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 CAIUS. 27 fdcmn as a kind of Rosicriician, and, it is said, left sbehind him some secret writings, which tenddd to confirm that opinion. The great dramatist is very hard upon the physician, calls liim bully- stale, urinal, and muck-water, reflecting upon that particular inspection which made a considera- ble part of practical physic at that time. Thus, mine host of the Garter, availing himself of the doctor's imputed ignorance of the English lan- guage, makes him the butt of his ridicule, and annexes, to the terms he uses, a sense directly opposite to their real import. To m.ake him amends, " he will clapper-claw him tightly ;" and, to promote his suit as a lover, " he will be his adversary towards Ann Page." But the real Dr. Caius, as we have seen, was a man of various and extensive learning ; accu- rately acquainted with the Greek language, and remarkable for his Latin style, which is pure and copious, and formed upon the best models of an- tiquity. A list of his works which he left behind him will fully warrant this opinion. Among them were translations from Galen and Hippocrates ; a corrected edition of Celsus ; a Treatise on the Pro- nunciation of the Greek and Latin Languages ; and one on the Antiquity of the University of Cambridge. Caius had always a propensity to antiquarian studies, and he was induced late in life to write the last-mentioned treatise, by the fol- lowing occurrence : — Queen Elizabeth, paying a visit to Cambridge in 1 564, the public orator, in a speech before her Majesty, extolled the antiquity ©tf that University, to the prejudice of that of Oxford. This incited one Thomas Key, a Fellow