As he said of old, we may truly say now, he is our Amulet, our Sun, our sole comfort and refuge, our Ptolomy, our common Mæcenas, Jacobus munificus, Jacobus pacificus, mysta Musarum, Rex Platonicus: Grande decus, columenq; nostrum: A famous Scholler himself, and the sole Patron, Pillar, and sustainer of learning: but his worth in this kind is so well known, that as Paterculus of Cato, Jam ipsum laudare nefas sit and which Pliny to Trajan. Seria te carmina, honorque æternus annalium, non hæc brevis & pudenda prædicatio colet. But he is now gone, the Sun of ours set, and yet no night followes,

"Sol occubuit, nox nulla sequuta est,"

We have such another in his room

Avulsus, simili frondescit virga metallo, and long may he raign and flourish amongst us.

Let me not be malitious, and lie against my Genius, I may not denie, but that we have a sprinkling of our Gentry, here, and there one, excellently well learned, like those Fuggeri in Germany, Dubartus, Du Plessis, Sadael in France, Picus Mi+ randula, Schottus, Barotius in Italy;

"Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto."

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But they are but few in respect of the multitude, the major part (and some again excepted, that are indifferent) are wholly bent for Hawkes and hounds, and carried away many times with intemperate lust, gaming and drinking. If they read a book at any time, (si quod est interim oti á venatu, poculis, alea, scortis) 'tis an English Chronicle, St Huon of Bordeaux, Amadis de Gaule, &c. a play-book, or some pamphlet of Newes, and that at such seasons only, when they cannot stir abroad, to drive away time, their sole discourse is dogs, hawks, horses, and what News? If some one have been a tra veller in Italy, or as far as the Emperor's Court, wintered in Orleance, and can court his Mistris in broken French, wear his clothes neatly in the newest fashion, sing some choice Outlandish tunes, discourse of Lords, Ladies, Townes, Palaces, and Cities, he is compleat and to be admired: Otherwise he and they are much at one; no difference betwixt the Master and the Man, but worshipful titles: wink and choose betwixt

Nemo est que non Phæbus hic noster, solo intu tu lubentiorem reddat. * Panegyr. + Virgil. Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illa Fortuna. Juv. Sat. 8. Quis enim generosum dixerit hunc qui Indignus genere, & præclaro nomine tantum, Insignis. Juve. Sat. 8. him

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him that sits down (clothes excepted) and him that holds the Trencher behind him: yet these men must be our Patrons, our governors too sometimes, statesmen, magistrates, noble, great, and wise by inheritance.

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Mistake me not (I say again) Vos ó Patritius sanguis, you that are worthy Senators, Gentlemen, I honor your names and persons, and with all submisseness, prostrate my self to your censure and service. There are amonst you, I do ingeniously confess, many well deserving Patrons, and true patriots, of my knowledge, besides many hundreds which I never saw, no doubt, or heard of, pillars of our common-welth, whose worth, bounty, learning, forwardness, true zeal in Religion, and good esteem of all Schollers, ought to be consecrated to all posterity; but of your rank, there are a deboshed, corrupt, covetous, illiterate crew again, no better than stocks, merum pecus (testor Deum, non mihi videri dignos ingenui hominis appellatione) barbarous Thracians, & quis ille thrax qui hoc neget? a sordid, prophane, pernicious company, irreligious, impudent and stupid, I know not what Epithets to give them, enemies. to learning, confounders of the Church, and the ruin of a common-wealth: Patrons they are by right of inheritance, and put in trust freely to dispose of such Livings to the Churches good; but (hard taske masters they prove) they take away their straw, and compel them to make their number of brick they commonly respect their own ends, commodity is the steer of all their actions, and him they present in conclusion, as a man of greatest gifts, that will give most; no penny, no Pater Noster, as the saying is. Nisi preces auro fulcias, amplius irritas: ut Cerberus offa, their attendants and officers must be bribed, feed, and made, as Cerberus is with a sop by him that goes to hell. It was an old saying, Omnia Romæ venalia, tis a rag of Popery, which will never be rooted out, there is no hope, no good to be done without mony. A Clark may offer himself, approve his P worth, learning, honesty, religion, zeale, they will commend him for it; but

