Volume 2

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 à Wood.

  • Anthony Wood
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1813-1820
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    sermon, preached at Paul’s cross, 1 Mar. 1600.3 Lond. 1601, oct. “ (5) The Buzzing Bee's Complaint.4 (6) His last Voy- “ age to the Haven of Happiness. (7) Divers Poems, MS. in “ bibl. Ashmol.” with other things which 1 have not yet seen. He left behind him (when beheaded in 1600) a son of both his names, educated in this university, whom I shall mention elsewhere 5 “ He had also a natural son, whose “ name was Walter.” Apr. 11. Abraham Hartwell M. of A. of Cambr.5 was also then incorporated.—He was fellow of King’s coll, in that university, afterwards amanuensis to Joh. archbishop of Canterbury, a traveller, and at length rector of Tuddyng- ton in Bedfordshire.6 He hath written (l) Regina literata, seu Narratio de Regince Elizabethce “ in Acad. Cantab. Ad- ventu, Carmine, Lond. 1565, oct. (2) Report of the King¬ dom of Congo, a Region in Africa, printed 1597; and trans¬ lated from Italian into English. (3) A true Discourse upon the matter of Martha Brassier of Romantin, pretended to be possessed by the Devil, Lond. 1599, qu. “ (4) A continued “ Inquisition against Paper Persecutors by A. H. (Abraham “ Hartwell I think) printed temp. R. Jacobi I. in one “ sheet.” See another translation made by him in Walt. Haddon, mention’d in these Fasti, an. 1552. July — Roeert Green M. A. of Cambridge, was also then incorporated.—He was at this time a pastoral sonnet- maker and author of several things which were pleasing to men and women of his time. They made much sport, and were valued among scholars, but since they have been mostly sold on ballad-mongers stalls. The title of some of 3 [4 Sermon preached at Paul’s Cross on ye Sund. in Lent Mar. 1. 1600. with a short Discourse <f ye late E. of Essex his Confession and Penitence, before and at ye Time of his Death: by IV.B. D. D. with a Copy of ye Behaviour, Speech and Prayer of ye sd Earl <fc. Lond. pr. by Mat. Law. 1601. 8vo. Baker.] 4 [This has been printed in Park’s edition of lord Orford’s Poyal and Noble Authors, but a better copy of jt may be seen in the Ashmole museum. (MS. Aslim. 781.) Among Aubrey's papers, in the same repository, I find the following. There is none, oh! none, but you. Who from me estrange the sight. Whom mine eyes effect to view, And chained eares heere with delight. Other’s beauties, others move, In you I all the graces find ; Such are the effects of love. To make them happy that are kind. Woemen in fraile beautie trust. Only seeme you kind to me; Still be truly kind and just, For that can’t dissembled bee. Pea re, afford me then your sight. That, surveighing all your lookes, Endlesse volumnes I may write, And fill the world with envyed books, Which, when after ages view, All shall wonder and despayre, Woemen, to find a man so true. And men, a woeman halfe so faire. Made by Robert E. of Essex that was beheaded. From my lady Elk. I is- eountesse of Parhec: repeated by her.] [Abr. Hartwell coll. Trin. A. B. 1571, 2. Baker.] 6 [Abr. Hartwell admissus in coll. Regal. 1559. Scripsit Reginam litera¬ tim : sed obiit (ut videtur) ante hunc annum pene juvenis. V. Tho. New- toni Encomia &c. impress. 1589. Ad Abr. Hartwellum archie’pi Cant. ».ma- nuensem. Nuper Apolinea; florebat fama cohortis Hartwellus, notum nomen Abramus erat. Occidit is, nobis fatis ereptus iniquis , Tu suffectus ei, vive Abrahame diu. Alter ab iilo. Baker.} them are these, (l) Euphues his Censure to Philautus, Lond. 1587, qu. (2) A Quip for an Upstart Courtier : or, a Dispute between Velvet Breeches and Cloth Breeches, Lond. 1592, qu. [Bodl. 8vo. M. 24. Line.] (3) His mourning Garment given, him by Repentance at the Funerals of Love. One edition of this book was printed at Lond. 1616. qu. (4) His Groats worth of Wit bought with a Million of Repentance, &c. Lond. 1617. qu. second edit. The first edit, was printed after his death, and hath at the end of it his epitaph in six stanzaes. (5) Theeves falling out, true Men come by their Goods, or the Belman wanted a Clapper, several times printed in qu. [Lond. 1615, Bodl. 4to. L. 6S. Art.] (6) Philomela, the Lady Fitzwater's Nightingale, several times printed. (7) His Nusquam sera est; or, a Treatise deciphering those particular Vanities that hinder youthful Gentlemen from attaining to their intended Per¬ fections, several times printed. (8) The History of Frier Ba¬ con and Frier Bunguy. (9) Green's Ghost haunting Coney Catchers: one ed. of which was printed at Lond. 1626. qu. Other trifles he hath extant,7 which he hath wrote to main¬ tain his wife, and that high and loose course of living which poets generally follow. He assisted also Tho. Lodge in the composure of several plays, as I have told you in my dis- [137] course of that person among the writers, under the year 1625. He wrote against, or at least reflected upon, Gabriel Harvey in several of his writings; whereupon Harvey being not able to bear his abuses, did inhumanely trample upon him when he lay full low in his grave, even as Achilles tortured the body of Hector. This R. Green died about 1592, of a surfeit, taken by eating pickled herrings, and drinking with them Rhenish wine. At which fatal banquet Tho. Nash his contemporary in Cambridge was present, who in his Apology of Pierce Penniless doth make excellent sport with, him and some of his works. 1 have seen a witty comedy called Green's Tu Quoque, or the City Gallant, not pen’d by the said Green, but by one John Cook gent, published by Tho. Hey- wood, an. 1622, and another entit. Planetomachia; or. The first Part of the general Opposition of the seven Planets, &c. Lond. 1585. qu. said in the title to be written by R. Green, but whether the same R. Green the poet, I cannot tell.8 7 [R. B. who was probably Richard Barnefielde, (of whom see vol. 1. col. 683) in Green’s Funerals 1594, gives the following Catalogue of certaine of his (Green’s) Bookes, Camilla for the first and second part; The Card if Fancie, and his Tvllies hue; His Nunqumn Sera, and his Nightingale; His Spanish Masquerado, and his Change, His Menaphon, and Metamorphosis; His Orpharion, and the Deninarke king. His Censure, and his Loues Tritameron, His Disjmtation, and The Death of him ; That makes all England shed so many teares. * And many more that I haue neuer seene May witnes well vnto the world his wit. Had he so well, as well applied it. Sign. C 2.] 8 [Robert Green is presumed to have been .bom about 1560, and died either the 3d or 5th of September 1592. His numerous pieces have lately ob¬ tained much attention from the editors of bibliographical works. Mr. Beloe, in the Anecdotes of Literature, vol. ii. first collected the titles with brief notices of many of his publications. An enlarged list, with the dates of their various editions, was inserted in the Censura Literaria, vol. viii, p. 386 ; and in that work, as well as the British Bibliographer, are several articles describing va¬ luable pieces by Green. To the list in the Censura a short memoir is prefixed partly attempting to redeem the character of this imprudent and unfortunate man, from'the low and despicable calumnies heaped upon him after he was dead by Gabriel Harvey, whose malignant attacks have since been too often repeated unwittingly by others. The same view of the subject was after¬ wards adopted, and, as might be expected, spiritedly pursued with strong and * Mr. Haslewood conjectures, and with great probability, that this refers to some tribute to the memory of sir Philip Sidney not yet discovered, R* 2
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