The ground about the house maintains it there, Three or four suits one winter here does waste, Stay you then here, and live among the great, EPITAPHIUM VIVI AUCTORIS HIC, o viator, sub lare parvulo "Couleius hic est conditus, hic jacet ; "Sorte, supervacuâque vitâ. "Non indecora pauperie nitens, "Vanóque dilectis popello "Divitiis animosus hostis. Epitaphium Vivi Auctoris.] The conceit of a living death, was altogether in the taste of our author; but so happily pursued in this agreeable epitaph, that the play of wit takes nothing from the weight and pathos of the sentiment. VOL. III. Y 3 HURD. "Possis ut illum dicere mortuum ; "Terra sit illa levis, precare. "Hic sparge flores, sparge breves rosas "Vatis adhuc cinerem calentem." EPITAPH ON THE LIVING AUTHOR. HERE, stranger, in this humble nest, Here, in no sordid poverty, The little earth, he asks, survey: Is he not dead, indeed? Light lie that earth," good stranger, pray, "Nor thorn upon it breed!" With flow'rs, fit emblem of his fame, Compass your poet round; With flow'rs of ev'ry fragrant name A DISCOURSE, BY WAY OF VISION, CONCERNING THE GOVERNMENT OF OLIVER CROMWELL *. *This is the best of our author's prose-works. The subject, which he had much at heart, raised his genius. There is something very noble, and almost poetical, in the plan of this Vision; and a warm vein of eloquence runs quite through it. HURD. A PROPOSITION, &c. THE COLLEGE. THAT the philosophical college be situated within one, two, or (at furthest) three miles of London; and, if it be possible to find that convenience, upon the side of the river, or very near it. That the revenue of this college amount to four thousand pounds a-year. 5. That the company received into it be as follows: 1. Twenty philosophers or professors. 2. Sixteen young scholars, servants to the professors. 3. A chaplain. 4. A bailiff for the revenue. A manciple or purveyor for the provisions of the house. 6. Two gardeners. 7. A master-cook. 8. An under-cook. 9. A butler. 10. An underbutler. 11. A surgeon. 12. Two lungs, or chemical servants. 13. A library-keeper, who is like |