At Troy, they say, thou wert not slaine, Ah! good Ulysses, hie thee home, My father eke doth me accuse, And saies-I do my wooers wrong; Yea, let him say or do his worst, I wil be but Ulysses wife : To him I gave my faith at first, As twentie winters they are gone, So twentie more I meane to spend : I wil undoe that I have done Ten thousand times before I end; Yet shall I thinke each houre twaine Until you do returne againe. The poesies of this writer seem to show that the Epistles of Ovid were more resorted to by him than the Odyssey of Homer: but he blended much of the familiar phraseology of his own time and nation, which ill assimilates with classical antiquity. A few detached instances of this travestie style may close this article. I scot-free scap't, and Rhesus slaine. These trencher-flies me tempt each day, A thousand Bridewell birds hath made. Put case, that you, my prettie ones, MODI MUTANTUR, &c. 1040 MR. PINKERTON, the learned antiquary and geographer, &c. published a volume of poems in 1781, which he entitled Rimes: and such are the changes even in literary fashions, that THOMAS BASTARD, an early English epigrammatist, seems to have considered such a title as almost degrading; for in his Chrestoleros, 1598, he addresses the following lines Ad Lectorem. Reader, I grant I do not keep the laws Of riming in my verse; but I have cause : I turn the pleasure of the end sometimes, Lest he, that likes them not, should call them RIMES. 1 Biographiana. Collectanea for Athena Cantabrigienses. 107. Wm. Stukeley, C. C. C. C. R. WHITAKER, in his History of Manchester, 4to. 1771, says "I am sorry to observe that Mr. Pegge has sullied his useful Treatise on the Coins of Cunobeline, with a rude stricture on the late Dr. Stukeley. Let the extravagancies of Dr. Stukeley be all corrected. They ought to be. But let not his character be held up to the public, as the mere fantastical enthusiast of antiquities. This justice, gratitude, and politeness equally concur to forbid. His strong intellect, his enterprizing spirit, and his extensive learning, must ever be remembered with respect and reverence. And even his extravagancies, great as they are, must be considered as the occasionally wild. colouring of that bright ray of genius, which has not yet been too frequently the portion of our English antiquarians, and which never seduces the dull critic either into excellencies, or into extravagances." Query, whether Mr. Whitaker is not here making his own apology? Aug. 1, 1771. "Mr. Pennant, in his Welch Tour, speaking of Dr. Stukeley, has the following passage, similar to what I had many years before observed of him. "Having had occasion. to mention a departed antiquary, [ think fit to acknowledge the many hints I have benefited by, from VOL. III. 3 z the travels of that great and lively genius; but at the same time lament, that I must say I often find him, plus beau que la veritè, His great fancy led him too frequently to paint things as he thought they ought to be, not what they really were." 108. Laurence Sterne, A. M. Jesus College. "Prebendary of North Newbold, in the Cathedral of York, in which he was succeeded by Dr. Worthington: he was also Vicar of Sutton in the Forest, in which he was succeeded by Mr. Cheap, in March or April, 1768. He died, 1768, aged 53. "His death happened in Old Bond Street, of a decaying complaint, a relation of mine seeing him at court not above three weeks before. March 26, 1768," 109. John Strype of St. Catherine Hall, "Joh. Strype, Coll. Jesu admissus in matriculam Academiæ Cantabr. July 5, 1662. T. B. "J. S. Aul. S. Cath. A. B. 1665, ad Bapt. scriptis suis de Ecclesia Anglicana præclare meritus." T. B. "M. A. of Catherine Hall, born at London, of German extraction; Vicar of Low Leyton in Essex, Rector of Theydon Bois in Essex, June 1664, which he resigned the Feb. following for Leyton. Had a sinecure from Tenison, and was Lecturer of Hackney, where he died, 13 Dec. 1737. "In Mr. Strype's dedication of his Life of Sir Thomas Smith, he takes notice of a censure passed upon him by the author of The English Historical Library, as crowding too many quotations from other books into his History. Mr. Strype very modestly defends himself from the charge, and won't allow the censure to be just in his respect. His cousin, Mr. Bonnell, in a letter to him, also disculpates him from the charge, as unjust. Mr. Nich. Batteley also, in a letter to Mr. Stryper says, he has 'cashiered the censurer too mildly, being a bold man, and proud and partial cen surer of other men's works. After all this bustle, it seems the whole was a mistake of Nicholson, who, in his letter to White Kennett abusing Dr. Atterbury, frankly owns that he meant Bishop Hacket's Life of Archbishop Williams, and not Mr. Strype's of Archbishop Cranmer: and sure never pedantic book deserved it better. However, it was a little hard upon poor Mr. Strype, that through his bad memory he should have been made uneasy, and stigmatized for another man's fault. Bishop Nicholson, at the same time, to soothe Mr. Strype, that he owns his blunder, makes honourable mention of him, as indeed he could not with justice do otherwise. "Strype was educated at St. Paul's school." 110. James Six, A. M. This ingenious young man was a native of Canterbury, and educated at the public school of that city; and afterwards at Trinity Coll. Cambridge, of which he became Fellow. He died at Rome, 1786, being then Tutor to the present Sir John Stanley of Alderley, Bart. "Verses and Epitaph by Mr. Six of Trinity College, on Mr. Wm. Gostling of Canterbury, 1779. "The following Verses and Epitaph were copied by Mr: James Essex of Cambridge from a MS. belonging to Mr. Gostling's daughter, whom he saw going to Margate, in August, 1779, and lent to me, Oct. 8, 1779. "On seeing a mourning ring, to the memory of the Rev. Wm. Gostling, with a crystal urn, enclosing a platted lock of his hair. I. When I survey this emblematic urn, This briefly comprehensive tale peruse, |