mic interlude, prefented before the univerfity at Saint John's, called the REFORMATION, about 1631. He appears to have lived much in London, where he was for fome time beneficed.-But not to wander too far from his fon JAMES, with whom we are immediately concerned. During the fluctuations of government, and afterwards, he was attached to the principles of monarchy in their most extenfive comprehenfion; and from this circumftance he might have alfo derived a predilection for the theatre, which he had feen fuppreffed by the republicans. He was a skilful antiquary, and not a bad poet. He poffeffed many rare and valuable old manufcripts, fome of which he cites in his HISTORIA HISTRIONICA, and undoubtedly many Old Plays. But all his literary curiofities, among which was an excellent tranfcript of Leland's ITINERARY of the age of queen Elizabeth, and confequently made before the prefent mutilations and corruptions, were unfortunately confumed in a fire in the Middle-Temple, 1698. See PREF. Hearne's Lel. ITIN. edit. 1710. p. xvi. His correfpondence with Hearne, chiefly in reference to the publication of the ITINERARY, is in the Bodleian Library. ORIG. LETTERS, fol. Codd. RAWLINS W. 2. He died, almoft eighty, about 1715. His works, befide what I have mentioned, are thefe. "A POEM, "being an effay on the prefent Ruins in S. Paul's Cathedral, by J. "Wright, Lond. 1668." 4to.-"HISTORY and Antiquities of the "County of Rutland, &c. Lond. 1684." fol. Soon followed by "Additions, &c. 1687." Again, by "Farther Additions, Lond. "Printed for the author, 1714." This is a performance of much labour and research." A new defcription of the city of Paris, in "two Parts, out of French. Lond. 1687." 8vo. It is anonymous; but Hearne attributes it to our author, COLL. MSS. ut fupr. vol. xvii. p. 84." Verses anniversary to the venerable memory of his "ever honoured Father, &c. 1690." 8vo.-" MONASTICON ANGLI"CANUM, or the History &c." This is an accurate epitome in English of Dugdale's Monafticon, Lond. 1693. fol. In the Dedication he fays, "Warwickshire has produced two of the most famous and deferving "writers in their several ways that England can boaft of, a Dugdale "and a SHAKESPEAR."-" Three Poems of S. Paul's Cathedral, viz. "The Ruins [recited above], The Rebuilding, The Choire, 1697." fol," PHOENIX PAULINA, a Poem on S. Paul's Cathedral. [Anon] Lond. 1709." 4to." BURLEY on the Hill, a Poem by Ja. Wr." 4to. No date. This was afterwards included in his last Additions to his RUTLANDSHIRE. Wood cites a dittich of an Elegy, which Wright wrote on the death of John Goad, a learned Master of Merchant Taylor's School, who died 1689. ATн. OXON. ii. 839. Goad, of whom, fays Wood, Wright" was a great admirer," died a papist: and while a young student at Saint John's in Oxford, was distinguished as a capital actor in the college-plays. Hearne, who knew and respected Wright, informs us, that he wrote Strictures on Wood's ATHENA, but that they remained in manufcript, MSS. COLL, vol, xx, p. 124. From a ma 4 G 2 nufcript nufcript entry by Hearne, dated 1719, in Dr. Rawlinson's copy of Wright's RUINS IN S. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, it appears, that Wright, a few years before his death, gave Hearne a complete catalogue of his works; and that, on application, he had formerly refused this favour to Wood, as an injudicious biographer. See also Hearne's MSS. COLL. vol. xxiv. p. 83. xv. p. 42. xl. p. 15. P. 450. Add to the laft Note.] Milton is faid to have been a chief founder of the Calves Head Club, a festival which began to be held on the thirtieth of January during the ufurpation, in oppofition to Bishop Juxon, Dr. Hammond, and other divines of the church of England, who met privately to celebrate that day with fafting and a form of prayer. See SECRET HISTORY OF THE CALVES HEAD CLUB, by one who seems to be well acquainted with anecdotes of those days. Lond. 1703. HARL. MISC. vi. 554. For provocations like thefe, to mention no worse, it was natural for the restored powers to retaliate. He however escaped, yet not without difficulty. I am told by Mr. Tyers, from good authority, that when he was under perfecution with Goodwin, his friends, to gain time, made a mock-funeral for him; and that when matters were fettled in his favour, and the affair was known, the king laughed heartily at this artifice. P.483. v.57. See Note Eli. 53. In Milton's youth, the fashionable places of walking for Ladies, were Hyde-Park, and Grays-inn Walks. This appears from fir A. Cokain, Milton's contemporary. POEMS, Lond. 1662. 