For the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate. The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before.1 Book ii. It [Poesy] was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind. Ibid. Sacred and inspired divinity, the sabaoth and port of all men's labours and peregrinations. Ibid. wherein we now live being in propriety of speech the most ancient since the world's creation. - George Hakewill, An Apologie or Declaration of the Power and Providence of God in the Government of the World. London, 1627. For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it? Pascal, Preface to the Treatise on Vacuum. It is worthy of remark that a thought which is often quoted from Francis Bacon occurs in [Giordano] Bruno's Cena di Cenere, published in 1584; I mean the notion that the later times are more aged than the earlier. - Whewell, Philos. of the Inductive Sciences, Vol. ii. p. 198. London, 1847. We are Ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times. Tennyson, The Day Dream. (L'Envoi.) 1 The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before. - Adv. of Learning, ed. Dewey. The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted. - Diogenes Laertius, Lib. vi. § 63. Spiritalis enim virtus sacramenti ita est ut lux: etsi per immundos transeat, non inquinatur. St. Augustine, Works, Vol. iii., In Johannis Evang. Cap. I. Tr. v. § 15. The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted. - Lyly's Euphues, The Anatomy of Wit. Arber's reprint, p. 43. The sun reflecting upon the mud of strands and shores is unpolluted in his beam. - Taylor, Holy Living, Ch. i. 3. Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam. Milton, The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce. BACON.-HEYWOOD. - HARRINGTON. 141 Cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.1 Advancement of Learning. Book ii. States as great engines move slowly. The world's a bubble, and the life of man Less than a span.2 Ibid. The World. For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next ages. Will --1565. JOHN HEYWOOD. The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, The happy man 's without a shirt. Let the world slide, let the world go: A fig for care, and a fig for woe! Be Merry Friends. If I can't pay, why I can owe, And death makes equal the high and low. Ibid. SIR JOHN HARRINGTON. 1561-1612. Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? 1 See Wesley. Page 309. Epigrams. Book iv. Ep. 5. 2 Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span. Browne, Pastoral ii. Our life is but a span. - New England Primer. Virtus vocatur. - Seneca, Herc. Furens, ii. 250. Adlon in prizera vidi ne ut in s tms. Ja They that do change old love for new, Cugni's Curse. Oliphant's La Musa Madrigalesca, p. 229. SIR HENRY WOTTON. 1568-1639. How happy is he born or taught, The Character of a Happy Life. Who God doth late and early pray Lord of himself, though not of lands; You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light, Ibid. Ibid. What are you when the moon1 shall rise? He first deceased; she for a little tried To live without him, liked it not, and died. Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife. I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff. Preface to the Elements of Architecture. Hanging was the worst use man could be put to. The Disparity between Buckingham and Essex. 1 'sun' in Reliquia Wottoniane, Eds. 1651, 1672, 1685. 2 This was printed with music as early as 1624, in Est's Sixth Set of Books, &c., and is found in many MSS. Hannah, The Courtly Poets. An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.1 Reliquia Wottonianæ. The itch of disputing will prove the scab of churches.2 A Panegyric to King Charles. DR. JOHN DONNE. 1573-1631. He was the Word, that spake it; Divine Poems. On the Sacrament. We understood Her by her sight; her pure and eloquent blood Funeral Elegies. On the Death of Mistress Drury. She and comparisons are odious.* Elegy 8. The Comparison. Who are a little wise the best fools be.5 The Triple Fool. 1 In a letter to Velserus, 1612, Wotton says, "This merry definition of an ambassador I had chanced to set down at my friend's Mr. Christopher Fleckamore, in his Album." 2 He directed the stone over his grave to be inscribed:Hic jacet hujus sententiæ primus author: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES. Nomen alias quære. Walton's Life of Wotton. 2 Attributed by many writers to the Princess Elizabeth. It is not in the original edition of Donne, but first appears in the edition of 1654, p. 352. 4 See Appendix, p. €38. Compare Bacon. Page 138. |