And crowned thy name Thy suppliant's prayer, and when my clouded eyes To thee such offerings, that the utmost date See the extracts from Pharonuida (twenty-five pages) in Campbell's Specimens of the British Poets; and two long articles, with extracts from Pharounida and from Love's Victory, in the Retrospective Review, vol. i. (1820). Thomas Stanley (1625-78), the editor of Æschylus (1663), and author of a biographical History of Philosophy (4 vols. 1655-62), based mainly on Diogenes Laertius and Aristotle, published in 1651 his fourth volume of verse, in which his earlier pieces were also included. The only son of Sir Thomas Stanley, Knight, of Cumberlow, Hertfordshire, he was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford; spent several years in France; and afterwards lived in the Middle Temple. His poems, whether original or translated (edited in two vols. by Sir Egerton Brydges in 1814-15), display vigorous thought and graceful expression, though the conceits of his age sometimes disturb. The Tomb. When, cruel fair one, I am slain And, as a trophy of thy scorn, To some old tomb am borne, Thy fetters must their power bequeath Nor can thy flame immortal burn, Like monumental fires within an urn: Thus freed from thy proud empire, I shall prove There is more liberty in death than love. And when forsaken lovers come To see my tomb, Take heed thou mix not with the crowd, And (as a victor) proud, To view the spoils thy beauty made, Lest thy too cruel breath or name But if cold earth, or marble, must Whilst hid in some dark ruins, I, Dumb and forgotten, lie, The pride of all thy victory Will sleep with me; And they who should attest thy glory, Will or forget or not believe this story. The Loss. Yet ere I go, Disdainful Beauty, thou shalt be So wretched as to know What joys thou fling'st away with me. A faith so bright, As time or Fortune could not rust; With laurel verdant as thy youth Whilst the shrill voice of Fame Spread wide thy beauty and my truth. This thou hast lost; For all true lovers, when they find That my just aims were crost, Will speak thee lighter than the wind. And none will lay Any oblation on thy shrine, But such as would betray Thy faith to faiths as false as thine. Yet, if thou choose On such thy freedom to bestow, For love from sympathy doth flow. The Deposition. Though when I loved thee thou wert fair, Thou art no longer so: Those glories, all the pride they wear Unto opinion owe. Beauties like stars in borrowed lustre shine, The flames that dwelt within thine eye Thy brightest graces fade and die Love's fires thus mutual influence return; Then, proud Celinda, hope no more To be implored or wooed; The wealth my love bestowed; Mrs Katherine Philips (1631-64), the matchless Orinda,' as she was called in her own time, was honoured with the praise of Cowley and Dryden, and Jeremy Taylor addressed to her a famous letter 'on the offices of friendship. The daughter of a London merchant, she became in 1647 the wife of James Philips of The Priory, Cardigan, whose father had married her own widowed mother, Mrs Fowler; and she divided her time between London and Cardigan, dying of smallpox in the former city. 'Orinda' was the name she chose for herself in a social and literary cotere of Antenors and Palæmons, of Celimenas ard Rosanias, English contemporaries of the précieuses of the Hôtel Rambouillet. Most of the verses are addressed to her friends on special occasions: thus, 'To my Lady M. Cavendish chusing the name of Policrite;' there are a number of friendship, love, the soul, resignation, death. and like subjects; some on the politics of the day, and one on 'The Irish Greyhound's praise of the beauty and bravery of the old wolfhound. Her poems were enshrined in a folio i 1667. Against Pleasure. There's no such thing as pleasure here; 'Tis all a perfect cheat, Which does but shine and disappear, Whose charm is but deceit ; The empty bribe of yielding souls, Which first betrays, and then controuls. "Tis true, it looks at distance fair ; And we expect more than possess. For by our pleasures we are cloyed, And so desire is done; Or else, like rivers, they make wide The channel where they run ; And either way true bliss destroys, Making us narrow, or our joys. We covet pleasure easily, But it not so possess; For many things must make it be, But one may make it less; Nay, were our state as we could chuse it, "Twould be consumed by fear to lose it. What art thou, then, thou winged air, And its attendant Shame? John Aubrey, antiquary and folklorist, was born at Easton Piercy, near Chippenham, Wilts, on 12th March 1626, and was educated at