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the guilt of Theomachie or Ingratitude Upon this Consideration the wise Son of Sirach that Eloquent Encomiast raised his Monumental Pillar to the Patriarchs hence doubtless hee took his Rise to that loftie Panegyrick of the Primitive Saints Laudemus Viros gloriosos Ecclus 44.1 c. Let us now prais famous men c. And in Imitation of Him I might say much in Commendation of this Autor whose Worth aswel natural as acquisite was the Miracle of his Age. But my Account shall bee brief and plain as most suitable to the sadness of my Thoughts on this Subject leaving all Flourish and Fancie to the Gallantrie of Poëtrie from whose sweet strains I shall not long detein you Camden 's Brit. Amersham in the Countie of Buckingham enobled hitherto onely by the Honorable Familie of the Russels may now boast as much in the Birth of this Autor which happened on the 10th of November 1607 And though his Parents were but of mean Extraction and Estate Ovid Metam lib. 9. Ingenuâ de Plebe virum nec census in illo Nobilitate suâ major sed vita fidesque Inculpata fuit c. Yet of such noted Pietie and Honestie as gained them love and respect from the Best of that Place Whence this their eldest Son about the 15th year of their pious Education of Him was chosen by my worthie Friend Dr Crook to wait upon Sr William Drake and soon after on Sr Robert Crook at Christ-Church in Oxford where they had the happiness to bee under the Tuition of the most Ingenuous and Learned Dr George Morley whose Directions and Encouragements to studie were so exact and impressive as that they soon eased him of farther trouble with this Autor The Account of this his young Scholar's Studies beeing above the Leisure of a Tutor to receiv especially one so greatly and publickly engaged For besides mine own Observation of him enjoying him no small time in my Chamber in Christ Church hee confest unto mee That for divers years hee studied 16 of everie 24 hours and that with so much appetite and delight Aenea pila Diog. Laërt Lud. Viv. de Cor. Art as that hee needed not the Cure of Aristotle's drowsiness to awake him or my Observation of his Indefatigable Industrie which Magnetically drew my Affections toward him my Love beeing as great to Learning as my Nature unapt and impatient of extraordinarie Labors Hence I loved him unto a Filial Adoption and after confirmed it by an Academical Exercise for our first Degrees wherein his Worth like the Rising of the Sun began to discover it self darting forth such fair Hopes and Glimmerings of future Perfection as were quickly espied by the then vigilant Dean of Christ Church Dr Duppa since Lord Bishop of Sarum who immediately received him into favor and soon after made him Chaplain of Christ Church and after that his own Domestick and Prebendarie of Chichester and Sarum For which Favors hee now began about 26 years old at once to publish to the World his Worth and Gratitude in the Dedication of his Notes on Learned Ridley's Civil Law to his and my honored Patrone the Bishop of Sarum In which Notes hee made an earlie Discoverie of his Civil Historical Ecclesiastical Ritual and Oriental Learning together with the Saxon French Italian Spanish and all Eastern Languages through which hee miraculously travelled without anie Guid except Mr Dod the Decalogist whose Societie and Directions for the Hebrew Tongue hee enjoied one Vacation near Banburie For which Courtesie hee ever gratefully remembred him as a man of great Pietie Learning Gravitie and Modestie of which Graces also this Autor was as great a Possessor as Admirer Hence those manie Tracts both in English and Latine were bashfully laid by in his youth as Abortives som whereof I have here published and entituled Posthuma's as so manie Testimonies and Monuments of his general Learning For which hee was much honored by the Acquaintance and Favor of men of the greatest honor and eminence in Learning Arch-Bish Laud B. Mountague B. Lindsey Mr John Selden c. that this Age hath produced besides the Correspondence in Points of Learning which hee held with divers famous Men abroad aswel Jesuites and Jews as others And now being like the Sun in his Zenith readie to shine in his greatest lustre Behold the whole Kingdom began to bee clouded with Judgments Ovid. Met. lib. 1. Sic Deus inductâ nostras caligine Terra● Occuluit like that Egyptian Darkness which even then began to damp and hath since quite extinguisht the greatest and purest Lights of this Nation such as were not to bee parallel'd by anie