Sydus; judicii pumex, profundus
Doctrine puteus, tamen serenus ;
Scriptorum genius; poeticus dux,
Quantum O sub rigido latet lapillo !

WILLIAM BEW!'
N. Coll. Oxon. soc.

IN OBITUM

BEN. JONSON.

Nec sic excidimus: pars tantùm vilior audit
Imperium Libitina tuum, cælestior urget
Ethereos tractus, mediasque supervolat auras,
Et velut effusum spissa inter nubila lumen
Ingenii strictura micat: fœlicior ille,

Quisquis ab hoc victuram actavit lampada Phabo.
In famulante faces accendimus, idque severæ,
Quod damus alterius vitæ, concedimus umbræ.
Sic caput Ismarii, casa cervice, Poetæ,
Nescio quid rapido vocale immurmurat Hebro,

7 William Bew was born at Hagborne in Berkshire, and, after being educated at Winchester school, removed to New College Oxford, of which he became fellow in 1637, and where he took his degree as master of arts in 1644. When his rebellious subjects took up arms against the king, Bew joined the soldiers of his sovereign, and had a majority of horse. Being chosen proctor for 1648, he was set aside by the parliamentary visitors, and, being ejected from his fellowship by the same au thority, he quitted England and served the Swedes in their war against the Poles. Hitherto arms appear to have been his profession, but more peaceable times arriving, with the return of Charles II., Bew returned, and, being restored to his fellowship, he became vicar of Ebberbury in Oxfordshire. On the 22d June 1679, he was consecrated bishop of Landaff, and died, in his ninetieth year, on the 10th Feb. 1705. GILCHRIST.

Memnonis adverso sic stridit chordula Phabo,
Datque modos magicos, tenuesque reciprocat auras.
Seu tu grandiloqui torques vaga fræna theatri,
En tibi vox geminis applaudit publica palmis;
Seu juoat in numeros, palantes cogere voces
Mæonia JONSONE cheli, te pronus amantum
Prosequitur cætus, studioso imitamine vatum.
BENJAMINI insignis quondam quintuplice ditis
Suffitu mensa, densaque paropside, sed tu
Millend plus parte alios excedis, et auctis
Accumulas dapibus, propriâ de dote, placentam.
SAM. EVANS, LL. Bacc.

No. Coll. Oxon. Soc.

IN

BEN. JONSON.

Quòd martes Epico tonat cothurno,
Sive aptat Elegis leves amores,
Seu sales Epigrammatum jocosos
Promit, seu numerosiora plectro
Jungit verba, sibi secundat orsa
Cyrrhaus, nec Hyantiæ sorores
Ulli dexterius favent poeta,

Hoc cum Mæonide sibi et Marone,
Et cum Callimacho, et simul Tibullo
Commune est, aliisque cum trecentis:
Sed quòd Anglia quotquot eruditos
Facundo ediderit sinu poetas
Acceptos referat sibi, sua omnes
Hos industria finxerit, labosque

JONSONI, hoc proprium est suumque totum,

Qui Poëmata fecit et Poetas.

R. BRIDEOAKE.*

* Bishop of Chichester. See p. 402.

Ιωνσων ποτε φῦντι παρέςη ποτνια Μοῦσα,
Και Βρομια, και Έρως, και Χαρίτων θιασε,
Ευϊος αρτιτοκον λαβε νεβρίδι, σπαίρξε τε κισσῷ,
Λεσας και ποτισας νεκταρ τῷ βοτρυ.
Κυσσαν δι' αἱ Χαριτες, και αειθαλέεσσι ῥοδοῖσιν
Εσεφον, ηδ' ἱεροῖς βακχαριδα πεταλοίς.
Κεσον τύθος έρως, συλησας μητερα δῶκεν,
Αγνον ελξινου φιλτρον αοιδοπολων
Τοῖς δ' επι Μῶσα σοφῳ ψιθυρισματι παιδ' εμύησε,
Χρυσειας πλερυγας λικνο ὑπερσχομενη
Χαῖρε θεῶν κηρυξ, γαίης μεγα χαρμα Βρεταννῆς.
Χαίρ' ελπις Σκηνῶν τῶν ἔτι γυμνοποδων
‘Αῖς συ χορηγησων ειτ' εμβάδως, είτε κοθόρνες,
Ελλάδα και Ρωμην ες φθονον οισρελάσεις
Γαυριοων θριγκοῖσι νεοδμήτοιο Θεατρο,
Ικρι' αμειψάμενο μαρμαρεῶν ψαλιδων.
Η· καὶ ἀπιπλαμενη, βρεφε παλάμησιν ενήκε
Πλινθον, ἀρειότερης συμβολον οικοδομής.

Archbishop of Spalato; v. 247. Banbury man, iv. 360.