Malmesbury (under Robert Latimer, Hobbes's preceptor), Blandford, and Trinity College, Oxford. He entered the Middle Temple in 1646, but was never called to the Bar; in 1652 he succeeded to his father's estates in Wiltshire, Herefordshire, and Wales, but was forced through lawsuits to part with the last of them in 1670, and with his very books in 1677. His later years were passed, 'in danger of arrests,' with Hobbes, Ashmole, Lady Long of Draycott in his native county, and other protectors, till in June 1697 he died at Oxford on his way from London to Draycott. His quaint, credulous Miscellanies (1696) was the only work printed in his lifetime ; but he left a large mass of materials. Of these, his Wiltshire and Surrey collections have in part been published; his 'Minutes of Lives' (Hobbes, Milton, Bacon, &c.), given to Anthony Wood, appeared first in Bliss's Letters written by Eminent Persons (1813), but has been first adequately edited by Mr Andrew Clark as Brief Lives, chiefly of Contemporaries (2 vols. 1898); and his Remains of Gentilism and Judaism was issued by the Folklore Society in 1880. See an article by Professor Masson in the British Quarterly (1856). Dreams. When Sir Christopher Wren was at Paris about 1671, he was ill and feverish, had a pain in his reins. He sent for a physitian, who advis'd him to be let blood, thinking he had a pleurisy: but bleeding much disagreeing with his constitution, he would defer it a day longer : that night he dreamt that he was in a place where palmtrees grew (suppose Egypt), and that a woman in a romantick habit reach'd him dates. The next day he sent for dates, which cured him of the pain in his reins. Mr Winstanly (surveyor of the king's works) hath built a handsome house at Littlebury in Cambridgshire near Audely-Inn, where are to be seen several ingenious machines; one whereof is thus: a wooden slipper finely carved lieth on the floor of a chamber about a yard and an half within the door, which the stranger is to take up (it comes up pretty stiff) and up starts a skeleton. J. H., Esq., had been there : and being at West-Lavington with the Earl of Abbington, dream'd December the 9th, that he was at Mr Winstanly's house, and took up the slipper, and up rose his mother in mourning and anon the queen [Mary of Orange] appeared in mourning. He told his dream the next morning to my lord, and his lordship imparted it to me (then there). Tuesday Dec. II in the evening, came a messenger post from London to acquaint Mr H. that his mother was dangerously ill: he went to London the next day his mother lived but about 8 days longer. On Saturday Dec. 15 the queen was taken ill, which turned to the small-pox, of which she died Decem. 28 about two a clock in the morning. Apparitions. Sir Walter Long of Draycot (grandfather of Sir James Long) had two wives; the first a daughter of Sir Packinton in Worcestershire; by whom he had a son : his second wife was a daughter of Sir John Thinne of Longleat; by whom he had several sons and daughters. The second wife did use much artifice to render the son by the first wife (who had not much Promethean fire) odious to his father; she would get her acquaintance to make him drunk, and then expose him in that condition to his father; in fine she never left off her attempts, till she had got Sir Walter to disinherit him. She laid the scene for the doing this at Bath at the assizes, where was her brother Sir Egrimond Thinne, an eminent serjeant at law, who drew the writing; and his clerk was to sit up all night to engross it; as he was writing, he perceived a shadow on the parchment, from the candle; he look'd up, and there appear'd a hand, which immediately vanish'd; he was startled at it, but thought it might be only his fancy, being sleepy ; so he writ on ; by and by a fine white-hand interposed between the writing and the candle (he could discern it was a woman's hand), but vanish'd as before; I have forgot if it appeared a third time. But with that the clerk threw down his pen, and would engross no more, but goes and tells his master of it, and absolutely refused to do it. But it was done by somebody, and Sir Walter Long was prevailed with to seal and sign it. He lived not long after; and his body did not go quiet to the grave, it being arrested at the church-porch by the trustees of the first lady. The heir's relations took his part, and commenc'd a suit against Sir Walter (the second son) and compell'd him to accept of a moiety of the estate; so the eldest son kept South-Wranchester, and Sir Walter the second Mr. T. M. an old acquaintance of mine hath assured me, that about a quarter of a year