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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

Date:: 1813-20

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$LYLLY. HAYDOCK. Country, the Court, and the manner of that Isle, &c. Lond. 1580, [81,] and 83, in two parts, in a large oct. [and 1597, l606, l636, 4to.Tlie first part is dedicated to Edvv. Vere E. of Oxon, a noted poet, and encourager of learning in his time, and the last to the university of Oxon. These two parts' were published again with cor- rections and amendments at Lond. 1606, and 1636, qu. Eiiphues: The Anatomy of Wit, or the delights of Wit in Youth, &c. Lond. 1581, qu. corrected and amended Lond. l606, [1617, Bodl. Mar, 210.] 1623, and 30, qu. To these books of £m- phues, 'tis said, that our nation is indebted for a new English in them, * which the flower of the youth thereof learned. All the ladies then were scholars to them and their author, and that beauty in court which could not parly Euphuism, was as little regarded, as those now there that cannot speak French.*^ What other books, comedies, or tragedies, our author hath written, I cannot find, nor when he died, or where buried, only that he lived till towards the latter end of Q. EMzabeth, Clar. if not beyond, for he was in being in 1597, when 1598. ^j^g Woman in the Moon was published. It is said also that he wrote something against Mart. Marprelate,' in defence of Dr. Cooper bishop of Winton, but what, I cannot tell, unless it beany of those answers, which I have mentioned in John Penry, alias M. Marprelate, under the year 1593, [col. 395.] Quaiie. [Oldys supposes that Lilly was born sooner than 1553, as in 1566 he went to court, in 1576 wrote his first letter to the queen, and in 1597 his second, shewing he had been thirteen years led in expec- 6 [Tanner, Bibl. Brit. 493.] ^ [Wood has greaily mistaken these two books or parts iTht Anatcmnj of Wit and Ei>g/u7id) supposing them to be two separate and subsequent works, whereas, in fact, The Anatomt/ of Wit is the first part, and introductory to, his Eiifilund, as is evident by the conclusion of the former. See Herbert, Tjip. Antiq. 1912.] [See an encomium upon Lilly by the celebrated Mr. Samuel Johnson, in An Easui/ on the Engliah Language, printed in the Lilerury Magazine for the year 1758, p. 197. For I make no doubt that the said Essay was written by Mr. Johnson, as it is on a subject he has shewn himself to be so well versed in, and as it is known tliat he had the di- rection or management of that periodical performance. W. C. 1771. Cole. Johnson was certainly connected with the JMaguzine here mentioned, but I am not aware that he was ever before considered as the Editor, who was supposed to lie Faden the printer. See Hawkins's Life of Johnson, 1787, p. 352.] [Wood has here used the words of Blount, who highly commends Lilly's attempt to reform the English language, and Nash, Webbe, Lodge and others have joined in this praise, but it seems that Drayton's Censure of the Poets, whilst it gives a more harsh, gives a more just, critique on his ridiculous allusions and affected formality. ' Talking of stones, stars, plants, of fishes, flies, Playing with words and idle similies.'J ' [It is said that he wrote tappe with an hatchet, alias a Figgfor mi/ GudsooneSjC : See Herbert, 'J'yp. Antiq. p. 1704., Oldi/s's MSS. notes to iMnghaiiie's Dram. I'ocis, in the British Museum.] tation of being master of the revels.^ He took the degree of fi. A. in 1573, and that of M. A. in 1575.^ Afterward on some disgust he removed to Cambridge.* There seems to be some confusion in Oldys's account of Lilly's going to court, for it is not probable that he would quit Oxford previous to his first degree, nor is it likely, that, after living at court, he would have migrated to Cambridge, where no preferment awaited him, and where he could not want to obtain any academical title, having been previously honoured with a master's degree at the sister university. He wrote in addition a prose letter prefixed to Watson's Passionate Centurie of Loue, for which see col. 602 : and the following lines prefixed to Lok's Ecclesiastes, 1597 : Ad serenissimam reginam Elizabetham. Regia virginea; soboles dicata parenti, Virgo animo, patriai mater, regina, quid optas ? Chara domi, metuenda foris, regina, quid optas f Pulchra, pia es, princeps, foelix regina, quid optas Coelum est!* Certo at sero sit regina, quod optas. Job. Lily. Ad Lockum ejusdem, Ingenio et genio locuples, die Locke quid addam ? Addo, quod ingenium quondam preciosius auro.] RICHARD HAYDOCK was born at Grewel in Hampshire, educated in grammar learning in Wykeham's school near to Winchester, admitted perpetual fellow of New coll. in 1590, took the degrees in arts, and travelled for some time be- yond the seas. At his return he studied physic, took one degree in that faculty, and in 1605 left the college, and settling in the city of Salisbury practised physic there many years. He bath translated from Italian into English, ji Tiact containing the Arts of curious Painting, Graving, and Building. Oxon, 1598, fol. [Bodl. H. 1. Clar. 5. Art. Seld.J Written originally by Job. Paul 1598. Lomatius. This translation, which hath in the title page the picture of Rich. Haydock, is by hiiu dedicated to Tho. Bodley, esq; a favourer of his muse, as Dr. John Case, and other chief men of the university, then in being, were; not only for his learning, but for his great curiosity in painting and engraving, for which, among many, he was esteemed eminent. This is that Ric. Haydock, whom a certain' author reports, that he wou'd practise physic in the day-time, and preach in his sleep in the night, about the beginning of the reign of king James I. The whole story of which, being too large for this place, I shall refer the reader to him, who errs in several particulars of it, especially in that, that when Haydock had * \Censura Literaria, 1805, i. 160.] 3 See the Fasi f under those years.] 4- [Reed'^ Old F/ays, 1780, i>, 81.] 5 Arthur Wilson in his History of Gixal Britain, or the Reign of K. James I. Lond. 1653, p. ill.$