatory Poems lxv - - An Elegie on Dr. Ravis 3 - - * Thomæ Coriato de Odcombe 9 - - To Thomas Coryate 11 - - A certaine Poem, &c. to the tune of “Bonny Nell” 13 - - * An Answer to the former Song, &c. 22 - - * Responsio, &c. 25 - - * Additamenta superiori Cantico 42 - - On the Lady Arabella Stuart 43 - - Upon Mistriss Mallet; an unhandsome gentlewoman who made love - unto him 47 - - In quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem 52 - - An Answer to the same, by Dr. Price 54 - - In Poetam exauctoratum et emeritum 56 - - * On Francis Beaumont, then newly dead 58 - - An Elegie on the late Lord William Howard of Effingham 59 - - To the Lord Mordaunt, upon his returne from the North 66 - - * To the Prince 82 - - A Newe-Years Gift to my Lorde Duke of Buckingham 83 - - A Letter to Sir Thomas Aylesbury 65 - - Dr. Corbet’s Journey into France 94 - - An Exhortation to Mr. John Hamon 103 - - An Elegie upon the Death of Queen Anne 112 - - An Elegie upon the Death of his owne Father 118 - - An Elegie upon the Death of the Lady Haddington 123 - - On the Christ-Church Play at Woodstock 131 - - A Letter to the Duke of Buckingham, being with the Prince - in Spaine 134 - - On the Earle of Dorset’s Death 142 - - To the Newe-born Prince 146 - - On the Birth of the young Prince Charles 148 - - To his Son Vincent Corbet 149 - - An Epitaph on Dr. Donne, Dean of Pauls 152 - - * Certain few Woordes spoken concerninge one Benet Corbett after - her decease 154 - - Iter Boreale 156 - - On Mr. Rice, the Manciple of Christ-Church in Oxford 205 - - On Henry Bollings 206 - - On John Dawson, Butler of Christ-Church 207 - - On Great Tom of Christ-Church 209 - - R.C. 212 - - A proper new Ballad, entituled The Faeryes Farewell 213 - - * A Non Sequitur 218 - - Nonsence 220 - - * The Country Life 222 - - To the Ghost of Robert Wisdome 228 - - An Epitaph on Thomas Jonce 230 - - To the Ladies of the New Dresse 232 - - * The Ladies’ Answer 233 - - * Corbet’s Reply 234 - - On Fairford Windows 235 - - * Another on the same 239 - - The Distracted Puritane 243 - - * Oratio in Funus Henrici Principis 249 - - * In Obitum Domini Thomæ Bodleii 260 - - - - -TO THE READER. - -(From Edition 1648.) - - -READER, - -I heere offer to view a collection of certaine peices of poetry, which -have _flowne_ from hand to hand, these many yeares, in _private_ papers, -but were never _fixed_ for the _publique_ eie of the worlde to looke -upon, till now[34]. If that witt which runnes in every veyne of them -seeme somewhat _out of fashion_, because tis neither _amorous_ nor -_obscene_, thou must remember that the author, although scarse a _Divine_ -when many of them were written, had not only so _masculine_ but even so -_modest_ a witt also, that he would lett nothing fall from his pen but -what he himselfe might owne, and never blush, when he was a _bishop_; -little imagining the age would ever come, when his calling should prove -more out of fashion than his witt could. As concerning any thing else to -be added in commendation of the author, I shall never thinke of it; for -as for those men who did _knowe him_, or ever _heard of him_, they need -none of _my good opinion_: and as for those who _knew him not_, and never -so much as _heard of him_, I am sure he needs none of _theirs_. - -Farewell. - - - - -COMMENDATORY POEMS. - - -TO THE DEANE, - -(From Flower in Northamptonshire, 1625,) - -NOW THE WORTHY BISHOP OF NORWICH. - -BY ROBERT GOMERSALL[35]. - - Still to be silent, or to write in prose, - Were alike sloth, such as I leave to those - Who either want the grace of wit, or have - Untoward arguments: like him that gave - Life to the flea, or who without a guest - Would prove that famine was the only feast; - Self tyrants, who their braines doubly torment, - Both for their matter and their ornament. - If these do stutter sometimes, and confesse - That they are tired, we could expect no lesse. - But when my matter is prepared and fit, - When nothing’s wanting but an equal wit, - I need no Muse’s help to ayde me on, - Since that my subject is my Helicon. - And such are you: O give me leave, dear sir, - (He that is thankful is no flatterer,) - To speak full truth: Wherever I find worth, - I shew I have it if I set it forth: - You read yourself in these; here you may see - A ruder draft of Corbet’s infancy. - For I professe, if ever I had thought - Needed not blush if publish’d, were there ought - Which was call’d mine durst beare a critic’s view, - I was the instrument, but the author you. - I need not tell you of our health, which here - Must be presum’d, nor yet shall our good cheare - Swell up my paper, as it has done me, - Or as the Mayor’s feast does Stowe’s History: - Without an early bell to make us rise, - Health calls us up and novelty; our eyes - Have divers objects still on the same ground, - As if the Earth had each night walk’d her round - To bring her best things hither: ’tis a place - Not more the pride of shires then the disgrace, - Which I’de not leave, had I my Dean to boot, - For the large offers of the cloven-foot - Unto our Saviour, but you not being here - ’Tis to me, though a rare one, but a shire; - A place of good earth, if compared with worse, - Which hath a lesser part in Adam’s curse: - Or, for to draw a simile from the High’st, - Tis like unto salvation without Christ, - A fairly situate prison: When again - Shall I enjoy that friendship, and that braine? - When shall I once more hear, in a few words, - What all the learning of past times affords? - Austin epitomiz’d, and him that can - To make him clear contract Tertullian. - But I detain you from them: Sir, adieu! - You read their works, but let me study you. - - -ON DR. CORBET’S MARRIAGE. - -(From “Wit Restored,” 8vo. 1658.) - - Come all yee Muses and rejoice - At your Apolloe’s happy choice; - Phœbus has conquer’d Cupid’s charme; - Fair Daphne flys into his arm. - If Daphne be a tree, then mark, - Apollo is become the barke. - If Daphne be a branch of bay, - He weares her for a crowne to-day: - O happy bridegroom! which dost wed - Thyself unto a virgin’s bed. - Let thy love burne with hot desire, - She lacks no oil to feed the fire. - You know not poore Pigmalion’s lot, - Nor have you a mere idol got. - You no Ixion, you no proud - Juno makes embrace a cloud. - Looke how pure Diana’s skin - Appeares as it is shadow’d in - A chrystal streame; or look what grace - Shines in fair Venus’ lovely face, - Whilst she Adonis courts and woos; - Such beauties, yea and more than those, - Sparkle in her; see but her soul, - And you will judge those beauties foul. - Her rarest beauty is within, - She’s fairest where she is not seen; - Now her perfection’s character - You have approv’d, and chosen her. - O precious! she at this wedding - The jewel weares—the marriage ring. - Her understanding’s deep: like the - Venetian duke, you wed the sea; - A sea deep, bottomless, profound, - And which none but yourself may sound. - Blind Cupid shot not this love-dart; - Your reason chose, and not your heart; - You knew her little, and when her - Apron was but a muckender, - When that same coral which doth deck - Her lips she wore about her neck: - You courted her, you woo’d her, not - Out of a window, she was got - And born your wife; it may be said - Her cradle was her marriage-bed. - The ring, too, was layd up for it - Untill her finger was growne fit: - You once gave her to play withal - A babie, and I hope you shall - This day your ancient gift renew, - So she will do the same for you: - In virgin wax imprint, upon - Her breast, your own impression; - You may (there is no treason in ’t) - Coine sterling, now you have a mint. - You are now stronger than before, - Your side hath in it one ribb more. - Before she was akin to me - Only in soul and amity; - But now we are, since shee’s your bride, - In soul and body both allyde: - ’Tis this has made me less to do, - And I in one can honour two. - This match a riddle may be styled, - Two mothers now have but one child; - Yet need we not a Solomon, - Each mother here enjoyes her own. - Many there are I know have tried - To make her their own lovely bride; - But it is Alexander’s lot - To cut in twaine the Gordian knot: - Claudia, to prove that she was chast, - Tyed but a girdle to her wast, - And drew a ship to Rome by land: - But now the world may understand - Here is a Claudia too; fair bride, - Thy spotlesse innocence is tried; - None but thy girdle could have led - Our Corbet to a marriage bed. - Come, all ye Muses, and rejoice - At this your nurslings happy choice: - Come, Flora, strew the bridemaid’s bed, - And with a garland crowne her head; - Or if thy flowers be to seek, - Come gather roses at her cheek. - Come, Hymen, light thy torches, let - Thy bed with tapers be beset, - And if there be no fire by, - Come light thy taper at her eye; - In that bright eye there dwells a starre, - And wise men by it guided are. - In those delicious eyes there be - Two little balls of ivory: - How happy is he then that may - With these two dainty balls goe play. - Let not a teare drop from that eye, - Unlesse for very joy to cry. - O let your joy continue! may - A whole age be your wedding-day! - O happy virgin! is it true - That your deare spouse embraceth you? - Then you from heaven are not farre, - But sure in Abraham’s bosom are. - Come, all ye Muses, and rejoyce - At your Apollo’s happy choice. - - -VERSES IN HONOUR OF BISHOP CORBET, - -Found in a blank leaf of his Poems in MS. - - If flowing wit, if verses writ with ease, - If learning void of pedantry can please; - If much good-humour joined to solid sense, - And mirth accompanied with innocence, - Can give a poet a just right to fame, - Then Corbet may immortal honours claim; - For he these virtues had, and in his lines - Poetic and heroic spirit shines; - Though bright yet solid, pleasant but not rude, - With wit and wisdom equally endued. - Be silent, Muse, thy praises are too faint, - Thou want’st a power this prodigy to paint, - At once a poet, prelate, and a saint. - - J. C. - - -UPON MY GOOD LORD THE BISHOP OF NORWICHE, RICHARD CORBET, _WHO DYED JULY -28, 1635_, AND LYES BURIED IN HIS CATHEDRAL CHURCHE. - -[By Mr. JOHN TAYLOR of NORWICH: From the Cabinet, published there in -1795.] - - Ye rural bardes who haunte the budding groves, - Tune your wilde reeds to sing the wood-larkes loves, - And let the softe harpe of the hawthorn vale - Melt in sweete euloge to the nightingale; - Yet haplie, Drummond, well thy muse might raise - Aires not earth-born to suit my _raven’s_ praise. - - Raven he was, yet was no gloomie fowle, - Merrie at hearte, though innocente of soule; - Where’er he perkt, the birds that came anighe - Constrayned caught the humour of his eye: - Under that shade no spights and wrongs were spred, - Care came not nigh with his uncomlie head. - - Somewhile the thicke embranching trees amonge, - Where Isis doth his waters leade alonge, - Kissinge with modeste lippe the holie soyle, - Reflecting backe each hallowed grove the while; - Here did my raven trie his dulcive note, - Charming old Science with his mellow throat. - - Sometimes with scholiasts deep in anciente lore, - Through learnings long defyles he would explore; - Then with keene wit untie the perplext knot - Of Aristotle or the cunning Scot; - Anon loud laughter shook the arched hall, - For mirth stood redy at his potente call. - - Oxforde, thou couldst not binde his outspred wing, - My raven flew where bade his princelye king; - Norwiche must honours give he did not crave, - Norwiche must lend his palace and his grave: - And that kinde hearte which gave such vertue birth - Must here be shrouded in the greedie earth. - - Ofte hath thy humble lay-clerke led along, - When thou wert by, the eve or matin song; - And oftimes rounde thy marble shall he strole, - To chaunte sad requiems to thy soothed soul;— - Sleep on, till Gabriel’s trump shall break thy sleep, - And thou and I one heavenlie holiday shall keep. - - - - -Bp. Corbet’s Poems. - - - - -DR. THOMAS RAVIS. - - -In the following tribute to the memory of a fellow-collegian, and -predecessor in the deanery of Christ Church, it will not be too much to -conjecture that Corbet was urged by gratitude for kindness experienced -while the latter was young. The “Elegie” was evidently written -immediately upon the interment of its subject, as towards its conclusion -he complains that no tomb was raised over his remains; a complaint which -was soon after obviated, when a fair monument was erected, bearing the -following inscription, which contains all that is necessary to be told -here of the circumstances of his life and character: - - “MEMORIÆ SACRUM. - - Thomas Ravis, claris natalibus Mauldenæ in Suthreia natus, - Regius Alumnus in Schola Westmonasteriensi educatus, in - Academiam Oxoniensem adscitus, omnes academicos honores - consequutus, et magistratibus perfunctus, Decanus Ecclesiæ - Christi ibidem constitutus, et bis Academiæ Pro-Cancellarius. - Unde ob doctrinam, gravitatem, et spectatam prudentiam, à Rege - Jacobo, primum ad Episcopatum Glocestrensem provectus, deinde - ad Londinensem translatus, et demum à Christo, dum Ecclesiæ, - Patriæ, Principi vigilaret, in cœlestem patriam evocatus, - placide pieque emigravit, et quod mortale fuit, certa spe - resurgendi, hic deposuit, die 14 Decembris, An. salutis 1609.” - - - - -AN ELEGIE WRITTEN UPON THE DEATH OF DR. RAVIS, BISHOP OF LONDON. - - - When I past Paules, and travell’d in that walke - Where all oure Brittaine-sinners sweare and talk[36]; - Ould Harry-ruffians, bankerupts, southsayers, - And youth, whose cousenage is as ould as theirs; - And then beheld the body of my lord - Trodd under foote by vice that he abhorr’d; - It wounded me the Landlord of all times - Should let long lives and leases to their crimes, - And to _his_ springing honour did afford - Scarce soe much time as to the prophet’s gourd. - Yet since swift flights of virtue have apt ends, - Like breath of angels, which a blessing sends, - And vanisheth withall, whilst fouler deeds - Expect a tedious harvest for bad seeds; - I blame not fame and nature if they gave, - Where they could give no more, their last, a grave. - And wisely doe thy greived freinds forbeare - Bubbles and alabaster boyes to reare - On thy religious dust: for men did know - Thy life, which such illusions cannot show: - For thou hast trod among those happy ones - Who trust not in their superscriptions, - Their hired epitaphs, and perjured stone, - Which oft belyes the soule when shee is gon; - And durst committ thy body, as it lyes, - To tongues of living men, nay unborne eyes. - What profits thee a sheet of lead? What good - If on thy coarse a marble quarry stood? - Let those that feare their rising purchase vaults, - And reare them statues to excuse their faults; - As if, like birds that peck at painted grapes, - Their judge knew not their _persons_ from their _shapes_. - Whilst thou assured, through thy easyer dust - Shall rise at first; they would not though they must. - Nor needs the Chancellor boast, whose pyramis - Above the host and altar reared is[37]; - For though thy body fill a viler roome, - Thou shalt not change _deedes_ with him for his _tombe_. - - - - -THOMÆ CORIATO DE ODCOMBE. - - -The following panegyric on the hero of Odcombe, Thomas Coryate, a -pedantic coxcomb, with just brains enough to be ridiculous, to whom the -world is much more indebted for becoming “the whetstone of the wits” -than for any doings of his own, and the particulars of whose life and -peregrinations may be found in every collection of biography, is printed -in the Odcombian Banquet, 1611, 4to. sign. I. 3. - -The Latin lines have been omitted in the former impressions of Bishop -Corbet’s poems. - - - - -SPECTATISSIMO, PUNCTISQUE OMNIBUS DIGNISSIMO, THOMÆ CORIATO DE ODCOMBE, -PEREGRINANTI, PEDESTRIS ORDINIS, EQUESTRISQUE FAMÆ. - - - Quod mare transieris, quod rura urbesque pedester, - Jamque colat reduces patria læta pedes: - Quodque idem numero tibi calceus hæret, et illo - Cum _corio_ redeas, quo _Coriatus_ abis: - Fatum omenque tui miramur nominis, ex quo - Calcibus et soleis fluxit aluta tuis. - Nam quicunque cadem vestigia tentat, opinor - Excoriatus erit, ni _Coriatus_ eat. - - -IN LIBRUM SUUM. - - De te pollicitus librum es, sed in te - Est magnus tuus hic liber libellus. - - - - -TO THOMAS CORYATE. - - - I do not wonder, Coryate, that thou hast - Over the Alpes, through France and Savoy past, - Parch’d on thy skin, and founder’d in thy feete, - Faint, thirstie, lowsy, and didst live to see ’t. - Though these are Roman sufferings, and do shew - What creatures back thou hadst could carry so, - All I admire is thy returne, and how - Thy slender pasterns could thee beare, when now - Thy observations with thy braine ingendered, - Have stuft thy massy and voluminous head - With mountaines, abbies, churches, synagogues, - Preputial offals, and Dutch dialogues: - A burthen far more grievous then the weight - Of wine or sleep; more vexing than the freight - Of fruit and oysters, which lade many a pate, - And send folks crying home from Billingsgate. - No more shall man with mortar on his head - Set forwards towards Rome: No! thou art bred - A terror to all footmen, and all porters, - And all laymen that will turne Jews exhorters, - To flie their conquered trade. Proud England then - Embrace this luggage[38], which the Man of men - Hath landed here, and change thy well-a-day! - Into some homespun welcome roundelay. - Send of this stuffe thy territories thorough - To Ireland, Wales, and Scottish, Eddenborough. - There let this booke be read and understood, - Where is no theame nor writer halfe so good. - - - - -A CERTAIN POEM, - -_As it was presented in Latine by Divines and others before His Majesty -in Cambridge, by way of Enterlude, styled ~Liber novus de Adventu Regis -ad Cantabrigiam~. Faithfully done into English, with some liberal -Additions. Made rather to be sunge than read, to the Tune of Bonny Nell._ - -(The Notes are from a MS. copy in the Editor’s possession.) - - - It is not yet a fortnight since - Lutetia[39] entertain’d our prince, - And vented hath a studied toy - As long[40] as was the siege of Troy: - And spent herself for full five days - In speeches, exercise, and plays. - - To trim the town, great care before - Was tane by th’ lord vice-chancellor; - Both morn and even he cleans’d the way, - The streets he gravelled thrice a day: - One strike of March-dust for to see - No proverb[41] would give more than he. - - Their colledges were new be-painted, - Their founders eke were new be-sainted; - Nothing escap’d, nor post, nor door, - Nor gate, nor rail, nor bawd, nor whore: - You could not know (Oh strange mishap!) - Whether you saw the _town_ or _map_. - - But the pure house of _Emanuel_[42] - Would not be like proud _Jesabel_, - Nor shew her self before the king - An hypocrite, or _painted_ thing: - But, that the ways might all prove fair, - Conceiv’d a tedious mile of prayer. - - Upon the look’d-for seventh[43] of _March_, - Outwent the townsmen all in starch, - Both band and beard, into the field, - Where one a speech could hardly wield; - For needs he would begin his stile, - The king being from him half a mile. - - They gave the king a piece of plate, - Which they hop’d never came too late; - But cry’d, Oh! look not in, great king, - For there is in it just nothing: - And so prefer’d with tune and gate, - A speech as empty as their plate. - - Now, as the king came neer the town, - Each one ran crying up and down, - Alas poor _Oxford_, thou’rt undone, - For now the king’s past _Trompington_, - And rides upon his brave gray dapple, - Seeing the top of _Kings-Colledge_ chappel. - - Next rode his lordship[44] on a nag, - Whose coat was blue[45], whose ruff was shag, - And then began his reverence - To speak most eloquent non-sense: - See how (quoth he) most mighty prince, - For very joy my horse doth wince. - - What cryes the town? What we? (said he) - What cryes the University? - What cry the boys? What ev’ry thing? - Behold, behold, yon comes the king: - And ev’ry period he bedecks - With _En & Ecce venit Rex_. - - Oft have I warn’d (quoth he) our dirt - That no silk stockings should be hurt; - But we in vain strive to be fine, - Unless your graces sun doth shine; - And with the beams of your bright eye, - You will be pleas’d our streets to dry. - - Now come we to the wonderment - Of _Christendom_, and eke of _Kent_, - The _Trinity_; which to surpass, - Doth deck her spokesman[46] by a glass: - Who, clad in gay and silken weeds, - Thus opes his mouth, hark how he speeds. - - I wonder what your grace doth here, - Who have expected been twelve year, - And this your son, fair _Carolus_, - That is so _Jacobissimus_[47]: - Here’s none, of all, your grace refuses, - You are most welcome to our Muses. - - Although we have no bells to jangle, - Yet can we shew a fair quadrangle, - Which, though it ne’re was grac’d with king, - Yet sure it is a goodly thing: - My warning’s short, no more I’le say, - Soon you shall see a gallant play. - - But nothing was so much admir’d, - As were their plays so well attir’d; - Nothing did win more praise of mine, - Then did their actors most divine[48]: - So did they drink their healths divinely; - So did they dance and skip so finely. - - Their plays had sundry grave wise factors, - A perfect diocess of actors - Upon the stage; for I am sure that - There was both bishop, pastor, curat: - Nor was their labour light, or small, - The charge of some was pastoral. - - Our plays were certainly much worse, - For they had a brave hobby-horse, - Which did present unto his grace - A wondrous witty ambling pace: - But we were chiefly spoyl’d by that - Which was six hours of _God knows what_[49]. - - His lordship then was in a rage, - His lordship lay upon the stage, - His lordship cry’d, All would be marr’d: - His lordship lov’d a-life the guard, - And did invite those mighty men, - To what think you? Even to a _Hen_. - - He knew he was to use their might - To help to keep the door at night, - And well bestow’d he thought his hen, - That they might Tolebooth[50] _Oxford_ men: - He thought it did become a lord - To threaten with that bug-bear word. - - Now pass we to the civil law, - And eke the doctors of the spaw, - Who all perform’d their parts so well, - Sir _Edward Ratcliff_[51] bore the bell, - Who was, by the kings own appointment, - To speak of spells, and magick oyntment. - - The doctors of the civil law - Urg’d ne’re a reason worth a straw; - And though they went in silk and satten, - They _Thomson_-like[52] clip’d the kings Latine; - But yet his grace did pardon then - All treasons against _Priscian_. - - Here no man spake ought to the point, - But all they said was out of joint; - Just like the chappel ominous - I’ the colledge called _God with us_: - Which truly[53] doth stand much awry, - Just north and south, _yes verily_. - - Philosophers did well their parts, - Which prov’d them masters of their arts; - Their moderator was no fool, - He far from _Cambridge_ kept a school: - The country did such store afford, - The proctors might not speak a word. - - But to conclude, the king was pleas’d, - And of the court the town was eas’d: - Yet _Oxford_ though (dear sister) hark yet, - The king is gone but to _New-market_, - And comes again e’re it be long, - Then you may make another song. - - The king being gone from _Trinity_, - They make a scramble for degree; - Masters of all sorts, and all ages, - Keepers, subcizers, lackeyes, pages, - Who all did throng to come aboard, - With _Pray make me_ now, _Good my lord_. - - They prest his lordship wondrous hard, - His lordship then did want the guard; - So did they throng him for the nonce, - Until he blest them all at once, - And cryed, _Hodiissimè_: - _Omnes Magistri estote_. - - Nor is this all which we do sing, - For of your praise the world must ring: - Reader, unto your tackling look, - For there is coming forth a book - Will spoyl _Joseph Barnesius_ - The sale of _Rex Platonicus_. - - - - -AN ANSWER TO THE FORMER SONG, IN LATIN AND ENGLISH, BY ⸺ LAKES. - -(From an Autograph in the Editor’s possession.) - - - A ballad late was made, - But God knowes who ’es the penner, - Some say the rhyming sculler, - And others say ’twas Fenner[54]: - But they that know the style - Doe smell it by the collar, - And do maintaine it was the braine - Of some yong Oxford scholler. - - And first he rails on Cambridge, - And thinkes her to disgrace, - By calling her _Lutetia_, - And throws dirt in her face: - But leave it, scholler, leave it, - For all the world must grant, - If Oxford be thy mother, - Then Cambridge is thy aunt. - - Then goes he to the town, - And puts it all in starch, - For other rhyme he could not find - To fit the seventh of March: - But leave it, scholler, leave it, - For I must vail the bonnet, - And cast the caps at Cambridge - For making song and sonnet. - - Thence goes he to their present, - And there he doth purloyne, - For looking in their plate - He nimmes away their coyne: - But leave it, scholler, leave it, - For ’tis a dangerous thing - To steal from corporations - The presents of a king. - - Next that, my lord vice-chancellor - He brings before the prince, - And in the face of all the court - He makes his horse to wince. - But leave it, scholler, leave it, - For sure that jest did faile, - Unless you clapt a nettle - Under his horse’s taile. - - Then aimes he at our orator, - And at his speech he snarles, - Because he forced a word, and called - The prince “most Jacob-Charles.” - But leave it, scholler, leave it, - For he did it compose - That puts you down as much for tongue - As you do him for nose. - - Then flies he to our comedies, - And there he doth professe - He saw among our actors - A perfect diocess. - But leave it, scholler, leave it, - ’Twas no such witty fiction, - For since you leave the vicar out, - You spoile the jurisdiction. - - Next that he backes the hobby-horse, - And with a scholler’s grace, - Not able to endure the trott, - He’d bring him to the pase: - But leave it, scholler, leave it, - For you will hardly do it, - Since all the riders in your muse - Could never bring him to it. - - Polonia land can tell, - Through which he oft did trace, - And bore a fardell at his back, - He nere went other pace. - But leave him, scholler, leave him, - He learned it of his sire, - And if you put him from his trott - Hee’l lay you in the myre. - - Our horse has thrown his rider; - But now he meanes to shame us, - And in the censuring of our play - Conspires with Ignoramus. - But leave it, scholler, leave it, - And call ’t not “God knows what,” - Your head was making ballads - When you should mark the plot. - - His fantasie, still working, - Finds out another crotchet; - Then runs he to the bishop, - And rides upon his rotchet. - But leave it, scholler, leave it, - And take it not in snuff, - For he that weares no picadell - By law may weare a ruffe. - - Next that he goes to dinner, - And, like an hardy guest, - When he had cramm’d his belly full - He railes against the feast. - But leave it, scholler, leave it; - For, since you eat his roast, - It argues want of manners - To raile upon the host. - - Now listen, masters, listen, - That tax us for our riot, - For here two men went to a ken, - So slender was the diet. - Then leave him, scholler, leave him, - He yieldes himself your debtor, - And next time he’s vice-chancellor - Your table shall be better. - - Then goes he to the Regent-house, - And there he sits and sees - How lackeys and subsisers press - And scramble for degrees. - But leave it, scholler, leave it, - ’Twas much against our mind, - But when the prison doors are ope - Noe thief will stay behind. - - Behold, more anger yet: - He threatens us ere long, - When as the king comes back againe, - To make another song. - But leave it, scholler, leave it, - Your weakness you disclose; - For “Bonny Nell” doth plainly tell - Your wit lies all in prose. - - Nor can you make the world - Of Cambridge praise to singe, - A mouth so foul no market eare - Will stand to hear it sing. - Then leave it, scholler, leave it, - For yet you cannot say, - The king did go from you in March - And come again in May. - - - - -RESPONSIO, &c. PER ⸺ LAKES. - - - Facta est cantilena, - Sed nescio quo autore; - An fluxerit ex remige, - An ex Fenneri ore. - Sed qui legerunt, contendunt, - Esse hanc tenelli - Oxoniensis nescio cujus - Prolem cerebelli. - - Nam primò Cantabrigiam - Convitiis execravit, - Quod vocitat Lutetiam, - Et luto conspurcavit. - Sed parce, precor, parcito, - Nam istud nihil moror, - Quum hujus academiæ - Oxonia sit soror. - - Tunc oppidanos miseros - Horrendo cornu petit, - De quibus dixit, nescio quid, - Et rythmum sic effecit. - Sed parce, precor, parcito, - Bardos Oxonienses - In canticis non vicimus - Jam Cantabrigienses. - - Jam inspicit cratera - Quæ regi dono datur, - Et aurum ibi positum - Subripere conatur. - Sed parce, precor, parcito, - Nam scelus istud lues, - Si fraudes sodalitia, - Ad crucem cito rues. - - Dein pro-cancellarium - Produxit equitantem, - In equum valde agilem - Huc et illuc saltantem: - Sed parce, precor, parcito, - Nam tibi vix credetur - Si non sub ejus cauda, - Urtica poneretur. - - Tunc evomit sententiam - In ipsum oratorem - Qui dixit Jacobissimum, - Præter Latinum morem. - Sed parce, precor, parcito, - Orator exit talis - Qui magis pollet lingua - Quam ipse naso vales. - - Adibat ad comœdiam - Et cuncta circumspexit, - Actorum diocesin - Completam hic detexit - Sed parce, precor, parcito, - Hæc cogitare mente - Non valet jurisdictio - Vicario absente. - - Fictitio equo subdidit - Calcaria, sperans fore - Ut eum ire cogeret - Gradu submissiore: - Sed parce, precor, parcito, - Hoc non efficietur - Si iste stabularius - Habenis moderetur. - - Testis est Polonia, - Quam sæpe is transivit, - Et oneratus sarcina - Eodem gradu ivit. - Tam parce, precor, parcito, - Et credas hoc futurum, - Si Brutum regat Asinus - Gradatim non iturum. - - Comœdiam Ignoramus - Eum spectare libet, - Et hujus delicatulo - Structura non arridet. - At parce, precor, parcito, - Tum aliter versatus - In faciendis canticis - Fuisti occupatus. - - Tum pergit maledicere - Cicestriensi patri, - Et vestes etiam vellicat - Episcopi barbati. - Sed parce, precor, parcito, - Et nos tu sales pone, - Ne tanti patris careas - Benedictione. - - Tum cibo se ingurgitans - Abunde saginatur, - Et venter cum expletus est, - Danti convitiatur. - Sed parce, precor, parcito, - Nam illud verum erit, - Quicquid ingrato infecerit - Oxoniensi, perit. - - At ecce nos videmur - Tenaces nimis esse, - Gallinam unam quod spectasset - Duos comedisse. - O parce, precor, parcito, - Hæc culpa corrigetur - Cum rursus Cantabrigia - Episcopo regetur. - - Sed novo in sacello - Pedissequos aspexit, - Quos nostra Academia - Honoribus erexit. - Sed parce, precor, parcito, - Nam ipse es expertus, - Effugiunt omnes protinus - Cum carcer est apertus. - - At nobis minitatur, - Si rex sit rediturus, - Tunc iste (Phœbo duce) est - Tela resumpturus. - Sed parce, precor, parcito, - Piscator ictus sapit, - Fugatus namque miles iners - Arma nunquam capit. - - Et Cantabrigiam non - Lædi hinc speramus, - Ex ore tam spurcidico - Nil damni expectamus. - O parce, ergo, parcito, - Oxonia nunquam dicit, - Cum Martio princeps abiens - In Maio nos revisit. - - - - -ADDITAMENTA SUPERIORI CANTICO. - - - Ingenij amplitudinem - Jam satis ostendisti, - Et eloquentiæ fructus - Abundè protulisti: - Sed parce, tibi, parcito, - Ne omne absumatur, - Ne tandem tibi arido - Nil suavi relinquatur. - - Jam satis oppugnasti, - O Polyphemi proles! - Et tanquam taurus gregis - Nos oppugnare soles. - Sed parce, tandem, parcito, - Tuis laudatus eris, - Et nunc inultus tanquam stultus - A nobis dimitteris. - - - - -LADY ARABELLA STUART. - - -The circumstances of the life of this accomplished and persecuted lady, - - “From kings descended, and to kings allied,” - -are familiar to every reader of biographical history. In Lodge’s -Illustrations of British History are some letters which convey an exalted -idea of her mental abilities; and the editor has proved, in opposition to -the assertion of the authors of the Biographia Britannica, that she was -far from deficient in personal beauty. - -She was the only child of Charles Stuart, fifth earl of Lennox, (uncle to -James the First, and great-grandson to Henry VII.) by Elizabeth, daughter -of sir William Cavendish, of Hardwick; was born about the year 1578, and -brought up in privacy under the care of her grandmother, the old countess -of Lennox, who had for many years resided in England. Her double -relation to royalty was equally obnoxious to the jealousy of Elizabeth -and the timidity of James, and they secretly dreaded the supposed danger -of her leaving a legitimate offspring. The former, therefore, prevented -her from marrying Esme Stuart, her kinsman, and heir to the titles and -estates of her family, and afterwards imprisoned her for listening to -some overtures from the son of the earl of Northumberland: the latter, -by obliging her to reject many splendid offers of marriage, unwarily -encouraged the hopes of inferior pretenders. Thus circumscribed, she -renewed a childish connection with William Seymour, grandson to the -earl of Hertford, which was discovered in 1609; when both parties were -summoned to appear before the privy council, and received a severe -reprimand. This mode of proceeding produced the very consequence which -James meant to avoid; for the lady, sensible that her reputation had -been wounded by this inquiry, was in a manner forced into a marriage; -which becoming publicly known in the course of the next spring, she was -committed to close custody in the house of sir Thomas Parry, at Lambeth, -and Mr. Seymour to the Tower. In this state of separation, however, they -concerted means for an escape, which both effected on the same day, June -3, 1611; and Mr. Seymour got safely to Flanders: but the poor lady was -re-taken in Calais road, and imprisoned in the Tower; where the sense of -these undeserved oppressions operating too severely on her high spirit, -she became a lunatic, and languished in that wretched state, augmented by -the horrors of a prison, till her death on the 27th Sept. 1615.[55] - - - - -ON THE LADY ARABELLA. - - - How do I thanke thee, Death, and blesse thy power - That I have past the guard, and scaped the Tower! - And now my _pardon_ is my _epitaph_, - And a small coffin my poore carkasse hath. - For at thy charge both soule and body were - Enlarged at last, secured from hope and feare; - That among saints, this amongst kings is laid, - And what my birth did claim, my death hath paid. - - - - -UPON MISTRIS MALLET[56], AN UNHANDSOME GENTLEWOMAN, WHO MADE LOVE UNTO -HIM. - - - Have I renounc’t my faith, or basely sold - Salvation, and my loyalty, for gold? - Have I some forreigne practice undertooke - By poyson, shott, sharp-knife, or sharper booke - To kill my king? have I betrayd the state - To fire and fury, or some newer fate, - Which learned murderers, those grand destinies, - The Jesuites, have nurc’d? if of all these - I guilty am, proceed; I am content - That Mallet take mee for my punishment. - For never sinne was of so high a rate, - But one nights hell with her might expiate. - Although the law with Garnet[57], and the rest, - Dealt farr more mildly; hanging’s but a jest - To this immortall torture. Had shee bin then - In Maryes torrid dayes engend’red, when - Cruelty was witty, and Invention free - Did live by blood, and thrive by crueltye, - Shee would have bin more horrid engines farre - Than fire, or famine, racks, and halters are. - Whether her witt, forme, talke, smile, tire I name, - Each is a stock of tyranny, and shame; - But for her breath, spectatours come not nigh, - That layes about; God blesse the company! - The man, in a beares skin baited to death, - Would chose the doggs much rather then her breath; - One kisse of hers, and eighteene wordes alone - Put downe the _Spanish Inquisition_. - Thrice happy wee (quoth I thinking thereon) - That see no dayes of persecution; - For were it free to kill, this grisly elfe - Wold martyrs make in compass of herselfe: - And were shee not prevented by our prayer, - By this time shee corrupted had the aire. - And am I innocent? and is it true, - That thing (which poet Plinye never knew, - Nor Africk, Nile, nor ever Hackluyts eyes - Descry’d in all his _East, West-voyages_; - That thing, which poets were afrayd to feigne, - For feare her shadowe should infect their braine; - This spouse of Antichrist, and his alone, - Shee’s drest so like the Whore of Babylon;) - Should doate on mee? as if they did contrive - The devill and she, to damne a man alive. - Why doth not _Welcome_ rather purchase her, - And beare about this rare familiar? - Sixe markett dayes, a wake, and a fayre too ’t, - Would save his charges, and the ale to boot. - No tyger’s like her; shee feedes upon a man - Worse than a tygresse or a leopard can. - Let mee go pray, and thinke upon some spell, - At once to bid the devill and her farwell. - - - - -HENRY PRINCE OF WALES. - - -Upon the death of the promising Henry (Nov. 6, 1612), a prince, according -to Arthur Wilson[58], as eminent in nobleness as in blood, and who fell -not without suspicion of foul play, the poets his cotemporaries, whom he -liberally patronised, poured forth by reams their tributary verses. - -Corbet, as it has been before observed, pronounced his funeral oration at -Oxford. - -Nor was this all: while his bones were perishing and his flesh was -rottenness, Dr. Daniel Price, his chaplain during his life, continued to -commemorate his dissolution by preaching an anniversary sermon. Neither -the practice nor its execution was agreeable to Corbet, who, after a -triennial repetition, thus attacked the anniversarist. - - - - -IN QUENDAM ANNIVERSARIORUM SCRIPTOREM. - - Ter circum Iliacos raptaverat Hectora muros. - - VIRG. Æn. 1. 483. - - - Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph’d on - The walls of Troy, thrice slain when Fates had done: - So did the barbarous Greekes before their hoast - Torment his ashes and profane his ghost: - As Henryes vault, his peace, his sacred hearse, - Are torne and batter’d by thine Anniverse. - Was ’t not enough Nature and strength were foes, - But thou must yearly murther him in prose? - Or dost thou thinke thy raving phrase can make - A lowder eccho then the Almanake? - Trust mee, November doth more ghastly looke - In Dade and Hopton’s[59] pennyworth then thy booke; - And sadder record their fixt figure beares - Then thy false-printed and ambitious teares. - For were it not for Christmas, which is nigh, - When spice, fruit eaten, and digested pye - Call for waste paper; no man could make shift - How to employ thy writings to his thrift. - Wherefore forbear, for pity or for shame, - And let some richer penne redeeme his fame - From rottennesse. Thou leave him captive; since - So vile a PRICE ne’ere ransom’d such a Prince. - - - - -AN ANSWER, BY DR. PRICE[60]. - - - So to dead Hector boys may do disgrace, - That durst not look upon his living face; - So worst of men behind their betters’ back - May stretch mens names and credit on the rack. - Good friend, our general tie to him that’s gone - Should love the man that yearlie doth him moane: - The author’s zeal and place he now doth hold, - His love and duty makes him be thus bold - To offer this poor mite, his anniverse - Unto his good great master’s sacred hearse; - The which he doth with privilege of name, - Whilst others, ’midst their ale, in corners blame. - A pennyworth in print they never made, - Yet think themselves as good as Pond or Dade. - One anniverse, when thou hast done thus twice, - Thy words among the best will be of PRICE. - - - - -IN POETAM EXAUCTORATUM ET EMERITUM. - - - Nor is it griev’d, grave youth, the memory - Of such a story, such a booke as hee, - That such a copy through the world were read; - _Henry yet lives, though he be buried_. - It could be wish’d that every eye might beare - His eare good witnesse that he still were here; - That sorrowe ruled the yeare, and by that sunne - Each man could tell you how the day had runne: - O ’twere an honest boast, for him could say - I have been busy, and wept out the day - Remembring him. An epitaph would last - Were such a trophee, such a banner placed - Upon his corse as this: _Here a man lyes_ - _Was slaine by Henrye’s dart, not Destinie’s_. - Why this were med’cinable, and would heale, - Though the whole languish’d, halfe the commonweale. - But for a _Cobler_ to goe burn his cappe, - And cry, The Prince, the Prince! O dire mishappe! - Or a Geneva-bridegroom, after grace, - To throw his spouse i’ th’ fire; or scratch her face - To the tune of the Lamentation; or delay - His _Friday_ capon till the _Sabbath_ day: - Or an old Popish lady half vow’d dead - To fast away the day in gingerbread: - For him to write such annals; all these things - Do open laughter’s and shutt up griefe’s springs. - Tell me, what juster or more congruous peere - Than Ale, to judge of workes begott of beere? - Wherefore forbeare—or, if thou print the next, - Bring better notes, or take a meaner text. - - - - -ON MR. FRANCIS BEAUMONT, THEN NEWLY DEAD. - - -(The following lines, which have hitherto been omitted in the bishop’s -poems, are found in the collected dramas of the - - “twin stars that run - Their glorious course round Shakespeare’s honoured sun.” - -Beaumont was born 1585, and was buried the ninth of March 1615, in the -entrance of St. Bennet’s chapel, Westminster abbey.) - - He that hath such acuteness and such wit - As would aske ten good heads to husband it; - He that can write so well, that no man dare - Refuse it for the best, let him beware: - Beaumont is dead! by whose sole death appears - Wit’s a disease consumes men in few yeares. - - - - -WILLIAM LORD HOWARD, OF EFFINGHAM, - - -the subject of the succeeding poem, was the eldest son of Charles Howard, -earl of Nottingham, (lord high admiral of England, and defeater of the -Spanish Armada in the reign of Elizabeth, a nobleman of high estimation -during greater part of the reign of her successor,) by Catharine, -daughter of Henry Carey, lord Hunsdon; celebrated for concealing the ring -by which the life of the earl of Essex might have been saved, and upon -whose death-bed discovery of the concealment Elizabeth told her, “God may -forgive you, but I never can.” - -Lord Howard makes no conspicuous figure in the page of history: he was -summoned by writ to several parliaments during his father’s life, whom -he accompanied on his embassy to the court of Spaine (1604), but died -before him 10th Dec. 1615, and was buried at Chelsea. - -He married in 1597 Anne, daughter and sole heiress to John lord St. John -of Bletsoe, by whom he left one daughter, who became the wife of John -lord Mordaunt, afterwards earl of Peterborough. - - - - -AN ELEGIE[61] ON THE LATE LORD WILLIAM HOWARD, BARON OF EFFINGHAM. - - - I did not know thee, lord, nor do I strive - To win access, or grace, with lords alive: - The dead I serve, from whence nor faction can - Move me, nor favour; nor a greater man. - To whom no vice commends me, nor bribe sent, - From whom no penance warns, nor portion spent; - To these I dedicate as much of me, - As I can spare from my own husbandry: - And till ghosts walk as they were wont to do, - I trade for some, and do these errands too. - But first I do enquire, and am assur’d, - What tryals in their journeys they endur’d; - What certainties of honour and of worth - Their most uncertain life-times have brought forth; - And who so did least hurt of this small store, - He is my patron, dy’d he rich or poor. - First I will know of Fame (after his peace, - When flattery and envy both do cease) - Who rul’d his actions: Reason, or my lord? - Did the whole man rely upon a word, - A badge of title? or, above all chance, - Seem’d he as ancient as his cognizance? - What did he? Acts of mercy, and refrain - Oppression in himself, and in his train? - Was his essential table full as free - As boasts and invitations use to be? - Where if his russet-friend did chance to dine, - Whether his satten-man would fill him wine? - Did he think perjury as lov’d a sin, - Himself forsworn, as if his slave had been? - Did he seek regular pleasures? Was he known - Just husband of one wife, and she his own? - Did he give freely without pause, or doubt, - And read petitions ere they were worn out? - Or should his well-deserving _client_ ask, - Would he bestow a tilting, or a masque - To keep need vertuous? and that done, not fear - What lady damn’d him for his absence there? - Did he attend the court for no man’s fall? - Wore he the ruine of no hospital? - And when he did his rich apparel don, - Put he no widow, nor an orphan on? - Did he love simple vertue for the thing? - The king for no respect but for the king? - But, above all, did his religion wait - Upon God’s throne, or on the chair of state? - He that is guilty of no _quæry_ here, - Out-lasts his epitaph, out-lives his heir. - But there is none such, none so little bad; - Who but this negative goodness ever had? - Of such a lord we may expect the birth, - He’s rather in the womb, than on the earth. - And ’twere a crime in such a public fate, - For one to live well and degenerate: - And therefore I am angry, when a name - Comes to upbraid the world like _Effingham_. - Nor was it modest in thee to depart - To thy eternal home, where now thou art, - Ere thy reproach was ready; or to die, - Ere custom had prepar’d thy calumny. - Eight days have past since thou hast paid thy debt - To sin, and not a libel stirring yet; - Courtiers that scoff by patent, silent sit, - And have no use of slander or of wit; - But (which is monstrous) though against the tyde, - The watermen have neither rayl’d nor ly’d. - Of good or bad there’s no distinction known, - For in thy praise the good and bad are one. - It seems, we all are covetous of fame, - And, hearing what a purchase of good name - Thou lately mad’st, are careful to increase - Our title, by the holding of some lease - From thee our landlord, and for that th’ whole crew - Speak now like tenants, ready to renew. - It were too sad to tell thy pedegree, - Death hath disordered all, misplacing thee; - Whilst now thy herauld, in his line of heirs, - Blots out thy name, and fills the space with tears. - And thus hath conqu’ring Death, or Nature rather, - Made thee prepostrous ancient to thy father, - Who grieves th’ art so, and like a glorious light - Shines ore thy hearse. - He therefore that would write - And blaze thee throughly, may at once say all, - _Here lies the anchor of our admiral_. - Let others write for glory or reward, - Truth is well paid, when she is sung and heard. - - - - -LORD MORDAUNT. - - -The lord Mordaunt to whom this poem is addressed was John fifth baron -Mordaunt of Turvey, in the county of Bedford, who was afterwards (in -1628) created earl of Peterborough by king Charles the First. He married -Elizabeth, daughter and heir of William baron Howard of Effingham, (son -and heir apparent of Charles earl of Nottingham,) by Anne his wife, -daughter and heir of John baron St. John of Bletsoe. He was brought up -in the Roman Catholic religion, but converted to that of the established -church by a disputation at which he was present between a Jesuit and -the celebrated Dr. Usher, (afterwards) bishop of Armagh. In 1642 he was -general of the ordnance, and colonel of a regiment of foot in the army, -raised for the service of the Parliament, commanded by the earl of -Essex, and died the same year. - -In order to understand the following poem, it will be necessary to -remember, that James, in the year 1617, paid a visit to his native -country, whither the lord Mordaunt accompanied him; and the ceremony of -installing the knights of the garter was consequently deferred from St. -George’s day to that of Holyrood. - - - - -TO THE LORD MORDANT, UPON HIS RETURNE FROM THE NORTH. - - - My lord, I doe confesse at the first newes - Of your returne towards home, I did refuse - To visit you, for feare the northerne winde - Had peirc’t into your manners and your minde; - For feare you might want memory to forget - Some arts of Scotland which might haunt you yet. - But when I knew you were, and when I heard - You were at Woodstock seene, well sunn’d and air’d, - That your contagion in you now was spent, - And you were just lord Mordant, as you went, - I then resolv’d to come; and did not doubt - To be in season, though the bucke were out. - Windsor the place; the day was Holy roode; - Saint George my muse: for be it understood, - For all Saint George more early in the yeare - Broke fast and eat a bitt, hee dined here: - And though in Aprill in redd inke he shine, - Know twas September made him redd with wine. - To this good sport rod I, as being allow’d - To see the king, and cry him in the crowd; - And at all solemne meetings have the grace - To thrust, and to be trodde on, by my place. - - Where when I came, I saw the church besett - With tumults, as if all the Brethren mett - To heare some silenc’t teacher of that quarter - Inveigh against the order of the garter: - And justly might the weake it grieve and wrong, - Because the garter prayes in a strange tongue; - And doth retaine traditions yet, of Fraunce, - In an old _Honi soit qui mal y pense_. - Whence learne, you knights that order that have t’ane, - That all, besides the buckle, is profane. - But there was noe such doctrine now at stake, - Noe starv’d precisian from the pulpit spake: - And yet the church was full; all sorts of men, - Religions, sexes, ages, were there then: - Whilst he that keepes the quire together locks - Papists and Puritans, the Pope and Knox: - Which made some wise-ones feare, that love our nation, - This mixture would beget a toleration; - Or that religions should united bee, - When they stay’d service, these the letany. - But noe such hast; this dayes devotion lyes - Not in the hearts of men, but in their eyes; - They that doe see St. George, heare him aright; - For hee loves not to parly, but to fight. - Amongst this audience (my lord) stood I, - Well edified as any that stood by; - And knew how many leggs a knight letts fall, - Betwixt the king, the offering, and his stall: - Aske mee but of their robes, I shall relate - The colour and the fashion, and the state: - I saw too the procession without doore, - What the poore knightes, and what the prebends wore. - All this my neighbors that stood by mee tooke, - Who div’d but to the garment, and the looke; - But I saw more, and though I have their fate - In face and favour, yet I want their pate: - Mee thought I then did those first ages know, - Which brought forth knightes soo arm’d and looking soe, - Who would maintaine their oath, and bind their worde - With these two seales, an altar and a sworde. - Then saw I George new-sainted, when such preists - Wore him not only on, but in their breasts. - Oft did I wish that day, with solemne vow, - O that my country were in danger now! - And twas no treason; who could feare to dye, - When he was sure his rescue was so nigh? - - And here I might a just digression make, - Whilst of some foure particular knightes I spake, - To whome I owe my thankes; but twere not best, - By praysing two or three, t’ accuse the rest; - Nor can I sing that order, or those men, - That are aboue the maistery of my pen; - And private fingers may not touch those things - Whose authors princes are, whose parents kings: - Wherefore unburnt I will refraine that fire, - Least, daring such a theame, I should aspire - T’ include my king and prince, and soe rehearse - Names fitter for my prayer then my verse: - “Hee that will speake of princes, let him use - More grace then witt, know God’s aboue his muse.” - Noe more of councell: Harke! the trumpetts sound, - And the grave organ’s with the antheme drown’d - The Church hath said amen to all their rites, - And now the Trojan horse sets loose his knightes; - The triumph moues: O what could added bee, - Save your accesse, to this solemnitye? - Which I expect, and doubt not but to see ’t, - When the kings favour and your worth shall meete. - I thinke the robes would now become you soe, - St. George himselfe could scarce his owne knights know - From the lord Mordant: Pardon mee that preach - A doctrine which king James can only teach; - To whome I leaue you, who alone hath right - To make knightes lords, and then a lord a knight. - Imagine now the sceane lyes in the hall; - (For at high noone we are recusants all) - The church is empty, as the bellyes were - Of the spectators, which had languish’d there: - And now the favorites of the clarke of th’ checke, - Who oft haue yaun’d, and strech’t out many a neck - Twixt noone and morning; the dull feeders on - Fresh patience, and raisins of the sunne, - They, who had liv’d in th’ hall seaven houres at least, - As if twere an arraignment, not a feast; - And look’t soe like the hangings they stood nere, - None could discerne which the true pictures were; - These now shall be refresh’t, while the bold drumme - Strikes up his frollick, through the hall they come. - Here might I end, my lord, and here subscribe - Your honours to his power: But Oh, what bribe, - What feare or mulct can make my muse refraine, - When shee is urg’d of nature and disdaine? - Not all the guard shall hold mee, I must write, - Though they should sweare and lye how they would fight, - If I procede: nay, though the captaine say, - Hold him, or else you shall not eate to day; - Those goodly yeomen shall not scape my pen; - ’Twas dinner-time, and I must speake of men; - So to the hall made I, with little care - To praise the dishes, or to tast the fare; - Much lesse t’ endanger the least tart, or pye - By any waiter there stolne, or sett by; - But to compute the valew of the meate, - Which was for glory, not for hunger eate; - Nor did I feare, (stand back) who went before - The presence, or the privy-chamber doore. - And woe is mee, the guard, those men of warre, - Who but two weapons use, beife, and the barre, - Began to gripe mee, knowing not in truth, - That I had sung John Dory in my youth; - Or that I knew the day when I could chaunt - Chevy, and Arthur, and the Seige of Gaunt. - And though these be the vertues which must try - Who are most worthy of their curtesy, - They profited mee nothing: for no notes - Will move them now, they’re deafe in their new coates: - Wherefore on mee afresh they fall, and show - Themselves more active then before, as though - They had some wager lay’d, and did contend - Who should abuse mee furthest at armes end. - One I remember with a grisly beard, - And better growne then any of the heard; - One, were he well examin’d, and made looke - His name in his owne parish and church booke, - Could hardly prove his christendome; and yet - It seem’d he had two names, for there were writt - On a white canvasse doublett that he wore, - Two capitall letters of a name before; - Letters belike which hee had spew’d and spilt, - When the great bumbard leak’t, or was a tilt. - This Ironside tooke hold, and sodainly - Hurled mee, by judgment of the standers by, - Some twelve foote by the square; takes mee againe, - Out-throwes it halfe a bar; and thus wee twaine - At this hot exercise an hower had spent, - Hee the feirce agent, I the instrument. - My man began to rage, but I cry’d, Peace, - When he is dry or hungry he will cease: - Hold, for the Lords sake, Nicholas, lest they take us, - And use us worse then Hercules us’d Cacus. - - And now I breath, my lord, now have I time - To tell the cause, and to confesse the crime: - I was in black; a scholler straite they guest; - Indeed I colour’d for it at the least. - I spake them faire, desir’d to see the hall, - And gave them reasons for it, this was all; - By which I learne it is a maine offence, - So neere the clark of th’ check to utter sense: - Talk of your emblemes, maisters, and relate - How Æsope hath it, and how Alciate; - The Cock and Pearle, the Dunghill and the Jemme, - This passeth all to talke sence amongst them. - Much more good service was committed yet, - Which I in such a tumult must forget; - But shall I smother that prodigious fitt, - Which pass’d Heons invention, and pure witt? - As this: A nimble knave, but something fatt, - Strikes at my head, and fairly steales my hatt: - Another breakes a jest, (well, Windsor, well, - What will ensue thereof there’s none can tell, - When they spend witt, serve God) yet twas not much, - Although the clamours and applause were such, - As when salt Archy or Garret doth provoke them[62], - And with wide laughter and a cheat-loafe choake them. - What was the jest doe you aske? I dare repeate it, - And put it home before you shall entreat it; - He call’d mee Bloxford-man: confesse I must - ’Twas bitter; and it griev’d mee, in a thrust - That most ungratefull word (Bloxford) to heare - From him, whose breath yet stunk of Oxford beere: - But let it passe; for I have now passd throw - Their halberds, and worse weapons, their teeth, too: - And of a worthy officer was invited - To dine; who all their rudeness hath requited: - Where wee had mirth and meat, and a large board - Furnish’t with all the kitchin could afford. - But to conclude, to wipe of from before yee - All this which is noe better then a story; - Had this affront bin done mee by command - Of noble Fenton[63], had their captaines hand - Directed them to this, I should beleive - I had no cause to jeast, but much to greive: - Or had discerning Pembrooke[64] seene this done, - And thought it well bestow’d, I would have run - Where no good man had dwelt, nor learn’d would fly, - Where noe disease would keepe mee company, - Where it should be preferment to endure - To teach a schoole, or else to starve a cure. - - But as it stands, the persons and the cause - Consider well, their manners and their lawes, - Tis no affliction to mee, for even thus - Saint Paul hath fought with beasts at Ephesus, - And I at Windsor. Let this comfort then - Rest with all able and deserving men: - Hee that will please the guard, and not provoke - Court-witts, must suite his learning by a cloake: - “For at all feasts and masques the doome hath bin, - “A man thrust out and a gay cloake let in.” - - _Quid immerentes hospites vexas canis,_ - _Ignavus adversus lupos?_ - - - - -TO THE PRINCE. - -(AFTERWARDS CHARLES THE FIRST.) - -Born at Dumferling, November the 19th, 1600; crowned 27th March 1625; -beheaded 30th January 1648-9. - -(From a Manuscript in Ashmole’s Museum.) - - - For ever dear, for ever dreaded prince, - You read some verse of mine a little since, - And so pronounced each word and every letter - Your gratious reading made my verse the better: - Since that your highness doth by gifte exceeding - Make what you read the better for your reading, - Let my poor muse thus far your grace importune - To leave to reade my verse, and read my fortune. - - - - -A NEW-YEARES GIFT TO MY LORDE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM. - -(Born 28th August 1592; assassinated by Felton, 23d August 1628.) - - - When I can pay my parents, or my king, - For life, or peace, or any dearer thing; - Then, dearest lord, expect my debt to you - Shall bee as truly paid, as it is due. - But, as no other price or recompence - Serves them, but love, and my obedience; - So nothing payes my lord, but whats above - The reach of hands, ’tis vertue, and my love. - “For, when as goodnesse doth so overflow, - “The conscience bindes not to restore, but owe:” - Requitall were presumption; and you may - Call mee ungratefull, while I strive to pay. - Nor with a morall lesson doe I shift, - Like one that meant to save a better gift; - Like very poore, or counterfeite poore men, - Who, to preserve their turky or their hen, - Doe offer up themselves: No; I have sent - A kind of guift, will last by being spent, - Thankes sterling: far above the bullion rate - Of horses, hangings, jewells, or of plate. - O you that know the choosing of that one, - Know a true diamond from a Bristow stone: - You know, those men alwaies are not the best - In their intent, that lowdest can protest: - But that a prayer from the convocation, - Is better than the commons protestation. - Trust those that at the test their lives will lay, - And know no arts, but to deserve, and pray: - Whilst they, that buy preferment without praying, - Begin with broyles, and finish with betraying. - - - - -SIR THOMAS AYLESBURY, - - -A Londoner born, was second son of William Aylesbury by Anne his wife, -daughter of John Poole, esq., and from Westminster School removed to -Christ-Church, Oxford, in 1598, where he became a fellow-student with -Corbet, and where, on the 9th of June 1605, they took the degree of -master of arts together. - -Aylesbury, after he had left Oxford, became secretary to Charles Howard, -earl of Nottingham, lord high admiral of England, and in 1618, when the -latter resigned his office, was continued in the same employment under -Howard’s successor, George Villiers, then marquis, and afterwards duke -of Buckingham. Under the patronage of Villiers he was appointed one of -the masters of the requests, and on the 19th of April 1627 created a -baronet, and soon afterwards obtained the office of master of the mint. -He retained his places until the breaking out of the civil wars in 1642, -and faithfully adhering to the cause of Charles the First, retired with -his family, in 1649, after the execution of that unfortunate monarch, to -Antwerp in Brabant, and continued there until 1652, when he removed to -Breda, where he died in 1657, aged 81, and was buried in the great church. - -He was “a learned man, and as great a lover and encourager of learning -and learned men, especially of mathematicians, (he being one himself) as -any man in his time.” - -He had a son, William, who was a man of learning, and tutor to the two -sons of his father’s patron, Villiers, but died issueless in Jamaica in -the service of Cromwell in the same year with his father: and a daughter, -Frances, (sole heir of her father and brother) who, in 1634, became the -wife of Edward Hyde, afterwards earl of Clarendon, and was grandmother to -queen Mary the Second, and to queen Anne. - -I have been the more particular in noticing what relates to sir Thomas -Aylesbury, since bishop Corbet’s advancement at court followed, though -it trode close upon the heels of, that of Aylesbury, which leads me to -presume that the latter was in some degree Corbet’s patron as well as -friend and companion. - - - - -A LETTER SENT FROM DR. CORBET TO SIR THOMAS AILESBURY, December the 9th, -1618. ON THE OCCASION OF A BLAZING STAR. - - - My brother and much more, hadst thou been mine, - Hadst thou in one rich present of a line - Inclos’d sir Francis, for in all this store - No gift can cost thee less, or binde me more; - Hadst thou (dear churle) imparted his return, - I should not with a tardy welcome burn; - But had let loose my joy at him long since, - Which now will seem but studied negligence: - But I forgive thee, two things kept thee from it, - First such a friend to gaze on, next a comet; - Which comet we discern, though not so true - As you at Sion, as long tayl’d as you; - We know already how will stand the case, - With Barnavelt[65] of universal grace, - Though Spain deserve the whole star, if the fall - Be true of Lerma duke and cardinal[66]: - Marry, in France we fear no blood, but wine; - Less danger’s in her sword, than in her vine. - And thus we leave the blazers coming over, - For our portents are wise, and end at Dover: - And though we use no forward censuring, - Nor send our learned proctors to the king, - Yet every morning when the star doth rise, - There is no black for three hours in our eyes; - But like a Puritan dreamer, towards this light - All eyes turn upward, all are zeal and white: - More it is doubtful that this prodigy - Will turn ten schools to one astronomy: - And the analysis we justly fear, - Since every art doth seek for rescue there; - Physicians, lawyers, glovers on the stall, - The shopkeepers speak mathematics all; - And though men read no gospels in these signes, - Yet all professions are become divines; - All weapons from the bodkin to the pike, - The masons rule and taylors yard alike - Take altitudes, and th’ early fidling knaves - On fluits and hoboyes made them Jacobs-staves; - Lastly of fingers, glasses we contrive, - And every fist is made a prospective: - Burton to Gunter cants[67], and Burton hears - From Gunter, and th’ exchange both tongue and ears - By carriage: thus doth mired Guy complain, - His waggon in their letters bears Charles-Wain, - Charles-Wain, to which they say the tayl will reach; - And at this distance they both hear and teach. - Now, for the peace of God and men, advise - (Thou that hast where-withal to make us wise) - Thine own rich studies, and deep Harriots mine[68], - In which there is no dross, but all refine: - O tell us what to trust to, lest we wax - All stiff and stupid with his parallax: - Say, shall the old philosophy be true? - Or doth he ride above the moon, think you? - Is he a meteor forced by the sun? - Or a first body from creation? - Hath the same star been object of the wonder - Of our forefathers? Shall the same come under - The sentence of our nephews? Write and send, - Or else this star a quarrel doth portend. - - - - -DR. CORBET’S JOURNEY INTO FRANCE. - - - I went from England into France, - Nor yet to learn to cringe nor dance, - Nor yet to ride or fence; - Nor did I go like one of those - That do return with half a nose - They carried from hence. - - But I to Paris rode along, - Much like John Dory in the song[69], - Upon a holy tide. - I on an ambling nag did jet, - I trust he is not paid for yet; - And spur’d him on each side. - - And to Saint Dennis fast we came, - To see the sights of Nostre Dame, - The man that shews them snaffles: - Where who is apt for to beleeve, - May see our Ladies right-arm sleeve, - And eke her old pantofles; - - Her breast, her milk, her very gown - That she did wear in Bethlehem town, - When in the inn she lay. - Yet all the world knows that’s a fable, - For so good clothes ne’re lay in stable - Upon a lock of hay. - - No carpenter could by his trade - Gain so much coyn as to have made - A gown of so rich stuff. - Yet they, poor fools, think, for their credit, - They may believe old Joseph did it, - ’Cause he deserv’d enough. - - There is one of the crosses nails, - Which whoso sees, his bonnet vails, - And if he will, may kneel. - Some say ’twas false, ’twas never so, - Yet, feeling it, thus much I know, - It is as true as steel. - - There is a lanthorn which the Jews, - When Judas led them forth, did use, - It weighs my weight downright: - But to believe it, you must think - The Jews did put a candle in ’t, - And then ’twas very light. - - There’s one saint there hath lost his nose; - Another’s head, but not his toes, - His elbow and his thumb. - But when that we had seen the rags - We went to th’ inn and took our nags, - And so away did come. - - We came to Paris on the Seine, - ’Tis wondrous fair, ’tis nothing clean, - ’Tis Europes greatest town. - How strong it is I need not tell it, - For all the world may easily smell it, - That walk it up and down. - - There many strange things are to see, - The Palace and great Gallery, - The Place Royal doth excel: - The New Bridge, and the Statues there, - At Nostre Dame, Saint Q. Pater, - The Steeple bears the bell. - - For learning, th’ Universitie; - And for old clothes, the Frippery; - The House the Queen did build. - Saint Innocents, whose earth devours - Dead corps in four and twenty hours, - And there the King was kill’d: - - The Bastile and Saint Dennis-street, - The Shafflenist, like London-Fleet, - The Arsenal, no toy. - But if you’ll see the prettiest thing, - Go to the court and see the King, - O ’tis a hopeful boy. - - He is of all his dukes and peers - Reverenc’d for much wit at ’s years, - Nor must you think it much; - For he with little switch doth play, - And make fine dirty pyes of clay, - O never king made such! - - A bird that can but kill a fly, - Or prate, doth please his majesty, - ’Tis known to every one. - The duke of Guise gave him a parret, - And he had twenty cannons for it - For his new galeon. - - O that I ere might have the hap - To get the bird which in the map - Is called the Indian Ruck! - I’de give it him, and hope to be - As rich as Guise, or Livine, - Or else I had ill luck. - - Birds round about his chamber stand, - And he them feeds with his own hand; - ’Tis his humility. - And if they do want any thing, - They need but whistle for their king, - And he comes presently. - - But now then, for these parts he must - Be enstiled Lewis the Just[70], - Great Henry’s lawful heir; - When to his stile to add more words, - They’d better call him King of Birds, - Than of the great Navarre. - - He hath besides a pretty quirk, - Taught him by Nature, how to work - In iron with much ease. - Sometimes to the forge he goes, - There he knocks, and there he blows, - And makes both locks and keys: - - Which puts a doubt in every one, - Whether he be Mars or Vulcan’s son, - Some few believe his mother. - But let them all say what they will, - I came resolv’d, and so think still, - As much the one as th’ other. - - The people, too, dislike the youth, - Alledging reasons, for, in truth, - Mothers should honour’d be: - Yet others say, he loves her rather - As well as ere she lov’d his father, - And that’s notoriously. - - His queen, a pretty little wench, - Was born in Spain, speaks little French, - She’s nere like to be mother: - For her incestuous house could not - Have children which were not begot - By uncle or by brother. - - Now why should Lewis, being so just, - Content himself to take his lust - With his Lucina’s mate; - And suffer his little pretty queen, - From all her race that yet hath been, - So to degenerate? - - ’Twere charity for to be known - To love others children as his own, - And why? It is no shame; - Unless that he would greater be - Than was his father Henery, - Who, men thought, did the same. - - - - -JOHN HAMMON. - - -John Hammon, M.A., to whom the following “Exhortation” is addressed, -was instituted to the rectory of Bibbesford and chapel of Bewdley in -Worcestershire the 2d of March 1614, on the presentation of sir William -Cook. The new zeal with which he was inspired arose most probably from -the intrusion of the “Book of Sports,” by James, in 1618[71], in which -the king’s pleasure is declared, “that, after the end of divine service, -our good people be not disturbed, letted or discouraged from any lawfull -recreation; such as dauncing, either men or women; archerie for men, -leaping, vaulting, or any other such harmlesse recreation; nor from -having of May games, Witson ales, and Morris dances, and the _setting up -of Maypoles and other sports therein used_; and that women shall have -leave to carry rushes to the church for the decoring of it, according to -their old custome.” - - - - -AN EXHORTATION TO MR. JOHN HAMMON, MINISTER IN THE PARISH OF BEWDLY, - -_For the battering downe of the Vanityes of the Gentiles, which are -comprehended in a Maypole_. - -Written by a Zealous Brother from the Black-fryers. - - - The mighty zeale which thou hast new put on, - Neither by prophet nor by prophetts sonne - As yet prevented, doth transport mee so - Beyond my selfe, that, though I ne’re could go - Farr in a verse, and all rithmes have defy’d - Since Hopkins and old Thomas Sternhold dy’de, - (Except it were that little paines I tooke - To please good people in a prayer-booke - That I sett forth, or so) yet must I raise - My spirit for thee, who shall in thy praise - Gird up her loynes, and furiously run - All kinde of feet, save Satans cloven one. - Such is thy zeale, so well dost thou express it, - That, (wer ’t not like a charme,) I’de say, Christ blesse it. - I needs must say ’tis a spirituall thing - To raile against a bishopp, or the king; - Nor are they meane adventures wee have bin in, - About the wearing of the churches linnen; - But these were private quarrells: this doth fall - Within the compass of the generall. - Whether it be a pole painted, and wrought - Farr otherwise, then from the wood ’twas brought, - Whose head the idoll-makers hand doth croppe, - Where a lew’d bird, towring upon the topp, - Lookes like the calfe at Horeb; at whose roots - The unyoak’t youth doth exercise his foote; - Or whether it reserve his boughes, befreinded - By neighb’ring bushes, and by them attended: - How caust thou chuse but seeing it complaine, - That Baalls worship’t in the groves againe? - Tell mee how curst an egging, what a sting - Of lust do their unwildy daunces bring? - The simple wretches say they meane no harme, - They doe not, surely; but their actions warme - Our purer blouds the more: for Sathan thus - Tempts us the more, that are more righteous. - Oft hath a Brother most sincerely gon, - Stifled in prayer and contemplation, - When lighting on the place where such repaire, - He viewes the nimphes, and is quite out in ’s prayer. - Oft hath a Sister, grownded in the truth, - Seeing the jolly carriage of the youth, - Bin tempted to the way that’s broad and bad; - And (wert not for our private pleasures) had - Renounc’t her little ruffe, and goggle eye, - And quitt her selfe of the Fraternity. - What is the mirth, what is the melody, - That setts them in this Gentiles vanity? - When in our sinagogue wee rayle at sinne, - And tell men of the faults which they are in, - With hand and voice so following our theames, - That wee put out the side-men from their dreames. - Sounds not the pulpett, which wee then be-labour, - Better, and holyer, then doth the tabour? - Yet, such is unregenerate mans folly, - Hee loves the wicked noyse, and hates the holy. - Routes and wilde pleasures doe invite temptation, - And this is dangerous for our damnation; - Wee must not move our selves, but, if w’ are mov’d, - Man is but man; and therefore those that lov’d - Still to seeme good, would evermore dispence - With their owne faults, so they gave no offence. - If the times sweete entising, and the blood - That now begins to boyle, have thought it good - To challenge Liberty and Recreation, - Let it be done in holy contemplation: - Brothers and Sisters in the feilds may walke, - Beginning of the Holy Worde to talke, - Of David, and Uriahs lovely wife, - Of Thamar, and her lustfull brothers strife; - Then, underneath the hedge that woos them next, - They may sitt down; and there act out the text. - Nor do wee want, how ere wee live austeere, - In winter Sabbath-nights our lusty cheere; - And though the pastors grace, which oft doth hold - Halfe an howre long, make the provision cold, - Wee can be merry; thinking ’t nere the worse - To mend the matter at the second course. - Chapters are read, and hymnes are sweetly sung, - Joyntly commanded by the nose and tongue; - Then on the Worde wee diversly dilate, - Wrangling indeed for heat of zeale, not hate: - When at the length an unappeased doubt - Feircely comes in, and then the light goes out; - Darkness thus workes our peace, and wee containe - Our fyery spiritts till we see againe. - Till then, no voice is heard, no tongue doth goe, - Except a tender Sister shreike, or so. - Such should be our delights, grave and demure, - Not so abominable, not so impure, - As those thou seek’st to hinder, but I feare - Satan will bee too strong; his kingdome’s here: - Few are the righteous now, nor do I know - How wee shall ere this idoll overthrow; - Since our sincerest patron is deceas’t, - The number of the righteous is decreast. - But wee do hope these times will on, and breed - A faction mighty for us; for indeede - Wee labour all, and every Sister joynes - To have regenerate babes spring from our loynes: - Besides, what many carefully have done, - Getting the unrighteous man, a righteous sonne. - Then stoutly on, let not thy flocke range lewdly - In their old vanity, thou lampe of Bewdly. - One thing I pray thee; do not too much thirst - After Idolatryes last fall; but first - Follow this suite more close, let it not goe - Till it be thine as thou would’st have ’t: for soe - Thy successors, upon the same entayle, - Hereafter, may take up the Whitson-ale. - - - - -ANNE, WIFE OF JAMES THE FIRST, - -Daughter of Frederick the Second, king of Denmark, died of a dropsy the -2d of March 1619. - - -On the 18th of November 1618, a comet (as alluded to in a foregoing poem) -was seen in Libra, which continued visible till the 16th of December; and -the vulgar, who think - - Nunquam futilibus excanduit ignibus æther, - -considered it indicative of great misfortunes; and the death of the queen -which closely followed, the first object of its portentous mission. - -“The queen was in her great condition,” says Wilson, “a good woman, not -tempted from that height she stood on to embroyl her spirit much with -things below her, only giving herself content in her own house with such -recreations as might not make time tedious unto her; and though great -persons’ actions are often pried into, and made envy’s mark, yet nothing -could be fixed upon her that left any great impression, but that she may -have engraven upon her monument a character of virtue.” - - - - -AN ELEGY UPON THE DEATH OF QUEENE ANNE. - - - Noe; not a quatch, sad poets; doubt you, - There is not greife enough without you? - Or that it will asswage ill newes, - To say, Shee’s dead, that was your muse? - Joine not with Death to make these times - More grievous then most grievous rimes. - - And if ’t be possible, deare eyes, - The famous Universityes, - If bold your eyes bee matches, sleepe; - Or, if you will be loyall, weepe: - For-beare the press, there’s none will looke - Before the mart for a new booke. - - Why should you tell the world what witts - Grow at New-parkes, or Campus-pitts? - Or what conceipts youth stumble on, - Taking the ayre towards Trumpington? - Nor you, grave tutours, who doe temper - Your long and short with _que_ and _semper_; - O doe not, when your owne are done, - Make for my ladyes eldest sonne - Verses, which he will turne to prose, - When he shall read what you compose: - Nor, for an epithite that failes, - Bite off your unpoëticke nailes. - Unjust! Why should you in these vaines, - Punish your fingers for your braines? - - Know henceforth, that griefes vitall part - Consists in nature, not in art: - And verses that are studied - Mourne for themselves, not for the dead. - - Heark, the Queenes epitaph shall bee - Noe other then her pedigree: - For lines in bloud cutt out are stronger - Then lines in marble, and last longer: - And such a verse shall never fade, - That is begotten, and not made. - - “Her father, brother, husband, ... kinges; - Royall relations! from her springes - A prince and princesse; and from those - Faire certaintyes, and rich hope growes.” - Here’s poetry shall be secure - While Britaine, Denmarke, Rheine endure: - Enough on earth; what purchase higher, - Save heaven, to perfect her desire? - And as a straying starr intic’t - And governd those wise-men to Christ, - Ev’n soe a herauld-starr this yeare - Did beckon to her to appeare: - A starr which did not to our nation - Portend her death, but her translation: - For when such harbingers are seene, - God crownes a saint, not kills a queene. - - - - -VINCENT CORBET, - - -Who, from causes which I have not conclusively ascertained, assumed the -name of Poynter, was one of those by whose experience and information -sir Hugh Platt, at a period when the horticultural arts in this country -were in their infancy, was enabled to publish his “Garden Of Eden.” The -beautiful “Epitaph” of Ben Jonson, and the following “Elegy,” are high -testimonials of his amiable and virtuous disposition. - -His father’s name I have not learned; but his mother, whose name was -Rose, was buried at Twickenham, September the 13th, 1611, and the -register of the same parish proves that her son pursued her path the 29th -April, 1619. - -Among other legacies, he bequeathed to the poor of Twickenham forty -shillings, to be paid immediately after his decease; and four loads -of charcoal, to be distributed at the discretion of the churchwardens. -These bequests are overlooked by Ironside and Lysons, and I am happy -in recording the father of bishop Corbet as a benefactor to my native -village. - - Nescis quâ natale solum dulcedine captos - Ducit, et immemores non sinit esse sui. - - - - -AN ELEGIE UPON THE DEATH OF HIS OWNE FATHER. - - - Vincent Corbet, farther knowne - By Poynters name, then by his owne, - Here lyes ingaged till the day - Of raising bones, and quickning clay. - Nor wonder, reader, that he hath - Two surnames in his epitaph; - For this one did comprehend - All that two familyes could lend: - And if to know more arts then any - Could multiply one into many, - Here a colony lyes, then, - Both of qualityes and men. - Yeares he liv’d well nigh fourscore; - But count his vertues, he liv’d more; - And number him by doeing good, - He liv’d their age beyond the Flood. - Should wee undertake his story, - Truth would seeme fain’d, and plainesse glory: - Beside, this tablet were too small, - Add to the pillers and the wall. - Yet of this volume much is found, - Written in many a fertill ground; - Where the printer thee affords - Earth for paper, trees for words. - He was Natures factour here, - And legier lay for every sheire; - To supply the ingenious wants - Of some spring-fruites, and forraigne plants. - Simple he was, and wise withall; - His purse nor base, nor prodigall; - Poorer in substance then in freinds; - Future and publicke were his endes; - His conscience, like his dyett, such - As neither tooke nor left too much: - Soe that made lawes were uselesse growne - To him, he needed but his owne. - Did he his neighbours bid, like those - That feast them only to enclose? - Or with their rost meate racke their rents, - And cozen them with their consents? - Noe; the free meetings at his boord - Did but one litterall sence afforde; - Noe close or aker understood, - But only love and neighbourhood. - His alms were such as Paul defines, - Not causes to be said, but signes; - Which alms, by faith, hope, love, laid down, - Laid up what now he wears ... a crown. - Besides his fame, his goods, his life, - He left a greiv’d sonne, and a wife; - Straunge sorrow, not to be beleiv’d, - Whenas the sonne and heire is greiv’d. - Reade then, and mourne, what ere thou art - That doost hope to have a part - In honest epitaphs; least, being dead, - Thy life bee written, and not read. - - - - -THE LADY HADDINGTON - - -Was first wife of John Ramsey, viscount Haddington in Scotland, and -daughter of Robert Radcliffe, earl of Sussex. Her marriage was celebrated -by Ben Jonson, in a masque presented at court on the Shrove-Tuesday at -night (1608)[72]; and here is her monody by Corbet. - -She had two sons, Charles and James, and a daughter, Elizabeth, who all -died young. Her father died without surviving issue, September 22d, 1629. - -Her husband, who was a great favourite with king James, survived her, -and was created baron of Kingston upon Thames, and earl of Holderness, -22 Jan. 1620-1. He