after his first wives death, as he lay in bed awake with his little grand-child, his wife opened the closet-door, and came into the chamber to the bed-side, and looked upon him, and stooped down and kissed him; her lips were warm, he fancied they would have been cold. He was about to have embraced her, but was afraid it might have done him hurt. When she went from him, he asked her when he should see her again? She turned about and smil'd, but said nothing. The closet-door striked, as it uses to do, both at her coming in and going out. He had every night a great coal-fire in his chamber, which gave a light as clear almost as a candle (he was hypocondrical). He marry'd two wives since; the later end of his life was uneasie. Impulses. Oliver Cromwel had certainly this afflatus. One that I knew, that was at the battle of Dunbar, told me that Oliver was carried on with a divine impulse: he did laugh so excessively as if he had been drunk; his eyes sparkled with spirits. He obtained a great victory; but the action was said to be contrary to human prudence. The same fit of laughter seiz'd Oliver Cromwel just before the battle of Naseby; as a kinsman of mine, and a great favourite of his, Colonel J. P. then present, testifi'd. Cardinal Mazerine said, that he was a lucky fool. Mirandum. Arise Evans had a fungous nose, and said it was reveal'd to him that the king's hand would cure him and at the first coming of King Charles II. into St James's Park he kiss'd the king's hand, and rubb'd his nose with it; which disturb'd the king, but cured him. Mr Ashmole told me. John Hales. He had a noble librarie of bookes, and those judicially chosen, which cost him . . . li. (quaere Mr Sloper); and which he sold to Cornelius Bee, bookeseller, in Little Britaine (as I take it, for 1000 li.), which was his maintenance after he was ejected out of his fellowship at Eaton College. He had then only reserved some few for his private use, to wind-up his last dayes withall. The ladie Salter (neer Eaton) was very kind to him after the sequestration; he was very welcome to her ladyship, and spent much of his time there. At Eaton he lodged (after his sequestration) at the next house to the Christopher inne, where I sawe him, a prettie little man, sanguine, of a cheerfull countenance, very gentile, and courteous; I was recieved by him with much humanity he was in a kind of violet-colourd cloath gowne, with buttons and loopes (he wore not a black gowne), and was reading Thomas à Kempis; it was within a yeare before he deceased. He loved canarie; but moderately, to refresh his spirits. : He had a bountifull mind. I remember in 1647, a He lies buried in the church yard at Eaton, under an altar monument of black marble, erected at the st chardge of Mr. . . Curwyn, with a too long epi He was no kiff or kin to him. Mr John Hales dyed at Mris Powney's house, : widow-woman, in Eaton, opposite to the churchyan adjoyning to the Christopher Inne southwards. T the howse where I sawe him. She is a very good woman and of a gratefull spir She told me that when she was maried, Mr Hales as very bountifull to them in helping them to live in the world. She was very gratefull to him and respectfull t him. She told me that Mr Hales was the common godfather there, and 'twas pretty to see, as he walked to Win soi how his godchildren asked him blessing. When he wa bursar, he still gave away all his groates for the acut tances to his godchildren; and by that time he came : Windsor bridge, he would have never a groate left. William Harvey. He was not tall; but of the lowest stature, ro faced, olivaster complexion; little eie, round, black, full of spirit; his haire was black as a raven but quite white 20 yeares before he dyed. I first sawe him at Oxford, 1642, after Edgehill ft. but was then too young to be acquainted with so great doctor. I remember he came severall times to Tra Coll. to George Bathurst, B.D., who had a hen to E:: egges in his chamber, which they dayly opened to cerne the progres and way of generation. I had not the honour to be acquainted with him till 1651, being cosen Montague's physitian and friend. I was at that time bound for Italy (but to my great griefe disswo by my mother's importunity). He was very commark. tive, and willing to instruct any that were modest respectfull to him. And in order to my journey, gave [dictated to me] what to see, what company to keyr what bookes to read, how to manage my studies: short, he bid me goe to the fountain head, and re Aristotle, Cicero, Avicenna, and did call the neoter . . . He wrote a very bad hand, which (with could pretty well read. I have heard him say, that after his booke of t circulation of the blood came-out, that he fell migh in his practize, and that 'twas beleeved by the vulga. 