12mo. Written much earlier. A young Lady, he fays, P.35. Frequents the theaters, HIDE-PARK, or els talkes Take your unpaid for coach, and to HIDE-PARK, Go into GRAYS INN WALKS, and you shall fee This Lady comes to fhew her new fine gown, Again to his Miftrefs. p. 48. When you into HIDE-PARKE do go, all there P. 492. Add to the note.] Wood afferts, that Salmafius had no reward for his book. He fays, that at Leyden the king fent doctor Morley, afterward bishop, to the apologift, with his thanks," but not with a purfe of gold, as John Milton the impudent lyar reported." ATH. OXON. ii. 779. P.5oz. Add to the note.] This fine address to Chriftina is in Marvell's MISCELLANEOUS POEMS, fol. Lond. 1681. p. 134. Where it follows other Latin poems of the fame class and fubject: and is immediately preceded by a latin diftich intitled, IN EFFICIEM OLIVERI CROM WELLI," Hæc eft quæ toties, &c." Then comes this epigram, there intitled "In eandem Regina Sueciæ tranfmiffam." The fecond diftich is there thus printed. Cernis quas merui dura fub caffide rugas: Sicque fenex armis impiger ora fero. It undoubtedly belonged to Marvell, and in the TO THE READER, these poems are faid by his pretended wife, Mary, to be "printed "according to the exact copies of my late dear husband, under his "own hand-writing, &c." But fee Marvell's WORKS, Lond. 4to. 1766. vol. iii. p. 489.. P. 547. Add to the note.] It must be owned, that this miniature of Milton, lately purchased by fir Joshua Reynolds, ftrongly refembles Vandyck's picture of Selden in the Bodleian library at Oxford: and it is highly probable that Cooper should have executed a minia ture of Selden, as a companion to the heads of other heroes of the commonwealth. For Cooper painted Oliver Cromwell, in the poffef. fion of the Frankland family; and another, in profile, at Devonshirehoufe: Richard Cromwell, at Strawberry-hill: Secretary Thurlow, belonging to Lord James Cavendish and Ireton, Cromwell's general, now or late in the collecton of David Polfhill, efquire. Cooper was painter to the party, if fuch a party could have a painter, The infe rence, however, might be applied to prove, that this head is Cooper's miniature of Milton. : P. 552. v. 4. Expunge the Note. P. 579. Add to end of the Paragraph.] Wood mentions our librarian Roufe, as conveying, in 1626, an old hostel to Pembroke college Oxford, which was converted into Lodgings for the Mafter of that college, then recently founded in Broadgate Hall; and which Roufe had just purchased of Dr. Clayton, preferred from the Principality of that Hall to the Mastership of the new college. HIST. Univ. Oxon. ii. 336. col. 2. I recite this anecdote, as it feems to fuggeft a con jecture, corroborated by other circumstances, that the librarian was related to Francis Roufe abovementioned, the prefbyterian provost of Eton, who was bred in Broadgate Hall, and at his death in 1657, became a liberal benefactor to Pembroke college. P. 580. Correct the former part of this Note. For, on a nearer inspection, it is Fronde, in Milton's manuscript at Oxford. But, me. taphorically, with the fame fenfe as fronte, the fuppofed original reading. ORIGINAL IN ORIGINAL VARIOUS READINGS. N the Library of Trinity College Cambridge, is a thin folio manufcript, marked MISCELL. R. ii. 49. It is fplendidly bound, and to the infide of one of the covers is pafted a paper with this