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A grace it is for any Knight,
A stately steed to stable :
But unto Pegasus the light

Is any comparable?

No courser of so comely corse,
Was ever as the winged horse.

That Astrophill, of arts the life,
A knight was and a poet :
So was the man † who tooke to wife
The daughter of La-Roët. +
So thou that hast reserv'd a part,
To rouze my Johnson, || and his art.

Receive the while my lowly verse,
To wait upon thy Muses;
Who cannot halfe thy worth rehearse,
My braine that height refuses;

Beneath thy meed is all my praise,
That askes a crowne of holy bayes.

HUGH HOLLAND."

"In laudem Authoris Oda. In qua versiones non-
nullæ ab eodem factæ prænotantur," 28 Jines, sig.
"G.D."

"Hendecasyllabon in laudem Authoris," 21 lines,
sig. "E. H."

"V. Cl. T. H. Equiti Aurato, Suo," 12 lines, sig.
"J. Chapperlinus,"

The Odes translated were-Book I.- Ode 1. 2. 3.
II.*`12. 14. 15.
* 16.* 22. 24. 31. 34. 35. 37.*—

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↑ See Ellis's Specimens of Early Poets, Vol. I. 206. 3d edit.

Probably Ben Jonson.

Book

*

Book 2-Ode 1. 2. 3. 9. 10. 11. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18.-Book 3.-Ode 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.* 9. 11. 14. 16. 23. 24. 27. 28. 29. 30.-Book 4-Ode 2. 3. 4. 5. 7. 8. 9. 12. 13. 14. 15.-Epodes 1. 2. 7. 9.* 13. 16.*~ Carmen Seculare, &c.

The original is given on the alternate pages, and the asterisks denote the "many more" mentioned in the title. The length of this article demands the shortest specimen.

B. I. Ode 11.

"TO LEUCONOE.

Strive not, Leuconöe, to know what end
The gods above to thee, or mee will send;
Nor with astrologers consult at all,

That thou may'st better know what can befall.
Whether thou liv'st more winters, or thy last

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Be this, which Tyrrhen waves 'gainst rocks doe cast;
Be wise, drink free, and in so short a space
Doe not protracted hopes of life embrace;
Whilst we are talking, envious time doth slide;
This day's thine owne, the next may be deni'de."
Conduit street.

J. H.

ART. XVI. Musarum Delicia: or the Muses Recreation. Conteining several pieces of poetique wit. The Second Edition. By Sir J. M. and Ja. S. London: Printed by J. G. for Henry Herringman, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Anchor in the New Exchange. 1656. Duod. pp. 101.

The authors of this miscellany were Sir John Mennes, and Dr. James Smith.

The

The former was third son of Andrew Mennes, Esq. of Sandwich in Kent, by Jane Blechenden, where he was born May 11, 1598. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he distinguished himself by his literary acquirements; and afterwards became a great traveller, a celebrated seaman, and well skilled in the building of ships. In the reign of James I. he had a place in the Navy-Office; and by Charles I. was appointed its Controuler. In the subsequent troubles, he took an active part, both military and naval, in favour of the Crown; and being a Vice

His elder half-brother, Sir Matthew Mennes, was made K. B. by Charles I. at his coronation. His second brother Thomas was buried in the church of St. Peter, Sandwich, 1631. In this office he had the opportunity of bringing back the Queen-Mother to England in 1662; during which absence he lost his wife Jane Liddell, of the family of RavensworthCastle, who dying at Fredville, then the seat of the Boys family, at Nonington in Kent, was buried in the church of that parish as appears by the monumental inscription still remaining there.

Epitaph on a mural tablet at Nonington, Kent.

"Hic sunt depositæ Janæ Reliquiæ

Ab antiqua generosorum Liddellørum familia oriundæ
Ex castello de Ravensworth in agro Dunelmensi
Johannis Mennes Equitis aurati

Anglo-Cantiani conjugis, maris Anglicani Vice-Admiralli.
Ilia, absente sub ve.is Marito Regiis
Reginam ex Gallia Mariam revehentibus
Apud Fredville Johannis Boys armigeri occumbens
Hospitali istius humanitate

Hic inhumatur.

In sacram dilectissimæ consortis memoriam

Mariti pietate hoc marmor erigitur.

Nata anno circiter 1602, July 23, 1662 Denata."

Topogr. III. p. 154.

Admiral

Admiral in 1641 was knighted at Dover. In 1642 he commanded the Rainbow: he was afterwards, it seems, displaced from his services at sea for his loyalty; and was implicated in the Kentish Insurrection in favou of the King in 1648. *

After the restoration he was made Governor of Dover Castle, and Chief Comptroller of the Navy, which he retained till his death. In 1661 he was appointed commander of the Henry, and received a commission to act as Vice-Admiral, and Commander in Chief of his Majesty's Fleet in the North Seas. +

Sir John Mennes died Feb. 18, 1670-1, with the character of an honest, stout, generous, and religious man, whose company had always been delightful to the ingenious and witty. ‡

Wood says he was also author of a poem, entitled Epsom Wells; and several other poems scattered in other men's works. He was buried in the church of St. Olave, Hart Street, London; where a monument and inscription were erected over his grave.

• Matthew Carter, in his curious little tract containing "A Relation of this Insurrection,” 1650, 12mo. says, after having inserted "The Declaration of the Navy to the Commissioners at London," that the Insurgents having gained poste:sion of the Castles of Deal and Walmer, "marched away and quartered in Sandwich again that night, leaving in Deal Anthony Hamond, Esq. and Capt. Bargrave, who had been formerly an officer of the navy (both justices of peace, and gallant discreet men, not according to those of this wise reformation) as Commissioners for the managing of the business there, and in the fleet; having sent away for Sir John Mennis, Capt. Fogg, and some others, officers that had formerly been employed at sea by the King and for their loyalties displaced by the Parliament, who were also earnestly desired by the officers and mariners aboard.” P. 66.

† Charnock's Biogr. Nav. I. 61.

Wood's Ath. II. 482.

Dr.

DR. JAMES SMITH.

Dr. James Smith, was son of Thomas Smith, Rector of Merston, in Bedfordshire, was born about 1604, and educated at Oxford; went chaplain with Henry, Earl of Holland, when admiral of the squadron that carried supplies to the isle of Rhee; and afterwards was domestic chaplain to the Earl of Cleveland; in whose service he continued six years, and was beneficed at the same time in Lincolnshire. In 1633 he became B. D. and was now in much esteem with Massinger, Davenant, Sir John Mennes, and the other wits of the day. He then obtained the living of King's Nimpton in Devonshire, and went chaplain with the Earl of Holland in the expedition against the Scots: but returning to King's Nimpton, resided there during all the subsequent changes. At the Restoration he was made canon of Exeter, archdeacon of Barnstaple, and chaplain to Lord Clarendon; and in July 1661, D. D. Next year he became chaunter of Exeter; and in 1663 exchanged King's Nimpton, and the archdeaconry for Alphington, in the same county, where he died 20 June, 1667. Besides his share in the Musarum Delicia, Wood says, he wrote the principal part in the collection, entitled "Wit Restored, in several select poems. London, 1658." 8vo. At the end of which is his translation, or poem, called The Innovation of Penelope and Ulysses, a mock poem. London. 1658. 8vo. And at the end of that also is Cleaveland's Rebel Scot, translated into Latin. Wood says "he also composed Certain Anthems, not musical, but poetical, which to this day are used and sung in the cathedral of Exeter." "'*

Wood's Ath. II. 397

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