2he was crack-brained; and all the physitians were aga his opinion, and envyed him; many wrote agains: as Dr Primige, Paracisanus, etc. (vide Sir George Ebooke). With much adoe at last, in about 20 e yeares time, it was recieved in all the universities of t world; and, as Mr Hobbes sayes in his book pore, he is the only man, perhaps, that ever lived to st his owne doctrine established in his life time. He understood Greek and Latin pretty well, but ess no critique, and he wrote very bad Latin. The Cina Sanguinis was, as I take it, donne into Latin by Sir Gege Ent (quaere), as also his booke De Generatione Animalium, but a little book in 12mo against Riolani (I thinke), wherein he makes out his doctrine clearer, was writt by himselfe, and that, as I take it, at Oxford. His majestie king Charles I. gave him the wardenship of Merton Colledge in Oxford, as a reward for his service, but the times suffered him not to recieve or injoy any benefitt by it. He was physitian, and a great favorite of the Lord High Marshall of England, Thomas Howard, earle of Arundel and Surrey, with whom he travelled as his physitian in his ambassade to the Emperor. . at Vienna, Anno Domini 163-. Mr W. Hollar (who was then one of his excellencie's gentlemen) told me that, in his voyage, he would still be making of excursions into the woods, makeing observations of strange trees, and plants, earths, etc., naturalls, and sometimes like to be lost, so that my lord ambassador would be really angry with him, for there was not only danger of thieves, but also of wild beasts. He was much and often troubled with the gowte, and his way of cure was thus; he would then sitt with his legges bare, if it were frost, on the leads of Cockaine house, putt them into a payle of water, till he was almost dead with cold, and betake himselfe to his stove, and so 'twas gonne. He was hott-headed, and his thoughts working would many times keepe him from sleepinge; he told me that then his way was to rise out of his bed and walke about his chamber in his shirt till he was pretty coole, i.e. till he began to have a horror, and then returne to bed, and sleepe very comfortably. I remember he was wont to drinke coffee; which he and his brother Eliab did, before coffee-houses were in fashion in London. Anthony Wood, or A WOOD (1632-95), was born at Oxford, studied at Merton College, and being of independent means, devoted himself to heraldry and antiquarian studies, and lived mostly in Oxford. His History of Oxford the delegates of the university press had translated into Latin as Historia et Antiquitates Universitatis Oxoniensis (1674). Wood was ill-satisfied with the translation, ́ and made a new copy of his English MS., which was long after published in 1786-96. His great Athena Oxonienses was a history of all the writers and bishops who had been educated in Oxford from 1500 to 1690, together with the Fasti or Annals for the said time (1691-92). Other works were The Ancient and Present State of the City of Oxford (1773) and the ill-natured Modius Salium, a Collection of Pieces of Humour (1751). He was laborious in research, but did not generously acknowledge help received from Aubrey and others. He was peevish in temper, and seemed to welcome spiteful stories. A third volume of the Athena was included in the second edition printed by Tonson (1721). The third edition is that by Philip Bliss (1813–20); a projected fourth by him reached only the first volume, containing Wood's Life and Times, an autobiography (1848). This last was edited in 1892-1900 by Mr Andrew Clark for the Oxford Historical Society as vols. i.-v. of a complete edition of Wood's works. From the 'Life and Times.' An. Dom. 1632 (Dec. 17).—Anthony Wood or à Wood, son of Tho. Wood or à Wood, bachelaur of arts and of the civil law, was borne in an antient stone-house, opposite to the forefront of Merton coll. in the collegiat parish of S. John Baptist de Merton, situat and being within the city and universitie of Oxford, on munday the seventeenth day of December (S. Lazarus day) at about 4 of the clock in the morning: which stone-house, with a backside and garden adjoyning, was bought by his father of John Lant, master of arts of the univ. of Oxon, 8 December, 6 Jac. I. Dom. 1608, and is held by his family of Merton coll. before mention'd. An. Dom. 1633.-He was altogether nursed by his mother (of whome shal be mention made under the yeare 1666) and by none else. For as she nursed his 3 elder brothers, so she nursed him (whom she found very quiet) and the two next that followed. An. Dom. 1637.