had a second wife, daughter of sir William Cockayne, -alderman of London[73]: - -But his first lady, the subject of the present article, was evidently -dead before his elevation to the English peerage. - - - - -AN ELEGIE UPON THE DEATH OF THE LADY HADDINGTON, WHO DYED OF THE SMALL -POX. - - - Deare losse, to tell the world I greive were true, - But that were to lament my selfe, not you; - That were to cry out helpe for my affaires, - For which nor publick thought, nor private, cares: - No, when thy fate I publish amongst men, - I should have power, and write with the States pen: - I should in naming thee force publicke teares, - And bid their eyes pay ransome for their cares. - First, thy whole life was a short feast of witt, - And Death th’ attendant which did waite on it: - To both mankind doth owe devotion ample, - To that their first, to this their last example. - And though ’twere praise enough (with them whose fame - And vertue’s nothing but an ample name) - That thou wert highly borne, (which no man doubtes) - And so mightst swath base deedes in noble cloutes; - Yet thou thy selfe in titles didst not shroud, - And being noble, wast nor foole, nor proud; - And when thy youth was ripe, when now the suite - Of all the longing court was for thy fruit, - How wisely didst thou choose! Foure blessed eyes, - The kings and thine, had taught thee to be wise. - Did not the best of men thee virgin give - Into his handes, by which himselfe did live? - Nor didst thou two yeares after talke of force, - Or, lady-like, make suit for a divorce: - Who, when their owne wilde lust is falsely spent, - Cry out, “My lord, my lord is impotent.” - Nor hast thou in his nuptiall armes enjoy’d - Barren imbraces, but wert girl’d and boy’d: - Twice-pretty-ones thrice worthier were their youth - Might shee but bring them up, that brought them forth: - Shee would have taught them by a thousand straines, - (Her bloud runns in their manners, not their veines) - That glory is a lye; state a grave sport; - And country sicknesse above health at court. - Oh what a want of her loose gallants have, - Since shee hath chang’d her window for a grave; - From whence shee us’d to dart out witt so fast, - And stick them in their coaches as they past! - Who now shall make well-colour’d vice looke pale? - Or a curl’d meteor with her eyes exhale, - And talke him into nothing? Who shall dare - Tell barren braines they dwell in fertill haire? - Who now shall keepe ould countesses in awe, - And, by tart similyes, repentance draw - From those, whome preachers had given ore? Even such - Whome sermons could not reach, her arrowes touch. - Hereafter, fooles shall prosper with applause, - And wise men smile, and no man aske the cause: - Hee of fourescore, three night capps, and two haires, - Shall marry her of twenty, and get heyres - Which shall be thought his owne; and none shall say - But tis a wondrous blessing, and he may. - Now (which is more then pitty) many a knight, - Which can doe more then quarrell, less then fight, - Shall choose his weapons, ground; draw seconds thither, - Put up his sword, and not be laught at neyther. - Oh thou deform’d unwoeman-like disease, - That plowst up flesh and bloud, and there sow’st pease, - And leav’st such printes on beauty, that dost come - As clouted shon do on a floore of lome; - Thou that of faces hony-combes dost make, - And of two breasts two cullenders, forsake - Thy deadly trade; thou now art rich, give ore, - And let our curses call thee forth no more. - Or, if thou needs will magnify thy power, - Goe where thou art invoked every houre - Amongst the gamsters, where they name thee thicke - At the last maine, or the last pocky nicke. - Get thee a lodging neare thy clyent, dice, - There thou shalt practice on more then one vice. - There’s wherewithall to entertaine the pox, - There’s more then reason, there’s rime for ’t, the box. - Thou who hast such superfluous store of game, - Why struckst thou one whose ruine is thy shame? - O, thou hast murdred where thou shouldst have kist; - And, where thy shaft was needfull, there it mist. - Thou shouldst have chosen out some homely face, - Where thy ill-favour’d kindnesse might adde grace, - That men might say, How beauteous once was shee! - Or, What a peece, ere shee was seaz’d by thee! - Thou shouldst have wrought on some such ladyes mould - That ne’re did love her lord, nor ever could - Untill shee were deform’d, thy tyranny - Were then within the rules of charity. - But upon one whose beauty was above - All sort of art, whose love was more then love, - On her to fix thy ugly counterfett, - Was to erect a pyramide of jett, - And put out fire to digg a turfe from hell, - And place it where a gentle soule should dwell: - A soule which in the body would not stay, - When twas noe more a body, nor good clay, - But a huge ulcer. O thou heav’nly race, - Thou soule that shunn’st th’ infection of thy case, - Thy house, thy prison, pure soule, spotless, faire, - Rest where no heat, no cold, no compounds are! - Rest in that country, and injoy that ease, - Which thy frayle flesh deny’de, and her disease! - - - - -ON THE CHRIST-CHURCH PLAY. - - -The failure of success in the representation of this play has been -detailed in the Life of the Bishop: indeed it seems to have subjected -the Oxonians to much ridicule, which the elegant bishop King[74] joined -with Corbet in retorting. One of the numerous banters on this occasion is -recorded by Wood, and deserves to be preserved: - - “At Christ-Church ‘Marriage,’ done before the king, - Lest that those mates should want an offering, - The king himself did offer—What? I pray. - He offer’d twice or thrice to go away.” - - - - -ON CHRIST-CHURCH PLAY AT WOODSTOCK. - - - If wee, at Woodstock, have not pleased those, - Whose clamorous judgments lye in urging noes, - And, for the want of whifflers, have destroy’d - Th’ applause, which wee with vizards hadd enjoy’d, - Wee are not sorry; for such witts as these - Libell our windowes oft’ner then our playes; - Or, if their patience be moov’d, whose lipps - Deserve the knowledge of the proctorships, - Or judge by houses, as their howses goe, - Not caring if their cause be good or noe; - Nor by desert or fortune can be drawne - To credit us, for feare they loose their pawne; - Wee are not greatly sorry; but if any, - Free from the yoake of the ingaged many, - That dare speake truth even when their head stands by, - Or when the seniors spoone is in the pye; - Nor to commend the worthy will forbeare, - Though he of Cambridge, or of Christ-church were, - And not of his owne colledge; and will shame - To wrong the person, for his howse, or name; - If any such be greiv’d, then downe proud spirit; - If not, know, number never conquer’d merit. - - - - -THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM. - - -Of the romantic expedition to Spain of “Baby Charles and Stennie” an -account is given by Clarendon, and a more minute narrative by Arthur -Wilson in his Life of James. The voyage was conducted with great secrecy, -and very few attendants: but it is worthy remark, that Archee “the -princes fool-man” was one of the party. Howell, who was at Madrid at the -time, says, “Our cousin Archy hath more privilege than any, for he often -goes with his fool’s-coat where the _Infanta_ is with her Meninas and -ladies of honour, and keeps a blowing and blustering amongst them, and -flurts out what he list.” One of his “flurts” at the Spaniards is related -in the same page[75]. - -The poem, as far as it describes the various rumours during the absence -of the parties, a period of great consternation, is curious: the report -of Buckingham’s “difference with the Cond’ Olivares” rests upon better -authority than the then opinion of the poet. - -They left the court Feb. 17th, and returned to England the 5th Oct. 1623. - - - - -A LETTER TO THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM, BEING WITH THE PRINCE IN SPAINE. - - - I’ve read of ilands floating and remov’d - In Ovids time, but never heard it prov’d - Till now: that fable, by the prince and you, - By your transporting England, is made true. - Wee are not where wee were; the dog-starr raignes - No cooler in our climate, then in Spaines; - The selfe-same breath, same ayre, same heate, same burning, - Is here, as there; will be, till your returning: - Come, e’re the card be alter’d, lest perhaps - Your stay may make an errour in our mapps; - Lest England should be found, when you shall passe, - A thousand miles more southward then it was. - Oh that you were, my lord, oh that you were - Now in Blackfryers, in a disguis’d haire; - That you were Smith againe, two houres to bee - In Paules next Sunday, at full sea at three; - There you should heare the legend of each day, - The perills of your inne, and of your way; - Your enterprises, accidents, untill - You did arrive at court, and reach Madrill. - There you should heare how the State-grandees flout you, - With their twice-double diligence about you; - How our environ’d prince walkes with a guard - Of Spanish spies, and his owne servants barr’d; - How not a chaplaine of his owne may stay - When hee would heare a sermon preach’d, or pray. - You would be hungry, having din’d, to heare - The price of victuailes, and the scarcity, there; - As if the prince had ventur’d there his life - To make a famine, not to fetch a wife. - Your eggs (which might be addle too) are deare - As English capons; capons as sheepe, here; - No grasse neither for cattle; for they say - It is not cutt and made, grasse there growes hay: - That ’tis soe seething hott in Spaine, they sweare - They never heard of a raw oyster there: - Your cold meate comes in reaking, and your wine - Is all burnt sack, the fire was in the vine; - Item, your pullets are distinguish’t there - Into foure quarters, as wee carve the yeare, - And are a weeke a wasting: Munday noone - A wing; at supper something with a spoone; - Tuesday a legg, and soe forth; Sunday more, - The liver and a gizard betweene foure: - And for your mutton, in the best houshoulder - ’Tis felony to cheapen a whole shoulder. - Lord! how our stomackes come to us againe, - When wee conceive what snatching is in Spaine! - I, whilst I write, and doe the newes repeate, - Am forc’t to call for breakfast in, and eate: - And doe you wonder at the dearth the while? - The flouds that make it run in th’ middle ile, - Poets of Paules, those of duke Humfryes messe, - That feede on nought but graves and emptinesse. - But heark you, noble sir, in one crosse weeke - My lord hath lost a thowsand pound at gleeke; - And though they doe allow but little meate, - They are content your losses should be great. - False, on my deanery! falser then your fare is; - Or then your difference with _Cond’ de Olivares_, - Which was reported strongly for one tyde, - But, after six houres floating, ebb’d and dyde. - If God would not this great designe should be - Perfect and round without some knavery, - Nor that our prince should end this enterprize, - But for soe many miles, soe many lyes: - If for a good event the Heav’ns doe please - Mens tongues should become rougher then the seas, - And that th’ expence of paper shall be such, - First written, then translated out of Dutch: - Corantoes, diets, packets, newes, more newes, - Which soe much innocent whitenesse doth abuse; - If first the Belgicke[76] pismire must be seene, - Before the Spanish lady be our queene; - With such successe, and such an end at last, - All’s wellcome, pleasant, gratefull, that is past. - And such an end wee pray that you should see, - A type of that which mother Zebedee - Wisht for her sonnes in heav’n; the prince and you - At either hand of James, (you need not sue) - Hee on the right, you on the left, the king - Safe in the mids’t, you both invironing. - Then shall I tell my lord, his word and band - Are forfeit, till I kisse the princes hand; - Then shall I tell the duke, your royall friend - Gave all the other honours, this you earn’d; - This you have wrought for; this you hammer’d out - Like a strong Smith, good workman and a stout. - In this I have a part, in this I see - Some new addition smiling upon mee: - Who, in an humble distance, claime a share - In all your greatnesse, what soe ere you are. - - - - -RICHARD, THE THIRD EARL OF DORSET, - - -Is described by his wife, the celebrated lady Anne Clifford, daughter of -George earl of Cumberland, in the manuscript memoirs of her life, as a -man “in his own nature of a just mind, of a sweet disposition, and very -valiant in his own person. He had a great advantage in his breeding, by -the wisdom and devotion of his grandfather, Thomas Sackville, earl of -Dorset, and lord high treasurer of England, who was then held one of -the wisest of that time; by which means he was so good a scholar in all -manner of learning, that, in his youth, when he was at the university, -there was none of the young nobility then students there that excelled -him. He was also a good patriot to his country, and generally well -beloved in it; much esteemed in all the parliaments that sat in his -time, and so great a lover of scholars and soldiers, as that, with an -excessive bounty towards them, or indeed any of worth that were in -distress, he did much diminish his estate; and also with excessive -prodigality in house-keeping, and other noble ways at court, as tilting, -masking, and the like; prince Henry being then alive, who was much -addicted to those noble exercises, and of whom he was much beloved.” He -died at the age of 35, March 28th, 1624. - -I should be very unwilling to deprive Corbet of the praise due to a poem -of so much intrinsic merit; but as the following epitaph is printed among -the poems of his contemporary, King, bishop of Chichester, and again -attributed to the latter in MS. Ashmole, A 35, Corbet’s claim to the -composition of it is rendered very disputable. - - - - -ON THE EARL OF DORSETS DEATH. - - - Let no prophane, ignoble foot tread here, - This hallowed piece of earth, Dorset lyes there: - A small poor relique of a noble spirit, - Free as the air, and ample as his merit: - A soul refin’d, no proud forgetting lord, - But mindful of mean names, and of his word: - Who lov’d men for his honour, not his ends, - And had the noblest way of getting friends - By loving first, and yet who knew the court, - But understood it better by report - Than practice: he nothing took from thence - But the kings favour for his recompence. - Who, for religion or his countreys good, - Neither his honour valued, nor his blood. - Rich in the worlds opinion, and mens praise, - And full in all we could desire, but days. - He that is warn’d of this, and shall forbear - To vent a sigh for him, or shed a tear, - May he live long scorn’d, and unpitied fall, - And want a mourner at his funeral! - - - - -TO THE NEW-BORNE PRINCE, AFTERWARDS CHARLES II. - -(Born May 29th[77], 1630; died 6th of February, 1684-5.) - -UPON THE APPARITION OF A STARR, AND THE FOLLOWING ECCLYPSE. - - - Was heav’ne afray’d to be out-done on earth - When thou wert borne, great prince, that it brought forth - Another light to helpe the aged sunn, - Lest by thy luster he might be out-shone? - Or were th’ obsequious starres so joy’d to view - Thee, that they thought their countlesse eyes too few - For such an object; and would needes create - A better influence to attend thy state? - Or would the Fates thereby shew to the earth - A Cæsars birth, as once a Cæsars death? - And was ’t that newes that made pale Cynthia run - In so great hast to intercept the sunn; - And, enviously, so shee might gaine thy sight, - Would darken him from whome shee had her light? - Mysterious prodigies yet sure they bee, - Prognosticks of a rare prosperity: - For, can thy life promise lesse good to men, - Whose birth was th’ envy, and the care of heav’ne? - - - - -ON THE BIRTH OF THE YOUNG PRINCE CHARLES. - - - When private men gett sonnes they get a spoone[78], - Without ecclypse, or any starr at noone: - When kings gett sonnes, they get withall supplyes - And succours, farr beyond all subsedyes. - Wellcome, Gods loane! thou tribute to the State, - Thou mony newly coyn’d, thou fleete of plate! - Thrice happy childe! whome God thy father sent - To make him rich without a parliament! - - - - -VINCENT CORBET, - - -The only son of the poet, was born (if the authority of a manuscript -in the Harleian collection may be relied upon, in which this pathetic -address appears,) on the 10th of November, 1627. From the following -injunction in the bishop’s will[79], it seems he was educated at one -of the universities: “I commit and commend the nurture and maintenance -of my sonne and daughter unto the faythfull and loving care of my -mother-in-law, declaring my intent, &c., that my sonne be placed at -Oxford or Cambridge, where I require him, upon my blessing, to apply -himself to his booke studiously and industriously.” - -In 1648 he administered to the will[80] of his grandmother Anne Hutton; -and of the further circumstances of his life I am ignorant. - - - - -TO HIS SON, VINCENT CORBET, - -On his BIRTH-DAY, November 10, 1630, being then Three Years old. - - - What I shall leave thee none can tell, - But all shall say I wish thee well; - I wish thee, Vin, before all wealth, - Both bodily and ghostly health: - Nor too much wealth, nor wit, come to thee, - So much of either may undo thee. - I wish thee learning, not for show, - Enough for to instruct, and know; - Not such as gentlemen require, - To prate at table, or at fire. - I wish thee all thy mothers graces, - Thy fathers fortunes, and his places. - I wish thee friends, and one at court, - Not to build on, but support; - To keep thee, not in doing many - Oppressions, but from suffering any. - I wish thee peace in all thy ways, - Nor lazy nor contentious days; - And when thy soul and body part, - As innocent as now thou art[81]. - - - - -AN EPITAPH ON DR. DONNE, DEAN OF PAULS. - -Born in 1573; died March 31, 1631. - - - - He that would write an epitaph for thee, - And do it well, must first begin to be - Such as thou wert; for none can truly know - Thy worth, thy life, but he that hath liv’d so. - He must have wit to spare, and to hurl down - Enough to keep the gallants of the town; - He must have learning plenty, both the laws - Civil and common, to judge any cause; - Divinity great store, above the rest, - Not of the last edition, but the best. - He must have language, travel, all the arts, - Judgment to use, or else he wants thy parts: - He must have friends the highest, able to do, - Such as Mecænas and Augustus too. - He must have such a sickness, such a death, - Or else his vain descriptions come beneath. - Who then shall write an epitaph for thee, - He must be dead first; let ’t alone for me. - - - - -CERTAIN FEW WOORDES SPOKEN CONCERNINGE ONE BENET CORBETT AFTER HER -DECEASE. - -She died October the 2d, Anno 1634. - -(From MS. Harl. No. 464.) - - - Here, or not many feet from hence, - The virtue lies call’d Patience. - Sickness and Death did do her honour - By loosing paine and feare upon her. - Tis true they forst her to a grave, - That’s all the triumph that they have.... - A silly one.... Retreat o’er night - Proves conquest in the morning-fight: - She will rise up against them both.... - All sleep, believe it, is not sloth. - And, thou that read’st her elegie, - Take something of her historie: - She had one husband and one sonne; - Ask who they were, and then have doone. - - - - -ITER BOREALE - - -Seems a sort of imitation of Horace’s Brundusian journey. Davenant has “a -journey into Worcestershire” (page 215. fol. edit.) in a similar vein, -says Headley. If the popularity of this poem may be estimated by the -frequency of manuscript copies in the public libraries, we may conclude -it was valued very highly, as the transcripts of it are very numerous. - -Misled by one of these, I considered this poem, the longest and most -celebrated of bishop Corbet’s productions, to have been written in -1625: subsequent examination has induced me to place the date of its -composition considerably earlier: the reasons on which this opinion is -grounded, will be detailed in the following analysis of the Tour. - -Our author commences his journey from Oxford in a company consisting -of four persons, two of whom then were, and two of whom wished to be, -doctors: but there is nothing in the course of the tour to show us -which of the classes he belonged to, unless we are to suppose, from the -shortness of cash which discovers itself before the termination of his -adventures, that he was rather one of those who had wealth in expectancy -than in possession. - -[Sidenote: 30] - -[Sidenote: 12] - -They set off on the 10th of August, and, long as the days are about that -period, had a good chance of sharpening their appetites by their first -half-day’s ride, thirty miles before dinner, when they sat down to dine -with Dr. Christopher Middleton, at his rectory of Ashton on the Wall in -Northamptonshire, about eight miles north of Banbury; where we learn that -their entertainment was better than the looks of their host, whom they -left in the evening, and rode to Flore, about twelve miles north-east, -and took up their lodgings for the night. - -At Flore they were entertained by a country surgeon, or (in the vulgar -phrase) bone-setter, the tenant of Dr. Leonard Hutton, the rector of -Flore and dean of Christ-Church, who fed them upon venison. - -[Sidenote: 5] - -The third morning they set off for Daventry, about five miles. Here it -happened to be the market- and lecture-day: and after having washed down -the dust which their throats had acquired in the ride, one of them was -summoned by the serjeant at mace to deliver the lecture; for which they -were all rewarded with thanks and wine. - -[Sidenote: 16] - -[Sidenote: 13] - -The fourth morning they rode to Lutterworth in Leicestershire, about -sixteen miles. This was once the benefice of Wickliffe, the father of -English reformers; and here the tourist very properly remarks on the -double injustice done to that venerable character, first by the Papists -in burning his body, and afterwards by the Puritans in destroying the -sacred memorial of the interment of his ashes. At Lutterworth they were -met by a parson, who though well-beneficed was better-mannered, and was -their guide to his dwelling within a mile of Leicester. A note on the -older editions of Corbet calls this gentleman the Parson of Heathcot: -but there is no place of the name of Heathcot in that neighbourhood; -and as, by comparison with other parts of the tour in which miles are -mentioned, one mile will be invariably found to signify one and a half at -the least; and as less than two reputed miles is accounted only one mile -in the distance of places, I presume it was Ayleston, and not Heathcot, -where the party rested, and were regaled with stale beer. At length they -arrived at Leicester, thirteen miles north of Lutterworth, where, passing -over six steeples and two hospitals, (“one hospital twice told,”) -which he refers to the eye of Camden, he censures the ignorance of the -alms-man, who, notwithstanding it was written on the walls that Henry -of Grisemont laid the foundation, told them it was John of Gaunt. Henry -Plantagenet, earl of Lancaster, was the first founder of the hospital -in the Newark at Leicester in the year 1330, which was considerably -enlarged and improved, and converted into a college by his son Henry, the -good duke of Lancaster, in 1355; but there is a more general sense in -which the word Founder is used, namely, that in which it is extended to -all those who inherit, either by descent or by purchase, the patronage -under the original founder. And in this sense it may be applied to John -of Gaunt, the second duke of Lancaster, who married his near kinswoman -the heiress of the former duke, and perfected both in buildings and -endowments what the others had commenced. The other hospital alluded to, -is that founded by William Wigston, merchant of the Staple, about 1520. - -The tourist next observes on the extortion of the innkeeper, who, -reckoning by the number of his guests rather than the goodness of his -provision, charged them seven shillings and sixpence for bread and beer; -but, after a kindly caution to the publican to forbear such cozenage upon -Divines in future, lest they should be suspected of drinking as freely -as he charges them, turns from a subject so unworthy of his Pegasus in -disgust, and inquires if this be not the burial-place of Richard the -Third; and, finding that there is no memorial for him, moralizes upon the -neglected state in which he lies, as the eventual fate of all greatness: -then from Richard proceeds to Wolsey, who was also buried at Leicester, -and produces similar reflections; and from Wolsey, to William the ostler -of the inn, who outdoes the company in years as well as drink, and calls -them to horse as imperiously as if he had a warrant from the earl of -Nottingham. - -The earl of Nottingham here glanced at was Charles lord Howard of -Effingham, lord high admiral of England under queen Elizabeth and king -James the First. He died in 1624. - -[Sidenote: 25] - -From Leicester to Nottingham (twenty-five miles) the travellers pass -without noticing any thing on their way, until approaching the latter -place they cross the Trent, pray to St. Andrew as they ride up hill, into -the town, and observe that the people burrow, like conies, in caverns, -from whence the smoke ascends at the feet of the woman who stands on the -surface watching, down the chimney, the cooking of her dinner. The part -of the town at which they enter is described as the Rocky Parish, higher -than the rest; and the church of St. Mary, as embracing her Baby in her -arms. From hence they proceed to the Castle, which is described as a -ruin, with two statues of giants at the gates, whom the tourist severely -censures for their negligence in permitting their charge to come to ruin, -and reproaches them with the fidelity of the giants at Guildhall and -Holmeby, who had carefully kept the buildings committed to their charge -when the founders were dead. The poet might still compliment the giants -at Guildhall; but of Holmeby (Holdenby House, Northamptonshire, built -by queen Elizabeth’s lord chancellor, sir Christopher Hatton,) not one -stone remains upon another: nay, the very memory of the giants might have -perished but for the Iter Boreale. - -The travellers then go to dinner at the Bull’s Head, where the archbishop -of York had been before them, and where their discontent with bed and -diet was answered by a reference to the satisfaction which _he_ had -received; and where the aged landlord, formerly an ostler, is noticed as -a rare example to those who have an itch for gold. - -[Sidenote: 20] - -Their next stage was to Newark, (about twenty miles, or, according to -the reckoning of the poet, twelve), which is spoken of as no journey, -but only a walk; and the banks of the Trent as so fertile and beautiful, -that the English river takes away the palm from the celebrated Meander. -The pleasure of this part of their journey was not diminished by their -reception at Newark, where they met with a friend, out of respect to whom -the town united as a family to give the travellers a hearty welcome; and -even the landlord of one inn did not repine that they had passed his -house to go to another, and the landlord of the inn where they rested -was more solicitous of their approbation than his own profit. The very -beggars rather prayed for their friend than begged of his guests, and the -Puritans were willing to “let the organs play,” if the visitors would -tarry. - -From Newark they saw Bever (Belvoir) and Lincoln, and would fain have -gone there but for the limitation on their purse and horses. At three -o’clock they set off, with twenty (thirty) miles to ride, (probably to -Melton Mowbray); and having neither guide, nor horse of speed, after -losing their way, two hours after sun-set blundered upon a village, from -whence they obtained a guide to Loughborough. From thence they set off -next morning for Bosworth, (eighteen miles,) but in their way thither -are lost in Charley Forest, and ask their way from the travellers they -meet about the coal-mines at Coalorton, without receiving an answer; when -William, their attendant, seeing a man approach, imagines himself to be -in Fairyland. But the party are agreeably surprised by finding him one of -the keepers of the forest, who conducts them within view of Bosworth. - -At Bosworth they meet with far better treatment than the appearance -of the place had promised; and, when their host there, who was their -guide the next morning, brought them near to the field on which the -battle of Bosworth was fought, are greatly amused by his romantic -description of the battle. The guide seems to leave them at Nuneaton in -Warwickshire, six miles (about nine) from Bosworth; from whence they -proceed to Coventry, nine miles; and from thence, having scarcely had -time to dine, depart for Kenilworth, five miles, where they are offended -by the indecency of an aged parson, who attended the servant of the -lord Leicester, it is presumed, to show them the Castle. The Castle of -Kenilworth was once the splendid residence of Robert Dudley, earl of -Leicester, one of the favourites of queen Elizabeth, and on his death, -in 1588, passed to his son, Robert Dudley, who used the title of earl -of Leicester,—but by a decree of the Star-Chamber was declared to be -illegitimate, and from disgust at that sentence retired into Italy, under -a license for three years; and being summoned by the privy-council, at -the instigation of his enemies, to return into England, and refusing to -obey the summons, the Castle of Kenilworth was, for his contumacy, seized -by the Crown under the statute of Fugitives; and Henry prince of Wales, -in the year 1611, purchased a release of the inheritance of it from sir -Robert Dudley, who was to have the constableship of the Castle, under -prince Henry, for life. It does not appear, however, that sir Robert -Dudley resided at Kenilworth afterwards: he probably had little regard -for a place of which he had been compelled to relinquish the inheritance. -This may account for the neglected state in which it was found by our -poet and his companions. - -From Kenilworth they proceed to Warwick, three (five) miles, noticing -in their way the Cave of the celebrated hero of English romance, Guy -earl of Warwick, as also his Pillar: and at Warwick we have a humorous -description of the landlady of the inn. From the inn they proceed to the -Castle, where they are received by “the lord of all this frame, the -honourable Chancellor,” whose politeness and elegance of manners receive -favourable notice. Sir Fulk Greville obtained a grant of Warwick Castle -from king James the First, in the second year of his reign, (1604,) -and was about the same time appointed chancellor of the exchequer; and -resigned his office of chancellor, on being elevated to the peerage by -the title of lord Brooke, 19th of January, 1620-21. It may be observed, -that the author of the Iter notices him as an honourable chancellor, not -as noble lord; which he certainly would have done if the Iter had not -been of an earlier date than 1621. - -With sir Fulk Greville they found a prelate of the church, an archdeacon, -whom a note in the old editions calls archdeacon Burton. This, I presume, -was Samuel Burton, A. M. of Christ-Church, Oxford, who paid first-fruits -for the archdeaconry of Gloucester, in the cathedral of Gloucester, the -9th of May, 1607, and died the 14th of June, 1634, and was buried at -Dry-Drayton in Gloucestershire. He is described as sufficiently corpulent -to deserve the displeasure of the Puritans, whom our author never loses -an opportunity of lashing. - -From Warwick they arrive at Flore, (about twenty-one miles,) having been -able to make both ends (of their purse) meet; and, after staying there -four days, arrive at Banbury on St. Bartholomew’s day, (24th of August,) -desirous to see what sport the saint would produce there. At this place -(where they rested at the sign of the Altar-Stone) the tourist finds -the altar converted into an inn, and, judging by the sign, lodged in a -chapel, but, by the wine, in a bankrupt tavern; and yet, by the coffins -converted into horse-troughs, a church. But though you may judge, by what -is found at the inn, that the church is full of monuments, you will be -disappointed; for there was not an inscription in the church except the -names of the last year’s churchwardens,—with buckets and cobwebs hanging, -instead of painted saints, in the windows. In short, the town seems to -have been a strange collection of sectaries differing from each other. - -From hence he returns to Oxford, twenty-two miles, with as little coin in -his purse as sir Walter Raleigh brought from his unsuccessful expedition -to Guiana in 1618; between which period and 1621 it is clear the poem was -written. - - - - -ITER BOREALE. - - - Foure clerkes of Oxford, doctours two, and two - That would be doctors, having lesse to do - With Augustine then with Galen in vacation, - Chang’d studyes, and turn’d bookes to recreation: - And on the tenth of August, northward bent - A journey, not so soon conceiv’d as spent. - The first halfe day they rode, they light upon - A noble cleargy host, Kitt Middleton[82]; - Who, numb’ring out good dishes with good tales, - The major part o’ th’ cheere weigh’d downe the scales: - And though the countenance makes the feast, (say bookes,) - Wee nere found better welcome with worse lookes. - Here wee pay’d thankes and parted; and at night - Had entertainement, all in one mans right[83], - At Flore, a village; where our tenant shee, - Sharp as a winters morning, feirce yet free, - With a leane visage, like a carved face - On a court cupboard, offer’d up the place. - Shee pleas’d us well; but, yet, her husband better; - A harty fellow, and a good bone-setter[84]. - Now, whether it were providence or lucke, - Whether the keepers or the stealers bucke, - There wee had ven’son; such as Virgill slew - When he would feast Æneas and his crew. - Here wee consum’d a day; and the third morne - To Daintry with a land-wind were wee borne. - It was the market and the lecture-day, - For lecturers sell sermons, as the lay - Doe sheep and oxen; have their seasons just - For both their marketts: there wee dranke downe dust. - In th’ interim comes a most officious drudge[85], - His face and gowne drawne out with the same budge; - His pendant pouch, which was both large and wide, - Lookt like a letters-patent by his side: - He was as awfull, as he had bin sent - From Moses with th’ elev’nth commandement; - And one of us he sought; a sonne of Flore - He must bid stand, and challendge for an hower. - The doctors both were quitted of that feare, - The one was hoarce, the other was not there; - Wherefore him of the two he seazed, best - Able to answere him of all the rest: - Because hee neede but ruminate that ore - Which he had chew’d the Sabbath-day before. - And though he were resolv’d to doe him right, - For Mr. Balyes sake, and Mr. Wright[86], - Yet he dissembled that the mace did erre; - That he nor deacon was, nor minister. - No! quoth the serjeant; sure then, by relation, - You have a licence, sir, or toleration: - And if you have no orders ’tis the better, - So you have Dods Præcepts, or Cleavers Letters[87]. - Thus looking on his mace, and urging still - Twas Mr. Wrights and Mr. Bayleyes will - That hee should mount; at last he condiscended - To stopp the gapp; and so the treaty ended. - The sermon pleas’d, and, when we were to dine, - Wee all had preachers wages, thankes and wine. - Our next dayes stage was Lutterworth[88], a towne - Not willing to be noted or sett downe - By any traveller; for, when w’ had bin - Through at both ends, wee could not finde an inne: - Yet, for the church sake, turne and light wee must, - Hoping to see one dramme of Wickliffs dust[89]; - But wee found none: for underneath the pole - Noe more rests of his body then his soule. - Abused martyr! how hast thou bin torne - By two wilde factions! First, the Papists burne - Thy bones for hate; the Puritans, in zeale, - They sell thy marble, and thy brasse they steale. - A parson[90] mett us there, who had good store - Of livings, some say, but of manners more; - In whose streight chearefull age a man might see - Well govern’d fortune, bounty wise and free. - He was our guide to Leister, save one mile, - There was his dwelling, where wee stay’d awhile, - And dranke stale beere, I thinke was never new, - Which the dun wench that brought it us did brew. - And now wee are at Leister, where wee shall - Leape ore six steeples, and one hospitall - Twice told; but those great landmarkes I referr - To Camdens eye, Englands chorographer. - Let mee observe that almesmans heraldrye, - Who being ask’d, what Henry that should be - That was their founder, duke of Lancaster, - Answer’d: Twas John of Gaunt, I assure you, sir; - And so confuted all the walles, which sayd - Henry of Grisemond this foundation layd. - The next thing to be noted was our cheere, - Enlarg’d, with seav’ne and sixpence bread and beere! - But, oh you wretched tapsters as you are, - Who reckon by our number, not your ware, - And sett false figures for all companyes, - Abusing innocent meales with oathes and lyes; - Forbeare your coos’nage to Divines that come, - Least they be thought to drinke up all your summe. - Spare not the Laity in your reckoning thus, - But sure your theft is scandalous to us. - Away, my muse, from this base subject, know - Thy Pegasus nere strooke his foote soe low. - Is not th’ usurping Richard buryed here, - That king of hate, and therefore slave of feare; - Dragg’d from the fatall feild Bosworth, where hee - Lost life, and, what he liv’d for,—cruelty? - Search; find his name: but there is none. Oh kings! - Remember whence your power and vastnesse springs; - If not as Richard now, so shall you bee; - Who hath no tombe, but scorne and memorye. - And though that Woolsey from his store might save - A pallace, or a colledge for his grave, - Yet there he lyes interred as if all - Of him to be remembred were his fall. - Nothing but earth to earth, no pompeous waight - Upon him, but a pibble or a quaite. - If thou art thus neglected, what shall wee[91] - Hope after death, who are but shreads of thee? - Hold! William calls to horse; William is hee, - Who, though he never saw threescore and three, - Ore-reckons us in age, as he before - In drink, and will baite nothing of foure score: - And he commands, as if the warrant came - From the great earle himselfe of Nottingham. - There wee crost Trent, and on the other side - Prayd to Saint Andrew; and up hill wee ride. - Where wee observ’d the cunning men, like moles, - Dwell not in howses, but were earth’t in holes; - So did they not builde upwards, but digg thorough, - As hermitts caves, or conyes do their borough: - Great underminers sure as any where; - Tis thought the Powder-traitors practis’d there. - Would you not thinke the men stood on their heads, - When gardens cover howses there, like leades; - And on the chymneyes topp the mayd may know - Whether her pottage boyle or not, below; - There cast in hearbes, and salt, or bread; their meate - Contented rather with the smoake then heate? - This was the Rocky-Parish; higher stood - Churches and houses, buildings stone and wood; - Crosses not yet demolish’t; and our Ladye - With her armes on, embracing her whole Baby[92]. - Where let us note, though those are northerne parts, - The Crosse finds in them more then southerne hearts. - The Castle’s next; but what shall I report - Of that which is a ruine, was a fort? - The gates two statues keepe, which gyants[93] are, - To whome it seemes committed was the care - Of the whole downfall. If it be your fault; - If you are guilty; may king Davids vault[94], - Or Mortimers darke hole[95], contain you both[96]! - A just reward for so prophane a sloth. - And if hereafter tidings shall be brought - Of any place or office to be bought, - And the left lead, or unwedg’d timber yet - Shall pass by your consent to purchase it; - May your deformed bulkes endure the edge - Of axes, feele the beetle and the wedge! - May all the ballads be call’d in and dye, - Which sing the warrs of Colebrand and sir Guy! - Oh you that doe Guild-hall and Holmeby keepe - Soe carefully, when both the founders sleepe, - You are good giants, and partake no shame - With those two worthlesse trunkes of Nottinghame: - Looke to your severall charges; wee must goe, - Though greiv’d at heart to leave a castle so. - The Bull-head[97] is the word, and wee must eate; - Noe sorrow can descend soe deepe as meate: - So to the inne wee come; where our best cheere - Was, that his grace of Yorke had lodged there: - Hee was objected to us when wee call, - Or dislike ought: “My lords grace” answers all: - “Hee was contented with this bed, this dyett.” - That keepes our discontented stomackes quiett. - The inne-keeper was old, fourescore allmost, - Indeede an embleme rather then an host; - In whome wee read how God and Time decree - To honour thrifty ostlers, such as hee. - For in the stable first he did begin; - Now see hee is sole lord of the whole inne: - Mark the encrease of straw and hay, and how, - By thrift, a bottle may become a mow. - Marke him, all you that have the golden itch, - All whome God hath condemned to be rich[98]. - Farwell, glad father of thy daughter Maris, - Thou ostler-phœnix, thy example rare is. - Wee are for Newarke after this sad talke; - And whither tis noe journey, but a walke. - Nature is wanton there, and the high-way - Seem’d to be private, though it open lay; - As if some swelling lawyer, for his health, - Or frantick usurer, to tame his wealth, - Had chosen out ten miles by Trent, to trye - Two great effects of art and industry. - The ground wee trodd was meddow, fertile land, - New trimm’d and levell’d by the mowers hand; - Above it grew a roke, rude, steepe, and high, - Which claimes a kind of reverence from the eye: - Betwixt them both there glides a lively streame, - Not loud, but swifte: Mæander was a theame - Crooked and rough; but had the poetts seene - Straight, even Trent, it had immortall bin. - This side the open plaine admitts the sunne - To halfe the river; there did silver runne: - The other halfe ran clowdes; where the curl’d wood - With his exalted head threaten’d the floude. - Here could I wish us ever passing by - And never past; now Newarke is too nigh: - And as a Christmas seemes a day but short, - Deluding time with revells and good sport; - So did these beauteous mixtures us beguile, - And the whole twelve, being travail’d, seem’d a mile. - Now as the way was sweet, soe was the end; - Our passage easy, and our prize a friend[99], - Whome there wee did enjoy; and for whose sake, - As for a purer kinde of coyne, men make - Us liberall welcome; with such harmony - As the whole towne had bin his family. - Mine host of the next inne did not repine - That wee preferr’d the Heart, and past his signe: - And where wee lay, the host and th’ hostesse faine - Would shew our love was aym’d at, not their gaine: - The very beggars were s’ ingenious, - They rather prayd for him, then begg’d of us. - And, soe the Doctors friends will please to stay, - The Puritans will let the organs play. - Would they pull downe the gallery, builded new, - With the church-wardens seat and Burleigh-pew, - Newarke, for light and beauty, might compare - With any church, but what cathedralls are. - To this belongs a vicar[100], who succeded - The friend I mention’d; such a one there needed; - A man whose tongue and life is eloquent, - Able to charme those mutinous heads of Trent, - And urge the Canon home, when they conspire - Against the crosse and bells with swords and fire. - There stood a Castle, too; they shew us here - The roome where the King slep’t[101], the window where - He talk’t with such a lord, how long he staid - In his discourse, and all, but what he said. - From hence, without a perspective, wee see - Bever and Lincolne, where wee faine would bee; - But that our purse and horses both are bound - Within the circuite of a narrower ground. - Our purpose is all homeward, and ’twas time - At parting to have witt, as well as rime; - Full three a clock, and twenty miles to ride, - Will aske a speedy horse, and a sure guide; - Wee wanted both: and Loughborow may glory, - Errour hath made it famous in our story. - Twas night, and the swifte horses of the Sunne - Two houres before our jades their race had runn; - Noe pilott moone, nor any such kinde starre - As governd those wise men that came from farre - To holy Bethlem; such lights had there bin, - They would have soone convay’d us to an inne; - But all were wandring-starrs; and wee, as they, - Were taught noe course, but to ride on and stray. - When (oh the fate of darknesse, who hath tride it) - Here our whole fleete is scatter’d and divided; - And now wee labour more to meete, then erst - Wee did to lodge; the last cry drownes the first: - Our voyces are all spent, and they that follow - Can now no longer track us by the hollow; - They curse the formost, wee the hindmost, both - Accusing with like passion, hast, and sloth. - At last, upon a little towne wee fall, - Where some call drinke, and some a candle call: - Unhappy wee, such stragglers as wee are - Admire a candle offner then a starre: - Wee care not for those glorious lampes a loofe, - Give us a tallow-light and a dry roofe. - And now wee have a guide wee cease to chafe, - And now w’ have time to pray the rest be safe. - Our guide before cryes Come, and wee the while - Ride blindfold, and take bridges for a stile: - Till at the last wee overcame the darke, - And spight of night and errour hitt the marke. - Some halfe howre after enters the whole tayle, - As if they were committed to the jayle: - The constable, that tooke them thus divided, - Made them seeme apprehended, and not guided: - Where, when wee had our fortunes both detested, - Compassion made us friends, and so wee rested. - ’Twas quickly morning, though by our short stay - Wee could not find that wee had lesse to pay. - All travellers, this heavy judgement heare: - “A handsome hostesse makes the reckoning deare;” - Her smiles, her wordes, your purses must requite them, - And every wellcome from her, adds an item. - Glad to be gon from thence at any rate, - For Bosworth wee are horst: Behold the state - Of mortall men! Foule Errour is a mother, - And, pregnant once, doth soone bring forth an other; - Wee, who last night did learne to loose our way, - Are perfect since, and farther out next day. - And in a forrest[102] having travell’d sore, - Like wandring Bevis ere hee found the bore; - Or as some love-sick lady oft hath donne, - Ere shee was rescued by the Knight of th’ Sunne: - Soe are wee lost, and meete no comfort then - But carts and horses, wiser then the men. - Which is the way? They neyther speake nor point; - Their tongues and fingers both were out of joynt: - Such monsters by Coal-Orton bankes there sitt, - After their resurrection from the pitt. - Whilst in this mill wee labour and turne round - As in a conjurers circle, William found - A menes for our deliverance: Turne your cloakes, - Quoth hee, for Puck is busy in these oakes: - If ever yee at Bosworth will be found, - Then turne your cloakes, for this is Fayry-ground. - But, ere this witchcraft was perform’d, wee mett - A very man, who had no cloven feete; - Though William, still of little faith, doth doubt - Tis Robin, or some sprite that walkes about: - Strike him, quoth hee, and it will turne to ayre; - Crosse your selves thrice and strike it: Strike that dare, - Thought I, for sure this massy forrester - In stroakes will prove the better conjurer. - But twas a gentle keeper, one that knew - Humanity, and manners where they grew; - And rode along soe farr till he could say, - See yonder Bosworth stands, and this your way. - And now when wee had swett ’twixt sunn and sunn, - And eight miles long to thirty broad had spun; - Wee learne the just proportion from hence - Of the diameter and circumference. - That night yet made amends; our meat and sheetes - Were farr above the promise of those streetes; - Those howses, that were tilde with straw and mosse, - Profest but weake repaire for that dayes losse - Of patience: yet this outside lets us know, - The worthyest things make not the bravest show: - The shott was easy; and what concernes us more, - The way was so; mine host doth ride before. - Mine host was full of ale and history; - And on the morrow when hee brought us nigh - Where the two Roses[103] joyn’d, you would suppose, - Chaucer nere made the Romant of the Rose. - Heare him. See yee yon wood? There Richard lay, - With his whole army: Looke the other way, - And loe where Richmond in a bed of gorsse - Encampt himselfe ore night, and all his force: - Upon this hill they mett. Why, he could tell - The inch where Richmond stood, where Richard fell: - Besides what of his knowledge he could say, - He had authenticke notice from the Play; - Which I might guesse, by’s mustring up the ghosts, - And policyes, not incident to hosts; - But cheifly by that one perspicuous thing, - Where he mistooke a player for a king. - For when he would have sayd, King Richard dyed, - And call’d—A horse! a horse!—he, Burbidge cry’de[104]. - Howere his talke, his company pleas’d well; - His mare went truer then his chronicle; - And even for conscience sake, unspurr’d, unbeaten, - Brought us six miles, and turn’d tayle at Nuneaton. - From thence to Coventry, where wee scarcely dine; - Our stomackes only warm’d with zeale and wine: - And then, as if wee were predestin’d forth, - Like Lot from Sodome, fly to Killingworth. - The keeper of the castle was from home, - Soe that halfe mile wee lost; yet when wee come - An host receiv’d us there, wee’l nere deny him, - My lord of Leisters man; the parson by him, - Who had no other proofe to testify - He serv’d the Lord, but age and baudery[105]. - Away, for shame, why should foure miles devide - Warwicke and us? They that have horses ride. - A short mile from the towne, an humble shrine[106] - At foote of an high rock consists, in signe - Of Guy and his devotions; who there stands - Ugly and huge, more then a man on ’s hands: - His helmett steele, his gorgett mayl, his sheild - Brass, made the chappell fearefull as a feild. - And let this answere all the Popes complaints; - Wee sett up gyants though wee pull downe saintes. - Beyond this, in the roadway as wee went, - A pillar stands, where this Colossus leant; - Where he would sigh and love, and, for hearts ease, - Oftimes write verses (some say) such as these: - “Here will I languish in this silly bower, - Whilst my true love triumphes in yon high tower.” - No other hinderance now, but wee may passe - Cleare to our inne: Oh there an hostesse was, - To whome the Castle and the Dun Cow are - Sights after dinner; shee is morning ware. - Her whole behaviour borrowed was, and mixt, - Halfe foole, halfe puppet, and her pace betwixt - Measure and jigge; her court’sy was an honour; - Her gate, as if her neighbour had out-gon her. - Shee was barrd up in whale-bones which doe leese - None of the whales length; for they reach’d her knees: - Off with her head, and then shee hath a middle: - As her wast stands, shee lookes like the new fiddle, - The favorite Theorbo, (truth to tell yee,) - Whose neck and throat are deeper then the belly[107]. - Have you seene monkyes chain’d about the loynes, - Or pottle-potts with rings? Just soe shee joynes - Her selfe together: A dressing shee doth love - In a small print below, and text above. - What though her name be King, yet tis noe treason, - Nor breach of statute, for to aske the reason - Of her brancht ruffe, a cubit every poke: - I seeme to wound her, but shee strook the stroke - At our departure; and our worshipps there - Pay’d for our titles deare as any where: - Though beadles and professors both have done, - Yet every inne claimes augmentation. - Please you walke out and see the Castle[108]? Come, - The owner saith, it is a schollers home; - A place of strength and health: in the same fort, - You would conceive a castle and a court. - The orchards, gardens, rivers, and the aire, - Doe with the trenches, rampires, walls, compare: - It seemes nor art nor force can intercept it, - As if a lover built, a souldier kept it. - Up to the tower, though it be steepe and high, - Wee doe not climbe but walke; and though the eye - Seeme to be weary, yet our feet are still - In the same posture cozen’d up the hill: - And thus the workemans art deceaves our sence, - Making those rounds of pleasure a defence. - As wee descend, the lord of all this frame, - The honorable Chancellour, towards us came[109]. - Above the hill there blew a gentle breath, - Yet now we see a gentler gale beneath. - The phrase and wellcome of this knight did make - The seat more elegant; every word he spake - Was wine and musick, which he did expose - To us, if all our art could censure those. - With him there was a prelate[110], by his place - Arch-deacon to the byshopp, by his face - A greater man; for that did counterfeit - Lord abbot of some covent standing yet, - A corpulent relique: marry and tis sinne - Some Puritan gets not his face call’d in; - Amongst leane brethren it may scandall bring, - Who seeke for parity in every thing. - For us, let him enjoy all that God sends, - Plenty of flesh, of livings, and of freinds. - Imagine here us ambling downe the street, - Circling in Flower, making both ends meet: - Where wee fare well foure dayes, and did complain, - Like harvest folkes, of weather and the raine: - And on the feast of Barthol’mew wee try - What revells that saint keepes at Banbury[111]. - In th’ name of God, Amen! First to begin, - The altar was translated to an inne; - Wee lodged in a chappell by the signe, - But in a banquerupt taverne by the wine: - Besides, our horses usage made us thinke - Twas still a church, for they in coffins drinke[112]; - As if twere congruous that the ancients lye - Close by those alters in whose faith they dye. - Now yee beleeve the Church hath good varietye - Of monuments, when inns have such satiety; - But nothing lesse: ther’s no inscription there, - But the church-wardens names of the last yeare: - Instead of saints in windowes and on walls, - Here bucketts hang, and there a cobweb falls: - Would you not sweare they love antiquity, - Who brush the quire for perpetuity? - Whilst all the other pavement and the floore - Are supplicants to the surveyors power - Of the high wayes, that he would gravell keepe; - For else in winter sure it will be deepe. - If not for Gods, for Mr. Wheatlyes sake - Levell the walkes; suppose these pittfalls make - Him spraine a lecture, or misplace a joynt - In his long prayer, or his fiveteenth point: - Thinke you the dawes or stares can sett him right? - Surely this sinne upon your heads must light. - And say, beloved, what unchristian charme - Is this? you have not left a legg or arme - Of an apostle: think you, were they whole, - That they would rise, at least assume a soule? - If not, ’tis plaine all the idolatry - Lyes in your folly, not th’ imagery. - Tis well the pinnacles are falne in twaine; - For now the divell, should he tempt againe, - Hath noe advantage of a place soe high: - Fooles, he can dash you from your gallery, - Where all your medly meete; and doe compare, - Not what you learne, but who is longest there; - The Puritan, the Anabaptist, Brownist, - Like a grand sallet: Tinkers, what a towne ist? - The crosses also, like old stumps of trees, - Are stooles for horsemen that have feeble knees; - Carry noe heads above ground: They which tell, - That Christ hath nere descended into hell, - But to the grave, his picture buried have - In a far deeper dungeon then a grave: - That is, descended to endure what paines - The divell can think, or such disciples braines. - No more my greife, in such prophane abuses - Good whipps make better verses then the muses. - Away, and looke not back; away, whilst yet - The church is standing, whilst the benefitt - Of seeing it remaines; ere long you shall - Have that rac’t downe, and call’d Apocryphal, - And in some barne heare cited many an author, - Kate Stubbs, Anne Askew, or the Ladyes daughter[113]; - Which shall be urg’d for fathers. Stopp Disdaine, - When Oxford once appears, Satyre refraine. - Neighbours, how hath our anger thus out gon ’s? - Is not Saint Giles’s this, and that Saint Johns? - Wee are return’d; but just with soe much ore - As Rawleigh from his voyage, and noe more. - - _Non recito cuiquam nisi amicis, idque coactus,_ - _Non ubivis, coramve quibuslibet._ - - HOR. lib. i. sat. 4. - - - - -ON MR. RICE, THE MANCIPLE OF CHRIST-CHURCH IN OXFORD. - - - Who can doubt, Rice, but to th’ eternall place - Thy soule is fledd, that did but know thy face? - Whose body was soe light, it might have gone - To heav’ne without a resurrection. - Indeed thou wert all type; thy limmes were signes, - Thy arteryes but mathematicke lines: - As if two soules had made thy compound good, - That both should live by faith, and none by blood. - - - - -ON HENRY BOLINGS. - - - If gentleness could tame the Fates, or wit - Deliver man, Bolings had not di’d yet; - But One which over us in judgment sits, - Doth say our sins are stronger than our wits. - - - - -ON JOHN DAWSON, BUTLER OF CHRIST-CHURCH. - - - Dawson the butler’s dead: Although I think - Poets were ne’re infus’d with single drink, - I’ll spend a farthing, muse; a watry verse - Will serve the turn to cast upon his herse. - If any cannot weep amongst us here, - Take off his cup, and so squeeze out a tear. - Weep, O ye barrels! let your drippings fall - In trickling streams; make waste more prodigal - Than when our beer was good, that John may float - To Styx in beer, and lift up Charons boat - With wholsome waves: and, as the conduits ran - With claret at the Coronation, - So let your channels flow with single tiff, - For John, I hope, is crown’d: Take off your whiff, - Ye men of rosemary[114], and drink up all, - Remembring ’tis a butlers funeral: - Had he been master of good double beer, - My life for his, John Dawson had been here. - - - - -ON GREAT TOM OF CHRIST-CHURCH. - - - Be dumb, ye infant-chimes, thump not your mettle, - That ne’re out-ring a tinker and his kettle; - Cease, all you petty larums; for, to-day - Is young Tom’s resurrection from the clay: - And know, when Tom rings out his knells, - The best of you will be but dinner-bells. - Old Tom’s grown young again, the fiery cave - Is now his cradle, that was erst his grave: - He grew up quickly from his mother earth, - For, all you see was but an hours birth; - Look on him well, my life I dare engage, - You ne’re saw prettier baby of his age. - Some take his measure by the rule, some by - The Jacobs-staff take his profundity, - And some his altitude; but some do swear - Young Tom’s not like the Old: But, Tom, ne’re fear - The critical geometricians line, - If thou as loud as e’re thou did ring’st nine. - Tom did no sooner peep from under-ground, - But straight Saint Maries tenor lost his sound. - O how this may-poles heart did swell - With full main sides of joy, when that crackt bell - Choakt with annoy, and ’s admiration, - Rung like a quart-pot to the congregation. - Tom went his progress lately, and lookt o’re - What he ne’re saw in many years before; - But when he saw the old foundation, - With some like hope of preparation, - He burst with grief; and lest he should not have - Due pomp, he’s his own bell-man to the grave: - And that there might of him be still some mention, - He carried to his grave a new invention. - They drew his brown-bread face on pretty gins, - And made him stalk upon two rolling-pins; - But Sander Hill swore twice or thrice by heaven, - He ne’re set such a loaf into the oven. - And Tom did Sanders vex, his Cyclops maker, - As much as he did Sander Hill, the baker; - Therefore, loud thumping Tom, be this thy pride, - When thou this motto shalt have on thy side: - “Great world! one Alexander conquer’d thee, - And two as mighty men scarce conquer’d me.” - Brave constant spirit, none could make thee turn, - Though hang’d, drawn, quarter’d, till they did thee burn: - Yet not for this, nor ten times more be sorry, - Since thou was martyr’d for the Churches glory; - But for thy meritorious suffering, - Thou shortly shalt to heaven in a string: - And though we griev’d to see thee thump’d and bang’d, - We’ll all be glad, Great Tom, to see thee hang’d. - - - - -R. C. - - - When too much zeal doth fire devotion, - Love is not love, but superstition: - Even so in civil duties, when we come - Too oft, we are not kind, but troublesome. - Yet as the first is not idolatry, - So is the last but grieved industry: - And such was mine, whose strife to honour you - By overplus, hath rob’d you of your due. - - - - -A PROPER NEW BALLAD, INTITULED THE FAERYES FAREWELL; OR, GOD-A-MERCY WILL. - - -To be sung or whiseled to the Tune of “The Meddow Brow,” by the Learned; -by the Unlearned, to the Tune of “Fortune.” - - Farewell rewards and Faeries, - Good houswives now may say, - For now foule slutts in daries - Doe fare as well as they. - And though they sweepe theyr hearths no less - Then maydes were wont to doe, - Yet who of late for cleaneliness, - Finds sixe-pence in her shoe? - - Lament, lament, old abbies, - The Faries lost command; - They did but change priests babies, - But some have changd your land: - And all your children sprung from thence - Are now growne Puritanes; - Who live as changelings ever since - For love of your demaines. - - At morning and at evening both - You merry were and glad, - So little care of sleepe or sloth - These prettie ladies had; - When Tom came home from labour, - Or Ciss to milking rose, - Then merrily merrily went theyre tabor, - And nimbly went theyre toes. - - Wittness those rings and roundelayes - Of theirs, which yet remaine, - Were footed in queene Maries dayes - On many a grassy playne; - But since of late, Elizabeth, - And later, James came in, - They never daunc’d on any heath - As when the time hath bin. - - By which wee note the Faries - Were of the old profession; - Theyre songs were Ave Maryes; - Theyre daunces were procession: - But now, alas! they all are dead, - Or gone beyond the seas; - Or farther for religion fled, - Or elce they take theyre ease. - - A tell-tale in theyre company - They never could endure, - And whoe so kept not secretly - Theyre mirth was punisht sure; - It was a just and christian deed - To pinch such blacke and blew: - O how the common welth doth need - Such justices as you! - - Now they have left our quarters - A register they have, - Who looketh to theyre charters, - A man both wise and grave; - An hundred of theyre merry prancks - By one that I could name - Are kept in store, conn twenty thanks - To William for the same. - - I marvell who his cloake would turne - When Pucke had led him round[115], - Or where those walking-fires would burne, - Where Cureton would be found; - How Broker would appeare to be, - For whom this age doth mourne; - But that theyre spiritts live in thee, - In thee, old William Chourne. - - To William Chourne of Stafford shire - Give laud and prayses due, - Who every meale can mend your cheare - With tales both old and true: - To William all give audience, - And pray yee for his noddle, - For all the Faries evidence - Were lost, if that were addle. - - - - -A NON SEQUITUR. - -(From “Wit Restored,” 8vo. 1658.) - - - Marke! how the lanterns clowd mine eyes, - See where a moon-drake ’gins to rise; - Saturne crawls much like an iron catt, - To see the naked moone in a slipshott hatt. - Thunder-thumping toadstools crock the pots - To see the mermaids tumble; - Leather cat-a-mountaines shake their heels, - To heare the gosh-hawke grumble. - The rustic threed - Begins to bleed, - And cobwebs elbows itches; - The putrid skyes - Eat mulsacke pyes, - Backed up in logicke breches. - Munday trenchers made good hay, - The lobster weares no dagger; - Meale-mouthed she-peacocke powle the starres, - And made the lowbell stagger. - Blew crocodiles foame in the toe, - Blind meale-bagges do follow the doe; - A ribb of apple braine spice - Will follow the Lancashire dice. - Harke! how the chime of Plutoes pispot cracks, - To see the rainbowes wheele-gann made of flax. - - - - -NONSENCE. - -(Ashmole’s Museum, A. 37.) - - - Like to the thundring tone of unspoke speeches, - Or like a lobster clad in logicke breeches, - Or like the graye-furre of a crimson catt, - Or like the moone-calfe in a slip-shodde hatt: - Even such is hee who never was begotten - Untill his children were both dead and rotten. - - Like to the fiery tombstone of a cabbage, - Or like a crabbe-louse with its bag and baggage, - Or like the four square circle of a ring, - Or like to hey dinge, dingea dingea dinge: - Even such is he who spake, and yet no doubt - Spake to small purpose, when his tongue was out. - - Like to a fairs, fresh, faiding, withered rose, - Or lyke to rhyming verse that runs in prose, - Or lyke the stumbles of a tynder box, - Or lyke a man that’s sound yet hath the pox: - Even such is he who dyed, and yet did laugh - To see these lines writt for his epitaph. - - - - -THE COUNTRY LIFE[116]. - - - Thrice and above blest (my souls halfe!) art thou - In thy though last yet better vowe, - Canst leave the Cyttye with exchange to see - The Country’s sweet simplicitie, - And to knowe and practise, with intent - To growe the sooner innocent, - By studdyinge to knowe vertue, and to ayme - More at her nature than her name. - The last is but the least, the first doth tell - Wayes not to live, but to live well. - And both are knowne to thee, who now canst live, - Led by thy conscience, to give - Justice[117] to soon pleas’d Nature, and to showe - Wisdome and she togeather goe, - And keepe one center: this with that conspires - To teach man to confine’s desires; - To knowe that riches have their proper stint - In the contented minde, not mint; - And canst instruct, that those that have the itch - Of cravinge more, are never rich. - These thinges thou knowst to th’ height, and dost prevent - The mange, because thou art content - With that Heaven gave thee with a sparinge hand, - More blessed in thy brest than land, - To keepe but Nature even and upright, - To quench not cocker appetite. - The first is Nature’s end; this doth impart - Least thankes to Nature, most to Art. - But thou canst tersely live, and satisfie - The bellye only, not the eye; - Keepinge the barkinge stomache meanly quiet - With a neat yet needfull dyett. - But that which most creates thy happy life, - Is the fruition of a wife, - Whom (starres consentinge with thy fate) thou hast - Gott, not so beautifull as chast. - By whose warm’d side thou dost securely sleepe, - Whilst Love the centinell doth keepe - With those deeds done by day, which ne’er affright - The silken slumbers in the night; - Nor hath the darkenesse power to usher in - Feare to those sheets that knowe no sinne: - But still thy wife, by chast intention led, - Gives thee each night a maidenhead. - For where pure thoughts are led by godly feare, - Trew love, not lust at all, comes there; - And in that sense the chaster thoughts commend - Not halfe so much the act as end: - That, what with dreams in sleepe of rurall blisse, - Night growes farre shorter than shee is. - The damaske meddowes, and the crawlinge streames, - Sweeten, and make soft thy dreams. - The purlinge springes, groves, birdes, and well-weav’d bowers, - With fields enamelled with flowers, - Present thee shapes, whilst phantasye discloses - Millions of lillyes mixt with roses. - Then dreame thou hear’st the lambe with many a bleat - Woo’d to come sucke the milkey teate; - Whilst Faunus, in the vision, vowes to keepe - From ravenouse wolfe the woolley sheepe; - With thowsand such enchantinge dreames, which meet - To make sleepe not so sound as sweet. - Nor can these figures in thy rest endeere, - As not to up when chanticleere - Speaks the last watch, but with the dawne dost rise - To worke, but first to sacrifice: - Makinge thy peace with Heaven for some late fault, - With holy meale and cracklinge salt. - That done, thy painfull thumbe this sentence tells us, - God for our labour all thinges sells us. - Nor are thy daylye and devout affayres - Attended with those desperate cares - Th’ industriouse marchant hath, who for to finde - Gold, runneth to the furthest Inde[118], - And home againe tortur’d with fear doth hye, - Untaught to suffer povertye. - But you at home blest with securest ease, - Sitt’st and beleev’st that there are seas, - And watrye dangers; but thy better hap - But sees these thinges within thy mapp, - And viewinge them with a more safe survaye, - Makst easy Feare unto thee say, - A heart thrice wall’d with oake and brass that man - Had, first durst plough the ocean. - But thou at home, without or tyde or gale, - Canst in thy mapp securely sayle, - Viewinge the parted countryes, and so guesse - By their shades their substances; - And from their compasse borrowing advise, - Buy’st travayle at the lowest price. - Nor are thy eares so seald but thou canst heare - Far more with wonder than with feare. - - —_Cætera desiderantur._ - - - - -ROBERT WISDOM - - -Was rector of Settrington in Yorkshire, and was presented to the -archdeaconry of Ely by Elizabeth the 27th of February 1559-60. In bishop -Cox’s Certificatorium (MS. Bennet Col. Lib.) he is returned to the -archbishop as “a priest and B. D. usually residing upon his living of -Wilberton, appropriated to the archdeaconry, was qualified for preaching, -and licensed thereunto by the Queen’s majesty.” - -He died, and was buried at Wilberton the 20th of September, 1568. - -He is chiefly memorable for his metrical prayer intended to be sung in -the church against the Pope and the Turk, of whom he seems to have had -the most alarming apprehensions; and in consequence of which he has been -ridiculed by sir John Denham, Corbet, Butler, and others. - - - - -TO THE GHOST OF ROBERT WISDOME[119]. - - - Thou, once a body, now but aire, - Arch-botcher of a psalme or prayer, - From Carfax come; - And patch mee up a zealous lay, - With an old _ever and for ay_, - Or, _all and some_. - Or such a spirit lend mee, - As may a hymne downe send mee, - To purge my braine: - So, Robert, looke behind thee, - Least Turke or Pope doe find thee, - And goe to bed againe. - - - - -THOMAS JONCE. - - -The name of this man, (Jones,) which Corbet, for the sake of the rhyme, -has corrupted, sufficiently denotes his extraction; and I would have -ascertained the time of his death, but the register was not to be found -upon application for that purpose. - -Antony à Wood says, in his History of the City of Oxford, “Thomas Jonce, -a clergyman and inhabitant of this place, (St. Giles’s parish, Oxford,) -desiring here to lay his bones, was of note sufficient to excite bishop -Corbet to write an epitaph on him.” - -‘Say’st thou this of thyself, or did others tell it thee of me?’ - - - - -AN EPITAPH ON THOMAS JONCE. - - - Here, for the nonce, - Came Thomas Jonce, - In St. Giles church to lye. - - None Welsh before, - None Welshman more, - Till Shon Clerk die. - - I’ll tole the bell, - I’ll ring his knell; - He died well, - He’s sav’d from hell; - And so farwel - Tom Jonce. - - - - -TO THE LADYES OF THE NEW DRESSE, THAT WEARE THEIR GORGETS AND RAYLES -DOWNE TO THEIR WASTES. - - - Ladyes, that weare black cipress-vailes - Turn’d lately to white linnen-rayles, - And to your girdle weare your bands, - And shew your armes instead of hands; - What can you doe in Lent so meet - As, fittest dress, to weare a sheet? - ’Twas once a band, ’tis now a cloake, - An acorne one day proves an oke: - Weare but your linnen to your feet, - And then your band will prove a sheet. - By which devise, and wise excesse, - You’l doe your penance in a dresse; - And none shall know, by what they see, - Which lady’s censur’d, and which free. - - - - -THE LADIES’ ANSWER. - -(Harl. MS. No. 6396.) - - - Blacke cypresse vailes are shroudes on night, - White linnen railes are raies of light, - Which though we to the girdles weare, - We’ve hands to keep your hands off there. - A fitter dresse we have in Lent, - To shew us trewly penitent. - Whoe makes the band to be a cloke - Makes John-a-style of John-an-oake. - We weare our garments to the feet, - Yet neede not make our bandes a sheet: - The clergie weare as long as we, - Yet that implies conformitie. - Be wise, recant what you have writt, - Least you doe pennance for your witte; - Love’s charm hath power to weare a stringe, - To tye you as you tied your ringe[120]; - There by love’s sharpe but just decree - You may be censured, we go free. - - - - -CORBET’S REPLY. - -(Ashmole’s Museum, A. 38. Fol. 66.) - - - Yff nought but love-charmes power have - Your blemisht creditt for to save; - Then know your champion is blind, - And that love-nottes are soon untwinde. - But blemishes are now a grace, - And add a lustre to your face; - Your blemisht credit for to save, - You needed not a vayle to have; - The rayle for women may be fitte, - Because they daylie practice ytt. - And, seeing counsell can you not reforme, - Read this reply—and take ytt not in scorne. - - - - -FAIRFORD WINDOWS - - -Are much admired, says the provincial historian of Glocestershire, -for their excellent painted glass. There are twenty-eight large -windows, which are curiously painted with the stories of the Old and -New Testament: the middle windows in the choir, and on the west side -of the church, are larger than the rest; those in the choir represent -the history of our Saviour’s Crucifixion; the window at the west end -represents Hell and Damnation; those on the side of the church, and over -the body, represent the figures in length of the prophets, apostles, -fathers, martyrs and confessors, and also the persecutors of the church. -The painting was designed by Albert Durer, an eminent Italian Master: the -colours are very lively, especially in the drapery: some of the figures -are so well finished, that sir Anthony Vandyke affirmed that the pencil -could not exceed them. This curious painting was preserved from zealous -fury in the great rebellion, by turning the glass upside down. - -John Tame, esq. founded this church in the year 1493. He was a merchant, -and took a prize-ship bound for Rome, in which was this painted glass: he -brought both the glass and workmen into England, built the church for the -sake of the glass, and dedicated it to the Virgin Mary. - - Atkyns’s Hist. of Glocestershire, p. 226. 1768. fol. - -It is to be observed that the tradition of the famous Albert Durer having -furnished the drawings will not, as Mr. Dallaway justly observes, bear -the test of chronology; for he was not twenty years of age when these -windows were put up; nor is it probable that he had then attained to such -proficiency—to say nothing of the time necessary for the perfecting such -works. - - - - -UPON FAIRFORD WINDOWS. - - - Tell me, you anti-saints, why brass - With you is shorter lived than glass? - And why the saints have scap’t their falls - Better from windows than from walles? - Is it, because the Brethrens fires - Maintain a glass-house at Blackfryars? - Next which the church stands North and South, - And East and West the preacher’s mouth. - Or is ’t, because such painted ware - Resembles something that you are, - Soe py’de, soe seeming, soe unsound - In manners, and in doctrine, found, - That, out of emblematick witt, - You spare yourselves in sparing it? - If it be soe, then, Faireford, boast - Thy church hath kept what all have lost; - And is preserved from the bane - Of either warr, or puritane: - Whose life is colour’d in thy paint, - The inside drosse, the outside saint. - - - - -UPON FAIREFORD WINDOWES[121]. - -(Misc. MS. Poems, Mus. Brit. Bib. Sloan. No. 1446.) - - - I knowe no painte of poetry - Can mend such colour’d imag’ry - In sullen inke, yet (Fayreford) I - May rellish thy fair memory. - Such is the echoe’s fainter sound, - Such is the light when the sunn’s drown’d, - So did the fancy look upon - The work before it was begun. - Yet when those showes are out of sight, - My weaker colours may delight. - Those images doe faithfullie - Report true feature to the eie, - As you may think each picture was - Some visage in a looking-glass; - Not a glass window face, unless - Such as Cheapside hath, where a press - Of painted gallants, looking out, - Bedeck the casement rounde about. - But these have holy phisnomy; - Each paine instructs the laity - With silent eloquence; for heere - Devotion leads the eie, not eare, - To note the cathechisinge paint, - Whose easie phrase doth soe acquainte - Our sense with Gospell, that the Creede - In such an hand the weake may reade. - Such tipes e’en yett of vertue bee, - And Christ as in a glass we see— - When with a fishinge rod the clarke - St. Peter’s draught of fish doth marke, - Such is the scale, the eie, the finn, - You’d thinke they strive and leape within; - But if the nett, which holdes them, brake, - Hee with his angle some would take. - But would you walke a turn in Paules, - Looke up, one little pane inrouls - A fairer temple. Flinge a stone, - The church is out at the windowe flowne. - Consider not, but aske your eies, - And ghosts at mid-day seem to rise, - The saintes there seemeing to descend, - Are past the glass, and downwards bend. - Look there! The Devill! all would cry, - Did they not see that Christ was by. - See where he suffers for thee! See - His body taken from the tree! - Had ever death such life before? - The limber corps, be-sully’d o’er - With meagre paleness, does display - A middle state ’twixt flesh and clay. - His armes and leggs, his head and crown, - Like a true lambskin dangle downe: - Whoe can forbeare, the grave being nigh, - To bringe fresh ointment in his eye? - The wond’rous art hath equall fate, - Unfixt, and yet inviolate. - The Puritans were sure deceav’d - Whoe thought those shaddowes mov’d and heav’d, - So held from stoninge Christ; the winde - And boysterous tempests were so kinde, - As on his image not to prey, - Whome both the winde and seas obey. - At Momus’ wish bee not amaz’d; - For if each Christian’s heart were glaz’d - With such a windowe, then each brest - Might bee his owne evangelist. - - - - -THE DISTRACTED PURITANE. - - - Am I madd, O noble Festus, - When zeale and godly knowledge - Have put me in hope - To deal with the Pope, - As well as the best in the Colledge? - Boldly I preach, hate a crosse, hate a surplice, - Miters, copes, and rotchets: - Come heare mee pray nine times a day, - And fill your heads with crotchets. - - In the house of pure Emanuel - I had my education; - Where my friends surmise - I dazeled mine eyes - With the Light of Revelation. - Boldly I preach, &c. - - They bound mee like a bedlam, - They lash’t my foure poore quarters; - Whilst this I endure, - Faith makes mee sure - To be one of Foxes martyrs. - Boldly I preach, &c. - - These injuryes I suffer - Through Anti-Christs perswasions: - Take off this chaine, - Neither Rome nor Spaine - Can resist my strong invasions. - Boldly I preach, &c. - - Of the Beasts ten hornes (God blesse us!) - I have knock’t off three already: - If they let mee alone, - I’ll leave him none; - But they say I am too heady. - Boldly I preach, &c. - - When I sack’d the Seaven-hill’d Citty - I mett the great redd Dragon: - I kept him aloofe - With the armour of proofe, - Though here I have never a rag on. - Boldly I preach, &c. - - With a fiery sword and targett - There fought I with this monster: - But the sonnes of pride - My zeale deride, - And all my deedes misconster. - Boldly I preach, &c. - - I unhorst the whore of Babel - With a launce of inspirations: - I made her stinke, - And spill her drinck - In the cupp of abominations. - Boldly I preach, &c. - - I have seene two in a vision, - With a flying booke betweene them: - I have bin in dispaire - Five times a yeare, - And cur’d by reading Greenham[122]. - Boldly I preach, &c. - - I observ’d in Perkins Tables[123] - The black lines of damnation: - Those crooked veines - Soe struck in my braines, - That I fear’d my reprobation. - Boldly I preach, &c. - - In the holy tongue of Chanaan - I plac’d my chiefest pleasure: - Till I prickt my foote - With an Hebrew roote, - That I bledd beyond all measure. - Boldly I preach, &c. - - I appear’d before the arch-bishopp, - And all the high commission: - I gave him noe grace, - But told him to his face - That he favour’d superstition. - Boldly I preach, hate a crosse, hate a surplice, - Miters, copes, and rotchets: - Come heare mee pray nine times a day, - And fill your heads with crotchets. - - - - -ORATIO DOMINI DOCTORIS CORBET, EX ÆDE CHRISTI, IN FUNUS HENRICI PRINCIPIS. - -(Mus. Ashm. No. 1153.) - - -Quam sit semper vobis facile, et pronum, justo servire, sobriisque -lachrimis obtemperare, ipsi mihi vos dixistis modo, qui egregio oratori, -et invicto argumento fideliter cessistis, mihi tantum post consumptum -humorem, et historiæ, meæ fidem vestram et suspiria præstituri. Si qua -autem unquam ageretur causa quæ suis viribus staret, neque patrono -aliquo, aut oratore indigeret, hæc ipsa profecto hodierna est, quæ nec -adversarium infestum habet, nec facilem auditorem postulat; hæc ipsa -est, quæ in omni familia versata, vexata, compressa, ad forum postea, -et cœlum provocat, humano generi se dat obviam, et una Britannia nunc -orbem replet. Tam multa, variaque unius mors est, ut ubique moriatur; -tam frequens dolor ut humanitatem omnem hac ipsa cogitatione imbuat. -Nescit enim domestica esse aut paucorum fama, pervia simul et ambitiosa, -utrumque simul minatur polum, rumpetque mœnia aut transibit caprificus: -ideoque facti repetitione aliqua opus est; ad metus vestros, et -necessitates descendite, affectus vestros interrogate, quis desiderii -modus aut finis. Dicite tandem utrum timere quicquid possitis, aut amare -sine Henrico, sitque ille miseriæ vestræ vera causa, qui felicitati -vestræ sola spes emicuit—quare aures ego hodie vestras non appello, sed -oculos, neque auditores ut olim neque censores alloquar, sed homines, -sed Britannos. Adeste igitur, Anglosissimi Academici, lassi, queruli, -mihique per hunc mensem a primo hujus nuncio ruinæ, non tacito sed muto -post lachrimas jam deliberatas aspirate, et dolorem illum, quem vel -vita nostra vincere non possumus, data quasi opera dolendo leniamus. -Exanimat enim possessorem ægrum luctus longus, et prodigus mentem sine -sensu vulnerat, et quasi jam humanitas potius aut natura, quæ morbus -dici vellet, lachrimarum suarum epulis impleri gaudet, et imperiosa -consuetudine satiatur. Quare redeat jam ad se oculus unusquisque vestrûm, -animamque in oculos arripiat. Henricum cogitet sive principem sive -nostrum et vincet, credo ratio, aut suadebit pietas, ut omnes hodie -simus Heracliti sive enim ad majorum sepulchra et imagines, proavosque -ejus multum remotissimos revertimur, honor est et crescit acervus, -nec sine centum regibus potest prodire, si patremque matremque jam -superstites, quod sæpius proferre juvat jam superstites, jam supra -cyathum, et cultrum, pyram flammamque jam superstites, et si quid -votis nostris precibusque jam litare possumus, sero superstaturos. Hos -si repetimus Deus est in utroque parente. Si cunabula respicimus, et -Lucinam ejus, quid in illa infantia non debuit esse plus quam mortale, -quæ a sponsoribus Belgiis et immortali Elizabetha Christo initiata, et -æternitati, pueritiam autem nullam habuit, qui annum ... unum excessit -ex ephebis, et tanquam tempus præcipitare mallet, quam expectare, annos -non ætate sed virtute æstimat, neque hominem se longævum esse sed virum -cupit. In omni actione, rebusque gestis se juvenem præbuit, solum in -affectu senem, et suos annos sic explevit, ut nonagenarium esse illum -vellet quis libenter agnoscere. Senectutem pariter nec habuit nec -exoptavit, neque exhæreditavit eum morbus, sed industriam, vitæque -suum patrimonium reliquum aut laboribus vendidit, aut studio decoxit. -Diuturnioris spem vitæ ei natura dederat, dare melioris non poterat; -indicium prorsus quod illum cæca fortuna non vidisset maximum; mens -pariter condidisset optimum, adeone raro succumbit tenuiori, et æternum -elementum gloriæ perituræ auræ infeliciter serviet? Adeone virtus qua -vivimus minor erit vilissimo illius aeris haustu, quo vivendum est. Atqui -redeat in Chaos unde prognatum est, ingratum illud aeris elementum, -si malis tantum indulgeat, invideat bonis, si inutili populo spiret, -principibus lateat, principibus huic. Ecquis mihi vestrûm hanc Syntaxim -imputat, illum ut dicam principibus, qui et multus erat, virtutemque -in aliis fractam et remissam, totam sibi suisque imperiis mancipasset; -unaque sua anima effecit præstantissima, ut si veteres philosophos -interrogamus, infinitum animarum exercitum in hoc uno extitisse -crederent? Sed consulite memoriæ vestræ et officio, historiam revocate, -narrate Principem; quisquamne melior? quisquamne major? Deo scilicet et -cœlo stirpeque sua animoque proximus: non tamen ideo humani oneris, aut -terreæ vicinitatis immemor, Deumque immortalem quem metu subditissimo -coluit, semper et admiratus est; precibus imperatoriis, et quasi libera -servitute quotidie vincit; movet hortatu, docet Salomonis æmulus -familiam sensu, populum fama concitat, prælucet ipse omnibus pietate, -neque autoritate bonos sed exemplo facit. Irasci aliquando, neque potuit, -neque vellet, neque pœna cujusque, sed pœnitentia contentus est, credo -itaque ut qui sine felle viveret, sine sanguine imperaret. Neque amabilis -magis, et mansuetus quam domesticus et frugalis; servorum nomina, studia, -vitæque instituta cognovit, in domo sua mensaque ipse paterfamilias, -nimirum ut qui Œcumenicus esse debuit, Œconomicus quandoque esse posset. -Studia sua et exercitia corporis, (quam cœli et Decembris patientissimus -erat) campestria plerumque et in sole fuerunt. - - Gaudet equis, canibusque, et aprici gramine campi, - -et quo longius a luxuria, oppidoque decessit, eo proxime accessit famæ -et probitati. Rei militaris non tam studiosus, quam peritus fuit, eoque -timore simul a transmarinis optimè ... redde Deo populum suum, I, curre -per Alpes, Romamque diu personatam et histrionicam aut vero cultu -induas, aut falso spolies. Hoc unum restat faciendum, tuisque illud -artibus permissum est, et in tua solius sæcula servatum opus. Nec male -præsagiebat Roma præstigiatrix illa famelica, quæ longo te jejunio et -siti petiit, quæ ferro et igni liberalem dat operam, morti principum -plus quam scientiæ et religioni incumbit, et quasi jam virtuti morbus -adhæreret, potius quam invidiæ, nullam non pyxidem, herbamque eruit, quo -suis exorcismis, et impudicæ nequitiæ superstes non fiat. Tu vero quam -facile illudis ... ejus, et crudelem industriam antevertis, ni virtus -ipsa pro Jesuita, et febris pro veneno est. His tu remediis hac demum -medicina sanaris (H. P.) et dum medicus ... studium, gloria tua, et -proprium meritum interficiunt, unus Peleo juveni non sufficit, Henrico -sufficeret (ut transeam finitimos) Sabaudia et Hispania ab utraque India -timeris, nec audet vexisse tuam Oceanus carinam, atque iisdem non ita -pridem ægrotavit Henricus magnus ille Galliæ rex, qui ferro et hostili -parricidio transfixus Henricis omnibus mortem propinavit. - - Credamus tragicis quicquid de Colchide torva - Dicitur et Progne: nam clamat Roma peregi, - Confiteor, puerisque meis aconita paravi, - Quæ deprensa patent; facinus tamen ipsa peregi. - Tune duos unâ sævissima vipera cœnâ? - Tune duos?