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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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    Clar. 1598. Qui demiim inter oves caste et sine crimine vivit, Pastoiem hune ovium quis neget esse bonum ? Talis pastor erat pastorum gemma Juellus, Anglorum caetus gloria magna sacri. Quem pia pro meritis jam totaecclesia summis Pastorem agnoscit, perpetuoque colit. Hie jacet indigno contectum pulvere corpus, Ast anima setherei transiitastra poll. Inclyta fama manet, virtus manet inclyta, libris ^dita divinis inclyta qua;que manent. Sudores, pugnie, ingenium, doctrina, fidesque, Sincerus vera; relligionis amor. Quam fuerat Christi constans athleta Juellus, Si te scire juvat, consule et inde scies.] STEPHEN GOSSON, a Kentish man born, was admitted scholar of Ch. Ch. coll. 4 Apr. 1372, Gosson -wrote also a poem called Speculum hu- mamm, in six stanzas of eleven lines, affixed to Kerton's Mirror of Man's Life, 8vo. 1580.' And the following plays, * never printed. 1. Catalines Conspiracy. 2. Captain Mario, a comedy. 3. Praise at Parting, a morality. He died in 1623. ' Mister Stephen Gosson, rec- tor of this p~sh for twenty odd yeare past; who departed this mortall ]yfeaboute5 oftheclockeon Friday in the afternoone, being the thirteenthe of the monthe, and buried in the nighte, 17th Feb. 1623, aged 69.' Extract from the register of St. Botolph Bishop's-gate.} JOHN LYLIE, or Lylly, a Kentish man born, became a student in Magd. coll. in the be- aged 16, or thereabouts, took one degree in arts ginning of 1569, aged I6, or thereabouts, and four years after, lelt the university without com- vvas afterwards, as 1 conceive, either one of the pleating that degree by determination, and went demies or clerks of that house; but always averse to the great city, where he was noted for his ad- to the crabbed studies of logic and philosophy mirable penning of pastorals, being so excellent For so it was that his genie being naturally bent therem, that he was ranked ^ with sir Ph. Sidney, to the pleasant paths of poetry, (as if Apollo had Tho. Chaloner, Edm. Spencer, Abrah. Iraunce, given to him a wreath of his own bays without and Rich. Bernfleld, noted poets of their time, snatching or strugling,) did in a manner nec^lect Thence, as he saith, he went to a worshipful gen- academical studies, yet not so much but tha^t he tleman in the country to teach his sons, where he took the degrees in arts, that of master being -—--^ g^g^^ compleated 1575. At which time, as he was continued till he shewed his great dislike of plays, having his mind then quite alienated from them. So that the gentleman being weary of his company, Gosson left him, took orders, and at length became parson of Great Wigborow in Essex; and afterward of St. Botolph without Bishopgate in London. He hath written and published, The School of abtise, containing a pleasant invec- tive against Poets, Pipers, Players, Jesters, and 4to.] esteemed in the university a noted wit so after- wards was he in the court of Q. Elizabeth, where he was also reputed a rare poet, witty, comical, and facetious. His works are these, Galathea. [1592, 4to.] Love's Metamorphosis. [l601,4to.] Midas. [1592, 4to.] Endymion, or the Man in the Moon.^ [1591, [2963 such like Caterpillers of the Common-wealth, &c. Lond. 1579, [Bodl. 8vo. F. 200. Line] and 1585, in Oct. dedicated to sir'° Ph. Sidney. Plays confuted in five Actions; proving that they are not to be suffered in a Christian Common- wealth : By the wat/, both the Cavils of Tho. Lodge, and the Play of Plays, written in their Mother Bomby. [1594, 1598, 4to.] Maids Metamorphosis. [I6OO, 4to.] Sappho and Phaon. [1591, 4to.] Woman in the Moon. [1597, 4to.] Warning for fair Women.* Alexander and Campaspe. [1584, 1591, 4to.] All which are com^'dies, and most of them Defence, and other objections of Players Friends, having been publish'd in the reign of Q. Eliza- are truly set down, and directly answered. Dedi cated to sir Franc. Walsinghain, but when printed it appears not. [l2mo.] The Trumpet of War, Sermon at Paul's-Cross 7 May 1598, on 2 Chron. ch. 20. ver. 20. Lond. 1598, Oct. [Bodl. 8vo. B. IfeO. Th.] As for the pastorals, comedies, tragedies, or poetry, (some of age and adventures, mixed with sundrij prettu which he hath written,)! have not yet seen, either courses of honest Love, the Description 01 printed or in manuscript. But 1 since find him , rn u ^ rr a ^ar -o . n , printed or in manuscript. alive in A. D. I6l5. [The Ephemerides of Phialo, a method to rebuke his Friend, S^c. A Canvarudo to Courtiers, &c. by St. G. Pr. by Tho. Dawson, 1579. Baker. s [By Meres in his Wits Treasury, 1598.] •° [It was printed in 1587 and dedicated to Philip Sidney, Esq. Bakek.J beth, six were re-printed at London in oct. an. 1632, by the care of Hen. Blount, esq; afterwards a knight,^ under the title of Court Comedies, which before had crowned the author with ap- plause, and the auditors of them with pleasure. Euphues and his England; containing his Voy- of the Herbert, Typ. Aniig. 986. Ritson, Bibl. Poet. 223,] ^ [Reed, Biog. Dram. 1782, p. 195.} ' [In 1691 JoaiiC Bronie had license for ' Endimion, the other, Galatkeu, and the otlier Mtdas.'] [Ascribed to him very erroneously, having been writ- ten by an anonymous author. Reed, Biograplua Dramalica, i, 209. edit. 1782.] ^ [This is a mistake. They were published by Edward Blount the bookseller, one of the proprietors of the first edition of the plays of Shakspeare.]