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Athenae Oxonienses : An exact history of all the writers and bishops who have had their education in the University of Oxford. To which are added the fasti, or annals of the said University / By Anthony A. Wood.

  • Anthony Wood
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1813-20
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    on shore in France, in Feb. 1584. Upon his being taken and committed to prison, and the earl of Warwick's offer thereupon to relieve his necessity, he made a copy of verses, mention'd by a noted ^ poet of his time, concluding with these two : —Thanks to that Lord that wills me good ; For I want all things saving Hay and Wood. Afterwards he went to the city of Dole, where he was troubled much with witches, thence to [291] Rome, and at length fixed in the city of Naples, where, as at Rome, he became familiarly known to that zealous R. Catholic Joh. Pitseus, who speaks, by the by, very honourably of him. What he wrote or published after he became a Jesuit, I know not. Sure it is, if one* says true, that this our author was most critical in the Hebrew lan- guage, and that he did make and digest an easy and short method (reduced into tables) for novices to learn that language; which I suppose was a Compendium of a Hebrew grammar. He paid his last debt to nature at Naples on the 9th of Jan. according to the accompt there followed, in 1597-8. fifteen hundred ninety and eight, which is ninety and seven with us, and was buried, as I have been informed, in the college of the Jesuits there. He left behind him several of his labours in writing, some of which are preserved as rarities; but whether any of them have been since printed, I cannot justly tell. His elder brother Ellis Heywood I have mentioned before, under the year 1572, col. 406. [Heywood exercised the office of Christmas prince, or lord of misrule in his college (Merton); and among Wood's MSS. in the Ashmole museum is an oration praising his admirable execution ' of his office, written by David de la Hyde, of whom see col. 456. He is supposed*^ to have been the author of 3 Sir Jo. Harrington in his Epigrams, lib. 3, epig. 1. * Hen. Morus in HiU. Frovuic. Angl. Soc. Jesu. lib. 4, i)u. 11, sub an. 1585. 5 [Warton, Hist, of Eng. Poetri/, iii. 389.] [Tanner conjectures that he translated some part of Virgil, and founds his opinion on the following commen- datory lines prefixed to Studley's Agamemnon, from Seneca, 1560. Bodl. 8vo. H. 44. Art. Seld. When Heiwood did in perfect verse and doleful! tune set out, And by hys smouth and fyled style declared had aboute What toughe reproche the Troyan of the hardy Grekes receyued, When they oftowne, of goods and lyues togyther were depryued; How wel did then hysfreindcs requite his trauayle and his payne, When unto iiym tliey haue (as due) ten thousand thankes agayne? What greater prayse might Virgill get ? what more renoume then ll)is Could haue ben gyuen vnto hyra _ for wry tyng verse of hys ? Did Virgill ought request but thys in labouryng to excell some lines prefixed to Kyffin's Blessednes of Brijtaine, 1588, as well as Greene's Epitaph dis- coursed dialogue wise between Life and Death.' Some of his original composition has been given in the notes, 1 now transcribe a few lines of his translation from the first speech in the Thyestes, 1560. What furye fell enforceth me to flee thunhappie seate. That gape and gaspe w^ greedy iawe the flecyng foode to eate ? What god to Tantalus the bowres, where breathyng bodies dwell. Doth showe agayne ? Is ought found worse then burning thurst of hell In lake alowe or yet worse plague then hunger, is there one In vayne that euer gapes for foode ? shall Sisyphus his stone That slypper restles rollyng payse, vpon my backe be borne Or shall my lymms with swyfter swynge of whirlyng wheele be torne .f] HENRY PERRY [or Parey] a Welshman born, was educated in Gloucester-hall, took the degrees in arts, was beneficed in his own country, and as a member of Jesus coll. took the degree of bach, of div. 1597. He hath written, A British Dictionary, MS. Involved in Dic- tionarum Britannico-Latinum, published by Dr. Joh. Davies, who saith in the preface to that book, that this our author Perry was ' vir lingua- rum cognitione insignis,' which is all I know of him. [I am told by a son in law of Hen. Perry, that he was born in Flintshire, and was descended from Ednowen Bendew, one of the 15 tribes, whose coat he bore. He travelled much abroad, and had bin marryed and setled in another coun- try, before his settlement in this diocese. Hither he came first as chaplain to sir Richard Bulkley, and upon the death of his first wife, he marryed the daughter of Robert Vaughan of Beaumares gent, upon which he was accused, that his first wife was yet living; but he cleared that poynt by certificate and proof of her death, and shewed the accusation to be malitious; and then this Henry Perry or Parry (for he is written both ways) was instituted to the rectory of Rhos colyn in Anglesey, Aug. 21, I6OI, being then B. D. He was installed canon of the cathedral church of Bangor, Feb. 6, 1612, and instituted to Llanfach- reth in Anglesey, March the 5th, 16I3. He dyed Or what did fame gyue to him more then prayse to beare the bell? May Heywood this, alone get prayse and Phaer be cleane forgott. Whose verse and style doth far surmount, and gotten hath the lot? But these verses seem full as applicable to the Troas of Seneca, which we know he rendered into English verse.] ' [llitson, Bibl. Foet, 220.j