In th' orb empyreal will they make, those three That will outshine the radiant Cassiopee.
But stay: these blundering lines do wrong the blest, Let Yare and Isca murmur out the rest: Only our dropping tears shall never stint, Till on his marble they these words imprint:
Maugre the peevish world's complaint, Here lies a Bishop and a saint.
Whom Ashby* bred, and Granta nurs'd Whom Halsted, and old Waltham first To rouz the stupid world from sloth, Heard thund'ring with a golden mouth, Whom Wor'ster next did dignifie, And honoured with her Deanry: Whom Exon lent a mitred wreath, And Norwich, where he ceas'd to breath. These all with one joint voice do cry, Death's vain attempt, what doth it mean? My Son, my Pupil, Pastor, Dean,
My rev'rend Father, cannot die.
IN OBITUM AMPLISSIMI PATRIS J. H. EPISCOPI
INDULTE coeli tam benigno munere, Quantis tuorum luctibus refers pedem, Facunde Præsul! quo domante multiceps Pecu, profanas ordini intentans sacro Latè ruinas, concidit; quo vindice, Censûs secundi Flamen anctus infula Nondum superbit; siquibus distinguere Humana brutis arma jam cordi fiet; Mentisq; doctæ si tropea viribus Nequam protervis præferant. Olim tuos Sensit lacertos factio Brownistica:
Antistes ille septicolli culmine,
Superbus olim sensit. Ut tantùm cluat
Sagata virtus, neutiquam toga minor Incedis, hinc te duplicis serti decus, Oliva, laurus, gloriâ pari beat. Tricisque præpedita conscientia Quàm dexter adsis perpetim fatebitur, Quàm luculentâ nubilam ducas fide, Cujusq; scripti quæ venusta lumina ! Qualésque nervi! cuncta quàm normaliter Concinna, queis sunt attributa partibus! Piâq; suavitate quem non detinent! Sed quæ Camana, dulcibus fastigiis Dignanda coeli, pergat exiles domos Rectoris alti, spiritus et accolas Referre tecum? quando penè libera Mens jam senilis corticem perrumpere,
Coepit catastæ, et limpido vesci æthere, O quanta pomis indidem mysteria! At vita qualis sanctitatis! quàm pii Foecunda amoris! quámq; nullis seculi Exulcerata cladibus, quas ordine Longo furentes, miles infractus pati! Lætisque possis impiger cervicibus. Partes in omnes qui volet te prosequi Laudum canenti quanta cresceret seges! Sed nos Galenus.
Instantibus amicis extempore profudit,
ΤΟ MASTER JOSUAH SYLVESTER, OF HIS BARTAS METAPHRASED.
I DARE confess, of muses more than nine, Nor list, nor can I envy none but thine. She, drencht alone in Šion's sacred spring Her Maker's praise hath sweetly chose to sing, And reacheth nearest th' angel's notes above; Nor lists to sing or tales or wars or love. One while I find her, in her nimble flight, Cutting the brazen spheres of heaven bright: Thence, straight she glides, before I be aware Through the three regions of the liquid air: Thence rushing downe, through Nature's closet door, She ransacks all her grandame's secret store; And diving to the darkness of the deep, Sees there what wealth the waves in prison keep; And, what she sees above, below, between, She shows and sings to others ears and eyne. 'Tis true, thy muse another's steps doth press The more's her pain, nor is her praise the less. Freedom gives scope unto the roving thought; Which, by restraint, is curb'd. Who wonders aught, That feet unfettered, walken far, or fast?
Which, pent with chains, mote want their wonted haste. Thou followest Bartasses diviner streine;
And singst his numbers in his native vein. Bartas was some french angel, girt with bayes And thou, a Bartas art, in English lays. Whether is more! me seems (the sooth to sayn) One Bartas speaks in tongues,-in nations twain.
ACT for the propagation of religion in Wales, 362.
Apprentices, of London, their petition against the church, 214, 271, 272. Army, insisting on toleration, 339 taking the sovereign power into their own hands, 349. Remonstrance of, ibid. Secure the person of the king in Hurst castle, 350. Shut out the presbyterian members from parliament. determine to impeach the king, ib. Assembly of Divines, 309. prohibited by the king, ib. forsaken by the episcopal divines, 310. manage church matters, 313.
Barebone's parliament, 366. their intended reformation, 367. described by Clarendon, ib. dissolve themselves, 369.
Barton, 148, 149, 193.
Bastwick, ib.
Bill, to exclude ecclesiastics from civil employments, 221. Clarendon's remarks upon it, ib. His majesty's opinion of it, 223. passed the commons, ib. opposed and thrown out in the house of lords, 224. Bishop Hall's speech on the occasion, 224-230.
Bill, for abolishing deans and chapters, 233. for the extirpation of epis- copacy, 230. opposed, 231. read a second time, ib. Clarendon's manœuvre respecting it, 232.
-For taking away the bishops' votes, passed, 282. opposed by the Bishop of Rochester and the Earl of Bedford, ib. obtained the royal assent, 285.
-To continue parliament, 242. to abolish the high commission, and the star chamber, 243. for the abolition of episcopacy, 308, 309, 329. Bishops, many of them disposed to remove offensive innovations, 217. Their cares and anxieties, 121, note. Their protestation, 275--277. Their plea and demurrer, 247, 270. Their houses threatened to be pulled down, 274. determine not to quit the parliament, ib. Twelve protest- ing impeached, 279. entreated to relinquish their right of voting, 282. Twelve protesting petition for council, 291. Their trial, ib. 292. released, 293. when prisoners in the tower, preach every Sunday, 294. Blundel, Peter, 15.
Book of Sports, 72. republished, 131. Copy of, 131--138. bad effects of it, 138--142. refused to be read by many of the clergy, 139. the cause of much trouble to them, 139, 140. not mentioned in the Works of Bishop Hall, 143.
Brown, Robert, some account of, 48, 49.
Brownists, 48, 49, 50.
Burnet, Bishop, quoted, 333.
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