-He was put to school to learne the Psalter. And about that time playing before the dore of his father's house, neare Merton coll. one of the horses, called Mutton, belonging to Tho. Edgerley, the university carrier, rode over him (as he was going to be watered) and bruis'd his head very much. This caused a great heaviness for some time after in his head, and perhaps a slowness in apprehending with quickness things that he read or heard; of which he was very sensible, when he came to reason. An. Dom. 1638.-In the beginning of this yeare his eldest brother Thomas Wood (who was borne at Tetsworth in Oxfordshire) became one of the students of Christ Church, by the favour of Dr. Tho. Iles, he being then 14 yeares of age. An. Dom. 1639.-He was in his Bible, and ready to go into his Accedence. (Mar. 8). His yonger brother John Wood died, and was buried the day following in Merton coll. church. An. Dom. 1640.-He was put to a Latine school in a little house, neare to the church of S. Peter in the Baylie, and opposite to the street, called the North Baylie, which leads from New Inn to the Bocherew. The name of his master he hath forgot, but remembers, that he was master of arts and a preacher, by a good token, that one of the beadles of the universitie did come with his silver staff to conduct him from the said little house (a poore thing God wot) to the church of S. Marie, there to preach a Latin sermon he thinks (for it was on a working or school day) before the universitie. An. Dom. 1641.-He was translated to New coll. schoole, situated between the West part of the chappell and E. part of the cloyster, by the advice, as he usually conceived, of some of the fellowes of the said coll. who usually frequented his father's house. One John Maylard, fellow of thes aid coll., was then, or at least lately, the master (afterwards rector of Stanton S. John neare Oxon.), and after him succeeded Joh. Davys, one of the chaplaynes of the said house, whome he well remembers to be a quiet man. His grandmother Penelopie, the widdow of capt. Rob. Pettie or Le Petite gent. (his mother's father), died with grief at or neare Charlemount in Ireland, the seat of her nephew William viscount Caulfield, occasion'd by the barbarous usuage of her intimate acquaintance (but a bigotted Papist) Sr. Philim O Neale, who acted the part of an arch-traytor and rebell, when the grand rebellion broke out in that kingdome 23 October 1641. . . . An. Dom. 1642.-Upon the publication of his majestie's proclamation, for the suppressing of the rebellion under the conduct and command of Robert earl of Essex, the members of the universitie of Oxon. began to put themselves in a posture of defence, and especially for another reason, which was, that there was a strong report, that divers companies of soldiers [were] passing thro' the country, as sent from London by the parliament for the securing of Banbury and Warwick. Dr. Pink of New coll. the deputy-vicechancellour, called before him to the public schooles all the privileged men's armes, to have a view of them: where not onlie privileged men of the universitie and their servants, but also many scholars appeared, bringing with them the furniture of armes of every col. that then had any. Mr. Wood's father had then armour or furniture for one man, viz. a helmet, a back and breast-piece, a pyke and a musquet, and other appurtenances: And the eldest of his men-servants (for he had then three at least) named Thomas Burnham, did appeare in those armes, when the scholars and privileged men trained; and when he could not train, as being taken up with business, the next servant did traine: and much adoe there was to keep Thomas, the eldest son, then a student of Chr. Ch. and a youth of about 18 yeares of age, from putting on the said armour and to traine among the scholars. The said scholars and privileged men did somtimes traine in New coll. quadrangle, in the eye of Dr. Rob. Pink, the dep. vicechancellour, then warden of the said coll. And it being a novel matter, there was no holding of the school-boyes in their school in the cloyster from seeing and following them. And Mr. Wood remembred well, that some of them were so besotted with the training and activitie and gaytie therein of some yong scholars, as being in a longing condition to be of the traine, that they could never be brought to their books againe. It was a great disturbance to the youth of the citie, and Mr. Wood's father foresaw, that if his sons were not removed from Oxon. they would be spoyl'd. (Oct. 23). The great fight at Edghill in Warwickshire, called Keynton-battle, between the armies of K. Ch. I. and his parliament was began. (Oct. 29).