—Septem, septem si forte fuissent[124]. - -Verum credo nihil horum est (Academici) orationis meæ horribilius est -non religionis. Egoque cæsus olim pulvere Novembris, hodie cæcubio, -hodie insanio. Nos utinam vani: Totus igitur est in apparatu Henricus -noster quem quærimus, jamque aut equo insidet, aut choræis hasta vel -gladio dominatur, ipse Hymenæus etiam et nuptias coronat, ovant et -triumphant una dulcissima mortalium, pax, Anna et Jacobus, et fervet -annis nitentibus fratri Carolus et totus in illos. Invitant, properant, -parant Fredericus et Elizabetha, et ver illud perpetuum et poeticum hac -solum in regione deprehenditur. Æstate prima Woodstochiam suam cogitat -Henricus, et vicinam academiam adventu primo, scholaresque (quos vocat -suos) accersit, ut habeat convivas musas, et si placuerit, convictores; -juvat et meminisse potestis, qualis ibi tum in scena prodierit, in qua -ipse erat pro triumpho, ipse pro spectaculo. Quotus illa nocte adest -Henricus?—Quotus princeps, quam magnificus, quam innocens, cui vel -esuriens Jesuita potuit ignoscere. O dementiam suavem, gratissimum -errorem, et religiosum delirium, in vobis redivivum Principem, Britanni, -jubilate Henricum, O beatum impostorem. - -Qui istud nec audiunt, nec credunt malum, nos miseros, qui in illa -hostium multitudine et via fortunæ viximus, et nescire dolorem non -minus sit difficile, quam cognitum extinguere. Quod si vox populi, -quæ aliquando Dei esse dicitur, eadem potuisset de morte tua et fama -decernere, caruisses hodie lachrimis, et longo nostrorum funeri -superfuisses. In te enim non tam morientis fatum, quam pacis, quam -reipublicæ situm est; non peris sed destruis, neque mors hæc dat, -sed confusio; diluvium est, nec caret prodigio. Oraculum est, nec -sine sacerdote aut pontifice potest intelligi. Quam non mortalis eras -Henricus, mortalis; adeone nonus esse nunquam potes, et nullus esses, -brevis est quia bonus, minorque quia melior. - -Nobis interim quod reliquum, quam ut festinetis juvenes, animamque -principis fugitivam, per silentium et solitudinem sequamini: ut -longitudinem vitamque inimicis posthac exoptetis, sociisque vestris, -fratribusque suadeatis, quam sit senectus post fatum principis vilis -et ignominiosa. Nos interim viri, qui in longiori ludibrio constituti -sumus, consulamus huic vitio, facinusque ætatis lachrimis expiemus; -et experiamur modo utrum anima principis excellens, quæ palatio sui -corporis clarissimo valedixit, in nostris animis et hisce lachrimarum -insulis habitare velit, certemus invicem pietate, et ingenioso luctu -contendamus, summus ne dolor feriet non volentem satis, nec viventem -minus. Dixi. - - - - -IN OBITUM DOMINI THOMÆ BODLEII. - -(Ex Libro cui Titulus “Bodleiomnema; seu, Carmina et Orationes in Obitum -ejus.” Oxon. 1613. 4to.) - - - Obrue Bodleium saxis, prosterne colossis, - Adde libros oneri, dimidiasque scholas, - Aut lacrymis manes lassa, aut ululante papyro, - Quæ solet afflictis incubuisse rogis; - Non tamen efficies, quin summo in culmine victor - Imperet, et molem perforet ille suam; - Nam famæ cedunt lapides, et tecta sepulchris - Dum memorant dominos hæc monumenta suos. - - - - -CORRECTIONS. - - - Page 36, verse 11, _for_ ken _read_ hen. - 50, ” 7, _dele_ a. - 80, ” 10, _for_ consider _read_ consider’d. - 94, note, _for_ brought _read_ bought. - 100, ” _for_ Guynes _read_ Luyne. - 119, line 7, _for_ Nescis _read_ Nescio. - 137, verses 4 and 5. It should have been observed, that the - Prince and Buckingham on their journey wore false - beards for disguises, and assumed the names of Jack - and Tom Smith. - 144. The two first lines of this beautiful poem are here - printed as they are found in the editions of 1647 - and 1672; but they stand much better in Bishop King’s - Poems, page 51, edit. 1657: - - Let no profane ignoble foot tread _neer_ - This hallow’d peece of earth, _Dorset lies here_. - - - - -FOOTNOTES - - -[1] An EPITAPH on Master VINCENT CORBET. - - I have my piety too, which, could - It vent itself but as it would, - Would say as much as both have done - Before me here, the friend and son: - For I both lost a friend and father, - Of him whose bones this grave doth gather: - Dear Vincent Corbet, who so long - Had wrestled with diseases strong, - That though they did possess each limb, - Yet he broke them, ere they could him, - With the just canon of his life; - A life that knew nor noise nor strife: - But was by sweetning so his will, - All order and composure still. - His mind as pure, and neatly kept - As were his nourseries, and swept - So of uncleanness or offence, - That never came ill odour thence! - And add his actions unto these, - They were as specious as his trees. - ’Tis true, he could not reprehend, - His very manners taught t’ amend, - They were so even, grave, and holy; - No stubbornness so stiff, nor folly - To licence ever was so light, - As twice to trespass in his sight; - His looks would so correct it, when - It chid the vice, yet not the men. - Much from him, I profess, I won, - And more, much more, I should have done, - But that I understood him scant: - Now I conceive him by my want; - And pray, who shall my sorrows read, - That they for me their tears will shed: - For truly, since he left to be, - I feel I’m rather dead than he. - Reader, whose life and name did e’er become - An epitaph, deserv’d a tomb: - Nor wants it here through penury or sloth, - Who makes the one, so it be first, makes both. - - JONSON’S Underwoods. - -[2] Reg. Prerog. Court Cant. Parker, 49.—Vincent Corbet left his -copyholds in Twickenham and Thistleworth (or Isleworth) to his wife, and -legacies to various others. See page 118. - -[3] Wood’s Annals of Oxford, vol. ii. p. 312. ed. Gutch, 4to. 1796. - -[4] Heylyn’s Life of Archbishop Laud, p. 68. fol. 1668. - -[5] See a curious account of the proceedings on this occasion by an eye -witness, in Leyland’s Collectanea, vol. ii. 626. ed. Hearne, 1770. - -[6] One of the ballads written on this occasion is (through the kindness -of my friend John Dovaston, esq.) in a manuscript in my possession, -beginning, - - To Oxenford our king is gone - With all his noble peers.—&c. - -[7] Miscellaneous State Papers, vol. i. 394. 4to. 1778. - -[8] A William Lake, who was M. A. and a fellow of Clare Hall in 1619, had -also a ring bequeathed him by Ruggles, and might have been the author. -See Hawkins’s edition of Ignoramus. Utrum horum mavis accipe. - -[9] Biographical Sketches, vol. i. p. 38. - -[10] Spencer, whose college disappointments forced him from the -University. Milton is reported to have received corporal punishment -there. Dryden has left a testimony, in a prologue spoken at Oxford, much -against his own University. The incivility, not to give it a harsher -appellation, which Gray met with, is well known. That Alma Mater has not -remitted her wonted illiberality, is to be fairly presumed from a passage -in her late most poetical son, Mr. Mason: - - Science there - Sat musing; and to those that loved the lore - Pointed, with mystic wand, to truths involved - In geometric symbols, scorning those - Perchance too much, who woo’d the thriftless Muse. - - English Garden. - -[11] See Lysons’s Environs, vol. ii. p. 148 et seq. - -[12] The forwardness of the clergy to publish their labours is thus -ludicrously satyrized by Robert Burton: “Had I written divinitie -positively, there be so many bookes in that kinde, so many commentators, -treatises, pamphlets, sermons, expositions, that whole teams of oxen -cannot draw them: and had I beene as forward and ambitious as some -others, I might haply have printed a sermon at Paules Crosse, a sermon -in Saint Maries Oxon, a sermon in Christ-Church, or a sermon before the -Right Honourable, Right Reverend, a sermon before the Right Worshipful, a -sermon in Latin, in English, a sermon with a name, without, a sermon, a -sermon, &c.” - - Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 15. fol. 1632. - -[13] Harl. MSS. No. 7000. Cabala, p. 220. fol. 1663. - -[14] On the 26th of August. - -[15] It occurs, with some variations, in a scarce poetical miscellany -called Wit Restored, 8vo. 1658, the use of which, in common with many -other volumes of still greater rarity and value, I owe to the liberality -of Thomas Hill, esq. - -[16] MS. Ashmole, A 37. - -[17] Martis, 27 Aug. 1605. “The comedy began between nine and ten, and -ended at one; the name of it was Alba, whereof I never saw reason; it -was a pastoral, much like one which I have seen in King’s College in -Cambridge. In the acting thereof they brought in five or six men almost -naked, which were much disliked by the queen and ladies, and also many -rustical songes and dances, which made it very tedious, insomuch that if -the chancellors of bothe the Universities had not intreated his majesty -earnestly, he would have been gone before half the comedy had been -ended.” Leyland’s Collectanea, vol. ii. p. 637. edit. 1770. - -Mercurii, 28 Aug. 1605. “After supper, about nine of the clock, they -began to act the tragedy of Ajax Flagellifer, _wherein the stage varied -three times_; they had all goodly antique apparell; but, for all that, -it was not so well acted by many degrees as I have seen it in Cambridge. -_The king_ was very weary before he came thither, but much more wearied -by it, and _spoke many words of dislike_.” Ibid. p. 639. - -[18] Although the register of Flore, the residence of Dr. Hutton, was -preserved from an early date during the lifetime of Brydges, an early one -is not now to be found. That of Christ-Church, Oxford, is not so old as -the death of the bishop: his name is not found in that of Twickenham. - -[19] Wit Restored, 8vo. 1658. - -[20] Athenæ Oxon. vol. i. col. 736. - -[21] Harl. Catalogue, 464. fol. 3. He appears to have conceded a -portion of the patronage attending his elevation, as in the Museum -is “Carta Ricardi Corbet episcopi Norwicensis, qua concedit Georgio -Abbot, archiepiscopo Cantuariensi, preximam advocationem, nominationem, -præsentationem, liberam dispositionem, et jus patronatus archidiaconatus -Norfolciæ, dat. 15 Maii, an. 8 R. Caroli 1.” Harl. MSS. No. 464. Fol. 3. - -[22] Strafford State Papers and Dispatches, vol. i. p. 221. folio. - -[23] He was author of a curious sermon, printed in 1627, 4to. under the -title of “Woe to Drunkards,” which was republished with king James’s -Counterblast, and other philippics against _tobacco_ and _coffee_; -4to. 1672. Upon the intrusion of the Book of Sports, Ward told his -congregation that “the Church of England was ready to ring changes on -religion, and that the Gospel stood on tip-toe ready to be gone.” For -these words he was suspended. - -[24] Harl. MS. No. 464. fol. 13. - -[25] Blomefield’s History of Norfolk, vol. ii. p. 522. fol. - -[26] Notwithstanding these harsh measures, which originated with -Laud—for, to the praise of our amiable prelate, he had not a grain of -persecution in his disposition—“the Walloon company in 1637 having -undertaken to repayre and make fit the church of Little St. Maryes to -be used for God’s worship by the said congregation, and also to repayre -the yard on the northside, had a lease for forty years. Which lease hath -been renewed, and now it is the church of the French congregation.” -Blomefield’s History of Norfolk, vol. ii. 57. fol. 1739. - -[27] Strype’s edition of Stowe’s Survey, book iii. page 151. edit. fol. -1720. - -Perhaps his fellow-collegian Cartwright intended an immediate compliment -to Corbet in the following lines: - - Two sacred things were thought, by judging souls, - Beyond the kingdom’s power, Christ-Church and Pauls, - Till by a light from heaven shewn the one - Did gain his second renovation. - - Poems, 188, 8vo. 1651. - -[28] Ath. Oxon. vol. i. p. 601. edit. 1721. - -[29] Harl. MS. No. 750. Malcolm’s Londinum Redivivum, vol. iii. p. 80. It -occurs, also, with some difference, in Mus. Ashm. No. 1153. - -[30] Reg. Prerog. Court Cant. 97. Sadler. - -[31] Gomersall, in an epistle to Barten Holiday. See his poems, p. 7. -edit. 1633. - -[32] Fuller’s Worthies, page 83. fol. 1662. - -[33] Headley, i. 38. - -[34] From hence it should seem that the edition 1647 was not published at -the time this preface was written. - -[35] Robert Gomersall was entered of Christ-Church, Oxford, in 1614, at -the age of fourteen, where, in 1621, he proceeded M. A. In 1625 he took -refuge from the plague at Flore in Northamptonshire, of which the editor -of the Biographia Dramatica erroneously supposed he was rector. He was -afterwards vicar of Thorncombe in Devonshire, and died in 1646. His -poems, which are rather easy than correct, were published with Lodwick -Sforza, a tragedy, in 1633 and 1638, from which the above epistle is -transcribed. - -[36] Saint Paul’s cathedral was in Corbet’s time the resort of the idle -and profligate of all classes: the author, _quisquis ille fuit_, of -“A Sixefold Politycian,” 4to. 1609. attributed to _Milton’s father_, -describes its frequenters as “superstitious idolaters of St. Paul (and -yet they never think of Paul nor any apostle) and many of them have that -famous monument in that account as Diogenes had _Jovis porticus_ in -Athens; who to them which wondered that he had no house nor corner to eat -his meat in, pointing at the gallerie or walking-place that was called -Jovis Porticus, said, that the people of Athens had builded that to his -use, as a royal mansion for him, wherein he might dine and sup, and take -his repast. - -“And soe these make Paules like Euclides or Platoes school, as Diogenes -accounted it, κατατριβην, a mispending of much good labour and time, -and worthily many times meet with Diogenes’ fare, and are faithful and -frequent guests of Duke Humphray.” P. 8. - -[37] This was not the first censure of sir Christopher Hatton’s -extravagant monument; as, according to Stowe, some poet had before -complained on the part of Sydney and Walsingham, that - - “Philip and Francis have no tomb, - For great Christopher takes all the room.” - -[38] “Coryate’s Crudities hastily gobbled up in five months travels in -France, Savoy, Italy, Rhetia, Helvetia, some parts of High Germany, and -the Netherlands.” 4to. 1611. Re-printed in 3 vols. 8vo. 1776. - -[39] Quia valde lutosa est Cantabrigia. - -[40] Ludus per spatium 6 horarum infra. - -[41] “A bushel of March dust is worth a king’s ransom.” - -[42] Coll. Eman. abundat puritanis. - -[43] The king entered Cambr. 7 Mar. 1614-5. - -[44] Samuel Harsnett, then bp. of Chichester. - -[45] Vestis indicat virum. - -[46] Nethersoli Cant. orator, qui per speculum seipsum solet ornari. - -[47] Orator hoc usus est vocabulo in oratione ad regem. - -[48] Actores omnes fuere theologi. - -[49] Ludus dicebatur “Ignoramus,” qui durabat per spatium sex horarum. - -[50] Idem quod Bocardo apud Oxon. - -[51] Insigniss. stultus. - -[52] Paulus Tompsonus, qui nuper laesæ majest. reus ob aurum decurtat. - -[53] Decorum quia Coll. est puritanorum plenum: scil. Emanuel. - -[54] The former is Taylor, the celebrated water-poet: the latter, William -Fenner, a puritanical poet and pamphleteer of that period, was educated -at Pembroke-hall, Oxford. He was preferred to the rectory of Rochford, in -Essex, by the earl of Warwick. He died about 1640. - -Archbishop Laud in his annual account to the king 1636, page 37, mentions -one Fenner, a principal ringleader of the Separatists, with their -conventicles, at and about Ashford in Kent. - -[55] See Lodge’s Illustrations of British History, 4to. vol. iii. p. 178; -Brydges’s Peers of the Reign of James the First, vol. i.; and Winwood’s -Memorials. - -[56] For this vehement attack upon the weakness of an infatuated woman, -the author must be screened under the example of Horace, Ep. 8 and 12. - -[57] Henry Garnet, provincial of the order of Jesuits in England, who was -arraigned and executed at the west end of St. Paul’s, for his connivance -at, rather than for any active participation in, the Gunpowder Plot, May -3, 1605. See State Trials. - -[58] Wilson’s Hist. of James I, Pa. 62. fol. 1653. - -[59] Two manufacturers of almanacks and prognostics. The latter was, -however, of some note as to family, being the fifth son of sir Arthur -Hopton by Rachael, daughter of Edmund Hall, of Greatford in Lincolnshire; -nor was his fame in learning unequal to his birth. In 1604 he was entered -a gentleman commoner of Lincoln college, Oxon, and in 1607 was admitted -bachelor of arts. He was held in high estimation by Selden for his -mathematical knowledge, but died in the prime of life in the month of -Nov. 1614. - -[60] Dr. Daniel Price was the eldest son of Thomas Price, vicar of -Saint Chad’s, Shrewsbury, in which borough he was born and educated. -From St. Mary Hall, Oxford, where he was entered in 1594, he removed to -Exeter college, where he took the degree of master of arts, and entered -into holy orders. He afterwards became dean and residentiary canon of -Hereford, rector of Worthyn in Shropshire, and of Lantelos in Cornwall; -for which counties, as well as that of Montgomery, he officiated as -magistrate. He was author of many works, wholly devotional, and died at -Worthyn the 23d September 1631, and was buried there in the chancel of -the church. - -[61] This poem, for what reason does not appear, is printed before some -of the later editions of sir Thomas Overbury’s “Wife.” - -[62] These reverend gentlemen were jesters to James the First. The name -of the former was Archibald Armstrong, of whom and of whose jests an -account may be found in Granger, vol. ii. p. 399. ed. 1775. 8vo. They are -again joined in a manuscript poem (_penes me_) by Peter Heylin, written -in derision of Barten Holiday’s play already mentioned in the life of the -bishop, of which the following are the introductory lines: - - “Whoop Holyday! why then ’twill ne’er be better, - Why all the guard, that never saw more letters - Than those upon their coates; whose wit consists - In Archy’s bobs and Garret’s sawcy jests, - Deride our Christ-church scene.” - -[63] Thomas Ereskine, earl of Fenton. - -[64] William, earl of Pembroke, a poet himself, and an universal patron -of learning, whose character is so admirably drawn by Clarendon. - -[65] The compass of a note is too confined for an account of this great -negociator and general, who fell by the jealousy of the Prince of Orange -the 13th March 1619. He was born at Amersfort, in the province of -Utrecht, was five times employed as ambassador to England and France, -and had long the command of the armies of the United Provinces. De Thou -says, “que c’étoit un homme très accrédité par les charges qu’il avoit -remplies, et par sa grande expérience dans les affaires:”—And Moreri -concludes an account of his character, and his death, which he met with -an undaunted spirit, in the following words: “Barneveldt, ayant été pris, -eut la tête tranchée à l’age de 72 ans, sous prétexte d’avoir voulu -livrer le pays aux Espagnols, quoiqu’il le niat constamment, et qu’en -effet on n’en ait trouvé aucune preuve dans ses papiers. Son crime étoit -d’avoir refusé d’entrer dans le complot, à la faveur du quel le prince -Maurice vouloit a ce qu’on dit se rendre maître des Pays Bas, et d’avoir -défendu la liberté de sa patrie avec trop de zèle.” Tom. ii. p. 78. - -[66] No minister ever exerted his power with less tyranny and more -benignity than the favourite of Philip the Third: he fell “from his high -estate” by the intrigues of his son, and an ungrateful monk whom he had -raised to be confessor to the king, and who abandoned the friend that had -elevated him as soon as the smiles of sovereignty were transferred to -another. On the 4th of October 1618, he retired to his paternal estate -from the capricious favour of the court, where he passed the remainder of -his days in peace and privacy. - -[67] William Burton is said, by Antony à Wood, to have been a _pretender_ -to astronomy, of which he published an Ephemeris in 1655.—Edmund -Gunter, a mathematician of greater eminence, was astronomical professor -of Gresham College, and eminent for his skill in the sciences: his -publications were popular in his day. He died in Gresham College, 1626. - -[68] Thomas Hariot, styled by Camden “Mathematicus Insignis,” was a -pensioner and companion of sir Walter Raleigh in his voyage to Virginia -(1584), of which upon his return he published an account. He was held in -high estimation by the earl of Northumberland, sir Thomas Aylesbury, and -others, for his mathematical knowledge, but, like his patron, Raleigh, -was a deist in religion.—Ob. 1621. See Wood’s Athenæ, vol. i. p. 460. ed. -1721. - -[69] Of this popular song, which is reprinted from “Deuteromelia,” -1609, in Hawkins’s History of Music, and in Ritson’s Antient Songs, the -following is the introductory stanza: - - “As it fell upon a holyday - And upon a holy-tide-a, - John Dory brought him an ambling nag - To Paris for to ride-a.” - -[70] Louis the XIIIth, for no superior virtues surnamed “Le Juste.” -I have seen it somewhere observed that he chose his ministers for -extraordinary reasons: Richlieu, because he could not govern his kingdom -without him; Des Noyers, for psalm-singing; and le duc de Zuynes, for -being an expert bird-catcher. - -The satire of Corbet seems to justify the remark. - -He was born 1601; married Anne of Austria 1615; and died at St. Germain’s -1643. - -[71] Upon a similar declaration being issued by Charles in 1633, “one -Dr. Dennison,” says lord Strafford’s garrulous correspondent, “read it -here (London), and presently after read the ten commandments; then said, -‘Dearly beloved, you have now heard the commandments of God and man: obey -which you please.’” - - Strafford Papers, vol. i. 166. fol. - -[72] Whalley’s Ben Jonson, vol. v. 299. - -[73] Dugdale’s Baronage, vol. ii. p. 444. - -[74] See his Poems, p. 1657. - -[75] Howell’s Letters, p. 64. ed. 1650. This fool, _quasi_ knave, whose -surname was Armstrong, had his coat pulled over his ears, and was -discharged of his office, for indignity to archbishop Laud. - - See Rushworth’s Collections, vol. ii. p. 471. - -[76] This refers to a popular tract published in 1622, under that title, -in favour of the Low Countries, and for the purpose of prejudicing the -people of England against the marriage which Villiers was negotiating -when this poem was addressed to him. The negotiation was not only -disgraceful, but unsuccessful: - - —αισχρον γαρ ἡμιν, και προς αισχυνη κακον. - -[77] “On the 29th of May,” says sir Richard Baker, “the queen was brought -to bed of a young son, which was baptized at St. James’s on the 27th of -June, and named Charles. It is observed that at his nativity, at London, -was seen a star about noon-time: what it portended, good or ill, we leave -to the astrologers.” Baker’s Chronicle, p. 497. 1660. fol. - -[78] If any one is at this time ignorant of the practice alluded to in -this line, of the sponsors at christenings giving spoons to the child -as a baptismal present, it is not the fault of the commentators on -Shakespeare, who have multiplied examples of the custom in their notes on -Henry the Eighth, vol. xv. p. 197. edit. 1803. - -[79] Reg. Prerog. Court Cant. Sadler 97. - -[80] Ibid. Rivers 18. - -[81] Cartwright has not unhappily imitated this poem in his address “To -Mr. W. B. at the Birth of his first Child:” a few lines may be given: - - I wish religion timely be - Taught him with his A B C. - I wish him good and constant health, - His father’s learning, but more wealth, - And that to use, not hoard; a purse - Open to bless, not shut to curse. - May he have many and fast friends - Meaning good will, not private ends!—&c. - - Poem, p. 208. 8vo. 1651. - -[82] At Aston on the Wall, in Northamptonshire, where Christopher -Middleton, as rector, accounted for the first-fruits Oct. 12th, 1612; and -was buried Feb. 5th, 1627. - -[83] By the right of Dr. Leonard Hutton, a man of some note in his day, -the fellow-collegian and subsequent father-in-law of bishop Corbet. -Hutton passed from Westminster School to Christ-Church, of which he -afterwards became a canon. It was in his residence at Oxford most -probably, and not, as the editors of the Biographia Britannica have -conjectured, upon this tour, that Corbet first became acquainted with -Hutton’s daughter. By the dean and canons he was presented to the rectory -of Flore in Northamptonshire, where he accounted for the first-fruits -Aug. 6th, 1601, and to the vicarage of Weedon in the same county in 1602. -Having lived to the age of 75 years, he died the 17th of May, 1632, and -was buried in the divinity chapel of Christ Church, where a monument -remains to his memory. - -[84] A note in the old copies informs us that his name was “Ned Hale.” - -[85] A sergeant. Edit. 1648. - -[86] These are said in the old copies to be “the ministers of Daventry;” -but as no such names occur in the list of incumbents, it is probable they -officiated for Thomas Mariat, the then vicar, who must have been very -old, as he was inducted to the living in 1560. - -[87] Dod and Cleaver, thus honourably introduced to our notice, were -united by the strong ties of puritanism and authorship. - - Ambo animis, ambo insignes præstantibus armis; - _Hic_ pietate prior. - -The latter has fallen into oblivion, but the superior zeal of John -Dod has preserved his memory. He was born at Shottledge in Cheshire, -where his family had territorial possessions, and was educated at Jesus -College, Cambridge. “He was,” says Fuller, “by nature a witty, by -industry a learned, by grace a godly, divine.” He had good preferment -in the church, but was silenced for non-conformity, though afterwards -restored. He died and was buried at Fawesly in Northamptonshire, of which -he was vicar, Aug. 19th, 1645. - -They were again joined in derision by Cartwright, in his “Chambermaid’s -Posset.” - - Next Cleaver and Doddism both mixed and fine, - With five or six scruples of conscience cases.—&c. - - Poems, p. 231. 8vo. 1651. - -[88] In Leicestershire. - -[89] A note in Tanner’s Bibliotheca Brit.-Hibernica thus relates the -indignity offered to the remains of this parent of the Reformation, -after he had been ‘quietly inurned’ during the space of forty-one years: -“Magister Johannes Wicliff Anglicus per D. Thomam Arundel. archiepiscopum -Cantuar. fuit post mortem suam excommunicatus, et postea fuit exhumatus, -et ossa ejus combusta, et cineres in aquam juxta Lutterworth projecti -fuerunt, ex mandato P. Martini V.” - -[90] Parson of Heathcot, Edit. 1672. It has been observed in the -Introduction that there is no village of this name in this situation: -the copy 1648 says Parson Heathcote, which was probably the name of the -parson of Ayleston, who was their conductor. - -[91] Students of Christ-Church College, Oxford, which, as well as -Whitehall, the “palace” before mentioned, was founded by Wolsey. - -[92] The figure in these lines is taken from the fine church of St. -Mary’s, Nottingham, in which the long chancel and nave with the tower -in the midst resemble the object of the bishop’s metaphor. The castle -mentioned in the succeeding lines has “perished ’mid the wreck of things -that were.” - -[93] Guy and Colebrand. - -[94] Where David king of the Scots was kept prisoner. - -[95] Which is within the Castle. - -[96] Every part of Corbet’s account of Nottingham Castle corresponds so -closely with the relation of Leyland, in his Itinerary, vol. iii. p. 105, -&c., that it would be superfluous to transcribe it. See also Speed’s -Chronicle, p. 540; and Holinshed’s Chronicle, p. 349. - -[97] In Nottinghame. - -[98] “He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.” Proverbs -xxviii. ver. 20. - -[99] Dr. Jucks. - -[100] Mr. Edward Mason.—MS. 1625. - -[101] “The 25th of April, 1603, being Thursday, his highnesse (James -the First) tooke his way towards New-warke upon Trent, where that night -he lodged in the Castle, being his owne house, where the aldermen of -New-warke presented his Majestie with a faire gilt cup, manifesting their -duties and loving hearts to him; which was kindly received.” - - “The true Narration of his Majesty’s Journey from Edenbrough, &c.” 1603. - -[102] Leister forrest. - -[103] Bosworth field. Edit. 1648. - -[104] From this passage we learn that Richard Burbage, the _alter -Roscius_ of Camden, was the original representative of Shakespeare’s -Richard the Third. - -He was buried in the parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, as Mr. Chalmers -discovered, on the 16th of March, 1618-19. - -[105] The clerical profligate thus gibbeted for the example of posterity -was John Bust, inducted the 8th of April, 1611. He seems to have been a -worthy prototype of the Natta of antiquity: - - Non pudet ad morem discincti vivere Nattæ? - Sed stupet hic vitio, et fibris increvit opimum - Pingue; caret culpa; nescit quid perdat, et alto - Demersus, summa rursum non bullit in unda. - - Persius, iii. 31. - -[106] Guyes cliff. Edit. 1648. The cliff and chapel are engraved in -Dugdale’s Warwickshire, vol. i. 274. Ed. 1730. - -[107] Of the Theorbo, or Cithara bijuga, so called from its having two -necks, which appears from Kircher as well as the bishop’s poetry to have -been highly esteemed in Corbet’s time, a graphical representation may be -found in Hawkins’s History of Music, vol. iv. p. 111. 4to. 1776. - -[108] Warwick Castle. Edit. 1648. - -[109] Fulke Greville, lord Brooke. - -[110] Arch-deacon Burton. Edit. 1648. - -[111] At the signe of the Alter-stone. Edit. 1648. - -[112] Which serve for troughs in the backside. Ibid. - -[113] Three dames, - - “Well known and like esteemed.” - -“A discourse of the godly life and Christian death of Mistriss Katharine -Stubbs, who departed this life at Burton on Trent, 14th of December,” -(1592.) was written by her brother, the sanctimonious author of “The -Anatomie of Abuses.” - -Anne Askew, burned in 1546 for her rigid adherence to her faith, wrote “a -balade which she sang when she was in Newgate;” printed by Bale. A long -account of her examination and subsequent martyrdom may be seen in Foxe’s -“Actes and Monuments,” vol. ii. p. 1284. edit. 1583. bl. let. - -With the last I am less intimately acquainted; but I take her to be the -same “lady” of whom the favourite son of Mrs. Merrythought sings, in the -last act of “The Knight of the Burning Pestle.” - -[114] It is almost superfluous to observe, that rosemary was supposed by -our forefathers to be very efficacious in strengthening the retentive -faculties; and, by being always borne at funerals, was calculated -to perpetuate the remembrance of the deceased. “Here is a strange -alteration: for, the rosemary that was washt in sweet water to set out -the bridall, is now wet in teares to furnish her burial.”—Decker’s -Wonderfull Yeare 1603. - -[115] The belief that the turning of the cloak, or glove, or any garment, -solved the benighted traveller from the spell of the Fairies, is alluded -to in the Iter Boreale, (see p. 191,) and is still retained in some of -the western counties. - -[116] This poem, of which the leading features seem to be copied from -the 10th epistle of the 1st book of Horace, has been printed in “The -Antient and Modern Miscellany,” by Mr. Waldron, from a manuscript in his -possession, and it is consequently retained in this edition of Corbet’s -Poems; to whose acknowledged productions it bears no resemblance, at the -same time that it is attributed (in Ashmole’s MSS., No. 38, fol. 91.) to -Robert Heyrick, the author of “Hesperides.” - -[117] - - Discite quam parvo liceat producere vitam, - Et quantum natura petat. - - LUCAN, iv. ver. 377. - -[118] - - Impiger extremos currit mercator ad Indos, - Per mare pauperiem fugiens, per saxa, per ignes. - - HOR. Epist. I. - -[119] See Warton’s Hist. of Engl. Poetry, vol. iii. p. 170, 171. - -[120] See the Life of the Bishop. - -[121] This poem, which is in some manuscripts attributed to William -Stroude, has already been printed in the Topographer of my very -intelligent friend, Samuel Egerton Brydges, esq. vol. ii. p. 112. - -[122] Richard Greenham was educated at Pembroke-Hall in Cambridge, and -became minister of Dry-Drayton, three miles distant; where it should -seem, from a rhyming proverb, that his success in the ministry was not -proportionate to his zeal: - - Greenham had pastures green, - But sheep full lean. - -“What,” says Fuller (Church Hist. lib. ix. 220.), “was Dry-Drayton but a -bushel to hide,—London an high candlestick to hold up the brightness of -his parts?” Thither he repaired; and, after an ‘erratical and planetary -life,’ settled himself at Christ-Church, where he ended his days in 1592. - -“His master-piece,” says Fuller, “was in comforting wounded -consciences.”—Quid multis! - -[123] “Tous les tempéramens,” say our neighbours, “ne se ressemblent -pas.” The Divine thus satyrized by Corbet is lauded by Fuller in high -strains of eulogy. He was born at Marston near Coventry, and was educated -at Christ College, Cambridge, where he took the degree of M. A. Having -obtained the living of St. Andrew’s parish in that university, he resided -there till his death.—“He would pronounce the word _damme_ with such -an emphasis,” says Fuller, (Holy State, p. 80. fol. 1652.) “as left a -doleful echo in his auditors’ ears a good while after.” This passage is -of itself a sufficient illustration of the poet. His works were published -in three volumes, folio, 1612. The first in the collection is, “A Golden -Chaine, containing the Order of the Causes of Salvation and Damnation, -&c., in the tables annexed.” - -[124] Juvenal. Sat. vi. - - - - -_Printed for LONGMAN, HURST, REES, and ORME, Paternoster-Row._ - - -I. SPECIMENS OF THE EARLY ENGLISH POETS. To which is prefixed an -Historical Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the ENGLISH POETRY and -LANGUAGE. - -By GEORGE ELLIS, Esq. - -The Third Edition, corrected. In 3 vols. crown 8vo. 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If you -are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the -country where you are located before using this eBook. -</div> - -<table style='min-width:0; padding:0; margin-left:0; border-collapse:collapse'> - <tr><td style='padding:0'>Title:</td><td style='padding:0'>The Poems of Richard Corbet, late bishop of Oxford and of Norwich</td></tr> - <tr><td style='padding:0'></td><td style='padding:0'>4th edition</td></tr> -</table> - -<div style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Author: Richard Corbet and Octavius Gilchrist</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Release Date: May 18, 2021 [eBook #65375]</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Language: English</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Character set encoding: UTF-8</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Produced by: Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)</div> - -<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE POEMS OF RICHARD CORBET, LATE BISHOP OF OXFORD AND OF NORWICH ***</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_i"></a>[i]</span></p> - -<p class="titlepage larger"><span class="smaller">THE</span><br /> -POEMS<br /> -<span class="smaller">OF</span><br /> -RICHARD CORBET,<br /> -<span class="smaller">LATE BISHOP OF OXFORD AND OF NORWICH.</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 150px;"> -<img src="images/line.jpg" width="150" height="20" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="titlepage">THE FOURTH EDITION,<br /> -<span class="smaller">With considerable Additions.</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 150px;"> -<img src="images/line.jpg" width="150" height="20" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="titlepage"><span class="smaller">TO WHICH ARE NOW ADDED,</span><br /> -“ORATIO IN FUNUS HENRICI PRINCIPIS,”<br /> -<span class="smaller">FROM ASHMOLE’S MUSEUM,</span><br /> -<i>Biographical Notes, and a Life of the Author</i>,<br /> -<span class="smaller">BY</span><br /> -OCTAVIUS GILCHRIST, F.S.A.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 150px;"> -<img src="images/line.jpg" width="150" height="20" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="titlepage"><span class="gothic">London:</span><br /> -PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME,<br /> -<span class="smaller">PATERNOSTER-ROW.</span><br /> -1807.</p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_ii"></a>[ii]</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Invidebam devio ac solo loco</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Opes camœnarum tegi:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At nunc frequentes, atque claros, nee procul,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Quum floreas inter viros.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse right"><span class="smcap">Ausonius.</span></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="titlepage smaller"><span class="smcap">R. Taylor</span>, and Co. Shoe Lane.</p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_iii"></a>[iii]</span></p> - -<p class="dedication">TO<br /> -MY FRIEND<br /> -<span class="smcap larger">THOMAS BLORE, Esq.</span><br /> -THIS VOLUME,<br /> -UNDERTAKEN AT HIS SUGGESTION, AND PROMOTED BY HIS ASSISTANCE,<br /> -<span class="pad6">IS INSCRIBED BY</span><br /> -<span class="larger pad10">THE EDITOR.</span></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_iv"></a>[iv]</span></p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_v"></a>[v]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="LIFE"><span class="smaller">THE</span><br /> -LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.</h2> - -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 150px;"> -<img src="images/line.jpg" width="150" height="20" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>The public interest has been of late years -so strongly manifested in favour of the poets -of the seventeenth century, that little apology -appears necessary for the republication of the -following Poems. It would, however, be -equally vain and foolish in the editor to claim -for the author a place among the higher class -of poets, or to exalt his due praise by depreciating -the merits of his contemporaries.—Claiming -only for Cæsar what to Cæsar is due, -it may without arrogance be presumed that -these pages will not be found inferior to the -poems of others which have been fortunately<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_vi"></a>[vi]</span> -republished, or familiarised to the generality -of readers through the popular medium of -selections.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 150px;"> -<img src="images/line.jpg" width="150" height="20" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>The author of the following poems (an -account of whose life may be considered as a -necessary appendage to these pages) is said -to have descended from the antient family of -the Corbets in Shropshire. It were too laborious -and pedantic in a work of this nature to -trace his pedigree, but I should be pleased to -find any proofs of their attachment to him: -yet as the bishop did not usually “conceal -his love,” I suspect he received no mark of -their regard, at least till his elevation conferred -rather than received obligation by acknowledgment.</p> - -<p>Richard Corbet, successively bishop of Oxford -and Norwich, was born at the village of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_vii"></a>[vii]</span> -Ewell in Surrey, in the year 1582: he was -the only son of Bennet, or Benedicta, and -Vincent Corbet, who, from causes which I -have not discovered, assumed the name of -Poynter. His father, a man of some eminence -for his skill in gardening, and who is -celebrated by Ben Jonson in an elegy<a id="FNanchor_1" href="#Footnote_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a> alike<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_viii"></a>[viii]</span> -honourable to the subject, the poet, and the -friend, for his many amiable virtues, resided<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_ix"></a>[ix]</span> -at Whitton, a hamlet in the parish of Twickenham, -where the poet passed his declining -days. Under the will of his father<a id="FNanchor_2" href="#Footnote_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a> he inherited -sundry freehold lands and tenements -lying in St. Augustine’s parish, Watling-street, -London, and five hundred pounds in -money, which was directed to be paid him by -Bennet, the father’s wife and sole executrix, -upon his attaining the age of twenty-five -years. After receiving the rudiments of education -at Westminster School, he entered in -Lent term 1597-8 at Broadgate Hall, and the -year following was admitted a student of -Christ-Church College, Oxford. In 1605 he -proceeded Master of Arts, and became celebrated -as a wit and a poet.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_x"></a>[x]</span></p> - -<p>The following early specimen of his humour -is preserved in a collection of “Mery Passages -and Jeastes,” Harl. MS. No. 6395: “Ben -Jonson was at a tavern, and in comes bishop -Corbet (but not so then) into the next room. -Ben Jonson calls for a quart of <i>raw</i> wine, -and gives it to the tapster. ‘Sirrah!’ says -he, ‘carry this to the gentleman in the next -chamber, and tell him I sacrifice my service -to him.’ The fellow did, and in those terms. -‘Friend!’ says bishop Corbet, ‘I thank him -for his love; but pr’ythee tell him from me -that he is mistaken, for sacrifices are always -burnt.’”</p> - -<p>In 1612, upon the death of the amiable -and accomplished Henry Prince of Wales,</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“The expectancy and rose of the fair state,”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="noindent">and the theme of many a verse; the University, -overwhelmed with grief, more especially<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xi"></a>[xi]</span> -as he had been a student of Magdalen -College under the tutorage of Mr. John -Wilkinson, (“afterwards the unworthy president -of that house,”) and desirous of testifying -their respect for his memory, deputed -Corbet, then one of the proctors, to pronounce -a funeral oration; “who,” to use the words of -Antony Wood, “very oratorically speeched -it in St. Maries church, before a numerous -auditory<a id="FNanchor_3" href="#Footnote_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a>.” On the 13th of March in the -following year he performed a similar ceremony -in the Divinity School on the interment -of sir Thomas Bodley, the munificent founder -of the library known by his name.</p> - -<p>Amid the religious dissensions at this period, -encouraged and increased by James’s -suspected inclination to popery, it was scarcely<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xii"></a>[xii]</span> -possible to avoid giving offence to the supporters -of the various doctrinal opinions which -in this confusion of faiths divided the people. -At the head of the Church was Dr. George -Abbott, a bigoted and captious Puritan: opposed -to this disciple of Calvin was Laud, -then growing into fame, who boldly supported -the opinions of Arminius. With the latter -Corbet coincided: but the undisguised publication -of his faith had nearly proved fatal to -his future prospects; for, “preaching the Passion -sermon at Christ-Church, (1613,) he insisted -on the article of Christ’s descending into -hell, and therein grated upon Calvin’s manifest -perverting of the true sense and meaning of -it: for which, says Heylyn, he was so rattled -up by the Repetitioner, (Dr. Robert Abbott, -brother of the archbishop,) that if he had not -been a man of a very great courage, it might<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xiii"></a>[xiii]</span> -have made him afraid of staying in the University. -This, it was generally conceived, -was not done without the archbishop’s setting -on; but the best was, adds Heylyn, that none -sunk under the burthen of these oppressions, -if (like the camomile) they did not rise the -higher by it<a id="FNanchor_4" href="#Footnote_4" class="fnanchor">[4]</a>.”</p> - -<p>When James, in 1605<a id="FNanchor_5" href="#Footnote_5" class="fnanchor">[5]</a>, visited Oxford in -his summer progress, the wits of the sister -University vented their raillery at the entertainment -given to the royal visitor<a id="FNanchor_6" href="#Footnote_6" class="fnanchor">[6]</a>. Cambridge, -which had long solicited the same<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xiv"></a>[xiv]</span> -honour, was in the year 1614-5 indulged -with his presence. Many students from Oxford -witnessed the ceremonial of his reception; -and the local histories of the two Universities -at that period, are replete with pasquinades -and ballads sufficiently descriptive -of their mutual animosities. An eye-witness -declares, “Though I endured a great deal of -penance by the way for this little pleasure, -yet I would not have missed it, for that I see -thereby the partiality of both sides—the Cambridge -men pleasing and applauding themselves -in all, and the Oxford men as fast condemning -and detracting all that was done; -wherein yet I commended Corbet’s modesty, -whilst he was there; who being seriously -dealt withal by some friends to say what he -thought, answered, that he had left his malice -and judgment at home, and came there only<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xv"></a>[xv]</span> -to commend<a id="FNanchor_7" href="#Footnote_7" class="fnanchor">[7]</a>.” Notwithstanding this conciliatory -declaration, the opportunity of retorting -upon the first assailants was too tempting -to Corbet’s wit to be slighted; and immediately -upon his return he composed the ballad, -<a href="#Page_13">page 13</a>, “To the tune of Bonny Nell.”—This -humorous narrative excited several replies; -the most curious of which was the one, -in Latin and English, (at <a href="#Page_24">page 24</a>,) written, -perhaps, by sir Thomas Lake, afterwards -secretary of state, who performed the part of -Trico in the Cambridge play of Ignoramus, -and who had a ring bequeathed him by the -author, Ruggles<a id="FNanchor_8" href="#Footnote_8" class="fnanchor">[8]</a>.</p> - -<p>Corbet appears, says Headley<a id="FNanchor_9" href="#Footnote_9" class="fnanchor">[9]</a>, to have<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xvi"></a>[xvi]</span> -been of that poetical party who, by inviting -Ben Jonson to come to Oxford, rescued him -from the arms of a sister University, who has -long treated the Muses with indignity, and -turned a hostile and disheartening eye on -those who have added most celebrity to her -name<a id="FNanchor_10" href="#Footnote_10" class="fnanchor">[10]</a>.</p> - -<p>We do not find that Ben expressed any<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xvii"></a>[xvii]</span> -regret at the change of his situation: companions -whose minds and pursuits were similar -to his own, are not always to be found in the -gross atmosphere of the muddy Cam, though -easily met with on the more genial banks of -the Isis:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Largior hic campos æther.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>In 1616 he was recommended by the Convocation -as a proper person to be elected to -the college which Dr. Matthew Surtclyve, -dean of Exeter, had lately erected at Chelsea, -for maintaining polemical Divines to be employed -in opposing the doctrines of Papists -and Sectaries. Whether he obtained his election -I have not learned: nor is it of much moment; -for the establishment, as might be naturally -foreseen from the circumstances of the -times, soon declined from its original purpose<a id="FNanchor_11" href="#Footnote_11" class="fnanchor">[11]</a>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xviii"></a>[xviii]</span></p> - -<p>Being now in a situation to indulge his inclinations, -he in 1618 made a trip to France, -from whence he wrote an “epistle to sir -Thomas Aylesbury,” in which he gently -laughs at his friend’s astronomical fondness; -and composed a metrical description of his -journey, from which we may conclude that -he returned less disgusted with his native -country, and less enamoured of the manners -and habits of his new acquaintance, than is -usual with the modern visitors of our transmarine -neighbours.</p> - -<p>He was now in holy orders; and, in -the language of Antony Wood, “became -a quaint preacher, and therefore much followed -by ingenious men.” None of Corbet’s -sermons are, I believe, in existence: the modesty -that withheld his poems from the press, -during his life, prevented his adding to the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xix"></a>[xix]</span> -multitude of devotional discourses with which -the country was at this period infested<a id="FNanchor_12" href="#Footnote_12" class="fnanchor">[12]</a>. -Those who are at all acquainted with the -ecclesiastical oratory of James’s reign, will be -at no loss to comprehend “honest Antony’s” -description; but to those who are not, it may -be sufficient to observe, that, of its peculiar excellencies -and demerits, the sermons of bishop -King, his contemporary, (which have been republished) -are a complete “picture in little.”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xx"></a>[xx]</span></p> - -<p>About this time he appears, from the following -characteristic letter<a id="FNanchor_13" href="#Footnote_13" class="fnanchor">[13]</a>, to have solicited -promotion at the hands of Villiers duke of -Buckingham:</p> - -<div class="blockquote"> - -<p class="indent">“May it please your Grace</p> - -<p>“To consider my two great losses this -weeke: one in respect of his Majesty to whom -I was to preach; the other in respect of my -patron whom I was to visit. Yf this bee -not the way to repare the later of my losses, -I feare I am in danger to bee utterly undon. -To press too neere a greate man is a meanness; -to be put by, and to stand too far off, -is the way to be forgotten: so Ecclesiasticus. -In which mediocrity, could I hitt it, would -I live and dy, my lord. I would neather -press neere, nor stand far off; choosing rather<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxi"></a>[xxi]</span> -the name of an ill courtier than a sawsy -scholer.</p> - -<p>“I am your Grace’s most humble servant,</p> - -<p class="right">“<span class="smcap">Richard Corbet</span>.”</p> - -<p class="smaller hanging">Christ’s Church,<br /> -this 26 Feb.</p> - -</div> - -<p>“Heer are newes, my noble lord, about us, -that, in the point of alledgeance now in hand, -all the Papists are exceeding orthodox; the -only recusants are the Puritans.”</p> - -<p>Of the nature of the object thus supplicated, -my inquiries have not informed me: he was -now dean of Christ-Church, vicar of Cassington -near Woodstock in Oxfordshire, and -prebendary of Bedminster secunda in the -church of Sarum: it was, perhaps, the appointment -of chaplain to the King, which he -received about this time; and if to this period -may be assigned the gratulatory poem -at <a href="#Page_83">page 83</a>, it should seem that Buckingham -was not solicited in vain.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxii"></a>[xxii]</span></p> - -<p>In 1619 he sustained a great loss in the -decease of his amiable father, at a very advanced -age; whose praise he has celebrated -in the most honourable terms, and whose -death he has lamented in the language of -rational and tender regret.</p> - -<p>When James paid a second visit to Oxford -in 1621, Corbet, in his office of chaplain, -preached before the monarch<a id="FNanchor_14" href="#Footnote_14" class="fnanchor">[14]</a>, who had presented -him (as it seems) with a token of his -favour, such as flattered in no small degree -the vanity of the dean. The progress of the -court and its followers is thus ludicrously -described in an anonymous poem transcribed -from Antony Wood’s papers<a id="FNanchor_15" href="#Footnote_15" class="fnanchor">[15]</a> in Ashmole’s -Museum:</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxiii"></a>[xxiii]</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">The king and the court,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Desirous of sport,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Six days at Woodstock did lie;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Thither went the doctors,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And sattin-sleev’d proctors,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With the rest of the learned fry;</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Whose faces did shine</div> - <div class="verse indent2">With beere and with wine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So fat, that it may be thought</div> - <div class="verse indent2">University cheere,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">With college strong beere,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Made them far better fed than taught.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">A number beside,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">With their wenches did ride,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">(For scholars are always kind)</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And still evermore,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">While they rode before,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They were kissing their wenches behind.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">A number on foot,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Without cloak or boot,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And yet with the court go they would;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Desirous to show</div> - <div class="verse indent2">How far they could go</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To do his high mightiness good.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxiv"></a>[xxiv]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">The reverend Dean,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">With his band starch’d clean,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Did preach before the King;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">A ring was his pride</div> - <div class="verse indent2">To his bandstrings tied,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Was not this a pretty thing?</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">The ring, without doubt,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Was the thing put him out,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And made him forget what was next;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">For every one there</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Will say, I dare swear,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He handled it more than his text.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>With poetical badinage of this complexion -the wits of the University of Oxford, with -Corbet at their head, “who loved this boy’s -play to the last,” abounded. While many -of the pasquinades are lost, many, however, -are still preserved among Ashmole’s papers: -on most occasions Corbet was at least a match -for his opponents, but this misfortune of the -ring became a standing jest against him: it<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxv"></a>[xxv]</span> -is alluded to at <a href="#Page_233">page 233</a>; and it is demanded -in another poem<a id="FNanchor_16" href="#Footnote_16" class="fnanchor">[16]</a>, if</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He would provoke court wits to sing</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>second</i> part of bandstrings and the ring.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>Upon the evening of the same Sunday, the -students of Christ-Church, willing to show -their respect for the royal visitor, obtained -leave to present a play before the King; and -they chose, with no great display of taste, -Barten Holyday’s ΤΕΧΝΟΓΑΜΙΑ, or “The -Marriage of the Arts,” which had been acted -in Christ-Church hall the 13th of February, -1617. The play was so little relished, that -the king was with difficulty persuaded to sit -till its conclusion: the “enactors” became -subjects of ridicule to the University; and, -though Corbet and King rhymed in their -favour, the laugh went against them.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxvi"></a>[xxvi]</span></p> - -<p>Indeed the Oxonians were not more unfortunate -in their theatrical representations on -this than on former occasions. Upon the -visit of James, in 1605, two out of three dramatic -exhibitions, prepared at great expense -and performed by the students, were, according -to the testimony of an eye-witness, received -with tædium, and rewarded with unconcealed -disgust<a id="FNanchor_17" href="#Footnote_17" class="fnanchor">[17]</a>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxvii"></a>[xxvii]</span></p> - -<p>The writers of the poet’s life are silent as -to the period of his marriage; and if I am -unable to communicate any information on -this point, it will not, I trust, be attributed -to any parsimony of research, or indifference -as to fact when conjecture can be substituted. -Those who have made literary biography -their study, know that it is frequently much -easier to write many pages than to ascertain -a date, and hence but too frequently ingenuity -supplies the place of labour and inquiry: in -the present instance, every record that suggested -a probability of containing any memorial -relative to the family of the subject of -this biography has been inspected personally;<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxviii"></a>[xxviii]</span> -but before the passing of the Marriage Act, -nothing is more uncertain than the probable -place of the celebration of that ceremony<a id="FNanchor_18" href="#Footnote_18" class="fnanchor">[18]</a>.</p> - -<p>In this dearth of fact as to dates, I shall -presume to suppose he married about 1625 -Alice the only daughter of his fellow-collegian -Dr. Leonard Hutton, a man of some eminence -in his day as a divine and an antiquary, and -whose character is thus drawn by Antony -Wood with a felicity that rarely accompanies -his pencil: “His younger years were beautified -with all kind of polite learning, his -middle with ingenuity and judgment, and -his reverend years with great wisdom in government, -having been often subdean of his -college.”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxix"></a>[xxix]</span></p> - -<p>This union of wit and beauty was not -looked upon with indifference, nor was their -epithalamium unsung, or the string touched -by the hand of an unskilful master:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Come, all ye Muses, and rejoyce</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At this your nursling’s happy choyce;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Come, Flora, strew the bridemaid’s bed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And with a garland crown her head;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or, if thy flowers be to seek,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Come gather roses at her cheek.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Come, Hymen, light thy torches, let</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thy bed with tapers be beset,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And if there be no fire by,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Come light thy taper at her eye:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In that bright eye there dwells a starre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And wise-men by it guided are<a id="FNanchor_19" href="#Footnote_19" class="fnanchor">[19]</a>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>The offspring of this marriage were a -daughter named Alice, and a son born the -10th of November, 1627, towards whom the -beautiful poem at <a href="#Page_150">page 150</a> is an undecaying -monument of paternal affection.</p> - -<p>Of these descendants of the bishop I lament<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxx"></a>[xxx]</span> -that I have discovered so little: if this volume -should be fortunate enough to excite attention -to its author, the loss may at some future period -be supplied: they were both living when -their grandmother, Anne Hutton, made her -will in 1642, and the son administered to the -testament in 1648.</p> - -<p>In 1628 Corbet suffered a severe privation -in the loss of his patron Villiers duke of Buckingham, -assassinated by Felton on the 23d -of August, who, whatever were his political -crimes, was, like his amiable and indulgent -master, a liberal promoter of literature and -science, and to his death an encourager of -Corbet’s studies. If, however, this event -checked his hopes of promotion for a season, -it did not leave him without a patron; for, -upon the translation of Hewson to the see of -Durham, (to make way for Dr. Duppa to be<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxxi"></a>[xxxi]</span> -dean of that church,) he was elected bishop -of Oxford the 30th of July, was consecrated -at Lambeth the 19th of October, and installed -the 3d of November, 1629; “though,” in -the opinion of Wood, “in some respects unworthy -of such an office<a id="FNanchor_20" href="#Footnote_20" class="fnanchor">[20]</a>.”</p> - -<p>Warned by the many petulant remarks on -the poetical character scattered throughout -the account of Oxford writers, one is little -surprised at this churlish remark on the part -of honest Antony, who seems to have considered -all poetry as</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">... inopes rerum, nugæque canoræ,</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="noindent">and its indulgence inconsistent with the clerical -profession. Corbet was certainly no -“precisian,” and perhaps his only fault was -possessing a species of talent to which Antony -had no pretension.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxxii"></a>[xxxii]</span></p> - -<p>The bishopric of Oxford he held but a -short time, being translated to a more active -see, that of Norwich, in the month of April -1632; when a dispute arose as to his right -of claim to the glebe sown previous to his -vacating the vicarage: the opinion of the -attorney-general, (Noy,) which is preserved -in the Harleian collection of manuscripts<a id="FNanchor_21" href="#Footnote_21" class="fnanchor">[21]</a>, -was in his favour, <i>in as much as the translation -was not his own act merely</i>.</p> - -<p>On the 9th of March, 1633, he preached -before the king at Newmarket<a id="FNanchor_22" href="#Footnote_22" class="fnanchor">[22]</a>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxxiii"></a>[xxxiii]</span></p> - -<p>Scarcely was he seated in the episcopal -chair of Norwich when Abbott died, and -Laud, who had long exercised the authority -of metropolitan, was two days afterwards -(August 6th, 1633) preferred to the see of -Canterbury. Having now “no rival near -his throne,” in the warmth of his zeal he immediately -applied himself to reform abuses -and exact a conformity to the established -church, the discipline of which had exceedingly -relaxed during the ascendancy of his -calvinistic predecessor. For this purpose -Laud issued certain orders and instructions -to the several bishops, insisting upon a strict -examination into the state of religion and its -ceremonies in their several dioceses; the result -of which was transmitted to that prelate, and -by him laid before the King. These representations, -many of which are curious, are<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxxiv"></a>[xxxiv]</span> -printed in the nineteenth volume of Rymer’s -Fœdera. On his part, Corbet certified that -he had suppressed the lectures of some factious -men, and particularly that he had suspended -one Bridges, curate of St. George’s -parish, Norwich; but, upon submission, he -had taken off his suspension. Among others, -he had heard complaint of Mr. Ward<a id="FNanchor_23" href="#Footnote_23" class="fnanchor">[23]</a>, of -Ipswich, for words in some sermons of his, -for which he was called before the High Commission.</p> - -<p>From the following conciliating epistle I -conclude that Ward submitted, and was restored -to his cure:</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxxv"></a>[xxxv]</span></p> - -<div class="blockquote"> - -<p class="center">“Salutem in Christo.</p> - -<p class="indent">“My worthie friend,</p> - -<p>“I thank God for your conformitie, and -you for your acknowledgment: stand upright -to the church wherein you live; be true -of heart to her governours; think well of her -significant ceremonyes; and be you assured -I shall never displace you of that room which -I have given you in my affection; proove -you a good tenant in my hart, and noe minister -in my diocese hath a better landlord. -Farewell! God Almightie blesse you with -your whole congregation.</p> - -<p>“From your faithful friend to serve -you in Christ Jesus,</p> - -<p class="right">“<span class="smcap">Rich. Norwich</span><a id="FNanchor_24" href="#Footnote_24" class="fnanchor">[24]</a>.”</p> - -<p class="smaller hanging">Ludham Hall,<br /> -the 6 of Oct. 1633.</p> - -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxxvi"></a>[xxxvi]</span></p> - -<p>The zeal of Laud did not rest here: he set -sedulously about suppressing the Dutch and -Walloon congregations, of which there were -several in London, Norwich, and other places.</p> - -<p>It will be perhaps necessary to observe, -that the Dutch, the Walloons, and the French, -who had continued to refuge in England from -the reign of Edward the Sixth, had obtained -many privileges from former kings, and among -others, the liberty of celebrating divine service -after their own, that is, the presbyterian, -manner. Their congregations were scattered -over the kingdom; and at this period there -was at Norwich one of the Dutch, and one -of the Walloons, the latter of which carried -on an extensive manufacture of woollen cloths, -for the vending of which, they in 1564 obtained -a lease of the chapel of St. Mary the -Less, which they fitted up as a hall or<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxxvii"></a>[xxxvii]</span> -market-place for that purpose. Where they performed -divine service before the year 1619 -I know not, but in that year Samuel Harsnet -licensed the Walloon congregation to use -during his pleasure the Bishop’s chapel, or -chapel of the Virgin Mary<a id="FNanchor_25" href="#Footnote_25" class="fnanchor">[25]</a>. This indulgence -was continued during the government -of his successor, Francis White. But the -intolerance of Laud would be content with -nothing short of conformity; Corbet consequently -prepared to dislodge them by the -following characteristic letter:</p> - -<div class="blockquote"> - -<p class="center">“To the minister and elders of the French -church, in Norwich, these:</p> - -<p class="center">“Salutem in Christo.</p> - -<p>“You have promised me from time to time -to restore my stolen bell, and to glaze my lettice<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxxviii"></a>[xxxviii]</span> -windows. After three yeeres consultation -(bysides other pollution) I see nothing mended. -Your discipline, I know, care not much for -a consecrated place, and anye other roome in -Norwiche that hath but bredth and length -may serve your turne as well as the chappel: -wherefore I say unto you, without a miracle, -<i>Lazare, prodi foras!</i> Depart, and hire some -other place for your irregular meetings: you -shall have time to provide for yourselves betwixte -this and Whitsontide. And that you -may not think I mean to deale with you as -Felix dyd with St. Paul, that is, make you -afraid, to get money, I shall keepe my word -with you, which you did not with me, and -as neer as I can be like you in nothinge.</p> - -<p>“Written by me, Richard Norwich, with -myne own hand, Dec. 26, anno 1634.”</p> - -</div> - -<p>The congregation remonstrated to Laud, in<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxxix"></a>[xxxix]</span> -the February following, against the commands -of their poetical pastor; but the archbishop -insisted that his instructions should stand, and -obedience be yielded to his injunctions<a id="FNanchor_26" href="#Footnote_26" class="fnanchor">[26]</a>.</p> - -<p>While, under the direction of the Archbishop, -he was thus severe with the heterodox, -he was equally zealous in supporting the establishment -of which he was a dignitary: -exertions were now making by the King, the -Clergy, and indeed all orders of people, for -the restoring Saint Paul’s cathedral, which had -remained in ruins since its second destruction -by fire, early in Elizabeth’s reign. In 1631<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xl"></a>[xl]</span> -a special commission was issued by the King, -for the purpose of collecting money, to be -applied to this purpose. The subscription -went on tardily till Laud contributed a hundred -pounds, to be renewed annually, and -“Corbet bishop of Norwich (then almoner -to the king) giving four hundred pounds, -multitudes of others, says Stowe, for eleven -years together brought in their monies very -plentifully<a id="FNanchor_27" href="#Footnote_27" class="fnanchor">[27]</a>.” Nor did his liberality stop -here: Wood says<a id="FNanchor_28" href="#Footnote_28" class="fnanchor">[28]</a> that in addition to this -contribution, which at the time we speak of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xli"></a>[xli]</span> -was an enormous bounty, he gave money to -many needy ministers, thereby to excite the -donations of their wealthier brethren; and -he pronounced the following admonitory, persuasive -and satirical address<a id="FNanchor_29" href="#Footnote_29" class="fnanchor">[29]</a> to the clergy -of his diocese:</p> - -<p>“Saint Paul’s church! One word in the -behalf of Saint Paul; he hath spoken many -in ours: he hath raised our inward temples. -Let us help to requite him in his outward. -We admire commonly those things which are -oldest and greatest: old monuments, and -high buildings, do affect us above measure: -and what is the reason? Because what is -oldest cometh nearest God for antiquity: and -what is greatest, comes nearest his works for -spaciousness and magnitude: so that in honouring<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xlii"></a>[xlii]</span> -these we honour God, whom old and -great do seem to imitate. Should I commend -Paul’s to you for the age, it were worth your -thought and admiration. A thousand years, -though it should fall now, were a pretty -climacterical. See the bigness, and your eye -never yet beheld such a goodly object. It’s -worth the reparation, though it were but for -a land mark; but, beloved, it is a church, -and consecrated to God. From Charles to -Ethelbert she hath been the joy of princes. -It was once dedicated to Diana (at least some -part of it); but the idolatry lasted not long. -And see a mystery in the change: Saint Paul -confuting twice the idol, there in person, -where the cry was, ‘Great is Diana of the -Ephesians!’ and here: by proxy. Paul installed, -where Diana is thrust out. It did -magnify the creation, it was taken out of the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xliii"></a>[xliii]</span> -darkness: light is not the clearer for it, but -stronger and more wonderful: and it doth -beautify this church, because it was taken -from pollution. The stones are not the more -durable, but the happier for it. It is worthy -the standing for the age, the time since it -was built, and for the structure, so stately an -edifice is it: it is worthy to stand for a memorial -of it from which it is redeemed, but -chiefly for his house that dwells therein. We -are bound to do it, for the service sake that is -done in it. Are we not beholden to it, every -man, either to the body, or the choir: for a -walk or a warbling note: for a prayer or a thorough-path? -Some way or other, there is a -topick may make room for your benevolence.</p> - -<p>“It hath twice suffered Martyrdom: and -both by fire, in the time of Henry the Sixth -and the third of Elizabeth.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xliv"></a>[xliv]</span></p> - -<p>“Saint Paul complained of Stoning twice; -his church of firing: stoning she wants, indeed, -and a good stoning would repair her.</p> - -<p>“Saint Faith holds her up, I confess. Oh -that works were sainted to keep her upright! -The first way of building churches was by -ways of benevolence; but then there needed -no petition: men came on so fast that they -were commanded to be kept back, but repairing -now, needs petition. Benevolence was a -fire once had need to be quenched: it is a -spark, now and needs blowing on it: blow it -hard, <i>and put it out</i>. Some petitions there -are, for pulling down of such an isle, or -changing lead for thack: so far from reparation, -that our suit is to demolish. If to -deny this be persecution, if to repair churches -be innovation, I’ll be of that religion too.</p> - -<p>“I remember a tale in Henry Steevens, in<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xlv"></a>[xlv]</span> -his Apology for Herodotus, or in some of the -Colloquies of Erasmus, which would have us -believe that times were so depraved in popery, -that all œconomical discipline was lost by -observing the œcumenical; that if an ingenious -person would ask his father’s blessing, he -must get a dispensation and have a licence -from the bishop.</p> - -<p>“Believe me when I match this tale with -another. Since Christmas I was sued to (and -I have it under the hands of the minister and -the whole parish) that I would give way to -the adorning of the church within and without, -to build a stone wall about the church-yard -which till now had but a hedge. I took -it for a flout at first, but it proved a suit -indeed; they durst not mend a fault of forty -years, without a licence. Churchwardens, -though they say it not, yet I doubt me most<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xlvi"></a>[xlvi]</span> -of them think it, that foul spirits in the -Gospel said, ‘O thou Bishop or Chancellor, -what! art thou come to torment us before the -time, that all is come down to the ground?’ -The truth went out once in this phrase: -‘Zelus domûs tuæ exedit ossa mea,’ but now -vice versa, it is, ‘Zelus meus exedit domum -tuam.’ I hope I gall none here.</p> - -<p>“Should Christ say that to us now which he -said once to the Jews, ‘Destroy this temple, -and in three days I will build it up again:’ -we would quickly know his meaning not to be -the material temple. Three years can scarce -promoove three foot.</p> - -<p>“I am verily persuaded, were it not for the -pulpit and the pews, (I do not now mean the -altar and the font for the two sacraments, but -for the pulpit and the stools as you call them;) -many churches had been down that stand.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xlvii"></a>[xlvii]</span> -Stately pews are now become tabernacles, -with rings and curtains to them. There wants -nothing but beds to hear the word of God -on; we have casements, locks and keys, and -cushions; I had almost said, bolsters and -pillows: and for those we love the church. -I will not guess what is done within them, -who sits, stands, or lies asleep, at prayers, -communion, &c., but this I dare say, they -are either to hide some vice or to proclaim -one; to hide disorder, or proclaim pride.</p> - -<p>“In all other contributions justice precedes -charity. For the King, or for poor, as you -are rated you must give and pay. It is not so -in benevolence. Here Charity rates herself; -her gift is arbitrary, and her law is the conscience. -He that stays till I persuade him, -gives not all his own money: I give half that -have procured it. He that comes persuaded -gives his own; but takes off more than he<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xlviii"></a>[xlviii]</span> -brought, God paying use for nothing. But -now comes your turn to speak, or God in -you by your hands: for so he useth to speak -many times by the hands of Moses and Aaron, -and by the hands of Esay and Ezekiel, and -by the hands of you his minor prophets. -Now prosper, O Lord! the works of these -hands! O prosper Thou our handy work! -Amen.”</p> - -<p>He was not fated, however, to witness the -elevation of the temple in favour of which he -was thus active and benevolent; indeed he -was then consuming with lingering disorders. -“Corbet, bishop of Norwich,” says the garrulous -correspondent of lord Strafford, “is -dying; the best poet of all the bishops in -England. He hath incurable diseases upon -him, and hath been said to be dead<a id="FNanchor_30" href="#Footnote_30" class="fnanchor">[30]</a>.” This -was written on the 30th of July, 1635, and<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xlix"></a>[xlix]</span> -he had rested from his labours two days preceding. -He was buried in the cathedral -church of his diocese, where a large stone -was laid over his remains, to which a brass -plate was affixed, bearing his arms and the -following inscription:</p> - -<div class="blockquote"> - -<p class="noindent">Ricardus Corbet, Theologiæ Doctor,<br /> -Ecclesiæ Cathedralis Christi Oxoniensis<br /> -Primum Alumnus, deinde Decanus, exinde<br /> -Episcopus, illinc huc translatus, et<br /> -Hinc in cœlum Jul. 28. An. 1635.</p> - -</div> - -<p>By his will “he commits and commends -the nurture and maintenance of his son and -daughter to the faythful and loving care of -his mother-in-law Anne Hutton;” from which, -and the total silence as to his wife, I conclude -he outlived her—and with a legacy of -one thousand pounds to his daughter Alice, -to be paid at her attaining the age of seventeen,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_l"></a>[l]</span> -or upon her marriage, he enjoins her -not to marry without the consent of her grandmother. -By the further provisions of his -testament, his son was to be joined with Anne -Hutton in the administration upon his attaining -the age of seventeen; and in case of the -decease of both, the whole was to devolve -upon his daughter Alice.</p> - -<p>Such was the end of this learned and ingenious -prelate and poet, of whose works I have -undertaken the revision, and in collecting the -scattered memorials for whose biography,</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">et etiam disjecta membra poetæ,</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="noindent">I have, I hope not unprofitably to myself or -others, employed some leisure hours.