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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. L FEB. 6, low.

" Pol me occidistis, aniici, Non servastis," ait, " cui sic extprta voluptas, Et demptus pretium mentis gratissimus error." This edition is also remarkable as contain- ing the eight spurious lines at the commence- ment of the tenth satire of the first book ; they are said not to appear again till 1691, when they occur in the edition printed at Paris, "in usum Delphini," with notes, by L. Desprez. They read thus : (L)Vcili quam sis mendosus teste Catone Defensore tuo peruicam qui male factos Emendare parat uersus hoc lenius ille Est quo uir melior ; longe subtilior illo Gui multum puer & loris et funibus udis Exhortatus ut esset opem quis ferre poetis Antiquis posset contra fastidia nostra <jramaticorum equitu doctissimus [ut] redeam illuc.

S. J. ALDRICH. New Southgate.

NATHANAEL CARPENTER'S 'GEOGRAPHY DELINEATED,' 1625.

(See ante, p. 22.)

CARPENTER informs us he was born in Devonshire. His pride in his native county was not only pardonable, but justifiable. When he recalls her worthies he rises to a degree of enthusiastic and dignified eloquence quite inspiring. The following is well worthy of being remembered (book ii. p. 261) :

"Neither can it be stiled our reproach, but glory, to draw our off-spring from such an Aire which produceth wits as eminent as the Mountaines, approaching farre nearer to Heauen in Excellency, then the other in hight transcend the Valleyes. Wherein can any Province of Great Brittaine challenge precedency before vs ? Should any deny vs the reputation of Arts and Learning ; the pious Ghosts of lewell, Raynolds, and Hooker, would rise vp in opposition; whom the World knowes so valiantly to haue displayed their Banners in defence of our Church and Religion. Should they exclude vs from the reputation of knowledge in State and politick affaires? who hath not acquainted himselfe with the name of S r William Petre our famous Benefactor, whose desert chose him chief Secretarie to three Princes of famous inemprie? Who hath not known or read of that prodigie of wit and fortune S r Walter Rawleigh, a man vnfortunate in nothing els but the greatnes of his wit & advancement? whose eminent worth was such, both in Domestick Policie, Forreigne Expeditions, and Discoveries, Arts and Literature, both Pratick and Contemplatiue, which might seeme at once to conquere both Example and Imitation. For valour and chivalrous Designes by Sea, who reades not without admiration of the Acts of S r Francis Drake, who thought the circuit of this Earthly Globe too litle for his generous and magnanimous Ambition? Of S r Richard Grenvill, who vndertaking with so great a disadvantage, so strong an Enemy ; yet with an vndaunted Spirit made his Honour legible in the wounds of the proud Spaniard : and at last triumphed more in his owne honourable Death, then the other in his base

conquest? Of S r Humfrey Gilbert, S r Richard Hawkins, Davies, Frobisher, and Capt. Parker, with many others of worth, note & estimation, whose names liue with the Ocean ? "

Then there is another type of character not less worthy of honourable remembrance. I may mention that Hakewill in his ' Apologie,' 1635, refers to Sir Thomas Bodley as "my honoured Kinsman" (book ii. p. 262) :

" Should I speake of Generous Magnificence and Favour of Learning, shewed by Heroicall Spirits in the general Munificence extended to our whole Vniversity ; what Age or Place can giue a Parallel to renowned Bodley, whose name carries more per- swasion then the tongue of the wisest Oratour? His magnificent Bounty, which shewed it selfe so extraordinarily transcendent, aswell in erection of his Famous Library, which he (as another Ptolomy) so richly furnisht, as other munificent Largesses, exhibited to our English Athens, was yet farther crowned by his wise choice, as proceeding from one, who being both a great Scholler, and a prudent Statist, knew as well how to direct as bestow his liberality."

The next extract includes the name of Dr. George Hakewill. Here we have contem- porary testimony to the personal worth of the man. The " Pious Monument " referred to by Carpenter was, no doubt, the chapel which Hakewill built and gave to Exeter College. His ' Apologie ' was first published in 1627 ; but as I have already expressed my opinion of it in these pages, I shall say nothing further on that point. I may, however, take this opportunity of recording a curious ex- pression used by Hakewill, which I should not have expected him to employ, and which, I believe, was a colloquialism cir- culating more among the common people. Speaking in his ' Apologie ' of the testimony in favour of John Fust as the inventor of printing, Hakewill goes on to say that the author cited "in truth shewes good cards for it" (p. 317), in plain English, that he assigns good reasons for what he states. I remem- ber only one other example of the phrase, and that in the fine old comedy of ' Nobody and Somebody,' 1606, where one of the characters, a clownish fellow, employs it in the same sense as Hakewill does : "My M[aster] hath good cards on his side, He warrant him " (sig. H 4 verso). Here is the passage from Carpenter (book ii. p. 262) :

' If Founders and Benefactours of priuate Col- leges may find place in this Catalogue of Worthies, the sweet hiue and receptacle of our Westerne wits can produce in honour of our Country a famous Stapledon Bishop of Excester, and worthy Founder of Exon Colledge : whose large bounty was after ward seconded (next to Edm. Stafford Bishop of Sarum, a Westerne Man) by the pious charge and liberality of Mr. lohn Peryam, S r lohn Acland, & very lately by Mr. Dr. Hakewill, whose worthy En- comium, I (though vnwillingly) leaue out, lest 1