other for Pietie and Learning Among whom notwithstanding the Hope of a clear Daie preserved this Learned Autor awhile sufficiently spirited for Studie whereby hee composed and published a little before his Death those his Excellent Notes upon som Passages of Scripture in which kinde of holie Studie hee intended to spend the rest of his Life But behold after 20 years trouble with an Hereditarie Gout improved by immoderate Studie and now invading his Stomach Atropos stand's readie to cut his Thread of Life beeing laboriously spun out but 39 years when fore-seeing the Glorie was now departing from our Israël his Spirits began to fail in an extraordinarie manner For Recoverie and Supportation whereof his first Noble Patrone the Bishop of Sarum being disabled by Sequestration c. the liberal hand of a second Mecenas was presently extended which though it could not save him as Christ's did St Peter from perishing in these waters of Affliction yet 't was not in vain for as our Saviour said of that Unguent so may I of his last Patrone's Charitie Mat. 26.12 Joh. Antioch Hist translated out of Greek into Latine with Annotations Was it not to burie him yes and to rais him too with the Trump of Fame beeing very active and free toward the Publication not onely of this Posthumous Off-spring but also of som other of greater Exspectation And here Reader I cannot but drop a Tear for the loss of that his excellent Piece entituled by himself Alkibla In which Tract with very great Judgment and Learning hee vindicated the Antiquitie of East-ward Adoration especially in all Churches as far beyond an Altar or a Crucifix the Romish Bounds as the Flood preceed's in time these Superstitious Distinctions of the Christian Which gallant Refutation of that Popish Error I the rather mention becaus som suspected him a Favorer of that Waie but to my certain knowledg their Jealousie was unjust and groundless hee having often declared and protested not onely to mee but also to manie of his familiar Friends his Abhorrence of Poperie and his sincere Affection and Constancie to the Protestant Religion as it was established in England by Acts of Parliament At Kidlington Mar. 13. 1646. and was buried in christ-Christ-Church in Oxford And as hee lived so hee died also a most Obedient and Affectionate

Son to his Distressed Mother the Church of England for whose Sufferings hee forrowed unto Death a more painful and exquisite Martyrdom then that by Fire or Sword By these the Soul break 's prison in a minute to an Eternitie of Libertie and Felicitie that keep 's us on the Rack of Death not only to the Apostles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but even 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 15.31 wee die hourly This Account would have run into a Volume should I have given you a Particular of his Virtues as his Courtesie Humilitie c. not disdaining the meanest Scholar nor proud of his victorious Discourses with the best Learned And how free and liberal hee was of his Treasurie to the full satisfaction of all Inquisitors I may confidently appeal to all that knew him But I must not so remember my lost Friend as to forget my self in my Promise of Brevitie nay I will rather chuse to bee somwhat indebted in this kinde to the Dead well knowing the Mourners following will compleatly discharge those Arrears To whom I now therefore hastily refer you Upon the DEATH of my dearest Friend the AUTOR WOuld you the Caus why this my Son did die 'T was to prevent my Immortalitie As Twins inform'd by one soul part being dead The sad surviver live's half-murthered So I in my Retirements being fixt On Him in Mee both Life and Death are mixt Nor crave's our * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Motto less though God denie's To match our Wishes with our Destinies What then remain's but that I often look Upon thee and enjoie thee in thy Book Whose Learned Matchless Lines shall still bring forth Thy Lovers as Eternal as thy Worth Who when wee are in Bliss will sigh complain And curs the Age suffer'd thee to bee slain Slain by an Ichabod and manie more 1 Sam. 4.24 Masters Oxonienses Cartwright Oxonienses Digg●s c. Oxonienses Whom though this hate the next Age will adore Whose Ashes shall revive if anie bee Fit Subjects for Celestial Chymistrie Thus Shine yee Glories of your Age whil'st Wee Wait to fill up your Martyrologie And envie not this our Ambition though You wounded were to Death Wee have scars too And from those darts but with this diff'rence You Let them stick fast which