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Many candidates claim an admiffion into the infernal regions, as Copernicus, Paracelfus, Machiavel, &c. To them Ignatius Loyola is preferred: Lucifer entertains him as a bofom. friend and counfellor, and propofes to him the acquilition of a territory in the moon. "Illuc Jefuitæ omnes transfretabunt, ecclefiamq; lunaticam Romanæ conciliabunt."

In the mean time it is publicly announced that the Pope is prevailed upon to canonize Ignatius: "Iniquum enim effe cum omnes artifices laniiq; prophani peculiares quos invocarent divos haberent folis laniis fpiritualibus et regicidis fuus deeffet."

Ignatius cafting his eyes on the throne next that of Lucifer, afks by whom it is filled. When he hears the name of Boniface, he breaks out into a violent reproach against him, and drives. him from his place, in which he feats himself with the approbation of Lucifer. And here the vifion ends.

The tract concludes with a pretended defence of the Jefuits: "Tandem ad apologiam pro Je fuitis accedendum, id eft, de illis filendum. Favet enim illis quifquis de illis tacet. Nec certe cuiquam diutiffime locuto (etfi ei Oceanus Clepfydra effet) unquam deerit quod de eorum flagitiis addere poffit."

XII. "BIA ANATOE. A Declaration of that Paradoxe or Thefis, that Self-homicide is not fo naturally Sin, that it may never be otherwife. Wherein the Nature and Extent of all those Lawes, which seem to be violated by this Act, are diligently furveyed." London, printed by John Dawfon.-4to.

This work was published by the author's fon, with a dedication to the Lord Philip Herbert, dated from his house in Covent-Garden, 28; no mention is made of month or year here or in the title-page. At the end of the book we find "20 Sept. 1644, imprimatur Jo. Rushworth." In the university library at Cambridge are three copies of this book, in two of which are written letters by the editor. One copy, which contains the letter to Mr. Lee, was Bishop Moore's; the other, containing the letter to Mr. Carter, belonged to Mr. Lucas, who founded the Lucasian Profefforfhip at Cambridge.

LETTER I

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FOR HIS MUCH HONORED FRINDE MR. LEE, AT THE COCKPITT.

SIR,

"I take the bouldneffe to prefent to your hands this booke, hopinge that it may bee wel-. "come to you, even for the patrone's fake who has receaved it foe nobly, that I cannot doubt"but that all his frinds will entertaine it as fome thinge that belongs to my Lorde Herbert, "and has lyen ftill these fivftie laft years to expect a patrone noble enough to entertaine a "peece that is an abfolute originall, and, I thincke, drawen by noe very ill a hande.

"Sir, your most humble servant,

COVENT-GARDEN, Oct. 26.

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"JO. DONNE."

LETTER II.

LETTER II.

" SIR,

FOR THE RIGHT WORSHIPFULL EDWARD CARTER, ESQ.

"I have here fent you a booke that may peradventure give you fome entertainement out of "the noveltie of the subject, but that is not all my reason of presentinge it to you at this time; "for, fince I lived in this parifh, I have publifhed a volume of eighty fermons preached by "my father; and have prepared fixty more, which are licenfed and entered in the Printers' "Halle; which is, as farr as I can drive them, untill the times allter. I was encouradged to "undertake this worke by the learnedeft men in the kingdome of all profeffions, and was often "told that I should deferve better by doinge foe, then by keepinge them to my owne use, for "by this meanes I did not only preach to the prefent adge, but to our children's children. "Sir, I write this to you that you may judg what a fad condition a scholler is in; when at a "public vestry in this parish, I was told by a pittifull ignorant baker, I was an idle man, and "never preached.

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76,

85,

18,-by Mr. Pope, and, read by Mr. Pope. His Latin Epigrams are tranflated by Dr. Jasper Mayne.

25,-PIETATISET, read PIETATIS ET.

88, κατα 31, αυτοσχεδια ξειν, read αυτοσχεδιάζειν.

W. Skelton Sculp

SIR HENRY WOTTON.

THE LIFE

OF

SIR HENRY WOTTON,

LATE PROVOST OF EATON COLLEGE.

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