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195 doubt Charles Lamb's desire has been gratified, in a way, and he has met his two friends somewhere, in the Spirit-Land.

Wood is responsible for taking Greville to Oxford " in the condition of a Gentleman Commoner, either before or after he went to Cambridge." But even Wood cannot tell whether Greville was at Broadgates or at Christ Church, nor does he think that "it doth matter much" anyway, seeing that he was properly a Cambridge Man. Nevertheless Pembroke, as the successor of Broadgates, claims Greville for its own. That Pembroke is justified in congratulating itself upon the possession of Sir Thomas Browne the records prove. He became a Fellow Commoner in 1623; or, as Wood hath it, "he took degree of Arts as member of said College, entered on the physic line, and practised that faculty for sometime in these parts—"meaning, it is supposed, in Oxfordshire. It is not very clear why Lamb wished to have had a personal acquaintance with this ancient writer on mediaeval subjects, whose works were so famous in his own day and were so often translated into other tongues. But Lamb, whom everybody, except Carlyle, loved, and whom everybody still loves, had a strong capacity for loving everybody. And there are men still living who would like to have known Charles