</p> - -<p>His person, if we may rely upon a fine portrait -of him in the hall of Christ-Church, Oxford, -was dignified, and his frame above the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_li"></a>[li]</span> -common size: one of his companions<a id="FNanchor_31" href="#Footnote_31" class="fnanchor">[31]</a> says -he had</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A face that might heaven to affection draw:</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="noindent">and Aubrey says, he had heard that “he had -an admirable grave and venerable aspect.”</p> - -<p>In no record of his life is there the slightest -trace of malevolence or tyranny: “he was,” -says Fullers<a id="FNanchor_32" href="#Footnote_32" class="fnanchor">[32]</a>, “of a courteous carriage, and no -destructive nature to any who offended him, -counting himself plentifully repaired with a -jest upon him.” Benevolent, generous and -spirited in his public character; sincere, amiable, -and affectionate in private life; correct, -eloquent, and ingenious as a poet; he appears -to have deserved and enjoyed through life the -patronage and friendship of the great, and -the applause and estimation of the good.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_lii"></a>[lii]</span></p> - -<p>Apology is not necessary for his writings, -or it might be urged that they were not intended -for publication by their author. “His -merits are disclosed,” and, at the distance of -near a century and a half, are now again -submitted to the censure of the public.</p> - -<p>His panegyric is liberal without grossness, -and complimentary without servility: his satires -on the Puritans, a pestilent race which -Corbet fortunately did not live to see ascendant, -and which soon after his decease sunk -literature and the arts in “the Serbonian -bog” of ignorance and fanaticism, evince his -skill in severe and ludicrous reproof; and the -addresses to his son and his parents, while -they are proofs of his filial and parental regard, -bear testimony to his command over -the finer feelings. But the predominant faculty -of his mind was wit, which he employed<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_liii"></a>[liii]</span> -with most success when directed ironically: -of this the address “to the Ghost of Wisdome,” -and “the Distracted Puritane,” are -memorable examples. Indeed he was unable -to overcome his talent for humour, even when -circumstance and character concurred to repress -its indulgence. Of this propensity the -following anecdotes, copied <i>verbatim</i> from -Aubrey’s MSS. in Mus. Ashmole<a id="FNanchor_33" href="#Footnote_33" class="fnanchor">[33]</a>, are curious -proofs, and may not improperly close -this account of a character which they tend -forcibly to illustrate.</p> - -<p>“After he was doctor of divinity, he sang -ballads at the Crosse at Abingdon; on a market-day -he and some of his comrades were at -the taverne by the Crosse, (which, by the -way, was then the finest of England; I remember -it when I was a freshman; it was<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_liv"></a>[liv]</span> -admirable curious Gothicque architecture, -and fine figures in the nitches; ’twas one -of those built by king ... for his queen.) -The ballad-singer complayned he had no -custome—he could not put off his ballads. -The jolly Doctor puts off his gowne, and puts -on the ballad-singer’s leathern jacket, and -being a handsome man, and a rare full voice, -he presently vended a great many, and had -a great audience.</p> - -<p>“After the death of Dr. Goodwin, he was -made deane of Christ-Church. He had a -good interest with great men, as you may -finde in his poems; and that with the then -great favourite the duke of Bucks, his excellent -wit ever ’twas of recommendation to him. -I have forgot the story; but at the same time -Dr. Fell thought to have carried it, Dr. -Corbet put a pretty trick on him to let him<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_lv"></a>[lv]</span> -take a journey to London for it, when he had -alreadie the graunt of it.</p> - -<p>“His conversation was extreme pleasant. -Dr. Stubbins was one of his cronies; he was -a jolly fat doctor, and a very good housekeeper. -As Dr. Corbet and he were riding -in Lob-lane in wet weather, (’tis an extraordinary -deepe dirty lane,) the coach fell, -and Corbet said, that Dr. S. was up to the -elbows in mud, and he was up to the -elbows in Stubbins.</p> - -<p>“A. D. 1628, he was made bishop of Oxford; -and I have heard that he had an admirable -grave and venerable aspect.</p> - -<p>“One time as he was confirming, the country -people pressing in to see the ceremonie, -said he, ‘Beare off there! or I’ll confirm ye -with my staffe.’—Another time, being to lay -his hand on the head of a man very bald, he<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_lvi"></a>[lvi]</span> -turns to his chaplaine, and said, ‘Some dust, -Lushington,’ to keepe his hand from slipping.—There -was a man with a great venerable -beard; said the bishop, ‘You, behind -the beard!’</p> - -<p>“His chaplaine, Dr. Lushington, was a very -learned and ingenious man, and they loved -one another. The Bishop would sometimes -take the key of the wine-cellar, and he and -his chaplaine would go and lock themselves -in and be merry; then first he layes down -his episcopal hood, ‘There layes the doctor;’ -then he putts off his gowne, ‘There -layes the bishop;’ then ’twas, ‘Here’s to -thee, Corbet;’—‘Here’s to thee, Lushington.’”</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 150px;"> -<img src="images/line.jpg" width="150" height="20" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>One word on the subject of the former editions; -which bear dates 1647, 1648, and<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_lvii"></a>[lvii]</span> -1672. The first and last impressions correspond -in their contents, and the publisher -of the latter has also copied, for the most -part, the errors of his predecessor, which are -so numerous as to render the poems not unfrequently -unintelligible. I must observe, -however, from the information of Mr. Park, -that many copies of the first edition conclude -at page 53. The additions extend the volume -to 85 pages. The only impression with -any pretension to accuracy is that of 1648, -which, from its internal evidence, I suspect -was published under the eye of the Bishop’s -family; I have therefore retained the Preface. -It contains only twenty-four poems.</p> - -<p>An edition bearing the date of 1663 is cited -in Willis’s Cathedrals; but, it is believed, -through mistake.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_lviii"></a>[lviii]</span></p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_lix"></a>[lix]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak">CONTENTS.</h2> - -</div> - -<p class="center">[<i>Additions to the former Impressions of Corbet’s Poems are -distinguished by an Asterisk, thus</i>: *]</p> - -<table summary="Contents"> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td></td> - <td class="tdpg">Page</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr">*</td> - <td>Life of the Author</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#LIFE">v</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td>Preface to the Edition of 1648</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#TO_THE_READER">lxiii</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr">*</td> - <td>Commendatory Poems</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#COMMENDATORY_POEMS">lxv</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td>An Elegie on Dr. Ravis</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#RAVIS">3</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr">*</td> - <td>Thomæ Coriato de Odcombe</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#CORIATO">9</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td>To Thomas Coryate</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#CORYATE">11</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td>A certaine Poem, &c. to the tune of “Bonny Nell”</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#A_CERTAIN_POEM">13</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr">*</td> - <td>An Answer to the former Song, &c.</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#AN_ANSWER">22</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr">*</td> - <td>Responsio, &c.</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#RESPONSIO">25</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr">*</td> - <td>Additamenta superiori Cantico</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#ADDITAMENTA_SUPERIORI_CANTICO">42</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_lx"></a>[lx]</span></td> - <td>On the Lady Arabella Stuart</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#LADY_ARABELLA_STUART">43</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td>Upon Mistriss Mallet; an unhandsome gentlewoman who made love unto him</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#MALLET">47</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td>In quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#HENRY_PRINCE_OF_WALES">52</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td>An Answer to the same, by Dr. Price</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#AN_ANSWER_PRICE">54</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td>In Poetam exauctoratum et emeritum</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#IN_POETAM">56</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr">*</td> - <td>On Francis Beaumont, then newly dead</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#BEAUMONT">58</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td>An Elegie on the late Lord William Howard of Effingham</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#WILLIAM_LORD_HOWARD">59</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td>To the Lord Mordaunt, upon his returne from the North</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#LORD_MORDAUNT">66</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr">*</td> - <td>To the Prince</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#PRINCE">82</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td>A Newe-Years Gift to my Lorde Duke of Buckingham</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#A_NEW-YEARES_GIFT">83</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td>A Letter to Sir Thomas Aylesbury</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#SIR_THOMAS_AYLESBURY">65</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td>Dr. Corbet’s Journey into France</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#JOURNEY_INTO_FRANCE">94</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td>An Exhortation to Mr. John Hamon</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#JOHN_HAMMON">103</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td>An Elegie upon the Death of Queen Anne</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#ANNE">112</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td>An Elegie upon the Death of his owne Father</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#VINCENT_CORBET_SR">118</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_lxi"></a>[lxi]</span></td> - <td>An Elegie upon the Death of the Lady Haddington</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#THE_LADY_HADDINGTON">123</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td>On the Christ-Church Play at Woodstock</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#CHRIST-CHURCH_PLAY">131</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td>A Letter to the Duke of Buckingham, being with the Prince in Spaine</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#THE_DUKE_OF_BUCKINGHAM">134</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td>On the Earle of Dorset’s Death</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#EARL_OF_DORSET">142</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td>To the Newe-born Prince</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#NEW-BORN_PRINCE">146</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td>On the Birth of the young Prince Charles</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#BIRTH">148</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td>To his Son Vincent Corbet</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#VINCENT_CORBET_JR">149</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td>An Epitaph on Dr. Donne, Dean of Pauls</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#DONNE">152</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr">*</td> - <td>Certain few Woordes spoken concerninge one Benet Corbett after her decease</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#BENET_CORBETT">154</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td>Iter Boreale</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#ITER_BOREALE">156</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td>On Mr. Rice, the Manciple of Christ-Church in Oxford</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#RICE">205</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td>On Henry Bollings</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#BOLLINGS">206</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td>On John Dawson, Butler of Christ-Church</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#DAWSON">207</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td>On Great Tom of Christ-Church</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#GREAT_TOM">209</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td>R.C.</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#R_C">212</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td>A proper new Ballad, entituled The Faeryes Farewell</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#A_PROPER_NEW_BALLAD">213</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr">*</td> - <td>A Non Sequitur</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#A_NON_SEQUITUR">218</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_lxii"></a>[lxii]</span></td> - <td>Nonsence</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#NONSENCE">220</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr">*</td> - <td>The Country Life</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#THE_COUNTRY_LIFE">222</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td>To the Ghost of Robert Wisdome</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#ROBERT_WISDOM">228</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td>An Epitaph on Thomas Jonce</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#THOMAS_JONCE">230</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td>To the Ladies of the New Dresse</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#TO_THE_LADYES">232</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr">*</td> - <td>The Ladies’ Answer</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#THE_LADIES_ANSWER">233</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr">*</td> - <td>Corbet’s Reply</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#CORBETS_REPLY">234</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td>On Fairford Windows</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#FAIRFORD_WINDOWS_1">235</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr">*</td> - <td>Another on the same</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#FAIRFORD_WINDOWS_2">239</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td>The Distracted Puritane</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#THE_DISTRACTED_PURITANE">243</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr">*</td> - <td>Oratio in Funus Henrici Principis</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#ORATIO">249</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr">*</td> - <td>In Obitum Domini Thomæ Bodleii</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#IN_OBITUM">260</a></td> - </tr> -</table> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_lxiii"></a>[lxiii]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="TO_THE_READER">TO THE READER.</h2> - -<p class="center">(From Edition 1648.)</p> - -</div> - -<p class="indent allsmcap">READER,</p> - -<p>I heere offer to view a collection of certaine -peices of poetry, which have <i>flowne</i> from hand to -hand, these many yeares, in <i>private</i> papers, but -were never <i>fixed</i> for the <i>publique</i> eie of the worlde -to looke upon, till now<a id="FNanchor_34" href="#Footnote_34" class="fnanchor">[34]</a>. If that witt which -runnes in every veyne of them seeme somewhat -<i>out of fashion</i>, because tis neither <i>amorous</i> nor -<i>obscene</i>, thou must remember that the author, -although scarse a <i>Divine</i> when many of them were -written, had not only so <i>masculine</i> but even so -<i>modest</i> a witt also, that he would lett nothing<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_lxiv"></a>[lxiv]</span> -fall from his pen but what he himselfe might -owne, and never blush, when he was a <i>bishop</i>; -little imagining the age would ever come, when -his calling should prove more out of fashion than -his witt could. As concerning any thing else -to be added in commendation of the author, I -shall never thinke of it; for as for those men -who did <i>knowe him</i>, or ever <i>heard of him</i>, they -need none of <i>my good opinion</i>: and as for those -who <i>knew him not</i>, and never so much as <i>heard -of him</i>, I am sure he needs none of <i>theirs</i>.</p> - -<p class="right">Farewell.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_lxv"></a>[lxv]</span></p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_lxvi"></a>[lxvi]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="COMMENDATORY_POEMS">COMMENDATORY POEMS.</h2> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_lxvii"></a>[lxvii]</span></p> - -<h3><span class="smaller">TO</span><br /> -THE DEANE,<br /> -<span class="smaller">(From Flower in Northamptonshire, 1625,)</span><br /> -<span class="allsmcap">NOW THE WORTHY BISHOP OF NORWICH.</span></h3> - -<p class="center"><span class="smcap">By ROBERT GOMERSALL</span><a id="FNanchor_35" href="#Footnote_35" class="fnanchor">[35]</a>.</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Still to be silent, or to write in prose,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Were alike sloth, such as I leave to those</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who either want the grace of wit, or have</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Untoward arguments: like him that gave</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_lxviii"></a>[lxviii]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Life to the flea, or who without a guest</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Would prove that famine was the only feast;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Self tyrants, who their braines doubly torment,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Both for their matter and their ornament.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">If these do stutter sometimes, and confesse</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That they are tired, we could expect no lesse.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">But when my matter is prepared and fit,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When nothing’s wanting but an equal wit,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I need no Muse’s help to ayde me on,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Since that my subject is my Helicon.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And such are you: O give me leave, dear sir,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">(He that is thankful is no flatterer,)</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To speak full truth: Wherever I find worth,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I shew I have it if I set it forth:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">You read yourself in these; here you may see</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A ruder draft of Corbet’s infancy.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">For I professe, if ever I had thought</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Needed not blush if publish’d, were there ought</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which was call’d mine durst beare a critic’s view,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I was the instrument, but the author you.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_lxix"></a>[lxix]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">I need not tell you of our health, which here</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Must be presum’d, nor yet shall our good cheare</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Swell up my paper, as it has done me,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or as the Mayor’s feast does Stowe’s History:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Without an early bell to make us rise,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Health calls us up and novelty; our eyes</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Have divers objects still on the same ground,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As if the Earth had each night walk’d her round</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To bring her best things hither: ’tis a place</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Not more the pride of shires then the disgrace,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which I’de not leave, had I my Dean to boot,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For the large offers of the cloven-foot</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Unto our Saviour, but you not being here</div> - <div class="verse indent0">’Tis to me, though a rare one, but a shire;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A place of good earth, if compared with worse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which hath a lesser part in Adam’s curse:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or, for to draw a simile from the High’st,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tis like unto salvation without Christ,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A fairly situate prison: When again</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall I enjoy that friendship, and that braine?</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_lxx"></a>[lxx]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">When shall I once more hear, in a few words,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">What all the learning of past times affords?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Austin epitomiz’d, and him that can</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To make him clear contract Tertullian.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">But I detain you from them: Sir, adieu!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">You read their works, but let me study you.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_lxxi"></a>[lxxi]</span></p> - -<h3><span class="smaller">ON</span><br /> -<span class="smcap">Dr. CORBET’S</span> MARRIAGE.</h3> - -<p class="center">(From “Wit Restored,” 8vo. 1658.)</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Come all yee Muses and rejoice</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At your Apolloe’s happy choice;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Phœbus has conquer’d Cupid’s charme;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fair Daphne flys into his arm.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">If Daphne be a tree, then mark,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Apollo is become the barke.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">If Daphne be a branch of bay,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He weares her for a crowne to-day:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O happy bridegroom! which dost wed</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thyself unto a virgin’s bed.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Let thy love burne with hot desire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">She lacks no oil to feed the fire.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_lxxii"></a>[lxxii]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">You know not poore Pigmalion’s lot,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nor have you a mere idol got.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">You no Ixion, you no proud</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Juno makes embrace a cloud.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Looke how pure Diana’s skin</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Appeares as it is shadow’d in</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A chrystal streame; or look what grace</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shines in fair Venus’ lovely face,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whilst she Adonis courts and woos;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Such beauties, yea and more than those,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sparkle in her; see but her soul,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And you will judge those beauties foul.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Her rarest beauty is within,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">She’s fairest where she is not seen;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Now her perfection’s character</div> - <div class="verse indent0">You have approv’d, and chosen her.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">O precious! she at this wedding</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The jewel weares—the marriage ring.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Her understanding’s deep: like the</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Venetian duke, you wed the sea;</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_lxxiii"></a>[lxxiii]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">A sea deep, bottomless, profound,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And which none but yourself may sound.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Blind Cupid shot not this love-dart;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Your reason chose, and not your heart;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">You knew her little, and when her</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Apron was but a muckender,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When that same coral which doth deck</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Her lips she wore about her neck:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">You courted her, you woo’d her, not</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Out of a window, she was got</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And born your wife; it may be said</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Her cradle was her marriage-bed.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The ring, too, was layd up for it</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Untill her finger was growne fit:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">You once gave her to play withal</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A babie, and I hope you shall</div> - <div class="verse indent0">This day your ancient gift renew,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So she will do the same for you:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In virgin wax imprint, upon</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Her breast, your own impression;</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_lxxiv"></a>[lxxiv]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">You may (there is no treason in ’t)</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Coine sterling, now you have a mint.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">You are now stronger than before,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Your side hath in it one ribb more.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Before she was akin to me</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Only in soul and amity;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But now we are, since shee’s your bride,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In soul and body both allyde:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">’Tis this has made me less to do,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And I in one can honour two.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">This match a riddle may be styled,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Two mothers now have but one child;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Yet need we not a Solomon,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Each mother here enjoyes her own.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Many there are I know have tried</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To make her their own lovely bride;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But it is Alexander’s lot</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To cut in twaine the Gordian knot:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Claudia, to prove that she was chast,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tyed but a girdle to her wast,</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_lxxv"></a>[lxxv]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">And drew a ship to Rome by land:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But now the world may understand</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Here is a Claudia too; fair bride,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thy spotlesse innocence is tried;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">None but thy girdle could have led</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Our Corbet to a marriage bed.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Come, all ye Muses, and rejoice</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At this your nurslings happy choice:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Come, Flora, strew the bridemaid’s bed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And with a garland crowne her head;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or if thy flowers be to seek,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Come gather roses at her cheek.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Come, Hymen, light thy torches, let</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thy bed with tapers be beset,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And if there be no fire by,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Come light thy taper at her eye;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In that bright eye there dwells a starre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And wise men by it guided are.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">In those delicious eyes there be</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Two little balls of ivory:</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_lxxvi"></a>[lxxvi]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">How happy is he then that may</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With these two dainty balls goe play.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Let not a teare drop from that eye,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Unlesse for very joy to cry.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O let your joy continue! may</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A whole age be your wedding-day!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">O happy virgin! is it true</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That your deare spouse embraceth you?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then you from heaven are not farre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But sure in Abraham’s bosom are.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Come, all ye Muses, and rejoyce</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At your Apollo’s happy choice.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_lxxvii"></a>[lxxvii]</span></p> - -<h3>VERSES IN HONOUR OF<br /> -BISHOP CORBET,<br /> -<span class="smaller">Found in a blank leaf of his Poems in MS.</span></h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">If flowing wit, if verses writ with ease,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">If learning void of pedantry can please;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">If much good-humour joined to solid sense,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And mirth accompanied with innocence,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Can give a poet a just right to fame,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then Corbet may immortal honours claim;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For he these virtues had, and in his lines</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Poetic and heroic spirit shines;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Though bright yet solid, pleasant but not rude,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With wit and wisdom equally endued.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Be silent, Muse, thy praises are too faint,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thou want’st a power this prodigy to paint,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At once a poet, prelate, and a saint.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse right">J. C.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_lxxviii"></a>[lxxviii]</span></p> - -<h3><span class="allsmcap">UPON MY GOOD LORD</span><br /> -THE BISHOP OF NORWICHE,<br /> -RICHARD CORBET,<br /> -<span class="smaller"><i>WHO DYED JULY 28, 1635</i>,<br /> -AND LYES BURIED IN HIS CATHEDRAL CHURCHE.</span></h3> - -<p class="center">[By Mr. JOHN TAYLOR of <span class="smcap">Norwich</span>:<br /> -From the Cabinet, published there in 1795.]</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Ye rural bardes who haunte the budding groves,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tune your wilde reeds to sing the wood-larkes loves,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And let the softe harpe of the hawthorn vale</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Melt in sweete euloge to the nightingale;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Yet haplie, Drummond, well thy muse might raise</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Aires not earth-born to suit my <i>raven’s</i> praise.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_lxxix"></a>[lxxix]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Raven he was, yet was no gloomie fowle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Merrie at hearte, though innocente of soule;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where’er he perkt, the birds that came anighe</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Constrayned caught the humour of his eye:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Under that shade no spights and wrongs were spred,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Care came not nigh with his uncomlie head.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Somewhile the thicke embranching trees amonge,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where Isis doth his waters leade alonge,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Kissinge with modeste lippe the holie soyle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Reflecting backe each hallowed grove the while;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Here did my raven trie his dulcive note,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Charming old Science with his mellow throat.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Sometimes with scholiasts deep in anciente lore,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Through learnings long defyles he would explore;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then with keene wit untie the perplext knot</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of Aristotle or the cunning Scot;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Anon loud laughter shook the arched hall,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For mirth stood redy at his potente call.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_lxxx"></a>[lxxx]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Oxforde, thou couldst not binde his outspred wing,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">My raven flew where bade his princelye king;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Norwiche must honours give he did not crave,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Norwiche must lend his palace and his grave:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And that kinde hearte which gave such vertue birth</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Must here be shrouded in the greedie earth.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Ofte hath thy humble lay-clerke led along,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When thou wert by, the eve or matin song;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And oftimes rounde thy marble shall he strole,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To chaunte sad requiems to thy soothed soul;—</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sleep on, till Gabriel’s trump shall break thy sleep,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And thou and I one heavenlie holiday shall keep.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_1"></a>[1]</span></p> - -<h1>Bp. Corbet’s Poems.</h1> - -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_2"></a>[2]</span></p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_3"></a>[3]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="RAVIS">DR. THOMAS RAVIS.</h2> - -</div> - -<p>In the following tribute to the memory of a fellow-collegian, -and predecessor in the deanery of -Christ Church, it will not be too much to conjecture -that Corbet was urged by gratitude for kindness -experienced while the latter was young. The -“Elegie” was evidently written immediately upon -the interment of its subject, as towards its conclusion -he complains that no tomb was raised -over his remains; a complaint which was soon -after obviated, when a fair monument was erected, -bearing the following inscription, which contains -all that is necessary to be told here of the -circumstances of his life and character:</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_4"></a>[4]</span></p> - -<div class="blockquote"> - -<p class="center">“MEMORIÆ SACRUM.</p> - -<p>Thomas Ravis, claris natalibus Mauldenæ in -Suthreia natus, Regius Alumnus in Schola Westmonasteriensi -educatus, in Academiam Oxoniensem -adscitus, omnes academicos honores consequutus, -et magistratibus perfunctus, Decanus -Ecclesiæ Christi ibidem constitutus, et bis Academiæ -Pro-Cancellarius. Unde ob doctrinam, -gravitatem, et spectatam prudentiam, à Rege -Jacobo, primum ad Episcopatum Glocestrensem -provectus, deinde ad Londinensem translatus, -et demum à Christo, dum Ecclesiæ, -Patriæ, Principi vigilaret, in cœlestem patriam -evocatus, placide pieque emigravit, et quod -mortale fuit, certa spe resurgendi, hic deposuit, -die 14 Decembris, An. salutis 1609.”</p> - -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_5"></a>[5]</span></p> - -<h3>AN ELEGIE<br /> -<span class="smaller">WRITTEN UPON THE DEATH OF</span><br /> -DR. RAVIS,<br /> -<span class="smaller">BISHOP OF LONDON.</span></h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">When I past Paules, and travell’d in that walke</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where all oure Brittaine-sinners sweare and talk<a id="FNanchor_36" href="#Footnote_36" class="fnanchor">[36]</a>;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ould Harry-ruffians, bankerupts, southsayers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And youth, whose cousenage is as ould as theirs;</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_6"></a>[6]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">And then beheld the body of my lord</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Trodd under foote by vice that he abhorr’d;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">It wounded me the Landlord of all times</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Should let long lives and leases to their crimes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And to <i>his</i> springing honour did afford</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Scarce soe much time as to the prophet’s gourd.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Yet since swift flights of virtue have apt ends,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Like breath of angels, which a blessing sends,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And vanisheth withall, whilst fouler deeds</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Expect a tedious harvest for bad seeds;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I blame not fame and nature if they gave,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where they could give no more, their last, a grave.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_7"></a>[7]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">And wisely doe thy greived freinds forbeare</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bubbles and alabaster boyes to reare</div> - <div class="verse indent0">On thy religious dust: for men did know</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thy life, which such illusions cannot show:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For thou hast trod among those happy ones</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who trust not in their superscriptions,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Their hired epitaphs, and perjured stone,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which oft belyes the soule when shee is gon;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And durst committ thy body, as it lyes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To tongues of living men, nay unborne eyes.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">What profits thee a sheet of lead? What good</div> - <div class="verse indent0">If on thy coarse a marble quarry stood?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Let those that feare their rising purchase vaults,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And reare them statues to excuse their faults;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As if, like birds that peck at painted grapes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Their judge knew not their <i>persons</i> from their <i>shapes</i>.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whilst thou assured, through thy easyer dust</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall rise at first; they would not though they must.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_8"></a>[8]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Nor needs the Chancellor boast, whose pyramis</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Above the host and altar reared is<a id="FNanchor_37" href="#Footnote_37" class="fnanchor">[37]</a>;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For though thy body fill a viler roome,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thou shalt not change <i>deedes</i> with him for his <i>tombe</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_9"></a>[9]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="CORIATO">THOMÆ CORIATO DE ODCOMBE.</h2> - -</div> - -<p>The following panegyric on the hero of Odcombe, -Thomas Coryate, a pedantic coxcomb, -with just brains enough to be ridiculous, to whom -the world is much more indebted for becoming -“the whetstone of the wits” than for any doings -of his own, and the particulars of whose life and -peregrinations may be found in every collection -of biography, is printed in the Odcombian Banquet, -1611, 4to. sign. I. 3.</p> - -<p>The Latin lines have been omitted in the former -impressions of Bishop Corbet’s poems.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_10"></a>[10]</span></p> - -<h3><span class="smaller">SPECTATISSIMO, PUNCTISQUE OMNIBUS DIGNISSIMO,</span><br /> -THOMÆ CORIATO DE ODCOMBE,<br /> -<span class="smaller">PEREGRINANTI,<br /> -PEDESTRIS ORDINIS, EQUESTRISQUE FAMÆ.</span></h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Quod mare transieris, quod rura urbesque pedester,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Jamque colat reduces patria læta pedes:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quodque idem numero tibi calceus hæret, et illo</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Cum <i>corio</i> redeas, quo <i>Coriatus</i> abis:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fatum omenque tui miramur nominis, ex quo</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Calcibus et soleis fluxit aluta tuis.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nam quicunque cadem vestigia tentat, opinor</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Excoriatus erit, ni <i>Coriatus</i> eat.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h4>IN LIBRUM SUUM.</h4> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">De te pollicitus librum es, sed in te</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Est magnus tuus hic liber libellus.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_11"></a>[11]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="CORYATE">TO THOMAS CORYATE.</h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">I do not wonder, Coryate, that thou hast</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Over the Alpes, through France and Savoy past,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Parch’d on thy skin, and founder’d in thy feete,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Faint, thirstie, lowsy, and didst live to see ’t.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Though these are Roman sufferings, and do shew</div> - <div class="verse indent0">What creatures back thou hadst could carry so,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All I admire is thy returne, and how</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thy slender pasterns could thee beare, when now</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thy observations with thy braine ingendered,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Have stuft thy massy and voluminous head</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With mountaines, abbies, churches, synagogues,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Preputial offals, and Dutch dialogues:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A burthen far more grievous then the weight</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of wine or sleep; more vexing than the freight</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of fruit and oysters, which lade many a pate,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And send folks crying home from Billingsgate.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_12"></a>[12]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">No more shall man with mortar on his head</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Set forwards towards Rome: No! thou art bred</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A terror to all footmen, and all porters,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And all laymen that will turne Jews exhorters,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To flie their conquered trade. Proud England then</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Embrace this luggage<a id="FNanchor_38" href="#Footnote_38" class="fnanchor">[38]</a>, which the Man of men</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hath landed here, and change thy well-a-day!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Into some homespun welcome roundelay.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Send of this stuffe thy territories thorough</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To Ireland, Wales, and Scottish, Eddenborough.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There let this booke be read and understood,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where is no theame nor writer halfe so good.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_13"></a>[13]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="A_CERTAIN_POEM">A CERTAIN POEM,</h2> - -</div> - -<p class="hanging"><i>As it was presented in Latine by Divines and others -before His Majesty in Cambridge, by way of Enterlude, -styled <span class="antiqua">Liber novus de Adventu Regis -ad Cantabrigiam</span>. Faithfully done into English, -with some liberal Additions. Made rather to be -sunge than read, to the Tune of Bonny Nell.</i></p> - -<p class="center">(The Notes are from a MS. copy in the Editor’s possession.)</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">It is not yet a fortnight since</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lutetia<a id="FNanchor_39" href="#Footnote_39" class="fnanchor">[39]</a> entertain’d our prince,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And vented hath a studied toy</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As long<a id="FNanchor_40" href="#Footnote_40" class="fnanchor">[40]</a> as was the siege of Troy:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And spent herself for full five days</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In speeches, exercise, and plays.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_14"></a>[14]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">To trim the town, great care before</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Was tane by th’ lord vice-chancellor;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Both morn and even he cleans’d the way,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The streets he gravelled thrice a day:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">One strike of March-dust for to see</div> - <div class="verse indent0">No proverb<a id="FNanchor_41" href="#Footnote_41" class="fnanchor">[41]</a> would give more than he.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Their colledges were new be-painted,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Their founders eke were new be-sainted;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nothing escap’d, nor post, nor door,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nor gate, nor rail, nor bawd, nor whore:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">You could not know (Oh strange mishap!)</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whether you saw the <i>town</i> or <i>map</i>.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">But the pure house of <i>Emanuel</i><a id="FNanchor_42" href="#Footnote_42" class="fnanchor">[42]</a></div> - <div class="verse indent0">Would not be like proud <i>Jesabel</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nor shew her self before the king</div> - <div class="verse indent0">An hypocrite, or <i>painted</i> thing:</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_15"></a>[15]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">But, that the ways might all prove fair,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Conceiv’d a tedious mile of prayer.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Upon the look’d-for seventh<a id="FNanchor_43" href="#Footnote_43" class="fnanchor">[43]</a> of <i>March</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Outwent the townsmen all in starch,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Both band and beard, into the field,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where one a speech could hardly wield;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For needs he would begin his stile,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The king being from him half a mile.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">They gave the king a piece of plate,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which they hop’d never came too late;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But cry’d, Oh! look not in, great king,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For there is in it just nothing:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And so prefer’d with tune and gate,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A speech as empty as their plate.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Now, as the king came neer the town,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Each one ran crying up and down,</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_16"></a>[16]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Alas poor <i>Oxford</i>, thou’rt undone,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For now the king’s past <i>Trompington</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And rides upon his brave gray dapple,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seeing the top of <i>Kings-Colledge</i> chappel.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Next rode his lordship<a id="FNanchor_44" href="#Footnote_44" class="fnanchor">[44]</a> on a nag,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whose coat was blue<a id="FNanchor_45" href="#Footnote_45" class="fnanchor">[45]</a>, whose ruff was shag,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And then began his reverence</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To speak most eloquent non-sense:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">See how (quoth he) most mighty prince,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For very joy my horse doth wince.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">What cryes the town? What we? (said he)</div> - <div class="verse indent0">What cryes the University?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">What cry the boys? What ev’ry thing?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Behold, behold, yon comes the king:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And ev’ry period he bedecks</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With <i>En & Ecce venit Rex</i>.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_17"></a>[17]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Oft have I warn’d (quoth he) our dirt</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That no silk stockings should be hurt;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But we in vain strive to be fine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Unless your graces sun doth shine;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And with the beams of your bright eye,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">You will be pleas’d our streets to dry.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Now come we to the wonderment</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of <i>Christendom</i>, and eke of <i>Kent</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The <i>Trinity</i>; which to surpass,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Doth deck her spokesman<a id="FNanchor_46" href="#Footnote_46" class="fnanchor">[46]</a> by a glass:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who, clad in gay and silken weeds,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thus opes his mouth, hark how he speeds.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">I wonder what your grace doth here,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who have expected been twelve year,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And this your son, fair <i>Carolus</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That is so <i>Jacobissimus</i><a id="FNanchor_47" href="#Footnote_47" class="fnanchor">[47]</a>:</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_18"></a>[18]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Here’s none, of all, your grace refuses,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">You are most welcome to our Muses.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Although we have no bells to jangle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Yet can we shew a fair quadrangle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which, though it ne’re was grac’d with king,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Yet sure it is a goodly thing:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">My warning’s short, no more I’le say,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Soon you shall see a gallant play.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">But nothing was so much admir’d,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As were their plays so well attir’d;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nothing did win more praise of mine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then did their actors most divine<a id="FNanchor_48" href="#Footnote_48" class="fnanchor">[48]</a>:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So did they drink their healths divinely;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So did they dance and skip so finely.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Their plays had sundry grave wise factors,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A perfect diocess of actors</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_19"></a>[19]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Upon the stage; for I am sure that</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There was both bishop, pastor, curat:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nor was their labour light, or small,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The charge of some was pastoral.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Our plays were certainly much worse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For they had a brave hobby-horse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which did present unto his grace</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A wondrous witty ambling pace:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But we were chiefly spoyl’d by that</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which was six hours of <i>God knows what</i><a id="FNanchor_49" href="#Footnote_49" class="fnanchor">[49]</a>.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">His lordship then was in a rage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His lordship lay upon the stage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His lordship cry’d, All would be marr’d:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His lordship lov’d a-life the guard,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And did invite those mighty men,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To what think you? Even to a <i>Hen</i>.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_20"></a>[20]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He knew he was to use their might</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To help to keep the door at night,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And well bestow’d he thought his hen,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That they might Tolebooth<a id="FNanchor_50" href="#Footnote_50" class="fnanchor">[50]</a> <i>Oxford</i> men:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He thought it did become a lord</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To threaten with that bug-bear word.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Now pass we to the civil law,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And eke the doctors of the spaw,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who all perform’d their parts so well,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sir <i>Edward Ratcliff</i><a id="FNanchor_51" href="#Footnote_51" class="fnanchor">[51]</a> bore the bell,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who was, by the kings own appointment,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To speak of spells, and magick oyntment.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The doctors of the civil law</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Urg’d ne’re a reason worth a straw;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And though they went in silk and satten,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They <i>Thomson</i>-like<a id="FNanchor_52" href="#Footnote_52" class="fnanchor">[52]</a> clip’d the kings Latine;</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_21"></a>[21]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">But yet his grace did pardon then</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All treasons against <i>Priscian</i>.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Here no man spake ought to the point,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But all they said was out of joint;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Just like the chappel ominous</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I’ the colledge called <i>God with us</i>:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which truly<a id="FNanchor_53" href="#Footnote_53" class="fnanchor">[53]</a> doth stand much awry,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Just north and south, <i>yes verily</i>.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Philosophers did well their parts,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which prov’d them masters of their arts;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Their moderator was no fool,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He far from <i>Cambridge</i> kept a school:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The country did such store afford,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The proctors might not speak a word.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_22"></a>[22]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">But to conclude, the king was pleas’d,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And of the court the town was eas’d:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Yet <i>Oxford</i> though (dear sister) hark yet,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The king is gone but to <i>New-market</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And comes again e’re it be long,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then you may make another song.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The king being gone from <i>Trinity</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They make a scramble for degree;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Masters of all sorts, and all ages,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Keepers, subcizers, lackeyes, pages,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who all did throng to come aboard,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With <i>Pray make me</i> now, <i>Good my lord</i>.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">They prest his lordship wondrous hard,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His lordship then did want the guard;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So did they throng him for the nonce,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Until he blest them all at once,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And cryed, <i>Hodiissimè</i>:</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Omnes Magistri estote</i>.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_23"></a>[23]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Nor is this all which we do sing,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For of your praise the world must ring:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Reader, unto your tackling look,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For there is coming forth a book</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Will spoyl <i>Joseph Barnesius</i></div> - <div class="verse indent0">The sale of <i>Rex Platonicus</i>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_24"></a>[24]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="AN_ANSWER"><span class="smaller">AN</span><br /> -ANSWER TO THE FORMER SONG,<br /> -<span class="smaller">IN LATIN AND ENGLISH,</span><br /> -BY ⸺ LAKES.</h2> - -</div> - -<p class="center">(From an Autograph in the Editor’s possession.)</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A ballad late was made,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">But God knowes who ’es the penner,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Some say the rhyming sculler,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And others say ’twas Fenner<a id="FNanchor_54" href="#Footnote_54" class="fnanchor">[54]</a>:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But they that know the style</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Doe smell it by the collar,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And do maintaine it was the braine</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Of some yong Oxford scholler.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_26"></a>[26]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">And first he rails on Cambridge,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And thinkes her to disgrace,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By calling her <i>Lutetia</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And throws dirt in her face:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But leave it, scholler, leave it,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">For all the world must grant,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">If Oxford be thy mother,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Then Cambridge is thy aunt.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Then goes he to the town,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And puts it all in starch,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For other rhyme he could not find</div> - <div class="verse indent2">To fit the seventh of March:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But leave it, scholler, leave it,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">For I must vail the bonnet,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And cast the caps at Cambridge</div> - <div class="verse indent2">For making song and sonnet.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_28"></a>[28]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Thence goes he to their present,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And there he doth purloyne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For looking in their plate</div> - <div class="verse indent2">He nimmes away their coyne:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But leave it, scholler, leave it,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">For ’tis a dangerous thing</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To steal from corporations</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The presents of a king.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Next that, my lord vice-chancellor</div> - <div class="verse indent2">He brings before the prince,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And in the face of all the court</div> - <div class="verse indent2">He makes his horse to wince.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But leave it, scholler, leave it,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">For sure that jest did faile,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Unless you clapt a nettle</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Under his horse’s taile.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_30"></a>[30]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Then aimes he at our orator,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And at his speech he snarles,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Because he forced a word, and called</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The prince “most Jacob-Charles.”</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But leave it, scholler, leave it,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">For he did it compose</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That puts you down as much for tongue</div> - <div class="verse indent2">As you do him for nose.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Then flies he to our comedies,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And there he doth professe</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He saw among our actors</div> - <div class="verse indent2">A perfect diocess.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But leave it, scholler, leave it,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">’Twas no such witty fiction,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For since you leave the vicar out,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">You spoile the jurisdiction.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_32"></a>[32]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Next that he backes the hobby-horse,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And with a scholler’s grace,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Not able to endure the trott,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">He’d bring him to the pase:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But leave it, scholler, leave it,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">For you will hardly do it,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Since all the riders in your muse</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Could never bring him to it.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Polonia land can tell,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Through which he oft did trace,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And bore a fardell at his back,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">He nere went other pace.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But leave him, scholler, leave him,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">He learned it of his sire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And if you put him from his trott</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Hee’l lay you in the myre.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_34"></a>[34]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Our horse has thrown his rider;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">But now he meanes to shame us,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And in the censuring of our play</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Conspires with Ignoramus.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But leave it, scholler, leave it,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And call ’t not “God knows what,”</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Your head was making ballads</div> - <div class="verse indent2">When you should mark the plot.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">His fantasie, still working,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Finds out another crotchet;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then runs he to the bishop,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And rides upon his rotchet.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But leave it, scholler, leave it,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And take it not in snuff,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For he that weares no picadell</div> - <div class="verse indent2">By law may weare a ruffe.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_36"></a>[36]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Next that he goes to dinner,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And, like an hardy guest,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When he had cramm’d his belly full</div> - <div class="verse indent2">He railes against the feast.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But leave it, scholler, leave it;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">For, since you eat his roast,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">It argues want of manners</div> - <div class="verse indent2">To raile upon the host.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Now listen, masters, listen,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">That tax us for our riot,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For here two men went to a ken,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">So slender was the diet.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then leave him, scholler, leave him,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">He yieldes himself your debtor,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And next time he’s vice-chancellor</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Your table shall be better.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_38"></a>[38]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Then goes he to the Regent-house,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And there he sits and sees</div> - <div class="verse indent0">How lackeys and subsisers press</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And scramble for degrees.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But leave it, scholler, leave it,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">’Twas much against our mind,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But when the prison doors are ope</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Noe thief will stay behind.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Behold, more anger yet:</div> - <div class="verse indent2">He threatens us ere long,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When as the king comes back againe,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">To make another song.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But leave it, scholler, leave it,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Your weakness you disclose;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For “Bonny Nell” doth plainly tell</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Your wit lies all in prose.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_40"></a>[40]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Nor can you make the world</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Of Cambridge praise to singe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A mouth so foul no market eare</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Will stand to hear it sing.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then leave it, scholler, leave it,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">For yet you cannot say,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The king did go from you in March</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And come again in May.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_25"></a>[25]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="RESPONSIO">RESPONSIO, &c.<br /> -<span class="smaller">PER</span><br /> -⸺ LAKES.</h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Facta est cantilena,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Sed nescio quo autore;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">An fluxerit ex remige,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">An ex Fenneri ore.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sed qui legerunt, contendunt,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Esse hanc tenelli</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Oxoniensis nescio cujus</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Prolem cerebelli.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_27"></a>[27]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Nam primò Cantabrigiam</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Convitiis execravit,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quod vocitat Lutetiam,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Et luto conspurcavit.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sed parce, precor, parcito,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Nam istud nihil moror,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quum hujus academiæ</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Oxonia sit soror.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Tunc oppidanos miseros</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Horrendo cornu petit,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">De quibus dixit, nescio quid,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Et rythmum sic effecit.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sed parce, precor, parcito,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Bardos Oxonienses</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In canticis non vicimus</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Jam Cantabrigienses.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_29"></a>[29]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Jam inspicit cratera</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Quæ regi dono datur,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et aurum ibi positum</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Subripere conatur.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sed parce, precor, parcito,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Nam scelus istud lues,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Si fraudes sodalitia,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Ad crucem cito rues.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dein pro-cancellarium</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Produxit equitantem,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In equum valde agilem</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Huc et illuc saltantem:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sed parce, precor, parcito,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Nam tibi vix credetur</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Si non sub ejus cauda,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Urtica poneretur.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_31"></a>[31]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Tunc evomit sententiam</div> - <div class="verse indent2">In ipsum oratorem</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui dixit Jacobissimum,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Præter Latinum morem.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sed parce, precor, parcito,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Orator exit talis</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Qui magis pollet lingua</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Quam ipse naso vales.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Adibat ad comœdiam</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Et cuncta circumspexit,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Actorum diocesin</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Completam hic detexit</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sed parce, precor, parcito,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Hæc cogitare mente</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Non valet jurisdictio</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Vicario absente.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_33"></a>[33]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Fictitio equo subdidit</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Calcaria, sperans fore</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ut eum ire cogeret</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Gradu submissiore:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sed parce, precor, parcito,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Hoc non efficietur</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Si iste stabularius</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Habenis moderetur.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Testis est Polonia,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Quam sæpe is transivit,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et oneratus sarcina</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Eodem gradu ivit.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tam parce, precor, parcito,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et credas hoc futurum,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Si Brutum regat Asinus</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Gradatim non iturum.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_35"></a>[35]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Comœdiam Ignoramus</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Eum spectare libet,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et hujus delicatulo</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Structura non arridet.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At parce, precor, parcito,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Tum aliter versatus</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In faciendis canticis</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Fuisti occupatus.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Tum pergit maledicere</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Cicestriensi patri,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et vestes etiam vellicat</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Episcopi barbati.