English Garden

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 oneDid gain his second renovation.

“Philip and Francis have no tomb,For great Christopher takes all the room.”

“Coryate’s Crudities hastily gobbled up in five months travels inFrance, Savoy, Italy, Rhetia, Helvetia, some parts of High Germany, andthe Netherlands.” 4to. 1611. Re-printed in 3 vols. 8vo. 1776.Quia valde lutosa est Cantabrigia.

Ludus per spatium 6 horarum infra.

“A bushel of March dust is worth a king’s ransom.”

Coll. Eman. abundat puritanis.

Samuel Harsnett, then bp. of Chichester.

Vestis indicat virum.

Nethersoli Cant. orator, qui per speculum seipsum solet ornari.

Orator hoc usus est vocabulo in oratione ad regem.

Actores omnes fuere theologi.

Ludus dicebatur “Ignoramus,” qui durabat per spatium sex horarum.

Idem quod Bocardo apud Oxon.

Insigniss. stultus.

Paulus Tompsonus, qui nuper laesæ majest. reus ob aurum decurtat.

Decorum quia Coll. est puritanorum plenum: scil. Emanuel.

The former is Taylor, the celebrated water-poet: the latter, WilliamFenner, a puritanical poet and pamphleteer of that period, was educatedat Pembroke-hall, Oxford. He was preferred to the rectory of Rochford, inEssex, by the earl of Warwick. He died about 1640.

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’sMemorials.

Dr. Daniel Price was the eldest son of Thomas Price, vicar ofSaint Chad’s, Shrewsbury, in which borough he was born and educated.From St. Mary Hall, Oxford, where he was entered in 1594, he removed toExeter college, where he took the degree of master of arts, and enteredinto holy orders. He afterwards became dean and residentiary canon ofHereford, rector of Worthyn in Shropshire, and of Lantelos in Cornwall;for which counties, as well as that of Montgomery, he officiated asmagistrate. He was author of many works, wholly devotional, and died atWorthyn the 23d September 1631, and was buried there in the chancel ofthe church.

“Whoop Holyday! why then ’twill ne’er be better,Why all the guard, that never saw more lettersThan those upon their coates; whose wit consistsIn Archy’s bobs and Garret’s sawcy jests,Deride our Christ-church scene.”

“As it fell upon a holydayAnd upon a holy-tide-a,John Dory brought him an ambling nagTo Paris for to ride-a.”

Upon a similar declaration being issued by Charles in 1633, “oneDr. Dennison,” says lord Strafford’s garrulous correspondent, “read ithere (London), and presently after read the ten commandments; then said,‘Dearly beloved, you have now heard the commandments of God and man: obeywhich you please.’”Strafford Papers, vol. i. 166. fol.

If any one is at this time ignorant of the practice alluded to inthis line, of the sponsors at christenings giving spoons to the childas a baptismal present, it is not the fault of the commentators onShakespeare, who have multiplied examples of the custom in their notes onHenry the Eighth, vol. xv. p. 197. edit. 1803.

Cartwright has not unhappily imitated this poem in his address “ToMr. W. B. at the Birth of his first Child:” a few lines may be given:

I wish religion timely beTaught 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 purseOpen to bless, not shut to curse.May he have many and fast friendsMeaning good will, not private ends!—&c.

At Aston on the Wall, in Northamptonshire, where ChristopherMiddleton, as rector, accounted for the first-fruits Oct. 12th, 1612; andwas buried Feb. 5th, 1627.A note in the old copies informs us that his name was “Ned Hale.”

Ambo animis, ambo insignes præstantibus armis;Hic pietate prior.

They were again joined in derision by Cartwright, in his “Chambermaid’sPosset.”

Next Cleaver and Doddism both mixed and fine,With five or six scruples of conscience cases.—&c.

From this passage we learn that Richard Burbage, the alterRoscius of Camden, was the original representative of Shakespeare’sRichard the Third.

Non pudet ad morem discincti vivere Nattæ?Sed stupet hic vitio, et fibris increvit opimumPingue; caret culpa; nescit quid perdat, et altoDemersus, summa rursum non bullit in unda.

Guyes cliff. Edit. 1648. The cliff and chapel are engraved inDugdale’s Warwickshire, vol. i. 274. Ed. 1730.

Fulke Greville, lord Brooke.

Which serve for troughs in the backside. Ibid.

“Well known and like esteemed.”

“A discourse of the godly life and Christian death of Mistriss KatharineStubbs, who departed this life at Burton on Trent, 14th of December,”(1592.) was written by her brother, the sanctimonious author of “TheAnatomie of Abuses.”

Discite quam parvo liceat producere vitam,Et quantum natura petat.

Impiger extremos currit mercator ad Indos,Per mare pauperiem fugiens, per saxa, per ignes.