AUTOGRAPH OF SAMUEL BUTLER. So thinke how Spencer dyer how lowly mourned How Butler, faith & Serbias were Returnd. LIST OF PORTRAITS. Agrippa, Cornelius ......Part I. Canto I. line 539 ..... 640 II. line 636 ..Part II. Canto II. line 160 ...Part III. Canto II. line 794 Cromwell, Oliver .........Part III. Canto Cromwell, Richard.........Part III. Canto I. Canto II. line 395 II. line 227 Cutpurse, Mall ............Part II. line 166 II. line 1200 I. line Davenant, Sir William ...Part 541 II. line 669 14 II. Canto II. line 140 iv Lambert, General ......... Part III. Canto II. line 270 I. line 38 638 White, Thomas............ Part II. Canto II. line 14 ON SAMUEL BUTLER, Esq. AUTHOR OF HUDIBRAS. THE life of a retired scholar can furnish but little matter to the biographer: such was the character of Mr. Samuel Butler, author of Hudibras. His father, whose name likewise was Samuel, had an estate of his own of about ten pounds yearly, which still goes by the name of Butler's tenement, a Vignette of which may be seen in the title-page of the first volume: he held, likewise, an estate of three hundred pounds a year under sir William Russell, lord of the manor of Strensham, in Worcestershire. He was not an ignorant farmer, but wrote a very clerk-like hand, kept the register, and managed all the business of the parish under the direction of his landlord, near whose house he lived, and from whom, very probably, he and his family received instruction and assistance. From 'This information came from Mr. Gresley, rector of Strensham, from the year 1706 to the year 1773, when he died, aged 100: so that he was born seven years before the poet died. |