If he be a man of extraordinary parts, they will flock afar off to hear him, as they did in Apuleius, to see Psyche: multi mortales confluebant ad videndum sæculi decus, speculum

m I have often met with my self, and conferred with divers worthy Gentlemen in the Country, no whit inferior, if not to be preferred for divers kind of learning to many of our Academicks. Ipse licet Musis venias

comi a us Homere, Nil tamen attuleris, ibis Homere foras. P Et legat historicos authores, noverit omnes Tanquam ungues digitosque suos. Juv. Sat. 7. * Juvenal.

gloriosum,

gloriosum, laudatur ab omnibus, spectatur ob omnibus, nec quisquam non rex, non regius, cupidus ejus nuptiarium petitor accedit; mirantur quidem divinam formam omnes, sed ut simulacrum fabrè politum mirantur; many mortal men came to see fair Pysche the glory of her age, they did admire her, commend, desire her for her divine beauty, and gaze upon her; but as on a picture; none would marry her, quod indotata, fair Psyche had no money. So they do by learning;

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didicit jam dives avarus

Tantum admirari, tantum laudare disertos,

Ut pueri Junonis avem

Your rich men have now learn'd of latter daies

T'admire, commend, and come together
To hear and see a worthy Scholler speak,

As children do a Peacock's feather.

He shall have all the good words that may be given, a proper man, and 'tis pitty he hath no preferment, all good wishes, but inexorable, indurat as he is, he will not prefer him, though it be in his power, because he is indotatus, he hath no mony. Or if he do give him entertainment, let him be never so well qualified, plead affinity, consanguinity, sufficiency, he shall serve seven years, as Jacob did for Rachel, before he shall have it. If he will enter at first, he must yet in at that Simoniacal gate, come off soundly, and put in good security to performe all covenants, else he will not deale with, or admit him. But if some poor scholler, some parson chaff, will offer himself; some Trencher Chaplain, that will take it to the halfes, thirds, or accept of what he will give, he is welcome; be comformable, preach as he will have him, he likes him before a million of others; for the best is alwayes best cheap: and then as Hierom said to Cromatius, patella dignum operculum, such a Patron, such a Clark; the cure is well supplied, and all parties pleased. So that is still verified in our age, which Chrysostome complained of in his time, Qui opulentiores sunt, in ordinem parasitoru cogunt eos, & ipsos tanquã canes ad mensas suas enutriunt, eorumque impudentes Ventres iniquarum cœnarum reliquiis differtiunt, iisdem pro arbitro abutentes: Rich men keep these Lecturers, and fawning Parasites, like so many dogs at their tables, and filling their hungry guts with the offals of

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Tu vero licet Orpheus sis, saxa sono testudin is emolliens, nisi plumbea coru corda, auri vel argenti malleo emollias, &c. Salisburiensis Policrat. lib 5. c. 10. Juven. Sat. 7. Euge bene no nced, Dousa epod. lib. 2.-dos ipsa scientia sibique congiarium est. Quatuor ad portas Ecclesias itus ad omnes; sanguinis aut Simonis, præsulis atque Dei. Holcot. "Lib. contra Gentiles de Babila martyre.

