Was not the King, by proclamation, And now I heartily wish I could gratify your further curiosity with some of those Golden Remains f which are in the custody of Mr. Longueville; but not having the happiness to be very well acquainted with him, nor interest to procure them, I desire you will be content with the following copy, which the ingenious Mr. Aubrey assures me he had from the Author himself. (in his Memorial) that he made 700l. in one summer's circuit; and to his great gains in his profession Mr. Oldham alludes. (See a Satire, Oldham's Poems, 1703, P. 424.) Then be advis'd, the slighted Muse forsake, For fees each term sweat in the crowded Hall, Alluding to the vote of the Parliament upon the King's escape from Hampton-Court, Nov. 11, 1647, (though he had left his reasons for so doing in a letter to the Parliament, and another to the General,) "That it should be confiscation of estate, and loss of "life without mercy, to any one who detained the "King's person, without revealing it to the two "Houses." Echard's History of England, vol. II. p. 588. + These Golden Remains are to be found in volume third, verbatim from Mr. Thyer's edition of 1759, printed from the manuscripts in the possession of Mr. Longueville. No Jesuit e'er took in hand To plant a church in barren land; For where there is no store of wealth, Souls are not worth the charge of health. To sell their gospel for their mines: No Spaniard twice had landed on their shore. Which, had they wanted gold, they still had wanted. The Oxford Antiquary ascribes to our Author two pamplets, supposed falsely, as he says, to be William Pryn's; the one entitled Mola Asinaria; or, The Unreasonable and Insupportable Burden pressed upon the Shoulders of this Groaning Nation, &c. London, 1659, in one sheet quarto. The other Two Letters; one from John Audland, a Quaker, to Will. Pryn; the other Pryn's Answer; in three sheets in foljo, 1672. I have also seen a small Pcem, of one sheet in quarto, on Du Vall,* a notorious highwayman, said to be wrote by our Author, but how truly I know not. See this poem in the third volume.---It is observed by Mr. Thyer, that this is the only genuine poem of Butler's, among the many spurious ones fathered upon him in what is called his Remains. It was pub lished under the Author's own name in 1671. SAMUELIS BUTLERI, Qui Strenshamiæ in agro Vigorn. nat. 1612. obiit Lond. 1680. Vir doctus imprimis, acer, integer; Deesset etiam mortuo tumulus. Hoc tandem posito marmore, curavit Which is thus translated by the author of Westmonasterium, in tom. I. p. 79. Sacred to the memory of Who was born at Strensham in Worcestershire, 1612; And died at London 1680. A man of extraordinary learning, wit, and integrity: Peculiarly happy in his writings, Not so in the encouragement of them: The curious inventor of a kind of Satire amongst us, By which he pluck'd the mask from pious Hypocrisy, And plentifully exposed the villany of Rebels: The first and last of writers in his way. Lest he, who (when alive) was destitute of all things, Should (when dead) want likewise a monument, John Barber, citizen of London, hath taken care, By placing this stone over him, 1721. HUDIBRAS. IN THREE PARTS. PART I. CANTO I. THE ARGUMENT. Sir HUDIBRAS his passing worth, WHEN civil dudgeon first grew high, v. 1. To take in dudgeon, is inwardly to resent some injury or affront, and what is previous to actual fury. It was altered by Mr. Butler, in an edition 1764, to civil fury; (whether for the better or the worse the reader must be left to judge.) Thus it stood in edit. of 1684, 1689, 1694, and 1700. Civil dudgeon was restored in the edition of 1704, and has continued so ever since. v. 2.] It may be justly said They know not why; since, as Lord Clarendon observes, "The like peace and "plenty, and universal tranquillity, was never enjoy"ed by any nation for ten years together, before those "unhappy troubles began." |