wee with scorn with-drew Thus different Glories in one Sphere may bee Equal in Height though not in Dignitie Whil'st like that Manna past or that in store The Least was fill'd nor is the Greatest more J. G. B. D. An ELEGIE On the Learned AUTOR THough yon' close Anchorite's contracted Shrowd Made his innarrowed Carcass seem a Crowd Yet the cag'd Votarie did wider dwell Then Thou in thy large Roof and spreading Cell Both liv'd alike immur'd but Mansion's space To Him was Emptiness to Thee was Place Which the Retirement's different Ends decide Thine was to Toil and Sweat but His to Hide Who though sat down contented with the Store Thou brought'st from Nature coveting no more Yet like a Wealthie Heir by that Advance Thou hadst liv'd high on thy Inheritance Who ere is born to an Estate to 's hand Is full as Rich as Hee that buie's his Land And such wert Thou but least free Nature's Gift Seem mis-bestow'd unless improv'd by Thrift 'T was thy strong care to melt down Native Parts And shape up great Endowments into Arts. Hence sprung Thy vigorous Pains unwearied Sweats Whil'st each past Toil edg to fresh Toil beget's Till thy torn Nervs stretch't in their Search before Grow suppler by 't and so put on for more And thy Bent Thought or'e his deep Object crack's Nor Torture bring 's but Patience from thy Racks Oft did the Sun ow Thee his Morning Streams And at thy Earlier Taper light his Beams When now declining in his West and gon Thou bad'st him sleep for Thou would'st Journie on When Midnight Silence did thy Motions see As Night were made for all the World but Thee Nor did thy watchful Temples harbour Rest Till thy great Monster-Scruples fell supprest Alcides scorn'd to deem his Labor sped Whil'st Hydra wore or threat'ning Tail or Head No emptie Surface-Learning could suffice No Light no Floating Notions bound thy Eies But down thy Plummet dive's to th' deepest sound Still mining through till it had prest the Ground Art hath her Quick-sands which no Hold endure Hee strike's the Bottom that will Anchor sure While dull wee finde the Found the same Mark hit The shackled Circumscription of Our Wit Thy unconfin'd Enquirie bid's at more Launches in deeps ner'e fathomed before Plough's the rough Desarts up scorn 's old Abode Or Prostitute Directions of a Rode Yet thy Nice Pilgrimage doth never straie But turn's the crooked Maze to Beaten-Waie So through wilde Seas the adventurous Keel is hurl'd Not to Loos this but Finde the other World Thy vigorous Brain releiv's from lazie Rust Disguis'd in Characters but more in Dust Graie Customs which our dead dismettled Sloth Gave up to surfet the undaring Moth. Craz'd Giants thus distressed Damsels hold Not by their strength but ' caus their Champion's cold Euclide and Ptolomie were so thine Own As the fair Building 's is the Corner-stone Whose beauteous Pile doth by the Basis clime Yet This preceed's in Worth though That in Time Astrologie so obei'd Thy Learned Eie As all the Wheels and Clock-work of the Skie By Curious Nature were asunder ta'ne To guid Thy Art and then set up again And when her Motions jar her staggering Team May fix afresh by Thy King Henrie 's Scheme The Sacred Hebrew thy Judicious Rage Pursu'd to finde it's Mystick Parentage With Keen and Eager yet with sated Flight Not to Ride-over but Ore-take the Light Rude Rabbines like rude Herbarists go to 't They mar the Plant by digging for the Root Thy Numerous Language could have circuit run T' Interpret Countries to the Travelling Sun Discours ' a his Rising to the Western Seas And phras'd his business with th' Antipodes Yet this bright Stock thy Bountie did afford As thy Disbursment still but not thy Hoard Not to amuse the Needie but supplie 'T was thy Dominion not thy Tyrannie Hence when I askt thy Torch to light my Waie And gain'd som Twilights from Thy Glistering Daie Thy Liberal Art the Labyrinth did undo With the same Cheer as I had been thy Clew Thy Candid Guidance back the Compass brought And call'd Mee Tutor still for beeing Taught Now these Loud Parts like a Shril-thundering Peal Which is the Belfree's Pride but not it's Weal Rent thy frail Tenement and made us see Thy Musick 's Excellence and Crueltie An Envious Gout the Leiger of thy Feet To aw thine Industrie laie arm'd to meet Thy wakeful Midnight-Watch and brought Thee back For each Raw Learned-Night a Fortnight's Rack And when the single Threats of one Diseas Bark at thy Vigilant Moons but not displeas When Customarie Anguish now sat by Like thy Companion not thy Maladie The Enraged Mischief made her Partie