their meat, they abuse them at their pleasure, and make them say what they propose. "As children do by a bird or, a butterflye in a string, pull in and let him out as they list, do they by their trencher Chaplaines, prescribe, command their wits, let in and out as to them it seems best. If the Patron be precise, so must his Chaplain be, if he be papistical, his Clark must be so too, or else be turned out. These are those Clarks which serve the turne, whom they commonly entertain, and present to Church livings, whilst in the mean time we that are University men, like so many hide-bound Calves in a Pasture, tarry out our time, wither away as a flower ungathered in a garden, and are never used: or as so many candles, illuminate our selves alone, obscuring one another's light, and are not discerned here at all, the least of which, translated to a dark room, or to some Country benefice, where it might shine apart, would give a fair light, and be seen over all. Whilst we lye waiting here as those sick men did at the poole of *Bethesda, till the Angel stirred the water, expecting a good houre, they step between, and beguile us of our preferment. I have not yet said, if after long expectation, much expence, travel, earnest suit of our selves and friends, we obtain a smal Benefice at last our misery begins afresh, we are suddenly encountred with the flesh, world, and Divel, with a new onset; we change a quiet life for an ocean of troubles, we come to a ruinous house, which before it be habitable,, must be necessarily to our great damage repaired; we are compelled to sue for dilapidations, or else sued our selves, and, scarce yet setled, we are called upon for our Predecessors arrerages; first fruits, tenths, subsidies, are instantly to be paid, benevolence, procurations, &c. and which is most to be feared, we light upon a crackt title, as it befel Clenard of Brabant, for his rectory and charge of his Begine; he was no sooner inducted, but instantly sued, cepimusq; (+saith he) strenuè litigare, & implacabili bello confligere at length after ten years suit, as long as Troye's siege, when he had tired himself, and spent his mony, he was fain to leave all for quietness sake, and give it up to his adversary. Or else we are insulted over, and trampled on by domi-` neering officers, fleeced by those greedy Harpyes to get more fees; we stand in fear of some precedent Lapse; we fall amongst refractory, seditious Sectaries, peevish Puritans, perverse Papists, a lascivious rout of Atheistical Epicures, that will not be

* Præscribunt, imperant, iu ordinem cogunt, ingeniu nostru prout ipsis videbitur, astringüt & relaxant ut papilione pueri aut bruchu filo demittu, aut attrahunt, nos à libidine sua pendere æqua censentes. Heinsius. * Joh. 5. +Epist. lib. 2. Jam suffectus in locum demortui, protinus exortus est adver sarius, &c. post multos labores, sumptus, &c.

reformed,

reformed, or some litigious people, (those wild beasts of Ephesus, must be fought with) that will not pay their dues without much repining, or compelled by long suit; Laici clericis oppido infesti, an old axiome, all they think well gotten that is had from the Church, and by such uncivil, harsh dealings, they make their poor Minister weary of his place, if not his life; and put case they be quiet honest men, make the best of it, as often it falls out, from a polite and terse Academick, he must turne rustick, rude, melancholise alone, learne to forget, or else, as many do, become Maulsters, Grasiers, Chapinen, &c. (now banished from the Academy, all commerce of the Muses, and confined to a country village, as Ovid was from Rome to Pontus,) and daily converse with a company of Idiots and Clownes.

Nos interim quod attinet (nec enim immunes ab hac noxá sumus) idem reatus manet, idem nobis, & si non multò grarius, crimen objici potest: nostrá enim culpâ sit, nostrá incuria, nostra avaritia, quòd tam frequentes, fædæque fiant in Ecclesiá nundinationes, (templum est vænale, deusque) tot sordes invehantur, tanta grassetur impietas, tanta nequitia, tam insanus miseriarum Euripus, & turbarum estuarium, nostro inquam, omnium (Academicorum imprimis) vitio sit. Quod tot Resp. malis afficiatur, à nobis seminarium; ultrò malum hoc accersimus, & quávis contumelia, quavis interim miseriá digni, qui pro virili non occurrimus. Quid enim fieri posse speramus, quum tot indies sine delectu pauperes alumni, terræ filii, & cujescunque ordinis homunciones ad gradus certatim admittantur? qui si definitionem, distinctionemque unam aut alteram memoritèr edidicerint, pro more tot annos in dialecticá posuerint, non refert quo profectu, quales demum sint, Idiote, nugatores, otiatores, aleatores, compotores, indigni, libidinis voluptatumque administri,

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Sponsi Penelopes, nebulones, Alcinoique,"

modò tot annos in Academia insumpserint, & se pro togatis venditarint; lucri causa, & amicorum intercessu præsentantur: Addo etiam & magnificis nonnunquam elogis morum & scientia; & jam valedicturi testimonialibus hisce litteris, amplissimè conscriptis in eorum gratiam honorantur, ab iis, qui fidei suæ & existimationis jacturam proculdubiò faciunt. Doctores enim & Professores (quod ait ville) id unum curant, ut ex professionibus frequentibus, & tumultuariis potius quam legitimis, commoda sua promove

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