G. Herbert his school-fellow, and of the same election to Trinity.

vi. Byron, afterwards Lord Byron, his pupil.

He wrote a play called Loyola, which was twice acted before King James. Latin?

He held Trumpington vicarage with his fellowship.

vii. Bishop Andrews often sent him money to buy books, sometimes ten pieces at a time.

viii. A country living he thought "necessary for a London minister to retire to in hot summer time, out of the sepulchral air of a churchyard, where most of them are housed in the city. He found, for his own part, that by Whitsuntide he did rus anhelare, and unless he took fresh air in the vacation, he was stopt in his lungs, and could not speak clear after Michaelmas."

ix. "Unless it were for the service of God, all the world should not hire him to live among butchers, and bakers, and brewers, tradesmen of all sorts in the narrow streets of London, where he could not see the sun, but in some few days, all summer."

His delight in the month of April.

He was named to attend an ambassador into Germany, but "having wrote Loyola, he was told he would never be able to go safe, though in an ambassador's train.”

x. Intention of writing James I.'s life frustrated by the civil wars, and many of the papers then lost.

He thought superstition a less sin than irreverence and profaneness.

xiv. He never would eat at public meetings, at the parish cost.

Care for rebuilding his church of St. Andrew's, Holborn. Many, at his instance, left legacies for it. "He was not willing to permit that any rich men's bones should be sumptuously buried in his church, who never bestowed so much upon God's house in their life, as the value of their tomb amounted unto; saying, such did not adorn, but trouble the church."

The Long Parliament seized all that had been accumulated for this purpose, and for St. Paul's, "to carry on their war against both King and Church."

xv. Use of funeral fees.
Foresight of the troubles.

xvi. The Church canons he called " 80 many buttresses to the house of God, raised up without the walls, to support the building within."

"He accounted it no good omen to have the sun eclipsed that very hour the Long Parliament began, in November 1640, though not visible here, save in the disastrous effects."

xviii. His speech in behalf of deans and chapters.

Cathedral music too scientific.

xix. Care of preachers in cathedrals under Elizabeth. Bishop Alley's sermons. Learning necessary for preachers. xx. Grammar schools. Universities declining greatly in numbers.

Learned books lying upon the book

xxi. Admission in Hacket's speech that the bishops usurped sole jurisdiction to themselves.

"The first monuments of piety that were built in this kingdom were cathedral churches; for parochial churches are their minors and nephews, and succeeded after them."

xxii. Dependents on cathedrals.

Schools of music, and then it seems really

schools.

xxv. After his speech, the question con

£100 for a year or two, upon their own bill or bond; and afterwards frequently gave it to them. And this he did sometimes to

time.

xxxi. His restoration of Lichfield. xxxv. Decay of piety. "It was far easier under Charles I.'s reign to raise £100 to pious uses than now £10.

Bishops' palaces ceased to be schools at this time because of their impoverishment. xxxvi. Vicarages miserably poor. xxxvii. Presbyterians, notwithstanding the apparent strictness of their examinations, admitted great dunces.

He disliked ordaining young men

xlix. His library cost him about £1500: he left it to the University library.

1. His enmity to sturdy beggars. "Aurora," he said, "was the mother of honey-dews and pearls, which drop from scholars' pens upon their paper."

His dear friends Drs. Holdsworth and Jeffries he called, for their late watchings, Noctuæ Londinenses.

His love of agriculture.

li. "He never put on a silk cassock but

xli. He wonders that there had been no order instituted to thank God for his good things-no order of Eucharistici.

"He took the Pope to be an ill-member of Christendom, yet would have no man desire the devil should pull him down, viz. the Turk; or Goths and Vandals, viz. German Anabaptists and Socinians, for fear the change should be for the worse."

xlii. "Sectaries, he disliked all; but their hypocrisy he thought superlative that allowed the doctrines, and yet would separate for mislike of the discipline: these men's impudence outwent all preceding histories." xlvi. His notions of hospitality in the clergy.

xlvii. "For himself, he chose rather to have a table replenished from an orchard or a dairy than from the butcher's shambles."

xlviii. "He was by nature oxodos (as most great wits are) irritable, and subject to great eruptions of anger, oftentimes especially if he had met with bold and arrogant, but slow parts."

"He always advised people, if any thing troubled them, to speak it out, and never to retain a dry discontent."

xlix. "He enquired out distressed cava

lii. He had bespoken a set of six bells for his cathedral, three only were cast before his death, and only one, the tenor, hung, "which had not been hung so soon, but that his Lordship called on the workmen to do it. The first time it was rung he was very weak, yet he went out of his bedchamber into the next room to hear it, and seemed very well pleased with the sound, and blessed God that had favoured him with life to hear it; but withal observed that it would be his own passing bell; and so returned to his chamber, and never came out till he was carried to his grave."

liii. Only the week before his death he had desired a friend in London "to send him down the new books from abroad, or at home."

8. "I praise God I am not in the place now where I need to complain; but more eyes have seen such churches, especially such chancels, which our zealous lay-parsons of the kingdom have sacrilegiously unroofed, and uncased the lead, and left them thatch and straw for a covering, and scarce that, too. O God, I shame to speak it, surely our Saviour was better provided when he was laid in a manger."

16. Why the nativity was proclaimed to shepherds. Had greater persons made the same report, they would have been suspected of laying a train for rebellion.

27. Christmas festivity, how to be observed.

38-9. Good hopeful language of Christian encouragement. 49-77.

57. Why the incarnation was so late. A good passage.

58. "It is as good news upon any day as it was upon one day," says Bernard, "that Christ is born. That day comes always anew to them that are renewed in the spirit of their mind; and he is born every day to them in whose hearts he lives by faith." 68. Church music.