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sed parce, precor, parcito,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Et nos tu sales pone,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ne tanti patris careas</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Benedictione.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_37"></a>[37]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Tum cibo se ingurgitans</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Abunde saginatur,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et venter cum expletus est,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Danti convitiatur.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sed parce, precor, parcito,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Nam illud verum erit,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quicquid ingrato infecerit</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Oxoniensi, perit.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">At ecce nos videmur</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Tenaces nimis esse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Gallinam unam quod spectasset</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Duos comedisse.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O parce, precor, parcito,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Hæc culpa corrigetur</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cum rursus Cantabrigia</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Episcopo regetur.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_39"></a>[39]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Sed novo in sacello</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Pedissequos aspexit,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quos nostra Academia</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Honoribus erexit.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sed parce, precor, parcito,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Nam ipse es expertus,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Effugiunt omnes protinus</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Cum carcer est apertus.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">At nobis minitatur,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Si rex sit rediturus,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tunc iste (Phœbo duce) est</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Tela resumpturus.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sed parce, precor, parcito,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Piscator ictus sapit,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fugatus namque miles iners</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Arma nunquam capit.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_41"></a>[41]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Et Cantabrigiam non</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Lædi hinc speramus,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ex ore tam spurcidico</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Nil damni expectamus.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O parce, ergo, parcito,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Oxonia nunquam dicit,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cum Martio princeps abiens</div> - <div class="verse indent2">In Maio nos revisit.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_42"></a>[42]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="ADDITAMENTA_SUPERIORI_CANTICO">ADDITAMENTA SUPERIORI CANTICO.</h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Ingenij amplitudinem</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Jam satis ostendisti,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et eloquentiæ fructus</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Abundè protulisti:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sed parce, tibi, parcito,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Ne omne absumatur,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ne tandem tibi arido</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Nil suavi relinquatur.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Jam satis oppugnasti,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">O Polyphemi proles!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et tanquam taurus gregis</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Nos oppugnare soles.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sed parce, tandem, parcito,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Tuis laudatus eris,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et nunc inultus tanquam stultus</div> - <div class="verse indent2">A nobis dimitteris.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_43"></a>[43]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="LADY_ARABELLA_STUART">LADY ARABELLA STUART.</h2> - -</div> - -<p>The circumstances of the life of this accomplished -and persecuted lady,</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“From kings descended, and to kings allied,”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="noindent">are familiar to every reader of biographical history. -In Lodge’s Illustrations of British History -are some letters which convey an exalted idea of -her mental abilities; and the editor has proved, in -opposition to the assertion of the authors of the -Biographia Britannica, that she was far from deficient -in personal beauty.</p> - -<p>She was the only child of Charles Stuart, fifth -earl of Lennox, (uncle to James the First, and -great-grandson to Henry VII.) by Elizabeth, -daughter of sir William Cavendish, of Hardwick; -was born about the year 1578, and brought up -in privacy under the care of her grandmother, -the old countess of Lennox, who had for many<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_44"></a>[44]</span> -years resided in England. Her double relation to -royalty was equally obnoxious to the jealousy of -Elizabeth and the timidity of James, and they -secretly dreaded the supposed danger of her leaving -a legitimate offspring. The former, therefore, -prevented her from marrying Esme Stuart, her -kinsman, and heir to the titles and estates of her -family, and afterwards imprisoned her for listening -to some overtures from the son of the earl of -Northumberland: the latter, by obliging her to -reject many splendid offers of marriage, unwarily -encouraged the hopes of inferior pretenders. -Thus circumscribed, she renewed a childish connection -with William Seymour, grandson to the -earl of Hertford, which was discovered in 1609; -when both parties were summoned to appear before -the privy council, and received a severe reprimand. -This mode of proceeding produced the -very consequence which James meant to avoid; -for the lady, sensible that her reputation had<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_45"></a>[45]</span> -been wounded by this inquiry, was in a manner -forced into a marriage; which becoming publicly -known in the course of the next spring, she was -committed to close custody in the house of sir -Thomas Parry, at Lambeth, and Mr. Seymour to -the Tower. In this state of separation, however, -they concerted means for an escape, which both -effected on the same day, June 3, 1611; and Mr. -Seymour got safely to Flanders: but the poor -lady was re-taken in Calais road, and imprisoned -in the Tower; where the sense of these undeserved -oppressions operating too severely on her -high spirit, she became a lunatic, and languished -in that wretched state, augmented by the horrors -of a prison, till her death on the 27th Sept. 1615.<a id="FNanchor_55" href="#Footnote_55" class="fnanchor">[55]</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_46"></a>[46]</span></p> - -<h3><span class="smaller">ON</span><br /> -THE LADY ARABELLA.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">How do I thanke thee, Death, and blesse thy power</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That I have past the guard, and scaped the Tower!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And now my <i>pardon</i> is my <i>epitaph</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And a small coffin my poore carkasse hath.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For at thy charge both soule and body were</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Enlarged at last, secured from hope and feare;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That among saints, this amongst kings is laid,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And what my birth did claim, my death hath paid.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_47"></a>[47]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="MALLET"><span class="smaller">UPON</span><br /> -MISTRIS MALLET<a id="FNanchor_56" href="#Footnote_56" class="fnanchor">[56]</a>,<br /> -<span class="smaller">AN</span><br /> -UNHANDSOME GENTLEWOMAN,<br /> -<span class="smaller">WHO MADE LOVE UNTO HIM.</span></h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Have I renounc’t my faith, or basely sold</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Salvation, and my loyalty, for gold?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Have I some forreigne practice undertooke</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By poyson, shott, sharp-knife, or sharper booke</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To kill my king? have I betrayd the state</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To fire and fury, or some newer fate,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which learned murderers, those grand destinies,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Jesuites, have nurc’d? if of all these</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_48"></a>[48]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">I guilty am, proceed; I am content</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That Mallet take mee for my punishment.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For never sinne was of so high a rate,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But one nights hell with her might expiate.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Although the law with Garnet<a id="FNanchor_57" href="#Footnote_57" class="fnanchor">[57]</a>, and the rest,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dealt farr more mildly; hanging’s but a jest</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To this immortall torture. Had shee bin then</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In Maryes torrid dayes engend’red, when</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cruelty was witty, and Invention free</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Did live by blood, and thrive by crueltye,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shee would have bin more horrid engines farre</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Than fire, or famine, racks, and halters are.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whether her witt, forme, talke, smile, tire I name,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Each is a stock of tyranny, and shame;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But for her breath, spectatours come not nigh,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That layes about; God blesse the company!</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_49"></a>[49]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">The man, in a beares skin baited to death,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Would chose the doggs much rather then her breath;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">One kisse of hers, and eighteene wordes alone</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Put downe the <i>Spanish Inquisition</i>.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thrice happy wee (quoth I thinking thereon)</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That see no dayes of persecution;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For were it free to kill, this grisly elfe</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wold martyrs make in compass of herselfe:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And were shee not prevented by our prayer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By this time shee corrupted had the aire.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And am I innocent? and is it true,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That thing (which poet Plinye never knew,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nor Africk, Nile, nor ever Hackluyts eyes</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Descry’d in all his <i>East, West-voyages</i>;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That thing, which poets were afrayd to feigne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For feare her shadowe should infect their braine;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">This spouse of Antichrist, and his alone,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shee’s drest so like the Whore of Babylon;)</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_50"></a>[50]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Should doate on mee? as if they did contrive</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The devill and she, to damne a man alive.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Why doth not <i>Welcome</i> rather purchase her,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And beare about this rare familiar?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sixe markett dayes, a wake, and a fayre too ’t,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Would save his charges, and the ale to boot.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">No tyger’s like her; shee feedes upon a man</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Worse than a tygresse or a leopard can.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Let mee go pray, and thinke upon some spell,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At once to bid the devill and her farwell.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_51"></a>[51]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="HENRY_PRINCE_OF_WALES">HENRY PRINCE OF WALES.</h2> - -</div> - -<p>Upon the death of the promising Henry (Nov. 6, -1612), a prince, according to Arthur Wilson<a id="FNanchor_58" href="#Footnote_58" class="fnanchor">[58]</a>, -as eminent in nobleness as in blood, and who fell -not without suspicion of foul play, the poets his -cotemporaries, whom he liberally patronised, -poured forth by reams their tributary verses.</p> - -<p>Corbet, as it has been before observed, pronounced -his funeral oration at Oxford.</p> - -<p>Nor was this all: while his bones were perishing -and his flesh was rottenness, Dr. Daniel Price, -his chaplain during his life, continued to commemorate -his dissolution by preaching an anniversary -sermon. Neither the practice nor its execution -was agreeable to Corbet, who, after a triennial -repetition, thus attacked the anniversarist.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_52"></a>[52]</span></p> - -<h3><span class="smaller">IN QUENDAM</span><br /> -ANNIVERSARIORUM SCRIPTOREM.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Ter circum Iliacos raptaverat Hectora muros.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse right"><span class="smcap">Virg.</span> Æn. 1. 483.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph’d on</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The walls of Troy, thrice slain when Fates had done:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So did the barbarous Greekes before their hoast</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Torment his ashes and profane his ghost:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As Henryes vault, his peace, his sacred hearse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Are torne and batter’d by thine Anniverse.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Was ’t not enough Nature and strength were foes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But thou must yearly murther him in prose?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or dost thou thinke thy raving phrase can make</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A lowder eccho then the Almanake?</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_53"></a>[53]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Trust mee, November doth more ghastly looke</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In Dade and Hopton’s<a id="FNanchor_59" href="#Footnote_59" class="fnanchor">[59]</a> pennyworth then thy booke;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And sadder record their fixt figure beares</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then thy false-printed and ambitious teares.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For were it not for Christmas, which is nigh,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When spice, fruit eaten, and digested pye</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Call for waste paper; no man could make shift</div> - <div class="verse indent0">How to employ thy writings to his thrift.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wherefore forbear, for pity or for shame,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And let some richer penne redeeme his fame</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From rottennesse. Thou leave him captive; since</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So vile a <span class="smcap">Price</span> ne’ere ransom’d such a Prince.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_54"></a>[54]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="AN_ANSWER_PRICE">AN ANSWER,<br /> -<span class="smaller">BY</span><br /> -DR. PRICE<a id="FNanchor_60" href="#Footnote_60" class="fnanchor">[60]</a>.</h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">So to dead Hector boys may do disgrace,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That durst not look upon his living face;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So worst of men behind their betters’ back</div> - <div class="verse indent0">May stretch mens names and credit on the rack.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_55"></a>[55]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Good friend, our general tie to him that’s gone</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Should love the man that yearlie doth him moane:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The author’s zeal and place he now doth hold,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His love and duty makes him be thus bold</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To offer this poor mite, his anniverse</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Unto his good great master’s sacred hearse;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The which he doth with privilege of name,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whilst others, ’midst their ale, in corners blame.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A pennyworth in print they never made,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Yet think themselves as good as Pond or Dade.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">One anniverse, when thou hast done thus twice,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thy words among the best will be of <span class="smcap">Price</span>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_56"></a>[56]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="IN_POETAM"><span class="smaller">IN</span><br /> -POETAM<br /> -EXAUCTORATUM <span class="smaller">ET</span> EMERITUM.</h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Nor is it griev’d, grave youth, the memory</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of such a story, such a booke as hee,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That such a copy through the world were read;</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Henry yet lives, though he be buried</i>.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">It could be wish’d that every eye might beare</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His eare good witnesse that he still were here;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That sorrowe ruled the yeare, and by that sunne</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Each man could tell you how the day had runne:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O ’twere an honest boast, for him could say</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I have been busy, and wept out the day</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Remembring him. An epitaph would last</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Were such a trophee, such a banner placed</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Upon his corse as this: <i>Here a man lyes</i></div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Was slaine by Henrye’s dart, not Destinie’s</i>.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_57"></a>[57]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Why this were med’cinable, and would heale,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Though the whole languish’d, halfe the commonweale.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But for a <i>Cobler</i> to goe burn his cappe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And cry, The Prince, the Prince! O dire mishappe!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or a Geneva-bridegroom, after grace,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To throw his spouse i’ th’ fire; or scratch her face</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To the tune of the Lamentation; or delay</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His <i>Friday</i> capon till the <i>Sabbath</i> day:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or an old Popish lady half vow’d dead</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To fast away the day in gingerbread:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For him to write such annals; all these things</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Do open laughter’s and shutt up griefe’s springs.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tell me, what juster or more congruous peere</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Than Ale, to judge of workes begott of beere?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wherefore forbeare—or, if thou print the next,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bring better notes, or take a meaner text.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_58"></a>[58]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="BEAUMONT"><span class="smaller">ON</span><br /> -MR. FRANCIS BEAUMONT,<br /> -<span class="smaller">THEN NEWLY DEAD.</span></h2> - -</div> - -<p>(The following lines, which have hitherto been -omitted in the bishop’s poems, are found in the -collected dramas of the</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent34">“twin stars that run</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Their glorious course round Shakespeare’s honoured sun.”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="noindent">Beaumont was born 1585, and was buried the -ninth of March 1615, in the entrance of St. Bennet’s -chapel, Westminster abbey.)</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He that hath such acuteness and such wit</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As would aske ten good heads to husband it;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He that can write so well, that no man dare</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Refuse it for the best, let him beware:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Beaumont is dead! by whose sole death appears</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wit’s a disease consumes men in few yeares.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_59"></a>[59]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="WILLIAM_LORD_HOWARD">WILLIAM LORD HOWARD,<br /> -<span class="smaller">OF EFFINGHAM,</span></h2> - -</div> - -<p class="noindent">the subject of the succeeding poem, was the eldest -son of Charles Howard, earl of Nottingham, (lord -high admiral of England, and defeater of the Spanish -Armada in the reign of Elizabeth, a nobleman -of high estimation during greater part of the -reign of her successor,) by Catharine, daughter -of Henry Carey, lord Hunsdon; celebrated for -concealing the ring by which the life of the earl -of Essex might have been saved, and upon whose -death-bed discovery of the concealment Elizabeth -told her, “God may forgive you, but I never -can.”</p> - -<p>Lord Howard makes no conspicuous figure in -the page of history: he was summoned by writ -to several parliaments during his father’s life, -whom he accompanied on his embassy to the court<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_60"></a>[60]</span> -of Spaine (1604), but died before him 10th Dec. -1615, and was buried at Chelsea.</p> - -<p>He married in 1597 Anne, daughter and sole -heiress to John lord St. John of Bletsoe, by -whom he left one daughter, who became the wife -of John lord Mordaunt, afterwards earl of Peterborough.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_61"></a>[61]</span></p> - -<h3>AN ELEGIE<a id="FNanchor_61" href="#Footnote_61" class="fnanchor">[61]</a><br /> -<span class="smaller">ON THE</span><br /> -LATE LORD WILLIAM HOWARD,<br /> -<span class="smaller">BARON OF EFFINGHAM.</span></h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">I did not know thee, lord, nor do I strive</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To win access, or grace, with lords alive:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The dead I serve, from whence nor faction can</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Move me, nor favour; nor a greater man.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To whom no vice commends me, nor bribe sent,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From whom no penance warns, nor portion spent;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To these I dedicate as much of me,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As I can spare from my own husbandry:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And till ghosts walk as they were wont to do,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I trade for some, and do these errands too.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But first I do enquire, and am assur’d,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">What tryals in their journeys they endur’d;</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_62"></a>[62]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">What certainties of honour and of worth</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Their most uncertain life-times have brought forth;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And who so did least hurt of this small store,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He is my patron, dy’d he rich or poor.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">First I will know of Fame (after his peace,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When flattery and envy both do cease)</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who rul’d his actions: Reason, or my lord?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Did the whole man rely upon a word,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A badge of title? or, above all chance,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seem’d he as ancient as his cognizance?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">What did he? Acts of mercy, and refrain</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Oppression in himself, and in his train?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Was his essential table full as free</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As boasts and invitations use to be?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where if his russet-friend did chance to dine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whether his satten-man would fill him wine?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Did he think perjury as lov’d a sin,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Himself forsworn, as if his slave had been?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Did he seek regular pleasures? Was he known</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Just husband of one wife, and she his own?</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_63"></a>[63]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Did he give freely without pause, or doubt,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And read petitions ere they were worn out?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or should his well-deserving <i>client</i> ask,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Would he bestow a tilting, or a masque</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To keep need vertuous? and that done, not fear</div> - <div class="verse indent0">What lady damn’d him for his absence there?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Did he attend the court for no man’s fall?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wore he the ruine of no hospital?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And when he did his rich apparel don,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Put he no widow, nor an orphan on?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Did he love simple vertue for the thing?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The king for no respect but for the king?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But, above all, did his religion wait</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Upon God’s throne, or on the chair of state?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He that is guilty of no <i>quæry</i> here,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Out-lasts his epitaph, out-lives his heir.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But there is none such, none so little bad;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who but this negative goodness ever had?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of such a lord we may expect the birth,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He’s rather in the womb, than on the earth.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_64"></a>[64]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">And ’twere a crime in such a public fate,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For one to live well and degenerate:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And therefore I am angry, when a name</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Comes to upbraid the world like <i>Effingham</i>.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nor was it modest in thee to depart</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To thy eternal home, where now thou art,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ere thy reproach was ready; or to die,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ere custom had prepar’d thy calumny.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Eight days have past since thou hast paid thy debt</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To sin, and not a libel stirring yet;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Courtiers that scoff by patent, silent sit,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And have no use of slander or of wit;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But (which is monstrous) though against the tyde,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The watermen have neither rayl’d nor ly’d.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of good or bad there’s no distinction known,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For in thy praise the good and bad are one.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">It seems, we all are covetous of fame,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And, hearing what a purchase of good name</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thou lately mad’st, are careful to increase</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Our title, by the holding of some lease</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_65"></a>[65]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">From thee our landlord, and for that th’ whole crew</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Speak now like tenants, ready to renew.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">It were too sad to tell thy pedegree,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Death hath disordered all, misplacing thee;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whilst now thy herauld, in his line of heirs,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Blots out thy name, and fills the space with tears.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And thus hath conqu’ring Death, or Nature rather,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Made thee prepostrous ancient to thy father,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who grieves th’ art so, and like a glorious light</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shines ore thy hearse.</div> - <div class="verse indent18">He therefore that would write</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And blaze thee throughly, may at once say all,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Here lies the anchor of our admiral</i>.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Let others write for glory or reward,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Truth is well paid, when she is sung and heard.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_66"></a>[66]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="LORD_MORDAUNT">LORD MORDAUNT.</h2> - -</div> - -<p>The lord Mordaunt to whom this poem is addressed -was John fifth baron Mordaunt of Turvey, -in the county of Bedford, who was afterwards -(in 1628) created earl of Peterborough by king -Charles the First. He married Elizabeth, daughter -and heir of William baron Howard of Effingham, -(son and heir apparent of Charles earl of -Nottingham,) by Anne his wife, daughter and -heir of John baron St. John of Bletsoe. He -was brought up in the Roman Catholic religion, -but converted to that of the established -church by a disputation at which he was present -between a Jesuit and the celebrated Dr. Usher, -(afterwards) bishop of Armagh. In 1642 he was -general of the ordnance, and colonel of a regiment -of foot in the army, raised for the service of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_67"></a>[67]</span> -the Parliament, commanded by the earl of Essex, -and died the same year.</p> - -<p>In order to understand the following poem, it -will be necessary to remember, that James, in the -year 1617, paid a visit to his native country, -whither the lord Mordaunt accompanied him; -and the ceremony of installing the knights of the -garter was consequently deferred from St. George’s -day to that of Holyrood.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_68"></a>[68]</span></p> - -<h3><span class="smaller">TO THE</span><br /> -LORD MORDANT,<br /> -<span class="smaller">UPON HIS RETURNE FROM THE NORTH.</span></h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">My lord, I doe confesse at the first newes</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of your returne towards home, I did refuse</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To visit you, for feare the northerne winde</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Had peirc’t into your manners and your minde;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For feare you might want memory to forget</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Some arts of Scotland which might haunt you yet.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But when I knew you were, and when I heard</div> - <div class="verse indent0">You were at Woodstock seene, well sunn’d and air’d,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That your contagion in you now was spent,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And you were just lord Mordant, as you went,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I then resolv’d to come; and did not doubt</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To be in season, though the bucke were out.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_69"></a>[69]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Windsor the place; the day was Holy roode;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Saint George my muse: for be it understood,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For all Saint George more early in the yeare</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Broke fast and eat a bitt, hee dined here:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And though in Aprill in redd inke he shine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Know twas September made him redd with wine.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To this good sport rod I, as being allow’d</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To see the king, and cry him in the crowd;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And at all solemne meetings have the grace</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To thrust, and to be trodde on, by my place.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Where when I came, I saw the church besett</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With tumults, as if all the Brethren mett</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To heare some silenc’t teacher of that quarter</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Inveigh against the order of the garter:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And justly might the weake it grieve and wrong,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Because the garter prayes in a strange tongue;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And doth retaine traditions yet, of Fraunce,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In an old <i>Honi soit qui mal y pense</i>.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_70"></a>[70]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Whence learne, you knights that order that have t’ane,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That all, besides the buckle, is profane.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But there was noe such doctrine now at stake,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Noe starv’d precisian from the pulpit spake:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And yet the church was full; all sorts of men,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Religions, sexes, ages, were there then:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whilst he that keepes the quire together locks</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Papists and Puritans, the Pope and Knox:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which made some wise-ones feare, that love our nation,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">This mixture would beget a toleration;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or that religions should united bee,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When they stay’d service, these the letany.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But noe such hast; this dayes devotion lyes</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Not in the hearts of men, but in their eyes;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They that doe see St. George, heare him aright;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For hee loves not to parly, but to fight.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Amongst this audience (my lord) stood I,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Well edified as any that stood by;</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_71"></a>[71]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">And knew how many leggs a knight letts fall,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Betwixt the king, the offering, and his stall:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Aske mee but of their robes, I shall relate</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The colour and the fashion, and the state:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I saw too the procession without doore,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">What the poore knightes, and what the prebends wore.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All this my neighbors that stood by mee tooke,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who div’d but to the garment, and the looke;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But I saw more, and though I have their fate</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In face and favour, yet I want their pate:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mee thought I then did those first ages know,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which brought forth knightes soo arm’d and looking soe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who would maintaine their oath, and bind their worde</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With these two seales, an altar and a sworde.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then saw I George new-sainted, when such preists</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wore him not only on, but in their breasts.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_72"></a>[72]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Oft did I wish that day, with solemne vow,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O that my country were in danger now!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And twas no treason; who could feare to dye,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When he was sure his rescue was so nigh?</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">And here I might a just digression make,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whilst of some foure particular knightes I spake,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To whome I owe my thankes; but twere not best,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By praysing two or three, t’ accuse the rest;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nor can I sing that order, or those men,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That are aboue the maistery of my pen;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And private fingers may not touch those things</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whose authors princes are, whose parents kings:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wherefore unburnt I will refraine that fire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Least, daring such a theame, I should aspire</div> - <div class="verse indent0">T’ include my king and prince, and soe rehearse</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Names fitter for my prayer then my verse:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“Hee that will speake of princes, let him use</div> - <div class="verse indent0">More grace then witt, know God’s aboue his muse.”</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_73"></a>[73]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Noe more of councell: Harke! the trumpetts sound,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the grave organ’s with the antheme drown’d</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Church hath said amen to all their rites,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And now the Trojan horse sets loose his knightes;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The triumph moues: O what could added bee,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Save your accesse, to this solemnitye?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which I expect, and doubt not but to see ’t,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When the kings favour and your worth shall meete.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I thinke the robes would now become you soe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">St. George himselfe could scarce his owne knights know</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From the lord Mordant: Pardon mee that preach</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A doctrine which king James can only teach;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To whome I leaue you, who alone hath right</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To make knightes lords, and then a lord a knight.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Imagine now the sceane lyes in the hall;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">(For at high noone we are recusants all)</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The church is empty, as the bellyes were</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of the spectators, which had languish’d there:</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_74"></a>[74]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">And now the favorites of the clarke of th’ checke,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who oft haue yaun’d, and strech’t out many a neck</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Twixt noone and morning; the dull feeders on</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fresh patience, and raisins of the sunne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They, who had liv’d in th’ hall seaven houres at least,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As if twere an arraignment, not a feast;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And look’t soe like the hangings they stood nere,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">None could discerne which the true pictures were;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">These now shall be refresh’t, while the bold drumme</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Strikes up his frollick, through the hall they come.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Here might I end, my lord, and here subscribe</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Your honours to his power: But Oh, what bribe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">What feare or mulct can make my muse refraine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When shee is urg’d of nature and disdaine?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Not all the guard shall hold mee, I must write,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Though they should sweare and lye how they would fight,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">If I procede: nay, though the captaine say,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hold him, or else you shall not eate to day;</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_75"></a>[75]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Those goodly yeomen shall not scape my pen;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">’Twas dinner-time, and I must speake of men;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So to the hall made I, with little care</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To praise the dishes, or to tast the fare;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Much lesse t’ endanger the least tart, or pye</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By any waiter there stolne, or sett by;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But to compute the valew of the meate,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which was for glory, not for hunger eate;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nor did I feare, (stand back) who went before</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The presence, or the privy-chamber doore.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And woe is mee, the guard, those men of warre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who but two weapons use, beife, and the barre,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Began to gripe mee, knowing not in truth,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That I had sung John Dory in my youth;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or that I knew the day when I could chaunt</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Chevy, and Arthur, and the Seige of Gaunt.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And though these be the vertues which must try</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who are most worthy of their curtesy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They profited mee nothing: for no notes</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Will move them now, they’re deafe in their new coates:</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_76"></a>[76]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Wherefore on mee afresh they fall, and show</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Themselves more active then before, as though</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They had some wager lay’d, and did contend</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who should abuse mee furthest at armes end.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">One I remember with a grisly beard,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And better growne then any of the heard;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">One, were he well examin’d, and made looke</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His name in his owne parish and church booke,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Could hardly prove his christendome; and yet</div> - <div class="verse indent0">It seem’d he had two names, for there were writt</div> - <div class="verse indent0">On a white canvasse doublett that he wore,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Two capitall letters of a name before;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Letters belike which hee had spew’d and spilt,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When the great bumbard leak’t, or was a tilt.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">This Ironside tooke hold, and sodainly</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hurled mee, by judgment of the standers by,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Some twelve foote by the square; takes mee againe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Out-throwes it halfe a bar; and thus wee twaine</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At this hot exercise an hower had spent,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hee the feirce agent, I the instrument.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_77"></a>[77]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">My man began to rage, but I cry’d, Peace,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When he is dry or hungry he will cease:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hold, for the Lords sake, Nicholas, lest they take us,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And use us worse then Hercules us’d Cacus.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">And now I breath, my lord, now have I time</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To tell the cause, and to confesse the crime:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I was in black; a scholler straite they guest;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Indeed I colour’d for it at the least.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I spake them faire, desir’d to see the hall,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And gave them reasons for it, this was all;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By which I learne it is a maine offence,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So neere the clark of th’ check to utter sense:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Talk of your emblemes, maisters, and relate</div> - <div class="verse indent0">How Æsope hath it, and how Alciate;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Cock and Pearle, the Dunghill and the Jemme,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">This passeth all to talke sence amongst them.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Much more good service was committed yet,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which I in such a tumult must forget;</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_78"></a>[78]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">But shall I smother that prodigious fitt,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which pass’d Heons invention, and pure witt?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As this: A nimble knave, but something fatt,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Strikes at my head, and fairly steales my hatt:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Another breakes a jest, (well, Windsor, well,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">What will ensue thereof there’s none can tell,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When they spend witt, serve God) yet twas not much,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Although the clamours and applause were such,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As when salt Archy or Garret doth provoke them<a id="FNanchor_62" href="#Footnote_62" class="fnanchor">[62]</a>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And with wide laughter and a cheat-loafe choake them.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_79"></a>[79]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">What was the jest doe you aske? I dare repeate it,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And put it home before you shall entreat it;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He call’d mee Bloxford-man: confesse I must</div> - <div class="verse indent0">’Twas bitter; and it griev’d mee, in a thrust</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That most ungratefull word (Bloxford) to heare</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From him, whose breath yet stunk of Oxford beere:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But let it passe; for I have now passd throw</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Their halberds, and worse weapons, their teeth, too:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And of a worthy officer was invited</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To dine; who all their rudeness hath requited:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where wee had mirth and meat, and a large board</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Furnish’t with all the kitchin could afford.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But to conclude, to wipe of from before yee</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All this which is noe better then a story;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Had this affront bin done mee by command</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of noble Fenton<a id="FNanchor_63" href="#Footnote_63" class="fnanchor">[63]</a>, had their captaines hand</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_80"></a>[80]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Directed them to this, I should beleive</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I had no cause to jeast, but much to greive:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or had discerning Pembrooke<a id="FNanchor_64" href="#Footnote_64" class="fnanchor">[64]</a> seene this done,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And thought it well bestow’d, I would have run</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where no good man had dwelt, nor learn’d would fly,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where noe disease would keepe mee company,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where it should be preferment to endure</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To teach a schoole, or else to starve a cure.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">But as it stands, the persons and the cause</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Consider well, their manners and their lawes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tis no affliction to mee, for even thus</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Saint Paul hath fought with beasts at Ephesus,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And I at Windsor. Let this comfort then</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rest with all able and deserving men:</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_81"></a>[81]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Hee that will please the guard, and not provoke</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Court-witts, must suite his learning by a cloake:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“For at all feasts and masques the doome hath bin,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“A man thrust out and a gay cloake let in.”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Quid immerentes hospites vexas canis,</i></div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Ignavus adversus lupos?</i></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_82"></a>[82]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="PRINCE"><span class="smaller">TO</span><br /> -THE PRINCE.<br /> -<span class="smaller">(AFTERWARDS CHARLES THE FIRST.)</span></h2> - -</div> - -<p class="center">Born at Dumferling, November the 19th, 1600; crowned -27th March 1625; beheaded 30th January 1648-9.</p> - -<p class="center">(From a Manuscript in Ashmole’s Museum.)</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">For ever dear, for ever dreaded prince,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">You read some verse of mine a little since,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And so pronounced each word and every letter</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Your gratious reading made my verse the better:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Since that your highness doth by gifte exceeding</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Make what you read the better for your reading,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Let my poor muse thus far your grace importune</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To leave to reade my verse, and read my fortune.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_83"></a>[83]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="A_NEW-YEARES_GIFT">A NEW-YEARES GIFT<br /> -<span class="smaller">TO</span><br /> -MY LORDE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.</h2> - -</div> - -<p class="center">(Born 28th August 1592; assassinated by Felton, -23d August 1628.)</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">When I can pay my parents, or my king,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For life, or peace, or any dearer thing;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then, dearest lord, expect my debt to you</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall bee as truly paid, as it is due.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But, as no other price or recompence</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Serves them, but love, and my obedience;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So nothing payes my lord, but whats above</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The reach of hands, ’tis vertue, and my love.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“For, when as goodnesse doth so overflow,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“The conscience bindes not to restore, but owe:”</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Requitall were presumption; and you may</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Call mee ungratefull, while I strive to pay.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_84"></a>[84]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Nor with a morall lesson doe I shift,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Like one that meant to save a better gift;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Like very poore, or counterfeite poore men,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who, to preserve their turky or their hen,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Doe offer up themselves: No; I have sent</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A kind of guift, will last by being spent,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thankes sterling: far above the bullion rate</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of horses, hangings, jewells, or of plate.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O you that know the choosing of that one,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Know a true diamond from a Bristow stone:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">You know, those men alwaies are not the best</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In their intent, that lowdest can protest:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But that a prayer from the convocation,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Is better than the commons protestation.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Trust those that at the test their lives will lay,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And know no arts, but to deserve, and pray:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whilst they, that buy preferment without praying,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Begin with broyles, and finish with betraying.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_85"></a>[85]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="SIR_THOMAS_AYLESBURY">SIR THOMAS AYLESBURY,</h2> - -</div> - -<p class="noindent">A Londoner born, was second son of William -Aylesbury by Anne his wife, daughter of John -Poole, esq., and from Westminster School removed -to Christ-Church, Oxford, in 1598, where he became -a fellow-student with Corbet, and where, on -the 9th of June 1605, they took the degree of -master of arts together.</p> - -<p>Aylesbury, after he had left Oxford, became -secretary to Charles Howard, earl of Nottingham, -lord high admiral of England, and in 1618, when -the latter resigned his office, was continued in -the same employment under Howard’s successor, -George Villiers, then marquis, and afterwards -duke of Buckingham. Under the patronage of -Villiers he was appointed one of the masters of the -requests, and on the 19th of April 1627 created<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_86"></a>[86]</span> -a baronet, and soon afterwards obtained the office -of master of the mint. He retained his places -until the breaking out of the civil wars in 1642, -and faithfully adhering to the cause of Charles -the First, retired with his family, in 1649, after -the execution of that unfortunate monarch, to -Antwerp in Brabant, and continued there until -1652, when he removed to Breda, where he died -in 1657, aged 81, and was buried in the great -church.</p> - -<p>He was “a learned man, and as great a lover -and encourager of learning and learned men, especially -of mathematicians, (he being one himself) -as any man in his time.”</p> - -<p>He had a son, William, who was a man of learning, -and tutor to the two sons of his father’s patron, -Villiers, but died issueless in Jamaica in the -service of Cromwell in the same year with his -father: and a daughter, Frances, (sole heir of -her father and brother) who, in 1634, became the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_87"></a>[87]</span> -wife of Edward Hyde, afterwards earl of Clarendon, -and was grandmother to queen Mary the -Second, and to queen Anne.</p> - -<p>I have been the more particular in noticing -what relates to sir Thomas Aylesbury, since bishop -Corbet’s advancement at court followed, -though it trode close upon the heels of, that of -Aylesbury, which leads me to presume that the -latter was in some degree Corbet’s patron as well -as friend and companion.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_88"></a>[88]</span></p> - -<h3>A LETTER<br /> -<span class="smaller">SENT FROM</span><br /> -<span class="smcap">Dr. CORBET</span> TO <span class="smcap">Sir THOMAS AILESBURY</span>,<br /> -December the 9th, 1618.<br /> -ON THE OCCASION OF A BLAZING STAR.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">My brother and much more, hadst thou been mine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hadst thou in one rich present of a line</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Inclos’d sir Francis, for in all this store</div> - <div class="verse indent0">No gift can cost thee less, or binde me more;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hadst thou (dear churle) imparted his return,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I should not with a tardy welcome burn;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But had let loose my joy at him long since,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which now will seem but studied negligence:</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_89"></a>[89]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">But I forgive thee, two things kept thee from it,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">First such a friend to gaze on, next a comet;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which comet we discern, though not so true</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As you at Sion, as long tayl’d as you;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">We know already how will stand the case,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With Barnavelt<a id="FNanchor_65" href="#Footnote_65" class="fnanchor">[65]</a> of universal grace,</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_90"></a>[90]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Though Spain deserve the whole star, if the fall</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Be true of Lerma duke and cardinal<a id="FNanchor_66" href="#Footnote_66" class="fnanchor">[66]</a>:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Marry, in France we fear no blood, but wine;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Less danger’s in her sword, than in her vine.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And thus we leave the blazers coming over,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For our portents are wise, and end at Dover:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And though we use no forward censuring,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nor send our learned proctors to the king,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Yet every morning when the star doth rise,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There is no black for three hours in our eyes;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But like a Puritan dreamer, towards this light</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All eyes turn upward, all are zeal and white:</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_91"></a>[91]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">More it is doubtful that this prodigy</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Will turn ten schools to one astronomy:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the analysis we justly fear,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Since every art doth seek for rescue there;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Physicians, lawyers, glovers on the stall,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The shopkeepers speak mathematics all;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And though men read no gospels in these signes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Yet all professions are become divines;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All weapons from the bodkin to the pike,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The masons rule and taylors yard alike</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Take altitudes, and th’ early fidling knaves</div> - <div class="verse indent0">On fluits and hoboyes made them Jacobs-staves;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lastly of fingers, glasses we contrive,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And every fist is made a prospective:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Burton to Gunter cants<a id="FNanchor_67" href="#Footnote_67" class="fnanchor">[67]</a>, and Burton hears</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From Gunter, and th’ exchange both tongue and ears</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_92"></a>[92]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">By carriage: thus doth mired Guy complain,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His waggon in their letters bears Charles-Wain,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Charles-Wain, to which they say the tayl will reach;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And at this distance they both hear and teach.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Now, for the peace of God and men, advise</div> - <div class="verse indent0">(Thou that hast where-withal to make us wise)</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thine own rich studies, and deep Harriots mine<a id="FNanchor_68" href="#Footnote_68" class="fnanchor">[68]</a>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In which there is no dross, but all refine:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O tell us what to trust to, lest we wax</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All stiff and stupid with his parallax:</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_93"></a>[93]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Say, shall the old philosophy be true?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or doth he ride above the moon, think you?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Is he a meteor forced by the sun?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or a first body from creation?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hath the same star been object of the wonder</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of our forefathers? Shall the same come under</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The sentence of our nephews? Write and send,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or else this star a quarrel doth portend.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_94"></a>[94]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="JOURNEY_INTO_FRANCE">DR. CORBET’S<br /> -JOURNEY INTO FRANCE.</h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">I went from England into France,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nor yet to learn to cringe nor dance,</div> - <div class="verse indent10">Nor yet to ride or fence;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nor did I go like one of those</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That do return with half a nose</div> - <div class="verse indent10">They carried from hence.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">But I to Paris rode along,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Much like John Dory in the song<a id="FNanchor_69" href="#Footnote_69" class="fnanchor">[69]</a>,</div> - <div class="verse indent10">Upon a holy tide.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_95"></a>[95]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">I on an ambling nag did jet,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I trust he is not paid for yet;</div> - <div class="verse indent10">And spur’d him on each side.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">And to Saint Dennis fast we came,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To see the sights of Nostre Dame,</div> - <div class="verse indent10">The man that shews them snaffles:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where who is apt for to beleeve,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">May see our Ladies right-arm sleeve,</div> - <div class="verse indent10">And eke her old pantofles;</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Her breast, her milk, her very gown</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That she did wear in Bethlehem town,</div> - <div class="verse indent10">When in the inn she lay.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Yet all the world knows that’s a fable,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For so good clothes ne’re lay in stable</div> - <div class="verse indent10">Upon a lock of hay.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_96"></a>[96]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">No carpenter could by his trade</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Gain so much coyn as to have made</div> - <div class="verse indent10">A gown of so rich stuff.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Yet they, poor fools, think, for their credit,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They may believe old Joseph did it,</div> - <div class="verse indent10">’Cause he deserv’d enough.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">There is one of the crosses nails,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which whoso sees, his bonnet vails,</div> - <div class="verse indent10">And if he will, may kneel.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Some say ’twas false, ’twas never so,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Yet, feeling it, thus much I know,</div> - <div class="verse indent10">It is as true as steel.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">There is a lanthorn which the Jews,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When Judas led them forth, did use,</div> - <div class="verse indent10">It weighs my weight downright:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But to believe it, you must think</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Jews did put a candle in ’t,</div> - <div class="verse indent10">And then ’twas very light.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_97"></a>[97]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">There’s one saint there hath lost his nose;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Another’s head, but not his toes,</div> - <div class="verse indent10">His elbow and his thumb.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But when that we had seen the rags</div> - <div class="verse indent0">We went to th’ inn and took our nags,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And so away did come.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">We came to Paris on the Seine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">’Tis wondrous fair, ’tis nothing clean,</div> - <div class="verse indent10">’Tis Europes greatest town.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">How strong it is I need not tell it,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For all the world may easily smell it,</div> - <div class="verse indent10">That walk it up and down.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">There many strange things are to see,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Palace and great Gallery,</div> - <div class="verse indent10">The Place Royal doth excel:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The New Bridge, and the Statues there,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At Nostre Dame, Saint Q. Pater,</div> - <div class="verse indent10">The Steeple bears the bell.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_98"></a>[98]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">For learning, th’ Universitie;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And for old clothes, the Frippery;</div> - <div class="verse indent10">The House the Queen did build.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Saint Innocents, whose earth devours</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dead corps in four and twenty hours,</div> - <div class="verse indent10">And there the King was kill’d:</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Bastile and Saint Dennis-street,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Shafflenist, like London-Fleet,</div> - <div class="verse indent10">The Arsenal, no toy.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But if you’ll see the prettiest thing,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Go to the court and see the King,</div> - <div class="verse indent10">O ’tis a hopeful boy.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He is of all his dukes and peers</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Reverenc’d for much wit at ’s years,</div> - <div class="verse indent10">Nor must you think it much;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For he with little switch doth play,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And make fine dirty pyes of clay,</div> - <div class="verse indent10">O never king made such!</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_99"></a>[99]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A bird that can but kill a fly,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or prate, doth please his majesty,</div> - <div class="verse indent10">’Tis known to every one.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The duke of Guise gave him a parret,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And he had twenty cannons for it</div> - <div class="verse indent10">For his new galeon.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">O that I ere might have the hap</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To get the bird which in the map</div> - <div class="verse indent10">Is called the Indian Ruck!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I’de give it him, and hope to be</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As rich as Guise, or Livine,</div> - <div class="verse indent10">Or else I had ill luck.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Birds round about his chamber stand,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And he them feeds with his own hand;</div> - <div class="verse indent10">’Tis his humility.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And if they do want any thing,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They need but whistle for their king,</div> - <div class="verse indent10">And he comes presently.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_100"></a>[100]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">But now then, for these parts he must</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Be enstiled Lewis the Just<a id="FNanchor_70" href="#Footnote_70" class="fnanchor">[70]</a>,</div> - <div class="verse indent10">Great Henry’s lawful heir;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When to his stile to add more words,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They’d better call him King of Birds,</div> - <div class="verse indent10">Than of the great Navarre.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He hath besides a pretty quirk,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Taught him by Nature, how to work</div> - <div class="verse indent10">In iron with much ease.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sometimes to the forge he goes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There he knocks, and there he blows,</div> - <div class="verse indent10">And makes both locks and keys:</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_101"></a>[101]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Which puts a doubt in every one,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whether he be Mars or Vulcan’s son,</div> - <div class="verse indent10">Some few believe his mother.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But let them all say what they will,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I came resolv’d, and so think still,</div> - <div class="verse indent10">As much the one as th’ other.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The people, too, dislike the youth,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Alledging reasons, for, in truth,</div> - <div class="verse indent10">Mothers should honour’d be:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Yet others say, he loves her rather</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As well as ere she lov’d his father,</div> - <div class="verse indent10">And that’s notoriously.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">His queen, a pretty little wench,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Was born in Spain, speaks little French,</div> - <div class="verse indent10">She’s nere like to be mother:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For her incestuous house could not</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Have children which were not begot</div> - <div class="verse indent10">By uncle or by brother.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_102"></a>[102]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Now why should Lewis, being so just,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Content himself to take his lust</div> - <div class="verse indent10">With his Lucina’s mate;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And suffer his little pretty queen,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From all her race that yet hath been,</div> - <div class="verse indent10">So to degenerate?