-Upon the first newes at Oxon. that the armies were going to fight, Mr. Wood's eldest brother Thomas, before mention'd, left his gowne at the Town's end, ran to Edghill, did his Majestie good service, return'd on horseback well accountred, and afterwards was made an officer in the king's army. An. Dom. 1653.-After he had spent the Summer at Cassington in a lonish and retir'd condition, he return'd to Oxon., and being advised by some persons, he entertain'd a master of musick to teach him the usual way of playing on the violin, that is, by having every string tuned 5 notes lower than the other going before. The master was Charles Griffith, one of the musitians belong. ing to the city of Oxon. whom he thought then to be a most excellent artist, but when A. W. improv'd himself in that instrument, he found him not so. He gave him 2s. 6d. entrance, and 10s. quarterly. This person after he had extreamly wondred how he could play so many tunes as he did by fourths, without a director or guide, he then tuned his violin by fifths, and gave him instructions how to proceed, leaving then a lesson with him to practice against his next coming. The last yeare, after he was entred into the publick library (which he took to be the happiness of his life, and into which he never entred without great veneration) he could do but little in it, because he was entred bat : little while before his ague took him. But this yeare being a constant student therein, he became acquainted with the places in the arts library, (for no farther could bachelaurs of arts then goe,) where the books of English historie and antiquities stand. He lighted upon Th Description of Leycestershire, written by Will. Burton: and being exceedingly delighted with the performance. he did this or in the yeare following, take notes thence, and make collections from it, which he had lying by hr in his last dayes. He took great delight in reading Th Display of Heraldry, written by John Guillim, and is other books of that faculty, written by Joh. Bossewel, John Ferne, &c., and endeavour'd to draw out and trick armes with his pen. And afterwards when he came to full yeares, he perceived it was his natural genie, and could not avoid them. Heraldry, musick and painting did so much crowd upon him, that he could not avad them; and could never give a reason why he shock delight in those studies, more than in others, so prevalen: was nature, mix'd with a generosity of mind, and a hatred to all that was servile, sneaking or advantagious for lucre sake. His brother Edw. Wood was much against these studies, and advised him to enter on those that were beneficial, as his mother did. He had then a gertle companion of the same coll. (J. W.) who delighted in vertuous studies as he did, and would walk several times with him in shady recesses and retired walkes, to each others content; but the same J. W. being a gent. of a good descent, and an heir to an estate of 700l. per an at least, he went afterwards to London, mixed himself with idle company that flatter'd and admired him, ar! at length debach'd him; which did not a little rouble A. W. An. Dom. 1658 (Aug. 30).—Munday, a terrible raging wind hapned, which did much hurt. Dennis Bond, a great Olivarian and anti-monarchist, died on that day, and then the Devil took Bond for Oliver's appearance. (Sept. 3).-Oliver Cromwell the protector died. This I set downe, because some writers tell us, that he was hurried away by the Devil in the wind before mention'd. (Sept. 6).—Richard Cromwell his son was prockimed protector at Oxon. at the usual places where kings have been proclaimed. While he was proclaiming before S. Marie's church dore, the mayor, recorder, townclerk, &c, accompanied by col. Unton Croke and his troopers, were pelted with carret and turnip-tops, by yong scholars, and others, who stood at a distance. Bulstrode Whitelocke (1605-75), the son of a judge, and himself an eminent lawyer, was bred at St John's College, Oxford, and the Middle Temple. His Memorials of English Affairs from the beginning of the reign of Charles I. to the Restoration mirror the times from a point of view opposite to that of Lord Clarendon, though, like Selden and other moderate anti-royalists, he was averse to a civil war. He was chairman of the committee which managed Strafford's prosecution. As a member of Parliament, and one of the commissioners appointed to treat with the king at Oxford, he advocated pacific measures; and being að enemy to arbitrary power both in Church and State, |