infcription. "Membra haec eruditiffimi et pene divini poetæ olim mifere "disjecta et paffim fparfa, poftea vero fortuito inventa, et in unum "denuo collecta a CAROLO MASON ejufdem Collegii Socio, et inter "Mifcellanea repofita, ea qua decuit religione confervare voluit THO"MAS CLARKE, nuperrime hujufce Collegii nunc vero Medii Tem"pli Londini Socius, 1736." Doctor Mason, abovementioned, who was alfo Woodwardian profeffor at Cambridge, found thefe papers among other old and neglected manufcripts belonging to Sir Henry Newton Puckering, a confiderable benefactor to the Library. Befide plans of PARADISE LOST, and sketches and fubjects for poetry, all in Milton's own hand, they contain entire copies of many of our author's fmaller poems, in the fame hand, except in a few inftances, exhibiting his first thoughts and expreffions, and moft commonly his own corrections of them according to the prefent text. All thefe variations, but imperfectly and incorrectly printed by Birch, are here given, with other notices, from a more minute and careful examination of the manufcript. LYCIDAS. fol. 30-34. V. 10. Who would not fing for Lycidas, he well knew. V. 26. Under the glimmering eye-lids of the morne. V. 30. Oft till the even-ftarre bright Toward heaven's defcent had floapt his burnifht wheel. a He died Dec. 18, 1770. Aged 72. b He had fo great an affection for this college, in which he had been educated, that in his eightieth year he defired to be readmitted: and refiding there a whole fummer, prefented to the new library, just then finished, his own collection of books, amounting to near four thousand volumes. He was fon of fir Adam Newton, tutor to Prince Henry; and many papers written by that prince, or relating to him, are involved in the collection, Sir Henry took the name of Puckering in remembrance of his uncle fir Thomas Puckering of Warwickshire, a learned and accomplished man, brother in law to fir Adam Newton, fon of lord Keeper Puckering, a companion of the ftudies of prince Henry. Many of the books were prefents to the prince from authors or editors. In Dr. Dwport's HORE SUBSECIVE, a poem is addreffed to this preferver of Milton's Manufcripts, Ad D. Henricum Puckeringum, alias Newtonum, Equitem baronettum. Cantabr. 1676. 8vo. pp. 222.223. This fir Henry had a fon, pupil to Dr. Duport at Trinity college, but who died before his father. Beaumont and Fletcher, THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN, A. iii, S. i. vol. x. p.49. edit. 1750. O queen Emilia, Fresher than May, sweeter Than her gold BUTTONS on the boughs, Shakespeare, V. 58. What could the golden-bayr'd Calliope For her inchaunting fon, When he bebeld, the gods far-fighted bee, His goarie fcalpe rowle downe the Thracian lee. Where goary, with the substitution of visage for fcalpe, was a correction V. 69. Hid in the tangles of Neæra's haire. V. 85. Oh fountain Arethufe, and thou Smooth flood, Smooth is then altered to fam'd, and next, to honor'd. And soft-fliding V. 105. Scraul'd ore with figures dim. Inwrought is marginal. V. 129. Daily devours apace, and little fed. Nothing is expunged. V. 138. On whofe fresh lap the fwart ftar flintly looks. At first Sparely, as at prefent. V. 139. Bring hither all your quaint enamel'd eyes. To write his own woes on the vermeil graine: The cowflip wan that bangs his penfive head, Here also well-attir'd woodbine appears as at prefent, altered from garish V. 153. Let our fad thoughts dally with falfe furmife. V. 154. Ay mee, whilft thee the floods and founding feas. V. 157. Where thou perhaps under the humming tide. V. 160. Sleep'ft by the fable of Corineus old. But Bellerus is a correction. V. 176. Listening the unexpreffive nuptial fong. In Milton's own hand. I add all the manufcript readings of LYCIDAS, retained in the Cam- V. 26. glimmering. V.30. ev'n ftarre. V. 31. burnifht. V.53. "The Shakespeare, HAML. A. i. S. iii. The canker galls the infants of the fpring See Note on LYCID. V. 45. ARCADES. |