</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">’Twere charity for to be known</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To love others children as his own,</div> - <div class="verse indent10">And why? It is no shame;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Unless that he would greater be</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Than was his father Henery,</div> - <div class="verse indent10">Who, men thought, did the same.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_103"></a>[103]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="JOHN_HAMMON">JOHN HAMMON.</h2> - -</div> - -<p>John Hammon, M.A., to whom the following -“Exhortation” is addressed, was instituted to the -rectory of Bibbesford and chapel of Bewdley in -Worcestershire the 2d of March 1614, on the presentation -of sir William Cook. The new zeal -with which he was inspired arose most probably -from the intrusion of the “Book of Sports,” by -James, in 1618<a id="FNanchor_71" href="#Footnote_71" class="fnanchor">[71]</a>, in which the king’s pleasure is -declared, “that, after the end of divine service,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_104"></a>[104]</span> -our good people be not disturbed, letted or discouraged -from any lawfull recreation; such as -dauncing, either men or women; archerie for men, -leaping, vaulting, or any other such harmlesse -recreation; nor from having of May games, Witson -ales, and Morris dances, and the <i>setting up of -Maypoles and other sports therein used</i>; and that -women shall have leave to carry rushes to the -church for the decoring of it, according to their -old custome.”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_105"></a>[105]</span></p> - -<h3>AN EXHORTATION<br /> -<span class="smaller">TO</span><br /> -MR. JOHN HAMMON,<br /> -<span class="smaller">MINISTER IN THE PARISH OF BEWDLY,</span></h3> - -<p class="center"><i>For the battering downe of the Vanityes of the Gentiles, -which are comprehended in a Maypole</i>.</p> - -<p class="center">Written by a Zealous Brother from the Black-fryers.</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The mighty zeale which thou hast new put on,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Neither by prophet nor by prophetts sonne</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As yet prevented, doth transport mee so</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Beyond my selfe, that, though I ne’re could go</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Farr in a verse, and all rithmes have defy’d</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Since Hopkins and old Thomas Sternhold dy’de,</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_106"></a>[106]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">(Except it were that little paines I tooke</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To please good people in a prayer-booke</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That I sett forth, or so) yet must I raise</div> - <div class="verse indent0">My spirit for thee, who shall in thy praise</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Gird up her loynes, and furiously run</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All kinde of feet, save Satans cloven one.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Such is thy zeale, so well dost thou express it,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That, (wer ’t not like a charme,) I’de say, Christ blesse it.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I needs must say ’tis a spirituall thing</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To raile against a bishopp, or the king;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nor are they meane adventures wee have bin in,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">About the wearing of the churches linnen;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But these were private quarrells: this doth fall</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Within the compass of the generall.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whether it be a pole painted, and wrought</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Farr otherwise, then from the wood ’twas brought,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whose head the idoll-makers hand doth croppe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where a lew’d bird, towring upon the topp,</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_107"></a>[107]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Lookes like the calfe at Horeb; at whose roots</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The unyoak’t youth doth exercise his foote;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or whether it reserve his boughes, befreinded</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By neighb’ring bushes, and by them attended:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">How caust thou chuse but seeing it complaine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That Baalls worship’t in the groves againe?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tell mee how curst an egging, what a sting</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of lust do their unwildy daunces bring?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The simple wretches say they meane no harme,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They doe not, surely; but their actions warme</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Our purer blouds the more: for Sathan thus</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tempts us the more, that are more righteous.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Oft hath a Brother most sincerely gon,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Stifled in prayer and contemplation,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When lighting on the place where such repaire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He viewes the nimphes, and is quite out in ’s prayer.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Oft hath a Sister, grownded in the truth,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seeing the jolly carriage of the youth,</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_108"></a>[108]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Bin tempted to the way that’s broad and bad;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And (wert not for our private pleasures) had</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Renounc’t her little ruffe, and goggle eye,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And quitt her selfe of the Fraternity.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">What is the mirth, what is the melody,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That setts them in this Gentiles vanity?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When in our sinagogue wee rayle at sinne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And tell men of the faults which they are in,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With hand and voice so following our theames,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That wee put out the side-men from their dreames.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sounds not the pulpett, which wee then be-labour,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Better, and holyer, then doth the tabour?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Yet, such is unregenerate mans folly,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hee loves the wicked noyse, and hates the holy.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Routes and wilde pleasures doe invite temptation,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And this is dangerous for our damnation;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wee must not move our selves, but, if w’ are mov’d,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Man is but man; and therefore those that lov’d</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_109"></a>[109]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Still to seeme good, would evermore dispence</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With their owne faults, so they gave no offence.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">If the times sweete entising, and the blood</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That now begins to boyle, have thought it good</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To challenge Liberty and Recreation,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Let it be done in holy contemplation:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Brothers and Sisters in the feilds may walke,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Beginning of the Holy Worde to talke,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of David, and Uriahs lovely wife,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of Thamar, and her lustfull brothers strife;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then, underneath the hedge that woos them next,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They may sitt down; and there act out the text.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nor do wee want, how ere wee live austeere,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In winter Sabbath-nights our lusty cheere;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And though the pastors grace, which oft doth hold</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Halfe an howre long, make the provision cold,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wee can be merry; thinking ’t nere the worse</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To mend the matter at the second course.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Chapters are read, and hymnes are sweetly sung,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Joyntly commanded by the nose and tongue;</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_110"></a>[110]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Then on the Worde wee diversly dilate,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wrangling indeed for heat of zeale, not hate:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When at the length an unappeased doubt</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Feircely comes in, and then the light goes out;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Darkness thus workes our peace, and wee containe</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Our fyery spiritts till we see againe.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Till then, no voice is heard, no tongue doth goe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Except a tender Sister shreike, or so.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Such should be our delights, grave and demure,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Not so abominable, not so impure,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As those thou seek’st to hinder, but I feare</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Satan will bee too strong; his kingdome’s here:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Few are the righteous now, nor do I know</div> - <div class="verse indent0">How wee shall ere this idoll overthrow;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Since our sincerest patron is deceas’t,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The number of the righteous is decreast.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But wee do hope these times will on, and breed</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A faction mighty for us; for indeede</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_111"></a>[111]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Wee labour all, and every Sister joynes</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To have regenerate babes spring from our loynes:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Besides, what many carefully have done,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Getting the unrighteous man, a righteous sonne.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then stoutly on, let not thy flocke range lewdly</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In their old vanity, thou lampe of Bewdly.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">One thing I pray thee; do not too much thirst</div> - <div class="verse indent0">After Idolatryes last fall; but first</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Follow this suite more close, let it not goe</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Till it be thine as thou would’st have ’t: for soe</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thy successors, upon the same entayle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hereafter, may take up the Whitson-ale.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_112"></a>[112]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="ANNE">ANNE,<br /> -<span class="smaller">WIFE OF JAMES THE FIRST,<br /> -Daughter of Frederick the Second, king of Denmark,<br /> -died of a dropsy the 2d of March 1619.</span></h2> - -</div> - -<p>On the 18th of November 1618, a comet (as alluded -to in a foregoing poem) was seen in Libra, -which continued visible till the 16th of December; -and the vulgar, who think</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Nunquam futilibus excanduit ignibus æther,</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="noindent">considered it indicative of great misfortunes; and -the death of the queen which closely followed, the -first object of its portentous mission.</p> - -<p>“The queen was in her great condition,” says -Wilson, “a good woman, not tempted from that -height she stood on to embroyl her spirit much -with things below her, only giving herself content<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_113"></a>[113]</span> -in her own house with such recreations as might -not make time tedious unto her; and though -great persons’ actions are often pried into, and -made envy’s mark, yet nothing could be fixed -upon her that left any great impression, but that -she may have engraven upon her monument a -character of virtue.”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_114"></a>[114]</span></p> - -<h3>AN ELEGY<br /> -<span class="smaller">UPON</span><br /> -THE DEATH OF QUEENE ANNE.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Noe; not a quatch, sad poets; doubt you,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There is not greife enough without you?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or that it will asswage ill newes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To say, Shee’s dead, that was your muse?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Joine not with Death to make these times</div> - <div class="verse indent0">More grievous then most grievous rimes.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">And if ’t be possible, deare eyes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The famous Universityes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">If bold your eyes bee matches, sleepe;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or, if you will be loyall, weepe:</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_115"></a>[115]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">For-beare the press, there’s none will looke</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Before the mart for a new booke.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Why should you tell the world what witts</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Grow at New-parkes, or Campus-pitts?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or what conceipts youth stumble on,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Taking the ayre towards Trumpington?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nor you, grave tutours, who doe temper</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Your long and short with <i>que</i> and <i>semper</i>;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O doe not, when your owne are done,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Make for my ladyes eldest sonne</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Verses, which he will turne to prose,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When he shall read what you compose:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nor, for an epithite that failes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bite off your unpoëticke nailes.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Unjust! Why should you in these vaines,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Punish your fingers for your braines?</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Know henceforth, that griefes vitall part</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Consists in nature, not in art:</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_116"></a>[116]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">And verses that are studied</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mourne for themselves, not for the dead.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Heark, the Queenes epitaph shall bee</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Noe other then her pedigree:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For lines in bloud cutt out are stronger</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then lines in marble, and last longer:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And such a verse shall never fade,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That is begotten, and not made.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Her father, brother, husband, ... kinges;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Royall relations! from her springes</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A prince and princesse; and from those</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Faire certaintyes, and rich hope growes.”</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Here’s poetry shall be secure</div> - <div class="verse indent0">While Britaine, Denmarke, Rheine endure:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Enough on earth; what purchase higher,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Save heaven, to perfect her desire?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And as a straying starr intic’t</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And governd those wise-men to Christ,</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_117"></a>[117]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Ev’n soe a herauld-starr this yeare</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Did beckon to her to appeare:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A starr which did not to our nation</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Portend her death, but her translation:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For when such harbingers are seene,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">God crownes a saint, not kills a queene.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_118"></a>[118]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="VINCENT_CORBET_SR">VINCENT CORBET,</h2> - -</div> - -<p class="noindent">Who, from causes which I have not conclusively -ascertained, assumed the name of Poynter, was -one of those by whose experience and information -sir Hugh Platt, at a period when the horticultural -arts in this country were in their infancy, was -enabled to publish his “Garden Of Eden.” The -beautiful “Epitaph” of Ben Jonson, and the following -“Elegy,” are high testimonials of his amiable -and virtuous disposition.</p> - -<p>His father’s name I have not learned; but his -mother, whose name was Rose, was buried at -Twickenham, September the 13th, 1611, and the -register of the same parish proves that her son -pursued her path the 29th April, 1619.</p> - -<p>Among other legacies, he bequeathed to the -poor of Twickenham forty shillings, to be paid<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_119"></a>[119]</span> -immediately after his decease; and four loads of -charcoal, to be distributed at the discretion of the -churchwardens. These bequests are overlooked -by Ironside and Lysons, and I am happy in recording -the father of bishop Corbet as a benefactor -to my native village.</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Nescis quâ natale solum dulcedine captos</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Ducit, et immemores non sinit esse sui.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_120"></a>[120]</span></p> - -<h3>AN ELEGIE<br /> -<span class="smaller">UPON</span><br /> -THE DEATH OF HIS OWNE FATHER.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Vincent Corbet, farther knowne</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By Poynters name, then by his owne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Here lyes ingaged till the day</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of raising bones, and quickning clay.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nor wonder, reader, that he hath</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Two surnames in his epitaph;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For this one did comprehend</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All that two familyes could lend:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And if to know more arts then any</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Could multiply one into many,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Here a colony lyes, then,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Both of qualityes and men.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Yeares he liv’d well nigh fourscore;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But count his vertues, he liv’d more;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And number him by doeing good,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He liv’d their age beyond the Flood.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_121"></a>[121]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Should wee undertake his story,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Truth would seeme fain’d, and plainesse glory:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Beside, this tablet were too small,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Add to the pillers and the wall.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Yet of this volume much is found,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Written in many a fertill ground;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where the printer thee affords</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Earth for paper, trees for words.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He was Natures factour here,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And legier lay for every sheire;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To supply the ingenious wants</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of some spring-fruites, and forraigne plants.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Simple he was, and wise withall;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His purse nor base, nor prodigall;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Poorer in substance then in freinds;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Future and publicke were his endes;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His conscience, like his dyett, such</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As neither tooke nor left too much:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Soe that made lawes were uselesse growne</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To him, he needed but his owne.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_122"></a>[122]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Did he his neighbours bid, like those</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That feast them only to enclose?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or with their rost meate racke their rents,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And cozen them with their consents?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Noe; the free meetings at his boord</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Did but one litterall sence afforde;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Noe close or aker understood,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But only love and neighbourhood.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His alms were such as Paul defines,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Not causes to be said, but signes;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which alms, by faith, hope, love, laid down,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Laid up what now he wears ... a crown.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Besides his fame, his goods, his life,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He left a greiv’d sonne, and a wife;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Straunge sorrow, not to be beleiv’d,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whenas the sonne and heire is greiv’d.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Reade then, and mourne, what ere thou art</div> - <div class="verse indent2">That doost hope to have a part</div> - <div class="verse indent2">In honest epitaphs; least, being dead,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Thy life bee written, and not read.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_123"></a>[123]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_LADY_HADDINGTON">THE LADY HADDINGTON</h2> - -</div> - -<p>Was first wife of John Ramsey, viscount Haddington -in Scotland, and daughter of Robert Radcliffe, -earl of Sussex. Her marriage was celebrated -by Ben Jonson, in a masque presented at -court on the Shrove-Tuesday at night (1608)<a id="FNanchor_72" href="#Footnote_72" class="fnanchor">[72]</a>; -and here is her monody by Corbet.</p> - -<p>She had two sons, Charles and James, and a -daughter, Elizabeth, who all died young. Her -father died without surviving issue, September 22d, -1629.</p> - -<p>Her husband, who was a great favourite with -king James, survived her, and was created baron -of Kingston upon Thames, and earl of Holderness, -22 Jan. 1620-1. He had a second wife, daughter -of sir William Cockayne, alderman of London<a id="FNanchor_73" href="#Footnote_73" class="fnanchor">[73]</a>:</p> - -<p>But his first lady, the subject of the present -article, was evidently dead before his elevation to -the English peerage.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_124"></a>[124]</span></p> - -<h3>AN ELEGIE<br /> -<span class="smaller">UPON THE DEATH OF</span><br /> -THE LADY HADDINGTON,<br /> -<span class="smaller">WHO DYED OF THE SMALL POX.</span></h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Deare losse, to tell the world I greive were true,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But that were to lament my selfe, not you;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That were to cry out helpe for my affaires,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For which nor publick thought, nor private, cares:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">No, when thy fate I publish amongst men,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I should have power, and write with the States pen:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I should in naming thee force publicke teares,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And bid their eyes pay ransome for their cares.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_125"></a>[125]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">First, thy whole life was a short feast of witt,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And Death th’ attendant which did waite on it:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To both mankind doth owe devotion ample,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To that their first, to this their last example.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And though ’twere praise enough (with them whose fame</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And vertue’s nothing but an ample name)</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That thou wert highly borne, (which no man doubtes)</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And so mightst swath base deedes in noble cloutes;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Yet thou thy selfe in titles didst not shroud,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And being noble, wast nor foole, nor proud;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And when thy youth was ripe, when now the suite</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of all the longing court was for thy fruit,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">How wisely didst thou choose! Foure blessed eyes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The kings and thine, had taught thee to be wise.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Did not the best of men thee virgin give</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Into his handes, by which himselfe did live?</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_126"></a>[126]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Nor didst thou two yeares after talke of force,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or, lady-like, make suit for a divorce:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who, when their owne wilde lust is falsely spent,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cry out, “My lord, my lord is impotent.”</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nor hast thou in his nuptiall armes enjoy’d</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Barren imbraces, but wert girl’d and boy’d:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Twice-pretty-ones thrice worthier were their youth</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Might shee but bring them up, that brought them forth:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shee would have taught them by a thousand straines,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">(Her bloud runns in their manners, not their veines)</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That glory is a lye; state a grave sport;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And country sicknesse above health at court.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Oh what a want of her loose gallants have,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Since shee hath chang’d her window for a grave;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From whence shee us’d to dart out witt so fast,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And stick them in their coaches as they past!</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_127"></a>[127]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Who now shall make well-colour’d vice looke pale?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or a curl’d meteor with her eyes exhale,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And talke him into nothing? Who shall dare</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tell barren braines they dwell in fertill haire?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who now shall keepe ould countesses in awe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And, by tart similyes, repentance draw</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From those, whome preachers had given ore? Even such</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whome sermons could not reach, her arrowes touch.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hereafter, fooles shall prosper with applause,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And wise men smile, and no man aske the cause:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hee of fourescore, three night capps, and two haires,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall marry her of twenty, and get heyres</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which shall be thought his owne; and none shall say</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But tis a wondrous blessing, and he may.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_128"></a>[128]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Now (which is more then pitty) many a knight,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which can doe more then quarrell, less then fight,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall choose his weapons, ground; draw seconds thither,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Put up his sword, and not be laught at neyther.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Oh thou deform’d unwoeman-like disease,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That plowst up flesh and bloud, and there sow’st pease,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And leav’st such printes on beauty, that dost come</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As clouted shon do on a floore of lome;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thou that of faces hony-combes dost make,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And of two breasts two cullenders, forsake</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thy deadly trade; thou now art rich, give ore,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And let our curses call thee forth no more.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or, if thou needs will magnify thy power,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Goe where thou art invoked every houre</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Amongst the gamsters, where they name thee thicke</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At the last maine, or the last pocky nicke.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_129"></a>[129]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Get thee a lodging neare thy clyent, dice,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There thou shalt practice on more then one vice.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There’s wherewithall to entertaine the pox,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There’s more then reason, there’s rime for ’t, the box.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thou who hast such superfluous store of game,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Why struckst thou one whose ruine is thy shame?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O, thou hast murdred where thou shouldst have kist;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And, where thy shaft was needfull, there it mist.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thou shouldst have chosen out some homely face,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where thy ill-favour’d kindnesse might adde grace,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That men might say, How beauteous once was shee!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or, What a peece, ere shee was seaz’d by thee!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thou shouldst have wrought on some such ladyes mould</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That ne’re did love her lord, nor ever could</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Untill shee were deform’d, thy tyranny</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Were then within the rules of charity.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_130"></a>[130]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">But upon one whose beauty was above</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All sort of art, whose love was more then love,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">On her to fix thy ugly counterfett,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Was to erect a pyramide of jett,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And put out fire to digg a turfe from hell,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And place it where a gentle soule should dwell:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A soule which in the body would not stay,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When twas noe more a body, nor good clay,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But a huge ulcer. O thou heav’nly race,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thou soule that shunn’st th’ infection of thy case,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thy house, thy prison, pure soule, spotless, faire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rest where no heat, no cold, no compounds are!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rest in that country, and injoy that ease,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which thy frayle flesh deny’de, and her disease!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_131"></a>[131]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="CHRIST-CHURCH_PLAY"><span class="smaller">ON THE</span><br /> -CHRIST-CHURCH PLAY.</h2> - -</div> - -<p>The failure of success in the representation of -this play has been detailed in the Life of the Bishop: -indeed it seems to have subjected the Oxonians to -much ridicule, which the elegant bishop King<a id="FNanchor_74" href="#Footnote_74" class="fnanchor">[74]</a> -joined with Corbet in retorting. One of the numerous -banters on this occasion is recorded by -Wood, and deserves to be preserved:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“At Christ-Church ‘Marriage,’ done before the king,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lest that those mates should want an offering,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The king himself did offer—What? I pray.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He offer’d twice or thrice to go away.”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_132"></a>[132]</span></p> - -<h3><span class="smaller">ON</span><br /> -CHRIST-CHURCH PLAY<br /> -AT WOODSTOCK.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">If wee, at Woodstock, have not pleased those,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whose clamorous judgments lye in urging noes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And, for the want of whifflers, have destroy’d</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Th’ applause, which wee with vizards hadd enjoy’d,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wee are not sorry; for such witts as these</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Libell our windowes oft’ner then our playes;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or, if their patience be moov’d, whose lipps</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Deserve the knowledge of the proctorships,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or judge by houses, as their howses goe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Not caring if their cause be good or noe;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nor by desert or fortune can be drawne</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To credit us, for feare they loose their pawne;</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_133"></a>[133]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Wee are not greatly sorry; but if any,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Free from the yoake of the ingaged many,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That dare speake truth even when their head stands by,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or when the seniors spoone is in the pye;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nor to commend the worthy will forbeare,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Though he of Cambridge, or of Christ-church were,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And not of his owne colledge; and will shame</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To wrong the person, for his howse, or name;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">If any such be greiv’d, then downe proud spirit;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">If not, know, number never conquer’d merit.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_134"></a>[134]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_DUKE_OF_BUCKINGHAM">THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.</h2> - -</div> - -<p>Of the romantic expedition to Spain of “Baby -Charles and Stennie” an account is given by Clarendon, -and a more minute narrative by Arthur -Wilson in his Life of James. The voyage was -conducted with great secrecy, and very few attendants: -but it is worthy remark, that Archee -“the princes fool-man” was one of the party. -Howell, who was at Madrid at the time, says, -“Our cousin Archy hath more privilege than any, -for he often goes with his fool’s-coat where the -<i>Infanta</i> is with her Meninas and ladies of honour, -and keeps a blowing and blustering amongst them, -and flurts out what he list.” One of his “flurts” -at the Spaniards is related in the same page<a id="FNanchor_75" href="#Footnote_75" class="fnanchor">[75]</a>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_135"></a>[135]</span></p> - -<p>The poem, as far as it describes the various rumours -during the absence of the parties, a period -of great consternation, is curious: the report of -Buckingham’s “difference with the Cond’ Olivares” -rests upon better authority than the then -opinion of the poet.</p> - -<p>They left the court Feb. 17th, and returned to -England the 5th Oct. 1623.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_136"></a>[136]</span></p> - -<h3>A LETTER<br /> -<span class="smaller">TO</span><br /> -THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM,<br /> -<span class="smaller">BEING WITH THE PRINCE IN SPAINE.</span></h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">I’ve read of ilands floating and remov’d</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In Ovids time, but never heard it prov’d</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Till now: that fable, by the prince and you,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By your transporting England, is made true.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wee are not where wee were; the dog-starr raignes</div> - <div class="verse indent0">No cooler in our climate, then in Spaines;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The selfe-same breath, same ayre, same heate, same burning,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Is here, as there; will be, till your returning:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Come, e’re the card be alter’d, lest perhaps</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Your stay may make an errour in our mapps;</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_137"></a>[137]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Lest England should be found, when you shall passe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A thousand miles more southward then it was.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Oh that you were, my lord, oh that you were</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Now in Blackfryers, in a disguis’d haire;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That you were Smith againe, two houres to bee</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In Paules next Sunday, at full sea at three;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There you should heare the legend of each day,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The perills of your inne, and of your way;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Your enterprises, accidents, untill</div> - <div class="verse indent0">You did arrive at court, and reach Madrill.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There you should heare how the State-grandees flout you,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With their twice-double diligence about you;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">How our environ’d prince walkes with a guard</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of Spanish spies, and his owne servants barr’d;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">How not a chaplaine of his owne may stay</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When hee would heare a sermon preach’d, or pray.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">You would be hungry, having din’d, to heare</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The price of victuailes, and the scarcity, there;</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_138"></a>[138]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">As if the prince had ventur’d there his life</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To make a famine, not to fetch a wife.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Your eggs (which might be addle too) are deare</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As English capons; capons as sheepe, here;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">No grasse neither for cattle; for they say</div> - <div class="verse indent0">It is not cutt and made, grasse there growes hay:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That ’tis soe seething hott in Spaine, they sweare</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They never heard of a raw oyster there:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Your cold meate comes in reaking, and your wine</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Is all burnt sack, the fire was in the vine;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Item, your pullets are distinguish’t there</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Into foure quarters, as wee carve the yeare,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And are a weeke a wasting: Munday noone</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A wing; at supper something with a spoone;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tuesday a legg, and soe forth; Sunday more,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The liver and a gizard betweene foure:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And for your mutton, in the best houshoulder</div> - <div class="verse indent0">’Tis felony to cheapen a whole shoulder.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lord! how our stomackes come to us againe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When wee conceive what snatching is in Spaine!</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_139"></a>[139]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">I, whilst I write, and doe the newes repeate,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Am forc’t to call for breakfast in, and eate:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And doe you wonder at the dearth the while?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The flouds that make it run in th’ middle ile,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Poets of Paules, those of duke Humfryes messe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That feede on nought but graves and emptinesse.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But heark you, noble sir, in one crosse weeke</div> - <div class="verse indent0">My lord hath lost a thowsand pound at gleeke;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And though they doe allow but little meate,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They are content your losses should be great.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">False, on my deanery! falser then your fare is;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or then your difference with <i>Cond’ de Olivares</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which was reported strongly for one tyde,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But, after six houres floating, ebb’d and dyde.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">If God would not this great designe should be</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Perfect and round without some knavery,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nor that our prince should end this enterprize,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But for soe many miles, soe many lyes:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">If for a good event the Heav’ns doe please</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mens tongues should become rougher then the seas,</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_140"></a>[140]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">And that th’ expence of paper shall be such,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">First written, then translated out of Dutch:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Corantoes, diets, packets, newes, more newes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which soe much innocent whitenesse doth abuse;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">If first the Belgicke<a id="FNanchor_76" href="#Footnote_76" class="fnanchor">[76]</a> pismire must be seene,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Before the Spanish lady be our queene;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With such successe, and such an end at last,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All’s wellcome, pleasant, gratefull, that is past.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And such an end wee pray that you should see,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A type of that which mother Zebedee</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wisht for her sonnes in heav’n; the prince and you</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At either hand of James, (you need not sue)</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hee on the right, you on the left, the king</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Safe in the mids’t, you both invironing.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_141"></a>[141]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Then shall I tell my lord, his word and band</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Are forfeit, till I kisse the princes hand;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then shall I tell the duke, your royall friend</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Gave all the other honours, this you earn’d;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">This you have wrought for; this you hammer’d out</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Like a strong Smith, good workman and a stout.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In this I have a part, in this I see</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Some new addition smiling upon mee:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who, in an humble distance, claime a share</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In all your greatnesse, what soe ere you are.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_142"></a>[142]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="EARL_OF_DORSET">RICHARD,<br /> -THE THIRD EARL OF DORSET,</h2> - -</div> - -<p class="noindent">Is described by his wife, the celebrated lady Anne -Clifford, daughter of George earl of Cumberland, -in the manuscript memoirs of her life, as a man -“in his own nature of a just mind, of a sweet disposition, -and very valiant in his own person. He -had a great advantage in his breeding, by the -wisdom and devotion of his grandfather, Thomas -Sackville, earl of Dorset, and lord high treasurer -of England, who was then held one of the wisest -of that time; by which means he was so good -a scholar in all manner of learning, that, in his -youth, when he was at the university, there was -none of the young nobility then students there -that excelled him. He was also a good patriot -to his country, and generally well beloved in it;<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_143"></a>[143]</span> -much esteemed in all the parliaments that sat in -his time, and so great a lover of scholars and soldiers, -as that, with an excessive bounty towards -them, or indeed any of worth that were in distress, -he did much diminish his estate; and also -with excessive prodigality in house-keeping, and -other noble ways at court, as tilting, masking, and -the like; prince Henry being then alive, who was -much addicted to those noble exercises, and of -whom he was much beloved.” He died at the -age of 35, March 28th, 1624.</p> - -<p>I should be very unwilling to deprive Corbet -of the praise due to a poem of so much intrinsic -merit; but as the following epitaph is printed -among the poems of his contemporary, King, bishop -of Chichester, and again attributed to the -latter in MS. Ashmole, A 35, Corbet’s claim to -the composition of it is rendered very disputable.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_144"></a>[144]</span></p> - -<h3><span class="smaller">ON</span><br /> -THE EARL OF DORSETS DEATH.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Let no prophane, ignoble foot tread here,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">This hallowed piece of earth, Dorset lyes there:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A small poor relique of a noble spirit,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Free as the air, and ample as his merit:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A soul refin’d, no proud forgetting lord,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But mindful of mean names, and of his word:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who lov’d men for his honour, not his ends,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And had the noblest way of getting friends</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By loving first, and yet who knew the court,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But understood it better by report</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Than practice: he nothing took from thence</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But the kings favour for his recompence.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who, for religion or his countreys good,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Neither his honour valued, nor his blood.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_145"></a>[145]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Rich in the worlds opinion, and mens praise,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And full in all we could desire, but days.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He that is warn’d of this, and shall forbear</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To vent a sigh for him, or shed a tear,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">May he live long scorn’d, and unpitied fall,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And want a mourner at his funeral!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_146"></a>[146]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="NEW-BORN_PRINCE"><span class="smaller">TO THE</span><br /> -NEW-BORNE PRINCE,<br /> -<span class="smaller">AFTERWARDS CHARLES II.</span></h2> - -</div> - -<p class="center">(Born May 29th<a id="FNanchor_77" href="#Footnote_77" class="fnanchor">[77]</a>, 1630; died 6th of February, 1684-5.)</p> - -<p class="center">UPON THE APPARITION OF A STARR, AND THE -FOLLOWING ECCLYPSE.</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Was heav’ne afray’d to be out-done on earth</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When thou wert borne, great prince, that it brought forth</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Another light to helpe the aged sunn,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lest by thy luster he might be out-shone?</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_147"></a>[147]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Or were th’ obsequious starres so joy’d to view</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thee, that they thought their countlesse eyes too few</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For such an object; and would needes create</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A better influence to attend thy state?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or would the Fates thereby shew to the earth</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A Cæsars birth, as once a Cæsars death?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And was ’t that newes that made pale Cynthia run</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In so great hast to intercept the sunn;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And, enviously, so shee might gaine thy sight,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Would darken him from whome shee had her light?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mysterious prodigies yet sure they bee,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Prognosticks of a rare prosperity:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For, can thy life promise lesse good to men,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whose birth was th’ envy, and the care of heav’ne?</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_148"></a>[148]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="BIRTH"><span class="smaller">ON</span><br /> -THE BIRTH<br /> -<span class="smaller">OF</span><br /> -THE YOUNG PRINCE CHARLES.</h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">When private men gett sonnes they get a spoone<a id="FNanchor_78" href="#Footnote_78" class="fnanchor">[78]</a>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Without ecclypse, or any starr at noone:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When kings gett sonnes, they get withall supplyes</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And succours, farr beyond all subsedyes.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wellcome, Gods loane! thou tribute to the State,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thou mony newly coyn’d, thou fleete of plate!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thrice happy childe! whome God thy father sent</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To make him rich without a parliament!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_149"></a>[149]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="VINCENT_CORBET_JR">VINCENT CORBET,</h2> - -</div> - -<p class="noindent">The only son of the poet, was born (if the authority -of a manuscript in the Harleian collection -may be relied upon, in which this pathetic address -appears,) on the 10th of November, 1627. -From the following injunction in the bishop’s -will<a id="FNanchor_79" href="#Footnote_79" class="fnanchor">[79]</a>, it seems he was educated at one of the -universities: “I commit and commend the nurture -and maintenance of my sonne and daughter -unto the faythfull and loving care of my mother-in-law, -declaring my intent, &c., that my sonne -be placed at Oxford or Cambridge, where I require -him, upon my blessing, to apply himself to -his booke studiously and industriously.”</p> - -<p>In 1648 he administered to the will<a id="FNanchor_80" href="#Footnote_80" class="fnanchor">[80]</a> of his -grandmother Anne Hutton; and of the further -circumstances of his life I am ignorant.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_150"></a>[150]</span></p> - -<h3><span class="smaller">TO HIS SON,</span><br /> -VINCENT CORBET,</h3> - -<p class="center">On his <span class="smcap">Birth-Day</span>, November 10, 1630, being then -Three Years old.</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">What I shall leave thee none can tell,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But all shall say I wish thee well;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I wish thee, Vin, before all wealth,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Both bodily and ghostly health:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nor too much wealth, nor wit, come to thee,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So much of either may undo thee.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I wish thee learning, not for show,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Enough for to instruct, and know;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Not such as gentlemen require,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To prate at table, or at fire.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I wish thee all thy mothers graces,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thy fathers fortunes, and his places.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I wish thee friends, and one at court,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Not to build on, but support;</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_151"></a>[151]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">To keep thee, not in doing many</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Oppressions, but from suffering any.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I wish thee peace in all thy ways,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nor lazy nor contentious days;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And when thy soul and body part,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As innocent as now thou art<a id="FNanchor_81" href="#Footnote_81" class="fnanchor">[81]</a>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_152"></a>[152]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="DONNE">AN EPITAPH<br /> -<span class="smaller">ON</span><br /> -<span class="smcap">Dr. DONNE, Dean of Pauls</span>.</h2> - -</div> - -<p class="center">Born in 1573; died March 31, 1631.</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He that would write an epitaph for thee,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And do it well, must first begin to be</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Such as thou wert; for none can truly know</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thy worth, thy life, but he that hath liv’d so.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He must have wit to spare, and to hurl down</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Enough to keep the gallants of the town;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He must have learning plenty, both the laws</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Civil and common, to judge any cause;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Divinity great store, above the rest,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Not of the last edition, but the best.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He must have language, travel, all the arts,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Judgment to use, or else he wants thy parts:</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_153"></a>[153]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">He must have friends the highest, able to do,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Such as Mecænas and Augustus too.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He must have such a sickness, such a death,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or else his vain descriptions come beneath.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who then shall write an epitaph for thee,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He must be dead first; let ’t alone for me.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_154"></a>[154]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="BENET_CORBETT">CERTAIN FEW WOORDES<br /> -<span class="smaller">SPOKEN CONCERNINGE ONE</span><br /> -BENET CORBETT<br /> -<span class="smaller">AFTER HER DECEASE.</span></h2> - -</div> - -<p class="center">She died October the 2d, Anno 1634.</p> - -<p class="center">(From MS. Harl. No. 464.)</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Here, or not many feet from hence,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The virtue lies call’d Patience.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sickness and Death did do her honour</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By loosing paine and feare upon her.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tis true they forst her to a grave,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That’s all the triumph that they have....</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A silly one.... Retreat o’er night</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Proves conquest in the morning-fight:</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_155"></a>[155]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">She will rise up against them both....</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All sleep, believe it, is not sloth.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And, thou that read’st her elegie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Take something of her historie:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">She had one husband and one sonne;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ask who they were, and then have doone.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_156"></a>[156]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="ITER_BOREALE">ITER BOREALE</h2> - -</div> - -<p>Seems a sort of imitation of Horace’s Brundusian -journey. Davenant has “a journey into Worcestershire” -(page 215. fol. edit.) in a similar vein, -says Headley. If the popularity of this poem -may be estimated by the frequency of manuscript -copies in the public libraries, we may conclude -it was valued very highly, as the transcripts of it -are very numerous.</p> - -<p>Misled by one of these, I considered this poem, -the longest and most celebrated of bishop Corbet’s -productions, to have been written in 1625: subsequent -examination has induced me to place the -date of its composition considerably earlier: the -reasons on which this opinion is grounded, will be -detailed in the following analysis of the Tour.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_157"></a>[157]</span></p> - -<p>Our author commences his journey from Oxford -in a company consisting of four persons, -two of whom then were, and two of whom wished -to be, doctors: but there is nothing in the course -of the tour to show us which of the classes he belonged -to, unless we are to suppose, from the -shortness of cash which discovers itself before the -termination of his adventures, that he was rather -one of those who had wealth in expectancy than -in possession.</p> - -<div class="sidenote">30</div> - -<div class="sidenote">12</div> - -<p>They set off on the 10th of August, and, long -as the days are about that period, had a good chance -of sharpening their appetites by their first half-day’s -ride, thirty miles before dinner, when they sat down -to dine with Dr. Christopher Middleton, at his -rectory of Ashton on the Wall in Northamptonshire, -about eight miles north of Banbury; where -we learn that their entertainment was better than -the looks of their host, whom they left in the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_158"></a>[158]</span> -evening, and rode to Flore, about twelve miles -north-east, and took up their lodgings for the night.</p> - -<p>At Flore they were entertained by a country -surgeon, or (in the vulgar phrase) bone-setter, -the tenant of Dr. Leonard Hutton, the rector of -Flore and dean of Christ-Church, who fed them -upon venison.</p> - -<div class="sidenote">5</div> - -<p>The third morning they set off for Daventry, -about five miles. Here it happened to be the -market- and lecture-day: and after having washed -down the dust which their throats had acquired -in the ride, one of them was summoned by the -serjeant at mace to deliver the lecture; for which -they were all rewarded with thanks and wine.</p> - -<div class="sidenote">16</div> - -<div class="sidenote">13</div> - -<p>The fourth morning they rode to Lutterworth -in Leicestershire, about sixteen miles. This was -once the benefice of Wickliffe, the father of English -reformers; and here the tourist very properly -remarks on the double injustice done to that venerable<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_159"></a>[159]</span> -character, first by the Papists in burning -his body, and afterwards by the Puritans in destroying -the sacred memorial of the interment of -his ashes. At Lutterworth they were met by a -parson, who though well-beneficed was better-mannered, -and was their guide to his dwelling -within a mile of Leicester. A note on the older -editions of Corbet calls this gentleman the Parson -of Heathcot: but there is no place of the name of -Heathcot in that neighbourhood; and as, by -comparison with other parts of the tour in which -miles are mentioned, one mile will be invariably -found to signify one and a half at the least; and -as less than two reputed miles is accounted only -one mile in the distance of places, I presume it -was Ayleston, and not Heathcot, where the party -rested, and were regaled with stale beer. At length -they arrived at Leicester, thirteen miles north -of Lutterworth, where, passing over six steeples -and two hospitals, (“one hospital twice told,”)<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_160"></a>[160]</span> -which he refers to the eye of Camden, he censures -the ignorance of the alms-man, who, notwithstanding -it was written on the walls that Henry -of Grisemont laid the foundation, told them it -was John of Gaunt. Henry Plantagenet, earl of -Lancaster, was the first founder of the hospital -in the Newark at Leicester in the year 1330, -which was considerably enlarged and improved, -and converted into a college by his son Henry, -the good duke of Lancaster, in 1355; but there -is a more general sense in which the word Founder -is used, namely, that in which it is extended to -all those who inherit, either by descent or by purchase, -the patronage under the original founder. -And in this sense it may be applied to John of -Gaunt, the second duke of Lancaster, who married -his near kinswoman the heiress of the former -duke, and perfected both in buildings and endowments -what the others had commenced. The -other hospital alluded to, is that founded by<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_161"></a>[161]</span> -William Wigston, merchant of the Staple, about -1520.</p> - -<p>The tourist next observes on the extortion of -the innkeeper, who, reckoning by the number of -his guests rather than the goodness of his provision, -charged them seven shillings and sixpence -for bread and beer; but, after a kindly caution to -the publican to forbear such cozenage upon Divines -in future, lest they should be suspected of -drinking as freely as he charges them, turns from -a subject so unworthy of his Pegasus in disgust, -and inquires if this be not the burial-place of -Richard the Third; and, finding that there is no -memorial for him, moralizes upon the neglected -state in which he lies, as the eventual fate of all -greatness: then from Richard proceeds to Wolsey, -who was also buried at Leicester, and produces -similar reflections; and from Wolsey, to William -the ostler of the inn, who outdoes the company -in years as well as drink, and calls them to horse<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_162"></a>[162]</span> -as imperiously as if he had a warrant from the -earl of Nottingham.</p> - -<p>The earl of Nottingham here glanced at was -Charles lord Howard of Effingham, lord high admiral -of England under queen Elizabeth and king -James the First. He died in 1624.</p> - -<div class="sidenote">25</div> - -<p>From Leicester to Nottingham (twenty-five -miles) the travellers pass without noticing any -thing on their way, until approaching the latter -place they cross the Trent, pray to St. Andrew as -they ride up hill, into the town, and observe that -the people burrow, like conies, in caverns, from -whence the smoke ascends at the feet of the woman -who stands on the surface watching, down the -chimney, the cooking of her dinner. The part of -the town at which they enter is described as the -Rocky Parish, higher than the rest; and the church -of St. Mary, as embracing her Baby in her arms. -From hence they proceed to the Castle, which is -described as a ruin, with two statues of giants at the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_163"></a>[163]</span> -gates, whom the tourist severely censures for their -negligence in permitting their charge to come to -ruin, and reproaches them with the fidelity of the -giants at Guildhall and Holmeby, who had carefully -kept the buildings committed to their charge -when the founders were dead. The poet might -still compliment the giants at Guildhall; but of -Holmeby (Holdenby House, Northamptonshire, -built by queen Elizabeth’s lord chancellor, sir -Christopher Hatton,) not one stone remains upon -another: nay, the very memory of the giants -might have perished but for the Iter Boreale.</p> - -<p>The travellers then go to dinner at the Bull’s -Head, where the archbishop of York had been -before them, and where their discontent with bed -and diet was answered by a reference to the satisfaction -which <i>he</i> had received; and where the -aged landlord, formerly an ostler, is noticed as a -rare example to those who have an itch for gold.</p> - -<div class="sidenote">20</div> - -<p>Their next stage was to Newark, (about twenty<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_164"></a>[164]</span> -miles, or, according to the reckoning of the poet, -twelve), which is spoken of as no journey, but only -a walk; and the banks of the Trent as so fertile -and beautiful, that the English river takes away the -palm from the celebrated Meander. The pleasure -of this part of their journey was not diminished -by their reception at Newark, where they met -with a friend, out of respect to whom the town -united as a family to give the travellers a hearty -welcome; and even the landlord of one inn did -not repine that they had passed his house to go -to another, and the landlord of the inn where -they rested was more solicitous of their approbation -than his own profit. The very beggars -rather prayed for their friend than begged of his -guests, and the Puritans were willing to “let the -organs play,” if the visitors would tarry.</p> - -<p>From Newark they saw Bever (Belvoir) and -Lincoln, and would fain have gone there but for -the limitation on their purse and horses. At three<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_165"></a>[165]</span> -o’clock they set off, with twenty (thirty) miles to -ride, (probably to Melton Mowbray); and having -neither guide, nor horse of speed, after losing -their way, two hours after sun-set blundered upon -a village, from whence they obtained a guide to -Loughborough. From thence they set off next -morning for Bosworth, (eighteen miles,) but in -their way thither are lost in Charley Forest, and -ask their way from the travellers they meet about -the coal-mines at Coalorton, without receiving an -answer; when William, their attendant, seeing a -man approach, imagines himself to be in Fairyland. -But the party are agreeably surprised by -finding him one of the keepers of the forest, who -conducts them within view of Bosworth.</p> - -<p>At Bosworth they meet with far better treatment -than the appearance of the place had promised; -and, when their host there, who was their -guide the next morning, brought them near to -the field on which the battle of Bosworth was<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_166"></a>[166]</span> -fought, are greatly amused by his romantic description -of the battle. The guide seems to leave -them at Nuneaton in Warwickshire, six miles -(about nine) from Bosworth; from whence they -proceed to Coventry, nine miles; and from -thence, having scarcely had time to dine, depart -for Kenilworth, five miles, where they are offended -by the indecency of an aged parson, who -attended the servant of the lord Leicester, it is -presumed, to show them the Castle. The Castle -of Kenilworth was once the splendid residence -of Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, one of the -favourites of queen Elizabeth, and on his death, -in 1588, passed to his son, Robert Dudley, who -used the title of earl of Leicester,—but by a decree -of the Star-Chamber was declared to be illegitimate, -and from disgust at that sentence retired -into Italy, under a license for three years; and -being summoned by the privy-council, at the instigation -of his enemies, to return into England,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_167"></a>[167]</span> -and refusing to obey the summons, the Castle of -Kenilworth was, for his contumacy, seized by the -Crown under the statute of Fugitives; and Henry -prince of Wales, in the year 1611, purchased a -release of the inheritance of it from sir Robert -Dudley, who was to have the constableship of the -Castle, under prince Henry, for life. It does not -appear, however, that sir Robert Dudley resided -at Kenilworth afterwards: he probably had little -regard for a place of which he had been compelled -to relinquish the inheritance. This may account -for the neglected state in which it was found by -our poet and his companions.</p> - -<p>From Kenilworth they proceed to Warwick, -three (five) miles, noticing in their way the Cave -of the celebrated hero of English romance, Guy -earl of Warwick, as also his Pillar: and at Warwick -we have a humorous description of the landlady -of the inn. From the inn they proceed to -the Castle, where they are received by “the lord<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_168"></a>[168]</span> -of all this frame, the honourable Chancellor,” -whose politeness and elegance of manners receive -favourable notice. Sir Fulk Greville obtained a -grant of Warwick Castle from king James the -First, in the second year of his reign, (1604,) -and was about the same time appointed chancellor -of the exchequer; and resigned his office of chancellor, -on being elevated to the peerage by the -title of lord Brooke, 19th of January, 1620-21. -It may be observed, that the author of the Iter -notices him as an honourable chancellor, not as -noble lord; which he certainly would have done if -the Iter had not been of an earlier date than 1621.</p> - -<p>With sir Fulk Greville they found a prelate of -the church, an archdeacon, whom a note in the -old editions calls archdeacon Burton. This, I -presume, was Samuel Burton, A. M. of Christ-Church, -Oxford, who paid first-fruits for the archdeaconry -of Gloucester, in the cathedral of Gloucester, -the 9th of May, 1607, and died the 14th<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_169"></a>[169]</span> -of June, 1634, and was buried at Dry-Drayton -in Gloucestershire. He is described as sufficiently -corpulent to deserve the displeasure of the Puritans, -whom our author never loses an opportunity -of lashing.</p> - -<p>From Warwick they arrive at Flore, (about -twenty-one miles,) having been able to make both -ends (of their purse) meet; and, after staying -there four days, arrive at Banbury on St. Bartholomew’s -day, (24th of August,) desirous to see -what sport the saint would produce there. At -this place (where they rested at the sign of the -Altar-Stone) the tourist finds the altar converted -into an inn, and, judging by the sign, lodged in -a chapel, but, by the wine, in a bankrupt tavern; -and yet, by the coffins converted into horse-troughs, -a church. But though you may judge, -by what is found at the inn, that the church is -full of monuments, you will be disappointed; for -there was not an inscription in the church except<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_170"></a>[170]</span> -the names of the last year’s churchwardens,—with -buckets and cobwebs hanging, instead of painted -saints, in the windows. In short, the town seems -to have been a strange collection of sectaries differing -from each other.</p> - -<p>From hence he returns to Oxford, twenty-two -miles, with as little coin in his purse as sir Walter -Raleigh brought from his unsuccessful expedition -to Guiana in 1618; between which period and -1621 it is clear the poem was written.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_171"></a>[171]</span></p> - -<h3>ITER BOREALE.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Foure clerkes of Oxford, doctours two, and two</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That would be doctors, having lesse to do</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With Augustine then with Galen in vacation,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Chang’d studyes, and turn’d bookes to recreation:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And on the tenth of August, northward bent</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A journey, not so soon conceiv’d as spent.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The first halfe day they rode, they light upon</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A noble cleargy host, Kitt Middleton<a id="FNanchor_82" href="#Footnote_82" class="fnanchor">[82]</a>;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who, numb’ring out good dishes with good tales,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The major part o’ th’ cheere weigh’d downe the scales:</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_172"></a>[172]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">And though the countenance makes the feast, (say bookes,)</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wee nere found better welcome with worse lookes.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Here wee pay’d thankes and parted; and at night</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Had entertainement, all in one mans right<a id="FNanchor_83" href="#Footnote_83" class="fnanchor">[83]</a>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At Flore, a village; where our tenant shee,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sharp as a winters morning, feirce yet free,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With a leane visage, like a carved face</div> - <div class="verse indent0">On a court cupboard, offer’d up the place.