82. Wherefore a lowly Saviour.

86. Sermons sufficiently frequented; but why?

273. The devil, two millstones. 280-1. Roguery in London. A lively pas

sage.

283. Good advice how to read the Scrip

tures.

290. "The fable is, that the unicorn dips his horn into the river, and makes it wholesome for all beasts to drink."

292. Popery provides for all. 299. Town and country.

323. It was Pighius who called the Bible a Nose of Wax.

"A Lesbian rule, made of lead, and therefore flexible, and would bend to any thing that you would measure with it."1

330. What trial by combat was this which the King would not permit to go forward? 336. "Violence, injustice, a thousand angariations."

A good passage.

111. Moses's horns: the literal interpretation properly condemned.

135. "The questions of the ignorant are profitable oftentimes, not only to the ignorant, but also to their teachers."

137. "True wisdom is no such cautelous thing as the world takes it for; no such politic head-piece that will keep silence for its own safety, though truth and religion and all good government suffer for it."

147. "The same air which God created in the beginning is the breath which our forefathers did draw, and which sustains us, and shall serve the generations of men which are yet unborn."

220. "Some there are who care not what old pillars of divinity they pull down to set up their new devices."

247. Conceits why fish may be eaten on fast-days. 251.

249. Council of Chalcedon. "All the ink in Italy is not enough to blot out its canon, that the Church of Constantinople should have equal privileges with the Church of Rome."

251. Protestant reasons for fasting. 252. 267. Growth of a humble assurance.

345. Impropriations.

350. "The purpose of this great gift is to take the devil's dam with a dowry."

353. "These letters were engraven upon a gate at Rome, at a solemn time of triumph, 'Unus Deus, unus Papa, unus Rex Catholicus.' I will not interpret them out of Latin, for I hope they shall never be turned into English. I think if God should create a new earth, which never was made before, some would lay claim to it."

"He that knows no top in that honour he would mount to, shall be cast down into misery that hath no bottom."

370. Objections to kneeling at the sacrament well exposed.

371. Worship. Defect of language here. 380. Latria. Augustine.

"The story is in Ælian, that some studious scholars bade great sums of money for an earthen candlestick that had been Epictetus's."

392. Images. "O strong delusions in the hearts of men, that there should be any cause to contest with Christians in such a controversy!"

413. Difference of the four Gospels illustrated by four knots in a garden, set to the same pattern, but with different herbs.

425. "I conceive that in the Resurrection of the Just every countenance which had disfigurement in it, or any monstrous disproportion, shall be new shaped and fashioned; because that great workmanship of God, which abideth for ever, shall be conspicuous to all eyes with most exact decency and comeliness."

424. Light of the New Jerusalem. 425. "Diamond differs from other precious stones in that its colour cannot be called by any name: there is a white gloss and a sparkling flame mixt together, which shew fairly, but render no constant colour."

429. Opinions concerning the body of Moses-a curious question arising from the Transfiguration.

431. The heaven where the blessed are at rest cannot be the air, our heaven, nor

that of the lower orbs. A false reason for the latter part of the opinion.

432. Satan tried to discredit Scripture by inventing fables like its truths.

442. "The devil promised our Saviour all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them; and since he refused it, then the same devil, by the mouth of these canonists, proffers it again to try, though he will none of it himself, if some other, in the name of a vicegerent, will take it for him.

443. "We have stolen a name from virtue, and called our riches our goods."

444. "The glory of the Gospel is like God's rainbow in the clouds, not only a beautiful, but a merciful token-a bow with the string towards the earth, so that it is not prepared to shoot arrows against us."

445. "Lazarus, and the others who were so revived, were never after seen even to smile."

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446. "Some one (Lorinus) said elegantly of St. John the apostle, who outlived all his fellows, but died not a martyr as they did, that to live to such an extreme age was his martyrdom. Longævitas Johanni martyrorum quoddam fuit.' Surely God multiplies the days of a good man oftentimes, that he may please him the more by desiring death."

447. "Though God prepare for us a new heaven and a new earth, yet he must give us a new heart likewise to delight in them for ever."

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SIR EGERTON BRYDGES.

P. ix.

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rum.

Theatrum Poeta

Preface.

E want some standards of fixed opinion, and tests of perpetual reference, by which we can as

sure ourselves that we are not under the delusion of momentary caprice and accidental excitation. What was verum et bonum once, says Phillips, continues to be so always. If therefore what is modern differs from what was formerly verum et bonum, it cannot itself be itself verum et bonum."

x. "If indeed we look to the minor poets, they are always the creatures of the epoch at which they wrote."

xiv. "The vulgar, great and little, have always an acquired taste, which changes with every generation."

xvii. "There is something perhaps in the conflict of the Drama, which by raising energetic emotion forces out natural, vivid, and poetical thoughts rather than those which are the results of the cold, artificial, and far sought efforts of the closet. When Shakespeare set himself in form to write poetry, he did not reach a strain much above those of inferior men."

xix. "If it be better to execute well in an inferior class, than to attempt with more imperfect success composition of an higher order, then the French school is the safest. Abilities much less rare are fitted to produce good French poetry; and the reader is content if he finds his understanding exercised, -even though his imagination be left to sleep." xix. "the exclusive cultivation of imagery went to as great an excess, as the attention to abstract thought and observa

xx. "It is not by the masters of the art, that at any period, or during any prevailing fashion, excesses are committed. It is by their followers; by the imitatores, servum pecus; who seizing the leading feature of their models, exaggerate it into the sole object of ambition of their own absurd mimickries."

xxvii. Danger of poetry as a pursuit.
xxxi. Churchill.

xxxiii. Charlotte Smith.
Xxxvii. Shenstone.
xxxviii. Akenside.

43. Minor poetry of the early Stuart reigns well likened to the gardens of that age.

47. Warton.