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_173"></a>[173]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Shee pleas’d us well; but, yet, her husband better;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A harty fellow, and a good bone-setter<a id="FNanchor_84" href="#Footnote_84" class="fnanchor">[84]</a>.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Now, whether it were providence or lucke,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whether the keepers or the stealers bucke,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There wee had ven’son; such as Virgill slew</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When he would feast Æneas and his crew.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Here wee consum’d a day; and the third morne</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To Daintry with a land-wind were wee borne.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">It was the market and the lecture-day,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For lecturers sell sermons, as the lay</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Doe sheep and oxen; have their seasons just</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For both their marketts: there wee dranke downe dust.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In th’ interim comes a most officious drudge<a id="FNanchor_85" href="#Footnote_85" class="fnanchor">[85]</a>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His face and gowne drawne out with the same budge;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His pendant pouch, which was both large and wide,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lookt like a letters-patent by his side:</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_174"></a>[174]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">He was as awfull, as he had bin sent</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From Moses with th’ elev’nth commandement;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And one of us he sought; a sonne of Flore</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He must bid stand, and challendge for an hower.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The doctors both were quitted of that feare,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The one was hoarce, the other was not there;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wherefore him of the two he seazed, best</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Able to answere him of all the rest:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Because hee neede but ruminate that ore</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which he had chew’d the Sabbath-day before.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And though he were resolv’d to doe him right,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For Mr. Balyes sake, and Mr. Wright<a id="FNanchor_86" href="#Footnote_86" class="fnanchor">[86]</a>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Yet he dissembled that the mace did erre;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That he nor deacon was, nor minister.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">No! quoth the serjeant; sure then, by relation,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">You have a licence, sir, or toleration:</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_175"></a>[175]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">And if you have no orders ’tis the better,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So you have Dods Præcepts, or Cleavers Letters<a id="FNanchor_87" href="#Footnote_87" class="fnanchor">[87]</a>.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thus looking on his mace, and urging still</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Twas Mr. Wrights and Mr. Bayleyes will</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_176"></a>[176]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">That hee should mount; at last he condiscended</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To stopp the gapp; and so the treaty ended.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The sermon pleas’d, and, when we were to dine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wee all had preachers wages, thankes and wine.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Our next dayes stage was Lutterworth<a id="FNanchor_88" href="#Footnote_88" class="fnanchor">[88]</a>, a towne</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Not willing to be noted or sett downe</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By any traveller; for, when w’ had bin</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Through at both ends, wee could not finde an inne:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Yet, for the church sake, turne and light wee must,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hoping to see one dramme of Wickliffs dust<a id="FNanchor_89" href="#Footnote_89" class="fnanchor">[89]</a>;</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_177"></a>[177]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">But wee found none: for underneath the pole</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Noe more rests of his body then his soule.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Abused martyr! how hast thou bin torne</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By two wilde factions! First, the Papists burne</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thy bones for hate; the Puritans, in zeale,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They sell thy marble, and thy brasse they steale.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A parson<a id="FNanchor_90" href="#Footnote_90" class="fnanchor">[90]</a> mett us there, who had good store</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of livings, some say, but of manners more;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In whose streight chearefull age a man might see</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Well govern’d fortune, bounty wise and free.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He was our guide to Leister, save one mile,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There was his dwelling, where wee stay’d awhile,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And dranke stale beere, I thinke was never new,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which the dun wench that brought it us did brew.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_178"></a>[178]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">And now wee are at Leister, where wee shall</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Leape ore six steeples, and one hospitall</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Twice told; but those great landmarkes I referr</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To Camdens eye, Englands chorographer.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Let mee observe that almesmans heraldrye,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who being ask’d, what Henry that should be</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That was their founder, duke of Lancaster,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Answer’d: Twas John of Gaunt, I assure you, sir;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And so confuted all the walles, which sayd</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Henry of Grisemond this foundation layd.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The next thing to be noted was our cheere,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Enlarg’d, with seav’ne and sixpence bread and beere!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But, oh you wretched tapsters as you are,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who reckon by our number, not your ware,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And sett false figures for all companyes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Abusing innocent meales with oathes and lyes;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Forbeare your coos’nage to Divines that come,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Least they be thought to drinke up all your summe.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_179"></a>[179]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Spare not the Laity in your reckoning thus,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But sure your theft is scandalous to us.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Away, my muse, from this base subject, know</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thy Pegasus nere strooke his foote soe low.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Is not th’ usurping Richard buryed here,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That king of hate, and therefore slave of feare;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dragg’d from the fatall feild Bosworth, where hee</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lost life, and, what he liv’d for,—cruelty?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Search; find his name: but there is none. Oh kings!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Remember whence your power and vastnesse springs;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">If not as Richard now, so shall you bee;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who hath no tombe, but scorne and memorye.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And though that Woolsey from his store might save</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A pallace, or a colledge for his grave,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Yet there he lyes interred as if all</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of him to be remembred were his fall.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nothing but earth to earth, no pompeous waight</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Upon him, but a pibble or a quaite.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_180"></a>[180]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">If thou art thus neglected, what shall wee<a id="FNanchor_91" href="#Footnote_91" class="fnanchor">[91]</a></div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hope after death, who are but shreads of thee?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hold! William calls to horse; William is hee,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who, though he never saw threescore and three,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ore-reckons us in age, as he before</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In drink, and will baite nothing of foure score:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And he commands, as if the warrant came</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From the great earle himselfe of Nottingham.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There wee crost Trent, and on the other side</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Prayd to Saint Andrew; and up hill wee ride.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where wee observ’d the cunning men, like moles,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dwell not in howses, but were earth’t in holes;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So did they not builde upwards, but digg thorough,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As hermitts caves, or conyes do their borough:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Great underminers sure as any where;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tis thought the Powder-traitors practis’d there.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Would you not thinke the men stood on their heads,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When gardens cover howses there, like leades;</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_181"></a>[181]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">And on the chymneyes topp the mayd may know</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whether her pottage boyle or not, below;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There cast in hearbes, and salt, or bread; their meate</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Contented rather with the smoake then heate?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">This was the Rocky-Parish; higher stood</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Churches and houses, buildings stone and wood;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Crosses not yet demolish’t; and our Ladye</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With her armes on, embracing her whole Baby<a id="FNanchor_92" href="#Footnote_92" class="fnanchor">[92]</a>.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where let us note, though those are northerne parts,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Crosse finds in them more then southerne hearts.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Castle’s next; but what shall I report</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of that which is a ruine, was a fort?</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_182"></a>[182]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">The gates two statues keepe, which gyants<a id="FNanchor_93" href="#Footnote_93" class="fnanchor">[93]</a> are,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To whome it seemes committed was the care</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of the whole downfall. If it be your fault;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">If you are guilty; may king Davids vault<a id="FNanchor_94" href="#Footnote_94" class="fnanchor">[94]</a>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or Mortimers darke hole<a id="FNanchor_95" href="#Footnote_95" class="fnanchor">[95]</a>, contain you both<a id="FNanchor_96" href="#Footnote_96" class="fnanchor">[96]</a>!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A just reward for so prophane a sloth.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And if hereafter tidings shall be brought</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of any place or office to be bought,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the left lead, or unwedg’d timber yet</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall pass by your consent to purchase it;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">May your deformed bulkes endure the edge</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of axes, feele the beetle and the wedge!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">May all the ballads be call’d in and dye,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which sing the warrs of Colebrand and sir Guy!</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_183"></a>[183]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Oh you that doe Guild-hall and Holmeby keepe</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Soe carefully, when both the founders sleepe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">You are good giants, and partake no shame</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With those two worthlesse trunkes of Nottinghame:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Looke to your severall charges; wee must goe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Though greiv’d at heart to leave a castle so.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Bull-head<a id="FNanchor_97" href="#Footnote_97" class="fnanchor">[97]</a> is the word, and wee must eate;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Noe sorrow can descend soe deepe as meate:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So to the inne wee come; where our best cheere</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Was, that his grace of Yorke had lodged there:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hee was objected to us when wee call,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or dislike ought: “My lords grace” answers all:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“Hee was contented with this bed, this dyett.”</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That keepes our discontented stomackes quiett.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The inne-keeper was old, fourescore allmost,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Indeede an embleme rather then an host;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In whome wee read how God and Time decree</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To honour thrifty ostlers, such as hee.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_184"></a>[184]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">For in the stable first he did begin;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Now see hee is sole lord of the whole inne:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mark the encrease of straw and hay, and how,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By thrift, a bottle may become a mow.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Marke him, all you that have the golden itch,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All whome God hath condemned to be rich<a id="FNanchor_98" href="#Footnote_98" class="fnanchor">[98]</a>.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Farwell, glad father of thy daughter Maris,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thou ostler-phœnix, thy example rare is.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Wee are for Newarke after this sad talke;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And whither tis noe journey, but a walke.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nature is wanton there, and the high-way</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seem’d to be private, though it open lay;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As if some swelling lawyer, for his health,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or frantick usurer, to tame his wealth,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Had chosen out ten miles by Trent, to trye</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Two great effects of art and industry.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The ground wee trodd was meddow, fertile land,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">New trimm’d and levell’d by the mowers hand;</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_185"></a>[185]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Above it grew a roke, rude, steepe, and high,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which claimes a kind of reverence from the eye:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Betwixt them both there glides a lively streame,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Not loud, but swifte: Mæander was a theame</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Crooked and rough; but had the poetts seene</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Straight, even Trent, it had immortall bin.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">This side the open plaine admitts the sunne</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To halfe the river; there did silver runne:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The other halfe ran clowdes; where the curl’d wood</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With his exalted head threaten’d the floude.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Here could I wish us ever passing by</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And never past; now Newarke is too nigh:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And as a Christmas seemes a day but short,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Deluding time with revells and good sport;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So did these beauteous mixtures us beguile,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the whole twelve, being travail’d, seem’d a mile.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Now as the way was sweet, soe was the end;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Our passage easy, and our prize a friend<a id="FNanchor_99" href="#Footnote_99" class="fnanchor">[99]</a>,</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_186"></a>[186]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Whome there wee did enjoy; and for whose sake,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As for a purer kinde of coyne, men make</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Us liberall welcome; with such harmony</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As the whole towne had bin his family.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mine host of the next inne did not repine</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That wee preferr’d the Heart, and past his signe:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And where wee lay, the host and th’ hostesse faine</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Would shew our love was aym’d at, not their gaine:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The very beggars were s’ ingenious,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They rather prayd for him, then begg’d of us.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And, soe the Doctors friends will please to stay,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Puritans will let the organs play.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Would they pull downe the gallery, builded new,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With the church-wardens seat and Burleigh-pew,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Newarke, for light and beauty, might compare</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With any church, but what cathedralls are.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To this belongs a vicar<a id="FNanchor_100" href="#Footnote_100" class="fnanchor">[100]</a>, who succeded</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The friend I mention’d; such a one there needed;</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_187"></a>[187]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">A man whose tongue and life is eloquent,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Able to charme those mutinous heads of Trent,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And urge the Canon home, when they conspire</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Against the crosse and bells with swords and fire.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There stood a Castle, too; they shew us here</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The roome where the King slep’t<a id="FNanchor_101" href="#Footnote_101" class="fnanchor">[101]</a>, the window where</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He talk’t with such a lord, how long he staid</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In his discourse, and all, but what he said.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From hence, without a perspective, wee see</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bever and Lincolne, where wee faine would bee;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But that our purse and horses both are bound</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Within the circuite of a narrower ground.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_188"></a>[188]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Our purpose is all homeward, and ’twas time</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At parting to have witt, as well as rime;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Full three a clock, and twenty miles to ride,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Will aske a speedy horse, and a sure guide;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wee wanted both: and Loughborow may glory,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Errour hath made it famous in our story.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Twas night, and the swifte horses of the Sunne</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Two houres before our jades their race had runn;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Noe pilott moone, nor any such kinde starre</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As governd those wise men that came from farre</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To holy Bethlem; such lights had there bin,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They would have soone convay’d us to an inne;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But all were wandring-starrs; and wee, as they,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Were taught noe course, but to ride on and stray.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When (oh the fate of darknesse, who hath tride it)</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Here our whole fleete is scatter’d and divided;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And now wee labour more to meete, then erst</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wee did to lodge; the last cry drownes the first:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Our voyces are all spent, and they that follow</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Can now no longer track us by the hollow;</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_189"></a>[189]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">They curse the formost, wee the hindmost, both</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Accusing with like passion, hast, and sloth.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At last, upon a little towne wee fall,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where some call drinke, and some a candle call:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Unhappy wee, such stragglers as wee are</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Admire a candle offner then a starre:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wee care not for those glorious lampes a loofe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Give us a tallow-light and a dry roofe.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And now wee have a guide wee cease to chafe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And now w’ have time to pray the rest be safe.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Our guide before cryes Come, and wee the while</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ride blindfold, and take bridges for a stile:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Till at the last wee overcame the darke,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And spight of night and errour hitt the marke.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Some halfe howre after enters the whole tayle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As if they were committed to the jayle:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The constable, that tooke them thus divided,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Made them seeme apprehended, and not guided:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where, when wee had our fortunes both detested,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Compassion made us friends, and so wee rested.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_190"></a>[190]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">’Twas quickly morning, though by our short stay</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wee could not find that wee had lesse to pay.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All travellers, this heavy judgement heare:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“A handsome hostesse makes the reckoning deare;”</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Her smiles, her wordes, your purses must requite them,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And every wellcome from her, adds an item.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Glad to be gon from thence at any rate,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For Bosworth wee are horst: Behold the state</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of mortall men! Foule Errour is a mother,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And, pregnant once, doth soone bring forth an other;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wee, who last night did learne to loose our way,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Are perfect since, and farther out next day.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And in a forrest<a id="FNanchor_102" href="#Footnote_102" class="fnanchor">[102]</a> having travell’d sore,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Like wandring Bevis ere hee found the bore;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or as some love-sick lady oft hath donne,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ere shee was rescued by the Knight of th’ Sunne:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Soe are wee lost, and meete no comfort then</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But carts and horses, wiser then the men.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_191"></a>[191]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Which is the way? They neyther speake nor point;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Their tongues and fingers both were out of joynt:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Such monsters by Coal-Orton bankes there sitt,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">After their resurrection from the pitt.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whilst in this mill wee labour and turne round</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As in a conjurers circle, William found</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A menes for our deliverance: Turne your cloakes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quoth hee, for Puck is busy in these oakes:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">If ever yee at Bosworth will be found,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then turne your cloakes, for this is Fayry-ground.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But, ere this witchcraft was perform’d, wee mett</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A very man, who had no cloven feete;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Though William, still of little faith, doth doubt</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tis Robin, or some sprite that walkes about:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Strike him, quoth hee, and it will turne to ayre;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Crosse your selves thrice and strike it: Strike that dare,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thought I, for sure this massy forrester</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In stroakes will prove the better conjurer.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_192"></a>[192]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">But twas a gentle keeper, one that knew</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Humanity, and manners where they grew;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And rode along soe farr till he could say,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">See yonder Bosworth stands, and this your way.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And now when wee had swett ’twixt sunn and sunn,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And eight miles long to thirty broad had spun;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wee learne the just proportion from hence</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of the diameter and circumference.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That night yet made amends; our meat and sheetes</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Were farr above the promise of those streetes;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Those howses, that were tilde with straw and mosse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Profest but weake repaire for that dayes losse</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of patience: yet this outside lets us know,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The worthyest things make not the bravest show:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The shott was easy; and what concernes us more,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The way was so; mine host doth ride before.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_193"></a>[193]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Mine host was full of ale and history;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And on the morrow when hee brought us nigh</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where the two Roses<a id="FNanchor_103" href="#Footnote_103" class="fnanchor">[103]</a> joyn’d, you would suppose,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Chaucer nere made the Romant of the Rose.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Heare him. See yee yon wood? There Richard lay,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With his whole army: Looke the other way,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And loe where Richmond in a bed of gorsse</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Encampt himselfe ore night, and all his force:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Upon this hill they mett. Why, he could tell</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The inch where Richmond stood, where Richard fell:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Besides what of his knowledge he could say,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He had authenticke notice from the Play;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which I might guesse, by’s mustring up the ghosts,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And policyes, not incident to hosts;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But cheifly by that one perspicuous thing,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where he mistooke a player for a king.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_194"></a>[194]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">For when he would have sayd, King Richard dyed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And call’d—A horse! a horse!—he, Burbidge cry’de<a id="FNanchor_104" href="#Footnote_104" class="fnanchor">[104]</a>.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Howere his talke, his company pleas’d well;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His mare went truer then his chronicle;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And even for conscience sake, unspurr’d, unbeaten,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Brought us six miles, and turn’d tayle at Nuneaton.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From thence to Coventry, where wee scarcely dine;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Our stomackes only warm’d with zeale and wine:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And then, as if wee were predestin’d forth,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Like Lot from Sodome, fly to Killingworth.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The keeper of the castle was from home,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Soe that halfe mile wee lost; yet when wee come</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_195"></a>[195]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">An host receiv’d us there, wee’l nere deny him,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">My lord of Leisters man; the parson by him,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who had no other proofe to testify</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He serv’d the Lord, but age and baudery<a id="FNanchor_105" href="#Footnote_105" class="fnanchor">[105]</a>.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Away, for shame, why should foure miles devide</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Warwicke and us? They that have horses ride.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A short mile from the towne, an humble shrine<a id="FNanchor_106" href="#Footnote_106" class="fnanchor">[106]</a></div> - <div class="verse indent0">At foote of an high rock consists, in signe</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of Guy and his devotions; who there stands</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ugly and huge, more then a man on ’s hands:</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_196"></a>[196]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">His helmett steele, his gorgett mayl, his sheild</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Brass, made the chappell fearefull as a feild.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And let this answere all the Popes complaints;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wee sett up gyants though wee pull downe saintes.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Beyond this, in the roadway as wee went,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A pillar stands, where this Colossus leant;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where he would sigh and love, and, for hearts ease,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Oftimes write verses (some say) such as these:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“Here will I languish in this silly bower,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whilst my true love triumphes in yon high tower.”</div> - <div class="verse indent0">No other hinderance now, but wee may passe</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cleare to our inne: Oh there an hostesse was,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To whome the Castle and the Dun Cow are</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sights after dinner; shee is morning ware.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Her whole behaviour borrowed was, and mixt,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Halfe foole, halfe puppet, and her pace betwixt</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Measure and jigge; her court’sy was an honour;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Her gate, as if her neighbour had out-gon her.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_197"></a>[197]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Shee was barrd up in whale-bones which doe leese</div> - <div class="verse indent0">None of the whales length; for they reach’d her knees:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Off with her head, and then shee hath a middle:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As her wast stands, shee lookes like the new fiddle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The favorite Theorbo, (truth to tell yee,)</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whose neck and throat are deeper then the belly<a id="FNanchor_107" href="#Footnote_107" class="fnanchor">[107]</a>.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Have you seene monkyes chain’d about the loynes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or pottle-potts with rings? Just soe shee joynes</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Her selfe together: A dressing shee doth love</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In a small print below, and text above.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">What though her name be King, yet tis noe treason,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nor breach of statute, for to aske the reason</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_198"></a>[198]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Of her brancht ruffe, a cubit every poke:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I seeme to wound her, but shee strook the stroke</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At our departure; and our worshipps there</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pay’d for our titles deare as any where:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Though beadles and professors both have done,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Yet every inne claimes augmentation.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Please you walke out and see the Castle<a id="FNanchor_108" href="#Footnote_108" class="fnanchor">[108]</a>? Come,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The owner saith, it is a schollers home;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A place of strength and health: in the same fort,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">You would conceive a castle and a court.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The orchards, gardens, rivers, and the aire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Doe with the trenches, rampires, walls, compare:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">It seemes nor art nor force can intercept it,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As if a lover built, a souldier kept it.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Up to the tower, though it be steepe and high,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wee doe not climbe but walke; and though the eye</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seeme to be weary, yet our feet are still</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the same posture cozen’d up the hill:</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_199"></a>[199]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">And thus the workemans art deceaves our sence,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Making those rounds of pleasure a defence.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As wee descend, the lord of all this frame,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The honorable Chancellour, towards us came<a id="FNanchor_109" href="#Footnote_109" class="fnanchor">[109]</a>.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Above the hill there blew a gentle breath,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Yet now we see a gentler gale beneath.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The phrase and wellcome of this knight did make</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The seat more elegant; every word he spake</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Was wine and musick, which he did expose</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To us, if all our art could censure those.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With him there was a prelate<a id="FNanchor_110" href="#Footnote_110" class="fnanchor">[110]</a>, by his place</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Arch-deacon to the byshopp, by his face</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A greater man; for that did counterfeit</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lord abbot of some covent standing yet,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A corpulent relique: marry and tis sinne</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Some Puritan gets not his face call’d in;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Amongst leane brethren it may scandall bring,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who seeke for parity in every thing.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_200"></a>[200]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">For us, let him enjoy all that God sends,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Plenty of flesh, of livings, and of freinds.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Imagine here us ambling downe the street,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Circling in Flower, making both ends meet:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where wee fare well foure dayes, and did complain,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Like harvest folkes, of weather and the raine:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And on the feast of Barthol’mew wee try</div> - <div class="verse indent0">What revells that saint keepes at Banbury<a id="FNanchor_111" href="#Footnote_111" class="fnanchor">[111]</a>.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In th’ name of God, Amen! First to begin,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The altar was translated to an inne;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wee lodged in a chappell by the signe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But in a banquerupt taverne by the wine:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Besides, our horses usage made us thinke</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Twas still a church, for they in coffins drinke<a id="FNanchor_112" href="#Footnote_112" class="fnanchor">[112]</a>;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As if twere congruous that the ancients lye</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Close by those alters in whose faith they dye.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_201"></a>[201]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Now yee beleeve the Church hath good varietye</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of monuments, when inns have such satiety;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But nothing lesse: ther’s no inscription there,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But the church-wardens names of the last yeare:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Instead of saints in windowes and on walls,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Here bucketts hang, and there a cobweb falls:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Would you not sweare they love antiquity,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who brush the quire for perpetuity?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whilst all the other pavement and the floore</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Are supplicants to the surveyors power</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of the high wayes, that he would gravell keepe;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For else in winter sure it will be deepe.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">If not for Gods, for Mr. Wheatlyes sake</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Levell the walkes; suppose these pittfalls make</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Him spraine a lecture, or misplace a joynt</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In his long prayer, or his fiveteenth point:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thinke you the dawes or stares can sett him right?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Surely this sinne upon your heads must light.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And say, beloved, what unchristian charme</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Is this? you have not left a legg or arme</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_202"></a>[202]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Of an apostle: think you, were they whole,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That they would rise, at least assume a soule?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">If not, ’tis plaine all the idolatry</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lyes in your folly, not th’ imagery.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tis well the pinnacles are falne in twaine;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For now the divell, should he tempt againe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hath noe advantage of a place soe high:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fooles, he can dash you from your gallery,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where all your medly meete; and doe compare,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Not what you learne, but who is longest there;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Puritan, the Anabaptist, Brownist,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Like a grand sallet: Tinkers, what a towne ist?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The crosses also, like old stumps of trees,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Are stooles for horsemen that have feeble knees;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Carry noe heads above ground: They which tell,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That Christ hath nere descended into hell,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But to the grave, his picture buried have</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In a far deeper dungeon then a grave:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That is, descended to endure what paines</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The divell can think, or such disciples braines.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_203"></a>[203]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">No more my greife, in such prophane abuses</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Good whipps make better verses then the muses.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Away, and looke not back; away, whilst yet</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The church is standing, whilst the benefitt</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of seeing it remaines; ere long you shall</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Have that rac’t downe, and call’d Apocryphal,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And in some barne heare cited many an author,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Kate Stubbs, Anne Askew, or the Ladyes daughter<a id="FNanchor_113" href="#Footnote_113" class="fnanchor">[113]</a>;</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_204"></a>[204]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Which shall be urg’d for fathers. Stopp Disdaine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When Oxford once appears, Satyre refraine.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Neighbours, how hath our anger thus out gon ’s?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Is not Saint Giles’s this, and that Saint Johns?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wee are return’d; but just with soe much ore</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As Rawleigh from his voyage, and noe more.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Non recito cuiquam nisi amicis, idque coactus,</i></div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Non ubivis, coramve quibuslibet.</i></div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse right"><span class="smcap">Hor.</span> lib. i. sat. 4.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_205"></a>[205]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="RICE"><span class="smaller">ON</span><br /> -MR. RICE,<br /> -<span class="smaller">THE MANCIPLE OF CHRIST-CHURCH IN OXFORD.</span></h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Who can doubt, Rice, but to th’ eternall place</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thy soule is fledd, that did but know thy face?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whose body was soe light, it might have gone</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To heav’ne without a resurrection.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Indeed thou wert all type; thy limmes were signes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thy arteryes but mathematicke lines:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As if two soules had made thy compound good,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That both should live by faith, and none by blood.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_206"></a>[206]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="BOLLINGS"><span class="smaller">ON</span><br /> -HENRY BOLINGS.</h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">If gentleness could tame the Fates, or wit</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Deliver man, Bolings had not di’d yet;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But One which over us in judgment sits,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Doth say our sins are stronger than our wits.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_207"></a>[207]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="DAWSON"><span class="smaller">ON</span><br /> -JOHN DAWSON,<br /> -<span class="smaller">BUTLER OF CHRIST-CHURCH.</span></h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dawson the butler’s dead: Although I think</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Poets were ne’re infus’d with single drink,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I’ll spend a farthing, muse; a watry verse</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Will serve the turn to cast upon his herse.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">If any cannot weep amongst us here,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Take off his cup, and so squeeze out a tear.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Weep, O ye barrels! let your drippings fall</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In trickling streams; make waste more prodigal</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Than when our beer was good, that John may float</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To Styx in beer, and lift up Charons boat</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With wholsome waves: and, as the conduits ran</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With claret at the Coronation,</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_208"></a>[208]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">So let your channels flow with single tiff,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For John, I hope, is crown’d: Take off your whiff,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ye men of rosemary<a id="FNanchor_114" href="#Footnote_114" class="fnanchor">[114]</a>, and drink up all,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Remembring ’tis a butlers funeral:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Had he been master of good double beer,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">My life for his, John Dawson had been here.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_209"></a>[209]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="GREAT_TOM"><span class="smaller">ON</span><br /> -GREAT TOM <span class="smaller">OF</span> CHRIST-CHURCH.</h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Be dumb, ye infant-chimes, thump not your mettle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That ne’re out-ring a tinker and his kettle;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cease, all you petty larums; for, to-day</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Is young Tom’s resurrection from the clay:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And know, when Tom rings out his knells,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The best of you will be but dinner-bells.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Old Tom’s grown young again, the fiery cave</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Is now his cradle, that was erst his grave:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He grew up quickly from his mother earth,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For, all you see was but an hours birth;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Look on him well, my life I dare engage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">You ne’re saw prettier baby of his age.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Some take his measure by the rule, some by</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Jacobs-staff take his profundity,</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_210"></a>[210]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">And some his altitude; but some do swear</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Young Tom’s not like the Old: But, Tom, ne’re fear</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The critical geometricians line,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">If thou as loud as e’re thou did ring’st nine.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tom did no sooner peep from under-ground,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But straight Saint Maries tenor lost his sound.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O how this may-poles heart did swell</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With full main sides of joy, when that crackt bell</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Choakt with annoy, and ’s admiration,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rung like a quart-pot to the congregation.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tom went his progress lately, and lookt o’re</div> - <div class="verse indent0">What he ne’re saw in many years before;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But when he saw the old foundation,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With some like hope of preparation,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He burst with grief; and lest he should not have</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Due pomp, he’s his own bell-man to the grave:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And that there might of him be still some mention,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He carried to his grave a new invention.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_211"></a>[211]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">They drew his brown-bread face on pretty gins,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And made him stalk upon two rolling-pins;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But Sander Hill swore twice or thrice by heaven,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He ne’re set such a loaf into the oven.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And Tom did Sanders vex, his Cyclops maker,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As much as he did Sander Hill, the baker;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Therefore, loud thumping Tom, be this thy pride,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When thou this motto shalt have on thy side:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“Great world! one Alexander conquer’d thee,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And two as mighty men scarce conquer’d me.”</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Brave constant spirit, none could make thee turn,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Though hang’d, drawn, quarter’d, till they did thee burn:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Yet not for this, nor ten times more be sorry,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Since thou was martyr’d for the Churches glory;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But for thy meritorious suffering,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thou shortly shalt to heaven in a string:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And though we griev’d to see thee thump’d and bang’d,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">We’ll all be glad, Great Tom, to see thee hang’d.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_212"></a>[212]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="R_C">R. C.</h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">When too much zeal doth fire devotion,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Love is not love, but superstition:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Even so in civil duties, when we come</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Too oft, we are not kind, but troublesome.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Yet as the first is not idolatry,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So is the last but grieved industry:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And such was mine, whose strife to honour you</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By overplus, hath rob’d you of your due.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_213"></a>[213]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="A_PROPER_NEW_BALLAD">A PROPER NEW BALLAD,<br /> -<span class="smaller">INTITULED</span><br /> -THE FAERYES FAREWELL;<br /> -<span class="smaller">OR,</span><br /> -GOD-A-MERCY WILL.</h2> - -</div> - -<p class="hanging">To be sung or whiseled to the Tune of “The Meddow -Brow,” by the Learned; by the Unlearned, to the Tune -of “Fortune.”</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Farewell rewards and Faeries,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Good houswives now may say,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For now foule slutts in daries</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Doe fare as well as they.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And though they sweepe theyr hearths no less</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Then maydes were wont to doe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Yet who of late for cleaneliness,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Finds sixe-pence in her shoe?</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_214"></a>[214]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Lament, lament, old abbies,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The Faries lost command;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They did but change priests babies,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">But some have changd your land:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And all your children sprung from thence</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Are now growne Puritanes;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who live as changelings ever since</div> - <div class="verse indent2">For love of your demaines.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">At morning and at evening both</div> - <div class="verse indent2">You merry were and glad,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So little care of sleepe or sloth</div> - <div class="verse indent2">These prettie ladies had;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When Tom came home from labour,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Or Ciss to milking rose,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then merrily merrily went theyre tabor,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And nimbly went theyre toes.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_215"></a>[215]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Wittness those rings and roundelayes</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Of theirs, which yet remaine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Were footed in queene Maries dayes</div> - <div class="verse indent2">On many a grassy playne;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But since of late, Elizabeth,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And later, James came in,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They never daunc’d on any heath</div> - <div class="verse indent2">As when the time hath bin.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">By which wee note the Faries</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Were of the old profession;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Theyre songs were Ave Maryes;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Theyre daunces were procession:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But now, alas! they all are dead,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Or gone beyond the seas;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or farther for religion fled,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Or elce they take theyre ease.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_216"></a>[216]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A tell-tale in theyre company</div> - <div class="verse indent2">They never could endure,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And whoe so kept not secretly</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Theyre mirth was punisht sure;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">It was a just and christian deed</div> - <div class="verse indent2">To pinch such blacke and blew:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O how the common welth doth need</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Such justices as you!</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Now they have left our quarters</div> - <div class="verse indent2">A register they have,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who looketh to theyre charters,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">A man both wise and grave;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">An hundred of theyre merry prancks</div> - <div class="verse indent2">By one that I could name</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Are kept in store, conn twenty thanks</div> - <div class="verse indent2">To William for the same.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_217"></a>[217]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">I marvell who his cloake would turne</div> - <div class="verse indent2">When Pucke had led him round<a id="FNanchor_115" href="#Footnote_115" class="fnanchor">[115]</a>,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or where those walking-fires would burne,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Where Cureton would be found;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">How Broker would appeare to be,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">For whom this age doth mourne;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But that theyre spiritts live in thee,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">In thee, old William Chourne.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">To William Chourne of Stafford shire</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Give laud and prayses due,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who every meale can mend your cheare</div> - <div class="verse indent2">With tales both old and true:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To William all give audience,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And pray yee for his noddle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For all the Faries evidence</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Were lost, if that were addle.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_218"></a>[218]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="A_NON_SEQUITUR">A NON SEQUITUR.</h2> - -</div> - -<p class="center">(From “Wit Restored,” 8vo. 1658.)</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Marke! how the lanterns clowd mine eyes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">See where a moon-drake ’gins to rise;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Saturne crawls much like an iron catt,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To see the naked moone in a slipshott hatt.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Thunder-thumping toadstools crock the pots</div> - <div class="verse indent4">To see the mermaids tumble;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Leather cat-a-mountaines shake their heels,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">To heare the gosh-hawke grumble.</div> - <div class="verse indent8">The rustic threed</div> - <div class="verse indent8">Begins to bleed,</div> - <div class="verse indent6">And cobwebs elbows itches;</div> - <div class="verse indent8">The putrid skyes</div> - <div class="verse indent8">Eat mulsacke pyes,</div> - <div class="verse indent6">Backed up in logicke breches.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_219"></a>[219]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Munday trenchers made good hay,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The lobster weares no dagger;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Meale-mouthed she-peacocke powle the starres,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And made the lowbell stagger.</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Blew crocodiles foame in the toe,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Blind meale-bagges do follow the doe;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A ribb of apple braine spice</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Will follow the Lancashire dice.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Harke! how the chime of Plutoes pispot cracks,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To see the rainbowes wheele-gann made of flax.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_220"></a>[220]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="NONSENCE">NONSENCE.</h2> - -</div> - -<p class="center">(Ashmole’s Museum, A. 37.)</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Like to the thundring tone of unspoke speeches,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or like a lobster clad in logicke breeches,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or like the graye-furre of a crimson catt,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or like the moone-calfe in a slip-shodde hatt:</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Even such is hee who never was begotten</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Untill his children were both dead and rotten.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Like to the fiery tombstone of a cabbage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or like a crabbe-louse with its bag and baggage,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Or like the four square circle of a ring,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Or like to hey dinge, dingea dingea dinge:</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Even such is he who spake, and yet no doubt</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Spake to small purpose, when his tongue was out.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_221"></a>[221]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Like to a fairs, fresh, faiding, withered rose,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or lyke to rhyming verse that runs in prose,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or lyke the stumbles of a tynder box,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or lyke a man that’s sound yet hath the pox:</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Even such is he who dyed, and yet did laugh</div> - <div class="verse indent2">To see these lines writt for his epitaph.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_222"></a>[222]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_COUNTRY_LIFE">THE COUNTRY LIFE<a id="FNanchor_116" href="#Footnote_116" class="fnanchor">[116]</a>.</h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Thrice and above blest (my souls halfe!) art thou</div> - <div class="verse indent2">In thy though last yet better vowe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Canst leave the Cyttye with exchange to see</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The Country’s sweet simplicitie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And to knowe and practise, with intent</div> - <div class="verse indent2">To growe the sooner innocent,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By studdyinge to knowe vertue, and to ayme</div> - <div class="verse indent2">More at her nature than her name.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_223"></a>[223]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">The last is but the least, the first doth tell</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Wayes not to live, but to live well.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And both are knowne to thee, who now canst live,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Led by thy conscience, to give</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Justice<a id="FNanchor_117" href="#Footnote_117" class="fnanchor">[117]</a> to soon pleas’d Nature, and to showe</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Wisdome and she togeather goe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And keepe one center: this with that conspires</div> - <div class="verse indent2">To teach man to confine’s desires;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To knowe that riches have their proper stint</div> - <div class="verse indent2">In the contented minde, not mint;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And canst instruct, that those that have the itch</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Of cravinge more, are never rich.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">These thinges thou knowst to th’ height, and dost prevent</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The mange, because thou art content</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With that Heaven gave thee with a sparinge hand,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">More blessed in thy brest than land,</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_224"></a>[224]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">To keepe but Nature even and upright,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">To quench not cocker appetite.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The first is Nature’s end; this doth impart</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Least thankes to Nature, most to Art.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But thou canst tersely live, and satisfie</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The bellye only, not the eye;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Keepinge the barkinge stomache meanly quiet</div> - <div class="verse indent2">With a neat yet needfull dyett.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But that which most creates thy happy life,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Is the fruition of a wife,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whom (starres consentinge with thy fate) thou hast</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Gott, not so beautifull as chast.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By whose warm’d side thou dost securely sleepe,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Whilst Love the centinell doth keepe</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With those deeds done by day, which ne’er affright</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The silken slumbers in the night;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nor hath the darkenesse power to usher in</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Feare to those sheets that knowe no sinne:</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_225"></a>[225]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">But still thy wife, by chast intention led,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Gives thee each night a maidenhead.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For where pure thoughts are led by godly feare,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Trew love, not lust at all, comes there;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And in that sense the chaster thoughts commend</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Not halfe so much the act as end:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That, what with dreams in sleepe of rurall blisse,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Night growes farre shorter than shee is.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The damaske meddowes, and the crawlinge streames,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Sweeten, and make soft thy dreams.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The purlinge springes, groves, birdes, and well-weav’d bowers,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">With fields enamelled with flowers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Present thee shapes, whilst phantasye discloses</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Millions of lillyes mixt with roses.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then dreame thou hear’st the lambe with many a bleat</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Woo’d to come sucke the milkey teate;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whilst Faunus, in the vision, vowes to keepe</div> - <div class="verse indent2">From ravenouse wolfe the woolley sheepe;</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_226"></a>[226]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">With thowsand such enchantinge dreames, which meet</div> - <div class="verse indent2">To make sleepe not so sound as sweet.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nor can these figures in thy rest endeere,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">As not to up when chanticleere</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Speaks the last watch, but with the dawne dost rise</div> - <div class="verse indent2">To worke, but first to sacrifice:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Makinge thy peace with Heaven for some late fault,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">With holy meale and cracklinge salt.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That done, thy painfull thumbe this sentence tells us,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">God for our labour all thinges sells us.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nor are thy daylye and devout affayres</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Attended with those desperate cares</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Th’ industriouse marchant hath, who for to finde</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Gold, runneth to the furthest Inde<a id="FNanchor_118" href="#Footnote_118" class="fnanchor">[118]</a>,</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_227"></a>[227]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">And home againe tortur’d with fear doth hye,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Untaught to suffer povertye.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But you at home blest with securest ease,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Sitt’st and beleev’st that there are seas,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And watrye dangers; but thy better hap</div> - <div class="verse indent2">But sees these thinges within thy mapp,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And viewinge them with a more safe survaye,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Makst easy Feare unto thee say,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A heart thrice wall’d with oake and brass that man</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Had, first durst plough the ocean.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But thou at home, without or tyde or gale,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Canst in thy mapp securely sayle,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Viewinge the parted countryes, and so guesse</div> - <div class="verse indent2">By their shades their substances;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And from their compasse borrowing advise,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Buy’st travayle at the lowest price.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nor are thy eares so seald but thou canst heare</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Far more with wonder than with feare.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse right">—<i>Cætera desiderantur.</i></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_228"></a>[228]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="ROBERT_WISDOM">ROBERT WISDOM</h2> - -</div> - -<p>Was rector of Settrington in Yorkshire, and was -presented to the archdeaconry of Ely by Elizabeth -the 27th of February 1559-60. In bishop -Cox’s Certificatorium (MS. Bennet Col. Lib.) he -is returned to the archbishop as “a priest and B. D. -usually residing upon his living of Wilberton, -appropriated to the archdeaconry, was qualified -for preaching, and licensed thereunto by the -Queen’s majesty.”</p> - -<p>He died, and was buried at Wilberton the 20th -of September, 1568.</p> - -<p>He is chiefly memorable for his metrical prayer -intended to be sung in the church against the Pope -and the Turk, of whom he seems to have had the -most alarming apprehensions; and in consequence -of which he has been ridiculed by sir John Denham, -Corbet, Butler, and others.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_229"></a>[229]</span></p> - -<h3><span class="smaller">TO</span><br /> -THE GHOST<br /> -<span class="smaller">OF</span><br /> -ROBERT WISDOME<a id="FNanchor_119" href="#Footnote_119" class="fnanchor">[119]</a>.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Thou, once a body, now but aire,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Arch-botcher of a psalme or prayer,</div> - <div class="verse indent22">From Carfax come;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And patch mee up a zealous lay,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With an old <i>ever and for ay</i>,</div> - <div class="verse indent22">Or, <i>all and some</i>.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or such a spirit lend mee,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As may a hymne downe send mee,</div> - <div class="verse indent22">To purge my braine:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So, Robert, looke behind thee,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Least Turke or Pope doe find thee,</div> - <div class="verse indent22">And goe to bed againe.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_230"></a>[230]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="THOMAS_JONCE">THOMAS JONCE.</h2> - -</div> - -<p>The name of this man, (Jones,) which Corbet, -for the sake of the rhyme, has corrupted, sufficiently -denotes his extraction; and I would have -ascertained the time of his death, but the register -was not to be found upon application for that -purpose.</p> - -<p>Antony à Wood says, in his History of the -City of Oxford, “Thomas Jonce, a clergyman -and inhabitant of this place, (St. Giles’s parish, -Oxford,) desiring here to lay his bones, was of -note sufficient to excite bishop Corbet to write an -epitaph on him.”</p> - -<p>‘Say’st thou this of thyself, or did others tell -it thee of me?’</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_231"></a>[231]</span></p> - -<h3>AN EPITAPH<br /> -<span class="smaller">ON</span><br /> -THOMAS JONCE.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Here, for the nonce,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Came Thomas Jonce,</div> - <div class="verse indent6">In St. Giles church to lye.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">None Welsh before,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">None Welshman more,</div> - <div class="verse indent6">Till Shon Clerk die.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">I’ll tole the bell,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I’ll ring his knell;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He died well,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He’s sav’d from hell;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And so farwel</div> - <div class="verse indent6">Tom Jonce.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_232"></a>[232]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="TO_THE_LADYES"><span class="smaller">TO THE</span><br /> -LADYES OF THE NEW DRESSE,<br /> -<span class="smaller">THAT WEARE THEIR GORGETS AND RAYLES DOWNE -TO THEIR WASTES.</span></h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Ladyes, that weare black cipress-vailes</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Turn’d lately to white linnen-rayles,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And to your girdle weare your bands,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And shew your armes instead of hands;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">What can you doe in Lent so meet</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As, fittest dress, to weare a sheet?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">’Twas once a band, ’tis now a cloake,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">An acorne one day proves an oke:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Weare but your linnen to your feet,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And then your band will prove a sheet.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By which devise, and wise excesse,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">You’l doe your penance in a dresse;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And none shall know, by what they see,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which lady’s censur’d, and which free.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_233"></a>[233]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_LADIES_ANSWER">THE LADIES’ ANSWER.</h2> - -</div> - -<p class="center">(Harl. MS. No. 6396.)</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Blacke cypresse vailes are shroudes on night,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">White linnen railes are raies of light,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which though we to the girdles weare,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">We’ve hands to keep your hands off there.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A fitter dresse we have in Lent,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To shew us trewly penitent.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whoe makes the band to be a cloke</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Makes John-a-style of John-an-oake.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">We weare our garments to the feet,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Yet neede not make our bandes a sheet:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The clergie weare as long as we,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Yet that implies conformitie.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Be wise, recant what you have writt,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Least you doe pennance for your witte;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Love’s charm hath power to weare a stringe,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To tye you as you tied your ringe<a id="FNanchor_120" href="#Footnote_120" class="fnanchor">[120]</a>;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There by love’s sharpe but just decree</div> - <div class="verse indent0">You may be censured, we go free.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_234"></a>[234]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="CORBETS_REPLY">CORBET’S REPLY.</h2> - -</div> - -<p class="center">(Ashmole’s Museum, A. 38. Fol. 66.)</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Yff nought but love-charmes power have</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Your blemisht creditt for to save;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then know your champion is blind,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And that love-nottes are soon untwinde.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But blemishes are now a grace,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And add a lustre to your face;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Your blemisht credit for to save,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">You needed not a vayle to have;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The rayle for women may be fitte,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Because they daylie practice ytt.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And, seeing counsell can you not reforme,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Read this reply—and take ytt not in scorne.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_235"></a>[235]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="FAIRFORD_WINDOWS_1">FAIRFORD WINDOWS</h2> - -</div> - -<p>Are much admired, says the provincial historian -of Glocestershire, for their excellent painted glass. -There are twenty-eight large windows, which are -curiously painted with the stories of the Old and -New Testament: the middle windows in the choir, -and on the west side of the church, are larger -than the rest; those in the choir represent the -history of our Saviour’s Crucifixion; the window -at the west end represents Hell and Damnation; -those on the side of the church, and over the -body, represent the figures in length of the prophets, -apostles, fathers, martyrs and confessors, -and also the persecutors of the church. The painting -was designed by Albert Durer, an eminent -Italian Master: the colours are very lively, especially -in the drapery: some of the figures are so -well finished, that sir Anthony Vandyke affirmed<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_236"></a>[236]</span> -that the pencil could not exceed them. This curious -painting was preserved from zealous fury in -the great rebellion, by turning the glass upside -down.</p> - -<p>John Tame, esq. founded this church in the -year 1493. He was a merchant, and took a prize-ship -bound for Rome, in which was this painted -glass: he brought both the glass and workmen into -England, built the church for the sake of the -glass, and dedicated it to the Virgin Mary.</p> - -<p class="right">Atkyns’s Hist. of Glocestershire, -p. 226. 1768. fol.</p> - -<p>It is to be observed that the tradition of the -famous Albert Durer having furnished the drawings -will not, as Mr. Dallaway justly observes, -bear the test of chronology; for he was not twenty -years of age when these windows were put up; -nor is it probable that he had then attained to -such proficiency—to say nothing of the time necessary -for the perfecting such works.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_237"></a>[237]</span></p> - -<h3>UPON FAIRFORD WINDOWS.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Tell me, you anti-saints, why brass</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With you is shorter lived than glass?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And why the saints have scap’t their falls</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Better from windows than from walles?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Is it, because the Brethrens fires</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Maintain a glass-house at Blackfryars?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Next which the church stands North and South,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And East and West the preacher’s mouth.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or is ’t, because such painted ware</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Resembles something that you are,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Soe py’de, soe seeming, soe unsound</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In manners, and in doctrine, found,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That, out of emblematick witt,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">You spare yourselves in sparing it?</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_238"></a>[238]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">If it be soe, then, Faireford, boast</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thy church hath kept what all have lost;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And is preserved from the bane</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of either warr, or puritane:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whose life is colour’d in thy paint,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The inside drosse, the outside saint.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_239"></a>[239]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="FAIRFORD_WINDOWS_2"><span class="smaller">UPON</span><br /> -FAIREFORD WINDOWES<a id="FNanchor_121" href="#Footnote_121" class="fnanchor">[121]</a>.</h2> - -</div> - -<p class="center">(Misc. MS. Poems, Mus. Brit. Bib. Sloan. No. 1446.)</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">I knowe no painte of poetry</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Can mend such colour’d imag’ry</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In sullen inke, yet (Fayreford) I</div> - <div class="verse indent0">May rellish thy fair memory.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Such is the echoe’s fainter sound,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Such is the light when the sunn’s drown’d,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So did the fancy look upon</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The work before it was begun.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Yet when those showes are out of sight,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">My weaker colours may delight.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_240"></a>[240]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Those images doe faithfullie</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Report true feature to the eie,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As you may think each picture was</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Some visage in a looking-glass;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Not a glass window face, unless</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Such as Cheapside hath, where a press</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of painted gallants, looking out,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bedeck the casement rounde about.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But these have holy phisnomy;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Each paine instructs the laity</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With silent eloquence; for heere</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Devotion leads the eie, not eare,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To note the cathechisinge paint,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whose easie phrase doth soe acquainte</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Our sense with Gospell, that the Creede</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In such an hand the weake may reade.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Such tipes e’en yett of vertue bee,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And Christ as in a glass we see—</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When with a fishinge rod the clarke</div> - <div class="verse indent0">St. Peter’s draught of fish doth marke,</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_241"></a>[241]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Such is the scale, the eie, the finn,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">You’d thinke they strive and leape within;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But if the nett, which holdes them, brake,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hee with his angle some would take.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But would you walke a turn in Paules,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Looke up, one little pane inrouls</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A fairer temple. Flinge a stone,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The church is out at the windowe flowne.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Consider not, but aske your eies,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And ghosts at mid-day seem to rise,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The saintes there seemeing to descend,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Are past the glass, and downwards bend.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Look there! The Devill! all would cry,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Did they not see that Christ was by.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">See where he suffers for thee! See</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His body taken from the tree!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Had ever death such life before?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The limber corps, be-sully’d o’er</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With meagre paleness, does display</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A middle state ’twixt flesh and clay.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_242"></a>[242]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">His armes and leggs, his head and crown,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Like a true lambskin dangle downe:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whoe can forbeare, the grave being nigh,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To bringe fresh ointment in his eye?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The wond’rous art hath equall fate,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Unfixt, and yet inviolate.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The Puritans were sure deceav’d</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whoe thought those shaddowes mov’d and heav’d,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So held from stoninge Christ; the winde</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And boysterous tempests were so kinde,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As on his image not to prey,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whome both the winde and seas obey.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">At Momus’ wish bee not amaz’d;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For if each Christian’s heart were glaz’d</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With such a windowe, then each brest</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Might bee his owne evangelist.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_243"></a>[243]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_DISTRACTED_PURITANE">THE DISTRACTED PURITANE.</h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent4">Am I madd, O noble Festus,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">When zeale and godly knowledge</div> - <div class="verse indent6">Have put me in hope</div> - <div class="verse indent6">To deal with the Pope,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">As well as the best in the Colledge?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Boldly I preach, hate a crosse, hate a surplice,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Miters, copes, and rotchets:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Come heare mee pray nine times a day,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">And fill your heads with crotchets.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent4">In the house of pure Emanuel</div> - <div class="verse indent4">I had my education;</div> - <div class="verse indent6">Where my friends surmise</div> - <div class="verse indent6">I dazeled mine eyes</div> - <div class="verse indent4">With the Light of Revelation.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Boldly I preach, &c.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_244"></a>[244]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent4">They bound mee like a bedlam,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">They lash’t my foure poore quarters;</div> - <div class="verse indent6">Whilst this I endure,</div> - <div class="verse indent6">Faith makes mee sure</div> - <div class="verse indent4">To be one of Foxes martyrs.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Boldly I preach, &c.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent4">These injuryes I suffer</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Through Anti-Christs perswasions:</div> - <div class="verse indent6">Take off this chaine,</div> - <div class="verse indent6">Neither Rome nor Spaine</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Can resist my strong invasions.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Boldly I preach, &c.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent4">Of the Beasts ten hornes (God blesse us!)</div> - <div class="verse indent4">I have knock’t off three already:</div> - <div class="verse indent6">If they let mee alone,</div> - <div class="verse indent6">I’ll leave him none;</div> - <div class="verse indent4">But they say I am too heady.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Boldly I preach, &c.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_245"></a>[245]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent4">When I sack’d the Seaven-hill’d Citty</div> - <div class="verse indent4">I mett the great redd Dragon:</div> - <div class="verse indent6">I kept him aloofe</div> - <div class="verse indent6">With the armour of proofe,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Though here I have never a rag on.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Boldly I preach, &c.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent4">With a fiery sword and targett</div> - <div class="verse indent4">There fought I with this monster:</div> - <div class="verse indent6">But the sonnes of pride</div> - <div class="verse indent6">My zeale deride,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">And all my deedes misconster.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Boldly I preach, &c.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent4">I unhorst the whore of Babel</div> - <div class="verse indent4">With a launce of inspirations:</div> - <div class="verse indent6">I made her stinke,</div> - <div class="verse indent6">And spill her drinck</div> - <div class="verse indent4">In the cupp of abominations.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Boldly I preach, &c.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_246"></a>[246]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent4">I have seene two in a vision,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">With a flying booke betweene them:</div> - <div class="verse indent6">I have bin in dispaire</div> - <div class="verse indent6">Five times a yeare,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">And cur’d by reading Greenham<a id="FNanchor_122" href="#Footnote_122" class="fnanchor">[122]</a>.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Boldly I preach, &c.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_247"></a>[247]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent4">I observ’d in Perkins Tables<a id="FNanchor_123" href="#Footnote_123" class="fnanchor">[123]</a></div> - <div class="verse indent4">The black lines of damnation:</div> - <div class="verse indent6">Those crooked veines</div> - <div class="verse indent6">Soe struck in my braines,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">That I fear’d my reprobation.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Boldly I preach, &c.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent4">In the holy tongue of Chanaan</div> - <div class="verse indent4">I plac’d my chiefest pleasure:</div> - <div class="verse indent6">Till I prickt my foote</div> - <div class="verse indent6">With an Hebrew roote,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">That I bledd beyond all measure.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Boldly I preach, &c.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_248"></a>[248]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent4">I appear’d before the arch-bishopp,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">And all the high commission:</div> - <div class="verse indent6">I gave him noe grace,</div> - <div class="verse indent6">But told him to his face</div> - <div class="verse indent4">That he favour’d superstition.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Boldly I preach, hate a crosse, hate a surplice,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Miters, copes, and rotchets:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Come heare mee pray nine times a day,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And fill your heads with crotchets.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_249"></a>[249]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="ORATIO"><span class="smaller">ORATIO</span><br /> -DOMINI DOCTORIS CORBET,<br /> -<span class="smaller">EX ÆDE CHRISTI,</span><br /> -IN FUNUS HENRICI PRINCIPIS.</h2> - -</div> - -<p class="center">(Mus. Ashm. No. 1153.)</p> - -<p>Quam sit semper vobis facile, et pronum, justo -servire, sobriisque lachrimis obtemperare, ipsi -mihi vos dixistis modo, qui egregio oratori, et -invicto argumento fideliter cessistis, mihi tantum -post consumptum humorem, et historiæ, meæ -fidem vestram et suspiria præstituri. Si qua autem -unquam ageretur causa quæ suis viribus staret, -neque patrono aliquo, aut oratore indigeret, hæc -ipsa profecto hodierna est, quæ nec adversarium -infestum habet, nec facilem auditorem postulat; -hæc ipsa est, quæ in omni familia versata, vexata, -compressa, ad forum postea, et cœlum provocat, -humano generi se dat obviam, et una Britannia<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_250"></a>[250]</span> -nunc orbem replet. Tam multa, variaque unius -mors est, ut ubique moriatur; tam frequens dolor -ut humanitatem omnem hac ipsa cogitatione imbuat. -Nescit enim domestica esse aut paucorum -fama, pervia simul et ambitiosa, utrumque simul -minatur polum, rumpetque mœnia aut transibit -caprificus: ideoque facti repetitione aliqua opus -est; ad metus vestros, et necessitates descendite, -affectus vestros interrogate, quis desiderii modus -aut finis. Dicite tandem utrum timere quicquid -possitis, aut amare sine Henrico, sitque ille miseriæ -vestræ vera causa, qui felicitati vestræ sola -spes emicuit—quare aures ego hodie vestras non -appello, sed oculos, neque auditores ut olim neque -censores alloquar, sed homines, sed Britannos. -Adeste igitur, Anglosissimi Academici, lassi, queruli, -mihique per hunc mensem a primo hujus -nuncio ruinæ, non tacito sed muto post lachrimas -jam deliberatas aspirate, et dolorem illum, quem -vel vita nostra vincere non possumus, data quasi<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_251"></a>[251]</span> -opera dolendo leniamus. Exanimat enim possessorem -ægrum luctus longus, et prodigus mentem -sine sensu vulnerat, et quasi jam humanitas potius -aut natura, quæ morbus dici vellet, lachrimarum -suarum epulis impleri gaudet, et imperiosa consuetudine -satiatur. Quare redeat jam ad se oculus -unusquisque vestrûm, animamque in oculos -arripiat. Henricum cogitet sive principem sive -nostrum et vincet, credo ratio, aut suadebit -pietas, ut omnes hodie simus Heracliti sive enim -ad majorum sepulchra et imagines, proavosque -ejus multum remotissimos revertimur, honor est -et crescit acervus, nec sine centum regibus potest -prodire, si patremque matremque jam superstites, -quod sæpius proferre juvat jam superstites, jam -supra cyathum, et cultrum, pyram flammamque -jam superstites, et si quid votis nostris precibusque -jam litare possumus, sero superstaturos. Hos -si repetimus Deus est in utroque parente. Si cunabula -respicimus, et Lucinam ejus, quid in illa<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_252"></a>[252]</span> -infantia non debuit esse plus quam mortale, quæ -a sponsoribus Belgiis et immortali Elizabetha -Christo initiata, et æternitati, pueritiam autem nullam -habuit, qui annum ... unum excessit ex -ephebis, et tanquam tempus præcipitare mallet, -quam expectare, annos non ætate sed virtute æstimat, -neque hominem se longævum esse sed virum -cupit. In omni actione, rebusque gestis se juvenem -præbuit, solum in affectu senem, et suos annos sic -explevit, ut nonagenarium esse illum vellet quis -libenter agnoscere. Senectutem pariter nec habuit -nec exoptavit, neque exhæreditavit eum morbus, -sed industriam, vitæque suum patrimonium reliquum -aut laboribus vendidit, aut studio decoxit. -Diuturnioris spem vitæ ei natura dederat, dare -melioris non poterat; indicium prorsus quod -illum cæca fortuna non vidisset maximum; mens -pariter condidisset optimum, adeone raro succumbit -tenuiori, et æternum elementum gloriæ -perituræ auræ infeliciter serviet? Adeone virtus<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_253"></a>[253]</span> -qua vivimus minor erit vilissimo illius aeris haustu, -quo vivendum est. Atqui redeat in Chaos unde -prognatum est, ingratum illud aeris elementum, si -malis tantum indulgeat, invideat bonis, si inutili -populo spiret, principibus lateat, principibus huic. -Ecquis mihi vestrûm hanc Syntaxim imputat, illum -ut dicam principibus, qui et multus erat, virtutemque -in aliis fractam et remissam, totam sibi suisque -imperiis mancipasset; unaque sua anima effecit -præstantissima, ut si veteres philosophos -interrogamus, infinitum animarum exercitum in -hoc uno extitisse crederent? Sed consulite memoriæ -vestræ et officio, historiam revocate, narrate -Principem; quisquamne melior? quisquamne -major? Deo scilicet et cœlo stirpeque sua animoque -proximus: non tamen ideo humani oneris, -aut terreæ vicinitatis immemor, Deumque immortalem -quem metu subditissimo coluit, semper et -admiratus est; precibus imperatoriis, et quasi -libera servitute quotidie vincit; movet hortatu,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_254"></a>[254]</span> -docet Salomonis æmulus familiam sensu, populum -fama concitat, prælucet ipse omnibus pietate, -neque autoritate bonos sed exemplo facit. Irasci -aliquando, neque potuit, neque vellet, neque pœna -cujusque, sed pœnitentia contentus est, credo -itaque ut qui sine felle viveret, sine sanguine imperaret. -Neque amabilis magis, et mansuetus -quam domesticus et frugalis; servorum nomina, -studia, vitæque instituta cognovit, in domo sua -mensaque ipse paterfamilias, nimirum ut qui Œcumenicus -esse debuit, Œconomicus quandoque esse -posset. Studia sua et exercitia corporis, (quam -cœli et Decembris patientissimus erat) campestria -plerumque et in sole fuerunt.</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Gaudet equis, canibusque, et aprici gramine campi,</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>et quo longius a luxuria, oppidoque decessit, -eo proxime accessit famæ et probitati. Rei militaris -non tam studiosus, quam peritus fuit, -eoque timore simul a transmarinis optimè ... -redde Deo populum suum, I, curre per Alpes, Romamque<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_255"></a>[255]</span> -diu personatam et histrionicam aut vero -cultu induas, aut falso spolies. Hoc unum restat -faciendum, tuisque illud artibus permissum est, -et in tua solius sæcula servatum opus. Nec male -præsagiebat Roma præstigiatrix illa famelica, quæ -longo te jejunio et siti petiit, quæ ferro et igni -liberalem dat operam, morti principum plus quam -scientiæ et religioni incumbit, et quasi jam virtuti -morbus adhæreret, potius quam invidiæ, nullam non -pyxidem, herbamque eruit, quo suis exorcismis, -et impudicæ nequitiæ superstes non fiat. Tu vero -quam facile illudis ... ejus, et crudelem industriam -antevertis, ni virtus ipsa pro Jesuita, et febris -pro veneno est. His tu remediis hac demum -medicina sanaris (H. P.) et dum medicus ... -studium, gloria tua, et proprium meritum interficiunt, -unus Peleo juveni non sufficit, Henrico -sufficeret (ut transeam finitimos) Sabaudia et Hispania -ab utraque India timeris, nec audet vexisse -tuam Oceanus carinam, atque iisdem non ita pridem<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_256"></a>[256]</span> -ægrotavit Henricus magnus ille Galliæ rex, qui -ferro et hostili parricidio transfixus Henricis omnibus -mortem propinavit.</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Credamus tragicis quicquid de Colchide torva</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dicitur et Progne: nam clamat Roma peregi,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Confiteor, puerisque meis aconita paravi,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quæ deprensa patent; facinus tamen ipsa peregi.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tune duos unâ sævissima vipera cœnâ?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tune duos?—Septem, septem si forte fuissent<a id="FNanchor_124" href="#Footnote_124" class="fnanchor">[124]</a>.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>Verum credo nihil horum est (Academici) orationis -meæ horribilius est non religionis. Egoque -cæsus olim pulvere Novembris, hodie cæcubio, hodie -insanio. Nos utinam vani: Totus igitur est -in apparatu Henricus noster quem quærimus, jamque -aut equo insidet, aut choræis hasta vel gladio -dominatur, ipse Hymenæus etiam et nuptias -coronat, ovant et triumphant una dulcissima -mortalium, pax, Anna et Jacobus, et fervet annis<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_257"></a>[257]</span> -nitentibus fratri Carolus et totus in illos. Invitant, -properant, parant Fredericus et Elizabetha, -et ver illud perpetuum et poeticum hac solum in -regione deprehenditur. Æstate prima Woodstochiam -suam cogitat Henricus, et vicinam academiam -adventu primo, scholaresque (quos vocat -suos) accersit, ut habeat convivas musas, et si -placuerit, convictores; juvat et meminisse potestis, -qualis ibi tum in scena prodierit, in qua ipse -erat pro triumpho, ipse pro spectaculo. Quotus -illa nocte adest Henricus?—Quotus princeps, -quam magnificus, quam innocens, cui vel esuriens -Jesuita potuit ignoscere. O dementiam suavem, -gratissimum errorem, et religiosum delirium, in vobis -redivivum Principem, Britanni, jubilate Henricum, -O beatum impostorem.</p> - -<p>Qui istud nec audiunt, nec credunt malum, nos -miseros, qui in illa hostium multitudine et via fortunæ -viximus, et nescire dolorem non minus sit difficile, -quam cognitum extinguere. Quod si vox populi,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_258"></a>[258]</span> -quæ aliquando Dei esse dicitur, eadem potuisset -de morte tua et fama decernere, caruisses hodie -lachrimis, et longo nostrorum funeri superfuisses. -In te enim non tam morientis fatum, quam pacis, -quam reipublicæ situm est; non peris sed destruis, -neque mors hæc dat, sed confusio; diluvium -est, nec caret prodigio. Oraculum est, nec sine -sacerdote aut pontifice potest intelligi. Quam -non mortalis eras Henricus, mortalis; adeone -nonus esse nunquam potes, et nullus esses, brevis -est quia bonus, minorque quia melior.</p> - -<p>Nobis interim quod reliquum, quam ut festinetis -juvenes, animamque principis fugitivam, per -silentium et solitudinem sequamini: ut longitudinem -vitamque inimicis posthac exoptetis, sociisque -vestris, fratribusque suadeatis, quam sit senectus -post fatum principis vilis et ignominiosa. Nos interim -viri, qui in longiori ludibrio constituti sumus, -consulamus huic vitio, facinusque ætatis lachrimis -expiemus; et experiamur modo utrum anima principis<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_259"></a>[259]</span> -excellens, quæ palatio sui corporis clarissimo -valedixit, in nostris animis et hisce lachrimarum -insulis habitare velit, certemus invicem pietate, et -ingenioso luctu contendamus, summus ne dolor -feriet non volentem satis, nec viventem minus. -Dixi.</p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_260"></a>[260]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="IN_OBITUM">IN OBITUM<br /> -DOMINI THOMÆ BODLEII.</h2> - -</div> - -<p class="center">(Ex Libro cui Titulus “Bodleiomnema; seu, Carmina et -Orationes in Obitum ejus.” Oxon. 1613. 4to.)</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Obrue Bodleium saxis, prosterne colossis,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Adde libros oneri, dimidiasque scholas,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Aut lacrymis manes lassa, aut ululante papyro,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Quæ solet afflictis incubuisse rogis;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Non tamen efficies, quin summo in culmine victor</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Imperet, et molem perforet ille suam;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nam famæ cedunt lapides, et tecta sepulchris</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Dum memorant dominos hæc monumenta suos.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<h2 class="nobreak">CORRECTIONS.</h2> - -</div> - -<table summary="Corrections"> - <tr> - <td>Page</td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_36">36</a>,</td> - <td>verse 11,</td> - <td><i>for</i> ken <i>read</i> hen.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_50">50</a>,</td> - <td><span class="ditto">”</span> 7,</td> - <td><i>dele</i> a.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_80">80</a>,</td> - <td><span class="ditto">”</span> 10,</td> - <td><i>for</i> consider <i>read</i> consider’d.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_94">94</a>,</td> - <td>note,</td> - <td><i>for</i> brought <i>read</i> bought.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_100">100</a>,</td> - <td><span class="ditto">”</span></td> - <td><i>for</i> Guynes <i>read</i> Luyne.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_119">119</a>,</td> - <td>line 7,</td> - <td><i>for</i> Nescis <i>read</i> Nescio.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_137">137</a>,</td> - <td class="nw">verses 4 and 5.</td> - <td>It should have been observed, that the Prince and Buckingham - on their journey wore false beards for disguises, and assumed - the names of Jack and Tom Smith.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_144">144</a>.</td> - <td></td> - <td>The two first lines of this beautiful poem are here printed - as they are found in the editions of 1647 and 1672; but they - stand much better in Bishop King’s Poems, page 51, edit. 1657:</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td colspan="4"> - <div class="poetry-container"> - <div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Let no profane ignoble foot tread <i>neer</i></div> - <div class="verse indent0">This hallow’d peece of earth, <i>Dorset lies here</i>.</div> - </div> - </div> - </div> - </td> - </tr> -</table> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="footnotes"> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<h2 class="nobreak">FOOTNOTES</h2> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_1" href="#FNanchor_1" class="label">[1]</a> An <span class="smcap">Epitaph</span> on Master <span class="smcap">Vincent Corbet</span>.</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">I have my piety too, which, could</div> - <div class="verse indent0">It vent itself but as it would,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Would say as much as both have done</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Before me here, the friend and son:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For I both lost a friend and father,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of him whose bones this grave doth gather:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dear Vincent Corbet, who so long</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Had wrestled with diseases strong,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That though they did possess each limb,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Yet he broke them, ere they could him,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With the just canon of his life;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A life that knew nor noise nor strife:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But was by sweetning so his will,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All order and composure still.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His mind as pure, and neatly kept</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As were his nourseries, and swept</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So of uncleanness or offence,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That never came ill odour thence!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And add his actions unto these,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They were as specious as his trees.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">’Tis true, he could not reprehend,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His very manners taught t’ amend,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They were so even, grave, and holy;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">No stubbornness so stiff, nor folly</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To licence ever was so light,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As twice to trespass in his sight;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His looks would so correct it, when</div> - <div class="verse indent0">It chid the vice, yet not the men.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Much from him, I profess, I won,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And more, much more, I should have done,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But that I understood him scant:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Now I conceive him by my want;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And pray, who shall my sorrows read,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That they for me their tears will shed:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For truly, since he left to be,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I feel I’m rather dead than he.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Reader, whose life and name did e’er become</div> - <div class="verse indent0">An epitaph, deserv’d a tomb:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nor wants it here through penury or sloth,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Who makes the one, so it be first, makes both.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse right"><span class="smcap">Jonson’s</span> Underwoods.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_2" href="#FNanchor_2" class="label">[2]</a> Reg. Prerog. Court Cant. Parker, 49.—Vincent Corbet -left his copyholds in Twickenham and Thistleworth (or -Isleworth) to his wife, and legacies to various others. See -<a href="#Page_118">page 118</a>.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_3" href="#FNanchor_3" class="label">[3]</a> Wood’s Annals of Oxford, vol. ii. p. 312. ed. Gutch, -4to. 1796.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_4" href="#FNanchor_4" class="label">[4]</a> Heylyn’s Life of Archbishop Laud, p. 68. fol. 1668.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_5" href="#FNanchor_5" class="label">[5]</a> See a curious account of the proceedings on this occasion -by an eye witness, in Leyland’s Collectanea, vol. ii. -626. ed. Hearne, 1770.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_6" href="#FNanchor_6" class="label">[6]</a> One of the ballads written on this occasion is (through -the kindness of my friend John Dovaston, esq.) in a manuscript -in my possession, beginning,</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">To Oxenford our king is gone</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With all his noble peers.—&c.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_7" href="#FNanchor_7" class="label">[7]</a> Miscellaneous State Papers, vol. i. 394. 4to. 1778.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_8" href="#FNanchor_8" class="label">[8]</a> A William Lake, who was M. A. and a fellow of -Clare Hall in 1619, had also a ring bequeathed him by -Ruggles, and might have been the author. See Hawkins’s -edition of Ignoramus. Utrum horum mavis accipe.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_9" href="#FNanchor_9" class="label">[9]</a> Biographical Sketches, vol. i. p. 38.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_10" href="#FNanchor_10" class="label">[10]</a> Spencer, whose college disappointments forced him -from the University. Milton is reported to have received -corporal punishment there. Dryden has left a testimony, -in a prologue spoken at Oxford, much against his own -University. The incivility, not to give it a harsher appellation, -which Gray met with, is well known. That Alma -Mater has not remitted her wonted illiberality, is to be -fairly presumed from a passage in her late most poetical -son, Mr. Mason:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent22">Science there</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sat musing; and to those that loved the lore</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pointed, with mystic wand, to truths involved</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In geometric symbols, scorning those</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Perchance too much, who woo’d the thriftless Muse.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse right">English Garden.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_11" href="#FNanchor_11" class="label">[11]</a> See Lysons’s Environs, vol. ii. p. 148 et seq.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_12" href="#FNanchor_12" class="label">[12]</a> The forwardness of the clergy to publish their labours -is thus ludicrously satyrized by Robert Burton: “Had I -written divinitie positively, there be so many bookes in -that kinde, so many commentators, treatises, pamphlets, -sermons, expositions, that whole teams of oxen cannot -draw them: and had I beene as forward and ambitious as -some others, I might haply have printed a sermon at -Paules Crosse, a sermon in Saint Maries Oxon, a sermon -in Christ-Church, or a sermon before the Right Honourable, -Right Reverend, a sermon before the Right Worshipful, -a sermon in Latin, in English, a sermon with a -name, without, a sermon, a sermon, &c.”</p> - -<p class="right">Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 15. fol. 1632.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_13" href="#FNanchor_13" class="label">[13]</a> Harl. MSS. No. 7000. Cabala, p. 220. fol. 1663.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_14" href="#FNanchor_14" class="label">[14]</a> On the 26th of August.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_15" href="#FNanchor_15" class="label">[15]</a> It occurs, with some variations, in a scarce poetical -miscellany called Wit Restored, 8vo. 1658, the use of -which, in common with many other volumes of still -greater rarity and value, I owe to the liberality of -Thomas Hill, esq.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_16" href="#FNanchor_16" class="label">[16]</a> MS. Ashmole, A 37.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_17" href="#FNanchor_17" class="label">[17]</a> Martis, 27 Aug. 1605. “The comedy began between -nine and ten, and ended at one; the name of it was Alba, -whereof I never saw reason; it was a pastoral, much like -one which I have seen in King’s College in Cambridge. In -the acting thereof they brought in five or six men almost -naked, which were much disliked by the queen and ladies, -and also many rustical songes and dances, which made it -very tedious, insomuch that if the chancellors of bothe -the Universities had not intreated his majesty earnestly, -he would have been gone before half the comedy -had been ended.” Leyland’s Collectanea, vol. ii. p. 637. -edit. 1770.</p> - -<p>Mercurii, 28 Aug. 1605. “After supper, about nine -of the clock, they began to act the tragedy of Ajax -Flagellifer, <i>wherein the stage varied three times</i>; they had -all goodly antique apparell; but, for all that, it was -not so well acted by many degrees as I have seen it in -Cambridge. <i>The king</i> was very weary before he came -thither, but much more wearied by it, and <i>spoke many -words of dislike</i>.” Ibid. p. 639.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_18" href="#FNanchor_18" class="label">[18]</a> Although the register of Flore, the residence of Dr. -Hutton, was preserved from an early date during the lifetime -of Brydges, an early one is not now to be found. That -of Christ-Church, Oxford, is not so old as the death of the -bishop: his name is not found in that of Twickenham.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_19" href="#FNanchor_19" class="label">[19]</a> Wit Restored, 8vo. 1658.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_20" href="#FNanchor_20" class="label">[20]</a> Athenæ Oxon. vol. i. col. 736.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_21" href="#FNanchor_21" class="label">[21]</a> Harl. Catalogue, 464. fol. 3. He appears to have conceded -a portion of the patronage attending his elevation, -as in the Museum is “Carta Ricardi Corbet episcopi Norwicensis, -qua concedit Georgio Abbot, archiepiscopo Cantuariensi, -preximam advocationem, nominationem, præsentationem, -liberam dispositionem, et jus patronatus -archidiaconatus Norfolciæ, dat. 15 Maii, an. 8 R. Caroli 1.” -Harl. MSS. No. 464. Fol. 3.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_22" href="#FNanchor_22" class="label">[22]</a> Strafford State Papers and Dispatches, vol. i. p. 221. -folio.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_23" href="#FNanchor_23" class="label">[23]</a> He was author of a curious sermon, printed in 1627, -4to. under the title of “Woe to Drunkards,” which was -republished with king James’s Counterblast, and other -philippics against <i>tobacco</i> and <i>coffee</i>; 4to. 1672. Upon the -intrusion of the Book of Sports, Ward told his congregation -that “the Church of England was ready to ring changes -on religion, and that the Gospel stood on tip-toe ready to -be gone.” For these words he was suspended.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_24" href="#FNanchor_24" class="label">[24]</a> Harl. MS. No. 464. fol. 13.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_25" href="#FNanchor_25" class="label">[25]</a> Blomefield’s History of Norfolk, vol. ii. p. 522. fol.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_26" href="#FNanchor_26" class="label">[26]</a> Notwithstanding these harsh measures, which originated -with Laud—for, to the praise of our amiable prelate, -he had not a grain of persecution in his disposition—“the -Walloon company in 1637 having undertaken to repayre -and make fit the church of Little St. Maryes to be used -for God’s worship by the said congregation, and also to -repayre the yard on the northside, had a lease for forty -years. Which lease hath been renewed, and now it is the -church of the French congregation.” Blomefield’s History -of Norfolk, vol. ii. 57. fol. 1739.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_27" href="#FNanchor_27" class="label">[27]</a> Strype’s edition of Stowe’s Survey, book iii. page 151. -edit. fol. 1720.</p> - -<p>Perhaps his fellow-collegian Cartwright intended an immediate -compliment to Corbet in the following lines:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Two sacred things were thought, by judging souls,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Beyond the kingdom’s power, Christ-Church and Pauls,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Till by a light from heaven shewn the one</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Did gain his second renovation.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse right">Poems, 188, 8vo. 1651.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_28" href="#FNanchor_28" class="label">[28]</a> Ath. Oxon. vol. i. p. 601. edit. 1721.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_29" href="#FNanchor_29" class="label">[29]</a> Harl. MS. No. 750. Malcolm’s Londinum Redivivum, -vol. iii. p. 80. It occurs, also, with some difference, -in Mus. Ashm. No. 1153.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_30" href="#FNanchor_30" class="label">[30]</a> Reg. Prerog. Court Cant. 97. Sadler.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_31" href="#FNanchor_31" class="label">[31]</a> Gomersall, in an epistle to Barten Holiday. See his -poems, p. 7. edit. 1633.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_32" href="#FNanchor_32" class="label">[32]</a> Fuller’s Worthies, page 83. fol. 1662.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_33" href="#FNanchor_33" class="label">[33]</a> Headley, i. 38.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_34" href="#FNanchor_34" class="label">[34]</a> From hence it should seem that the edition 1647 was -not published at the time this preface was written.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_35" href="#FNanchor_35" class="label">[35]</a> Robert Gomersall was entered of Christ-Church, Oxford, -in 1614, at the age of fourteen, where, in 1621, he -proceeded M. A. In 1625 he took refuge from the plague -at Flore in Northamptonshire, of which the editor of the -Biographia Dramatica erroneously supposed he was rector. -He was afterwards vicar of Thorncombe in Devonshire, -and died in 1646. His poems, which are rather easy than -correct, were published with Lodwick Sforza, a tragedy, -in 1633 and 1638, from which the above epistle is transcribed.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_36" href="#FNanchor_36" class="label">[36]</a> Saint Paul’s cathedral was in Corbet’s time the resort -of the idle and profligate of all classes: the author, <i>quisquis -ille fuit</i>, of “A Sixefold Politycian,” 4to. 1609. attributed -to <i>Milton’s father</i>, describes its frequenters as “superstitious -idolaters of St. Paul (and yet they never think of -Paul nor any apostle) and many of them have that famous -monument in that account as Diogenes had <i>Jovis porticus</i> -in Athens; who to them which wondered that he had -no house nor corner to eat his meat in, pointing at the -gallerie or walking-place that was called Jovis Porticus, -said, that the people of Athens had builded that to his -use, as a royal mansion for him, wherein he might dine and -sup, and take his repast.</p> - -<p>“And soe these make Paules like Euclides or Platoes -school, as Diogenes accounted it, κατατριβην, a mispending -of much good labour and time, and worthily many times -meet with Diogenes’ fare, and are faithful and frequent -guests of Duke Humphray.” P. 8.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_37" href="#FNanchor_37" class="label">[37]</a> This was not the first censure of sir Christopher Hatton’s -extravagant monument; as, according to Stowe, -some poet had before complained on the part of Sydney -and Walsingham, that</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Philip and Francis have no tomb,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For great Christopher takes all the room.”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_38" href="#FNanchor_38" class="label">[38]</a> “Coryate’s Crudities hastily gobbled up in five months -travels in France, Savoy, Italy, Rhetia, Helvetia, some -parts of High Germany, and the Netherlands.” 4to. 1611. -Re-printed in 3 vols. 8vo. 1776.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_39" href="#FNanchor_39" class="label">[39]</a> Quia valde lutosa est Cantabrigia.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_40" href="#FNanchor_40" class="label">[40]</a> Ludus per spatium 6 horarum infra.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_41" href="#FNanchor_41" class="label">[41]</a> “A bushel of March dust is worth a king’s ransom.”</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_42" href="#FNanchor_42" class="label">[42]</a> Coll. Eman. abundat puritanis.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_43" href="#FNanchor_43" class="label">[43]</a> The king entered Cambr. 7 Mar. 1614-5.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_44" href="#FNanchor_44" class="label">[44]</a> Samuel Harsnett, then bp. of Chichester.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_45" href="#FNanchor_45" class="label">[45]</a> Vestis indicat virum.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_46" href="#FNanchor_46" class="label">[46]</a> Nethersoli Cant. orator, qui per speculum seipsum -solet ornari.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_47" href="#FNanchor_47" class="label">[47]</a> Orator hoc usus est vocabulo in oratione ad regem.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_48" href="#FNanchor_48" class="label">[48]</a> Actores omnes fuere theologi.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_49" href="#FNanchor_49" class="label">[49]</a> Ludus dicebatur “Ignoramus,” qui durabat per spatium -sex horarum.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_50" href="#FNanchor_50" class="label">[50]</a> Idem quod Bocardo apud Oxon.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_51" href="#FNanchor_51" class="label">[51]</a> Insigniss. stultus.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_52" href="#FNanchor_52" class="label">[52]</a> Paulus Tompsonus, qui nuper laesæ majest. reus ob -aurum decurtat.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_53" href="#FNanchor_53" class="label">[53]</a> Decorum quia Coll. est puritanorum plenum: scil. -Emanuel.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_54" href="#FNanchor_54" class="label">[54]</a> The former is Taylor, the celebrated water-poet: -the latter, William Fenner, a puritanical poet and pamphleteer -of that period, was educated at Pembroke-hall, -Oxford. He was preferred to the rectory of Rochford, in -Essex, by the earl of Warwick. He died about 1640.</p> - -<p>Archbishop Laud in his annual account to the king 1636, -page 37, mentions one Fenner, a principal ringleader of -the Separatists, with their conventicles, at and about Ashford -in Kent.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_55" href="#FNanchor_55" class="label">[55]</a> See Lodge’s Illustrations of British History, 4to. vol. iii. -p. 178; Brydges’s Peers of the Reign of James the First, -vol. i.; and Winwood’s Memorials.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_56" href="#FNanchor_56" class="label">[56]</a> For this vehement attack upon the weakness of an infatuated -woman, the author must be screened under the -example of Horace, Ep. 8 and 12.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_57" href="#FNanchor_57" class="label">[57]</a> Henry Garnet, provincial of the order of Jesuits in -England, who was arraigned and executed at the west end -of St. Paul’s, for his connivance at, rather than for any -active participation in, the Gunpowder Plot, May 3, 1605. -See State Trials.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_58" href="#FNanchor_58" class="label">[58]</a> Wilson’s Hist. of James I, Pa. 62. fol. 1653.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_59" href="#FNanchor_59" class="label">[59]</a> Two manufacturers of almanacks and prognostics. -The latter was, however, of some note as to family, being -the fifth son of sir Arthur Hopton by Rachael, daughter -of Edmund Hall, of Greatford in Lincolnshire; nor was -his fame in learning unequal to his birth. In 1604 he was -entered a gentleman commoner of Lincoln college, Oxon, -and in 1607 was admitted bachelor of arts. He was held in -high estimation by Selden for his mathematical knowledge, -but died in the prime of life in the month of Nov. 1614.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_60" href="#FNanchor_60" class="label">[60]</a> Dr. Daniel Price was the eldest son of Thomas Price, -vicar of Saint Chad’s, Shrewsbury, in which borough he -was born and educated. From St. Mary Hall, Oxford, -where he was entered in 1594, he removed to Exeter college, -where he took the degree of master of arts, and entered -into holy orders. He afterwards became dean and -residentiary canon of Hereford, rector of Worthyn in -Shropshire, and of Lantelos in Cornwall; for which counties, -as well as that of Montgomery, he officiated as magistrate. -He was author of many works, wholly devotional, -and died at Worthyn the 23d September 1631, and -was buried there in the chancel of the church.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_61" href="#FNanchor_61" class="label">[61]</a> This poem, for what reason does not appear, is printed -before some of the later editions of sir Thomas Overbury’s -“Wife.”</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_62" href="#FNanchor_62" class="label">[62]</a> These reverend gentlemen were jesters to James the -First. The name of the former was Archibald Armstrong, -of whom and of whose jests an account may be found in -Granger, vol. ii. p. 399. ed. 1775. 8vo. They are again -joined in a manuscript poem (<i>penes me</i>) by Peter Heylin, -written in derision of Barten Holiday’s play already mentioned -in the life of the bishop, of which the following are -the introductory lines:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Whoop Holyday! why then ’twill ne’er be better,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Why all the guard, that never saw more letters</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Than those upon their coates; whose wit consists</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In Archy’s bobs and Garret’s sawcy jests,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Deride our Christ-church scene.”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_63" href="#FNanchor_63" class="label">[63]</a> Thomas Ereskine, earl of Fenton.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_64" href="#FNanchor_64" class="label">[64]</a> William, earl of Pembroke, a poet himself, and an -universal patron of learning, whose character is so admirably -drawn by Clarendon.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_65" href="#FNanchor_65" class="label">[65]</a> The compass of a note is too confined for an account -of this great negociator and general, who fell by the jealousy -of the Prince of Orange the 13th March 1619. He -was born at Amersfort, in the province of Utrecht, was -five times employed as ambassador to England and France, -and had long the command of the armies of the United -Provinces. De Thou says, “que c’étoit un homme très -accrédité par les charges qu’il avoit remplies, et par sa -grande expérience dans les affaires:”—And Moreri concludes -an account of his character, and his death, which -he met with an undaunted spirit, in the following words: -“Barneveldt, ayant été pris, eut la tête tranchée à l’age de -72 ans, sous prétexte d’avoir voulu livrer le pays aux -Espagnols, quoiqu’il le niat constamment, et qu’en effet -on n’en ait trouvé aucune preuve dans ses papiers. Son -crime étoit d’avoir refusé d’entrer dans le complot, à la -faveur du quel le prince Maurice vouloit a ce qu’on dit se -rendre maître des Pays Bas, et d’avoir défendu la liberté -de sa patrie avec trop de zèle.” Tom. ii. p. 78.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_66" href="#FNanchor_66" class="label">[66]</a> No minister ever exerted his power with less tyranny -and more benignity than the favourite of Philip the Third: -he fell “from his high estate” by the intrigues of his son, -and an ungrateful monk whom he had raised to be confessor -to the king, and who abandoned the friend that had -elevated him as soon as the smiles of sovereignty were -transferred to another. On the 4th of October 1618, he retired -to his paternal estate from the capricious favour of -the court, where he passed the remainder of his days in -peace and privacy.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_67" href="#FNanchor_67" class="label">[67]</a> William Burton is said, by Antony à Wood, to have -been a <i>pretender</i> to astronomy, of which he published an -Ephemeris in 1655.—Edmund Gunter, a mathematician of -greater eminence, was astronomical professor of Gresham -College, and eminent for his skill in the sciences: his publications -were popular in his day. He died in Gresham -College, 1626.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_68" href="#FNanchor_68" class="label">[68]</a> Thomas Hariot, styled by Camden “Mathematicus -Insignis,” was a pensioner and companion of sir Walter -Raleigh in his voyage to Virginia (1584), of which upon -his return he published an account. He was held in high -estimation by the earl of Northumberland, sir Thomas -Aylesbury, and others, for his mathematical knowledge, -but, like his patron, Raleigh, was a deist in religion.—Ob. -1621. See Wood’s Athenæ, vol. i. p. 460. ed. 1721.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_69" href="#FNanchor_69" class="label">[69]</a> Of this popular song, which is reprinted from “Deuteromelia,” -1609, in Hawkins’s History of Music, and in -Ritson’s Antient Songs, the following is the introductory -stanza:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“As it fell upon a holyday</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And upon a holy-tide-a,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">John Dory brought him an ambling nag</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To Paris for to ride-a.”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_70" href="#FNanchor_70" class="label">[70]</a> Louis the XIIIth, for no superior virtues surnamed -“Le Juste.” I have seen it somewhere observed that he -chose his ministers for extraordinary reasons: Richlieu, -because he could not govern his kingdom without him; -Des Noyers, for psalm-singing; and le duc de Zuynes, -for being an expert bird-catcher.</p> - -<p>The satire of Corbet seems to justify the remark.</p> - -<p>He was born 1601; married Anne of Austria 1615; and -died at St. Germain’s 1643.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_71" href="#FNanchor_71" class="label">[71]</a> Upon a similar declaration being issued by Charles in -1633, “one Dr. Dennison,” says lord Strafford’s garrulous -correspondent, “read it here (London), and presently -after read the ten commandments; then said, ‘Dearly -beloved, you have now heard the commandments of God -and man: obey which you please.’”</p> - -<p class="right">Strafford Papers, vol. i. 166. fol.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_72" href="#FNanchor_72" class="label">[72]</a> Whalley’s Ben Jonson, vol. v. 299.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_73" href="#FNanchor_73" class="label">[73]</a> Dugdale’s Baronage, vol. ii. p. 444.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_74" href="#FNanchor_74" class="label">[74]</a> See his Poems, p. 1657.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_75" href="#FNanchor_75" class="label">[75]</a> Howell’s Letters, p. 64. ed. 1650. This fool, <i>quasi</i> -knave, whose surname was Armstrong, had his coat pulled -over his ears, and was discharged of his office, for indignity -to archbishop Laud.</p> - -<p class="right">See Rushworth’s Collections, vol. ii. p. 471.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_76" href="#FNanchor_76" class="label">[76]</a> This refers to a popular tract published in 1622, -under that title, in favour of the Low Countries, and for -the purpose of prejudicing the people of England against -the marriage which Villiers was negotiating when this -poem was addressed to him. The negotiation was not -only disgraceful, but unsuccessful:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">—αισχρον γαρ ἡμιν, και προς αισχυνη κακον.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_77" href="#FNanchor_77" class="label">[77]</a> “On the 29th of May,” says sir Richard Baker, “the -queen was brought to bed of a young son, which was baptized -at St. James’s on the 27th of June, and named Charles. -It is observed that at his nativity, at London, was seen a star -about noon-time: what it portended, good or ill, we leave -to the astrologers.” Baker’s Chronicle, p. 497. 1660. fol.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_78" href="#FNanchor_78" class="label">[78]</a> If any one is at this time ignorant of the practice alluded -to in this line, of the sponsors at christenings giving -spoons to the child as a baptismal present, it is not the -fault of the commentators on Shakespeare, who have multiplied -examples of the custom in their notes on Henry the -Eighth, vol. xv. p. 197. edit. 1803.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_79" href="#FNanchor_79" class="label">[79]</a> Reg. Prerog. Court Cant. Sadler 97.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_80" href="#FNanchor_80" class="label">[80]</a> Ibid. Rivers 18.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_81" href="#FNanchor_81" class="label">[81]</a> Cartwright has not unhappily imitated this poem in -his address “To Mr. W. B. at the Birth of his first Child:” -a few lines may be given:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">I wish religion timely be</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Taught him with his A B C.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I wish him good and constant health,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His father’s learning, but more wealth,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And that to use, not hoard; a purse</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Open to bless, not shut to curse.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">May he have many and fast friends</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Meaning good will, not private ends!—&c.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse right">Poem, p. 208. 8vo. 1651.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_82" href="#FNanchor_82" class="label">[82]</a> At Aston on the Wall, in Northamptonshire, where -Christopher Middleton, as rector, accounted for the first-fruits -Oct. 12th, 1612; and was buried Feb. 5th, 1627.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_83" href="#FNanchor_83" class="label">[83]</a> By the right of Dr. Leonard Hutton, a man of some -note in his day, the fellow-collegian and subsequent father-in-law -of bishop Corbet. Hutton passed from Westminster -School to Christ-Church, of which he afterwards became -a canon. It was in his residence at Oxford most probably, -and not, as the editors of the Biographia Britannica have -conjectured, upon this tour, that Corbet first became acquainted -with Hutton’s daughter. By the dean and canons -he was presented to the rectory of Flore in Northamptonshire, -where he accounted for the first-fruits Aug. 6th, -1601, and to the vicarage of Weedon in the same county -in 1602. Having lived to the age of 75 years, he died the -17th of May, 1632, and was buried in the divinity chapel -of Christ Church, where a monument remains to his memory.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_84" href="#FNanchor_84" class="label">[84]</a> A note in the old copies informs us that his name was -“Ned Hale.”</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_85" href="#FNanchor_85" class="label">[85]</a> A sergeant. Edit. 1648.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_86" href="#FNanchor_86" class="label">[86]</a> These are said in the old copies to be “the ministers -of Daventry;” but as no such names occur in the list of -incumbents, it is probable they officiated for Thomas -Mariat, the then vicar, who must have been very old, as -he was inducted to the living in 1560.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_87" href="#FNanchor_87" class="label">[87]</a> Dod and Cleaver, thus honourably introduced to our -notice, were united by the strong ties of puritanism and -authorship.</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Ambo animis, ambo insignes præstantibus armis;</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Hic</i> pietate prior.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>The latter has fallen into oblivion, but the superior -zeal of John Dod has preserved his memory. He was -born at Shottledge in Cheshire, where his family had territorial -possessions, and was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge. -“He was,” says Fuller, “by nature a witty, by -industry a learned, by grace a godly, divine.” He had -good preferment in the church, but was silenced for non-conformity, -though afterwards restored. He died and -was buried at Fawesly in Northamptonshire, of which he -was vicar, Aug. 19th, 1645.</p> - -<p>They were again joined in derision by Cartwright, in -his “Chambermaid’s Posset.”</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Next Cleaver and Doddism both mixed and fine,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">With five or six scruples of conscience cases.—&c.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse right">Poems, p. 231. 8vo. 1651.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_88" href="#FNanchor_88" class="label">[88]</a> In Leicestershire.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_89" href="#FNanchor_89" class="label">[89]</a> A note in Tanner’s Bibliotheca Brit.-Hibernica thus -relates the indignity offered to the remains of this parent -of the Reformation, after he had been ‘quietly inurned’ -during the space of forty-one years: “Magister Johannes -Wicliff Anglicus per D. Thomam Arundel. archiepiscopum -Cantuar. fuit post mortem suam excommunicatus, et postea -fuit exhumatus, et ossa ejus combusta, et cineres in aquam -juxta Lutterworth projecti fuerunt, ex mandato P. Martini -V.”</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_90" href="#FNanchor_90" class="label">[90]</a> Parson of Heathcot, Edit. 1672. It has been observed -in the Introduction that there is no village of this name in -this situation: the copy 1648 says Parson Heathcote, which -was probably the name of the parson of Ayleston, who -was their conductor.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_91" href="#FNanchor_91" class="label">[91]</a> Students of Christ-Church College, Oxford, which, as -well as Whitehall, the “palace” before mentioned, was -founded by Wolsey.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_92" href="#FNanchor_92" class="label">[92]</a> The figure in these lines is taken from the fine church -of St. Mary’s, Nottingham, in which the long chancel and -nave with the tower in the midst resemble the object of -the bishop’s metaphor. The castle mentioned in the succeeding -lines has “perished ’mid the wreck of things -that were.”</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_93" href="#FNanchor_93" class="label">[93]</a> Guy and Colebrand.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_94" href="#FNanchor_94" class="label">[94]</a> Where David king of the Scots was kept prisoner.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_95" href="#FNanchor_95" class="label">[95]</a> Which is within the Castle.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_96" href="#FNanchor_96" class="label">[96]</a> Every part of Corbet’s account of Nottingham Castle -corresponds so closely with the relation of Leyland, in his -Itinerary, vol. iii. p. 105, &c., that it would be superfluous -to transcribe it. See also Speed’s Chronicle, p. 540; and -Holinshed’s Chronicle, p. 349.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_97" href="#FNanchor_97" class="label">[97]</a> In Nottinghame.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_98" href="#FNanchor_98" class="label">[98]</a> “He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.” -Proverbs xxviii. ver. 20.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_99" href="#FNanchor_99" class="label">[99]</a> Dr. Jucks.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_100" href="#FNanchor_100" class="label">[100]</a> Mr. Edward Mason.—MS. 1625.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_101" href="#FNanchor_101" class="label">[101]</a> “The 25th of April, 1603, being Thursday, his highnesse -(James the First) tooke his way towards New-warke -upon Trent, where that night he lodged in the Castle, -being his owne house, where the aldermen of New-warke -presented his Majestie with a faire gilt cup, manifesting -their duties and loving hearts to him; which was kindly -received.”</p> - -<p class="right">“The true Narration of his Majesty’s Journey from Edenbrough, &c.” 1603.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_102" href="#FNanchor_102" class="label">[102]</a> Leister forrest.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_103" href="#FNanchor_103" class="label">[103]</a> Bosworth field. Edit. 1648.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_104" href="#FNanchor_104" class="label">[104]</a> From this passage we learn that Richard Burbage, -the <i>alter Roscius</i> of Camden, was the original representative -of Shakespeare’s Richard the Third.</p> - -<p>He was buried in the parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, -as Mr. Chalmers discovered, on the 16th of March, -1618-19.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_105" href="#FNanchor_105" class="label">[105]</a> The clerical profligate thus gibbeted for the example -of posterity was John Bust, inducted the 8th of April, -1611. He seems to have been a worthy prototype of the -Natta of antiquity:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Non pudet ad morem discincti vivere Nattæ?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sed stupet hic vitio, et fibris increvit opimum</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pingue; caret culpa; nescit quid perdat, et alto</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Demersus, summa rursum non bullit in unda.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse right">Persius, iii. 31.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_106" href="#FNanchor_106" class="label">[106]</a> Guyes cliff. Edit. 1648. The cliff and chapel are -engraved in Dugdale’s Warwickshire, vol. i. 274. Ed. 1730.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_107" href="#FNanchor_107" class="label">[107]</a> Of the Theorbo, or Cithara bijuga, so called from its -having two necks, which appears from Kircher as well -as the bishop’s poetry to have been highly esteemed in -Corbet’s time, a graphical representation may be found in -Hawkins’s History of Music, vol. iv. p. 111. 4to. 1776.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_108" href="#FNanchor_108" class="label">[108]</a> Warwick Castle. Edit. 1648.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_109" href="#FNanchor_109" class="label">[109]</a> Fulke Greville, lord Brooke.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_110" href="#FNanchor_110" class="label">[110]</a> Arch-deacon Burton. Edit. 1648.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_111" href="#FNanchor_111" class="label">[111]</a> At the signe of the Alter-stone. Edit. 1648.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_112" href="#FNanchor_112" class="label">[112]</a> Which serve for troughs in the backside. Ibid.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_113" href="#FNanchor_113" class="label">[113]</a> Three dames,</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Well known and like esteemed.”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>“A discourse of the godly life and Christian death of -Mistriss Katharine Stubbs, who departed this life at Burton -on Trent, 14th of December,” (1592.) was written by her -brother, the sanctimonious author of “The Anatomie of -Abuses.”</p> - -<p>Anne Askew, burned in 1546 for her rigid adherence -to her faith, wrote “a balade which she sang when she -was in Newgate;” printed by Bale. A long account of -her examination and subsequent martyrdom may be seen -in Foxe’s “Actes and Monuments,” vol. ii. p. 1284. edit. -1583. bl. let.</p> - -<p>With the last I am less intimately acquainted; but I take -her to be the same “lady” of whom the favourite son of -Mrs. Merrythought sings, in the last act of “The Knight -of the Burning Pestle.”</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_114" href="#FNanchor_114" class="label">[114]</a> It is almost superfluous to observe, that rosemary -was supposed by our forefathers to be very efficacious in -strengthening the retentive faculties; and, by being always -borne at funerals, was calculated to perpetuate the remembrance -of the deceased. “Here is a strange alteration: -for, the rosemary that was washt in sweet water to set out -the bridall, is now wet in teares to furnish her burial.”—Decker’s -Wonderfull Yeare 1603.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_115" href="#FNanchor_115" class="label">[115]</a> The belief that the turning of the cloak, or glove, or -any garment, solved the benighted traveller from the spell -of the Fairies, is alluded to in the Iter Boreale, (see p. 191,) -and is still retained in some of the western counties.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_116" href="#FNanchor_116" class="label">[116]</a> This poem, of which the leading features seem to be -copied from the 10th epistle of the 1st book of Horace, -has been printed in “The Antient and Modern Miscellany,” -by Mr. Waldron, from a manuscript in his possession, -and it is consequently retained in this edition of Corbet’s -Poems; to whose acknowledged productions it bears no -resemblance, at the same time that it is attributed (in Ashmole’s -MSS., No. 38, fol. 91.) to Robert Heyrick, the -author of “Hesperides.”</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_117" href="#FNanchor_117" class="label">[117]</a></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Discite quam parvo liceat producere vitam,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Et quantum natura petat.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse right"><span class="smcap">Lucan</span>, iv. ver. 377.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_118" href="#FNanchor_118" class="label">[118]</a></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Impiger extremos currit mercator ad Indos,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Per mare pauperiem fugiens, per saxa, per ignes.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse right"><span class="smcap">Hor.</span> Epist. I.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_119" href="#FNanchor_119" class="label">[119]</a> See Warton’s Hist. of Engl. Poetry, vol. iii. p. 170, 171.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_120" href="#FNanchor_120" class="label">[120]</a> See the Life of the Bishop.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_121" href="#FNanchor_121" class="label">[121]</a> This poem, which is in some manuscripts attributed -to William Stroude, has already been printed in the Topographer -of my very intelligent friend, Samuel Egerton -Brydges, esq. vol. ii. p. 112.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_122" href="#FNanchor_122" class="label">[122]</a> Richard Greenham was educated at Pembroke-Hall in -Cambridge, and became minister of Dry-Drayton, three -miles distant; where it should seem, from a rhyming proverb, -that his success in the ministry was not proportionate -to his zeal:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Greenham had pastures green,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">But sheep full lean.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>“What,” says Fuller (Church Hist. lib. ix. 220.), “was -Dry-Drayton but a bushel to hide,—London an high -candlestick to hold up the brightness of his parts?” Thither -he repaired; and, after an ‘erratical and planetary life,’ -settled himself at Christ-Church, where he ended his days -in 1592.</p> - -<p>“His master-piece,” says Fuller, “was in comforting -wounded consciences.”—Quid multis!</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_123" href="#FNanchor_123" class="label">[123]</a> “Tous les tempéramens,” say our neighbours, “ne se -ressemblent pas.” The Divine thus satyrized by Corbet is -lauded by Fuller in high strains of eulogy. 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