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Viii CONTENTS.

Pafo
Carmima Miscellakea, (continued,)
Dignissimo sno Amico Doctori Witty. De translo-

tione vulgi crrorum D. rriinrosii 814

In Eunucham Foctam 815

In Legationem Domini Ollveri St. John, ad Provin-

cias Focderatas 816

Doctori Ingelo, Cum Domino Whitlocke ad Reginam
Sueciaj Dclegato a Protectore, Resident! , Epis-

tola 317

In Efiigiem Oliveri Cromwell 822

In Eandem Reginae Sueciae Trnnsmissam 822

Ad Regem Cnrolum, de Sobole, 1637 823

Cuidam, qui, Legendo Scripturam, Descripsit For-
mam, sapientiam sortemque Authoris. Illu-
trissimo Viro Domino Lanceloto Josepho De

Maniban, Grammatomanti 826

In Duos MonteSf Amosclivium et Bilboreum. Farfacio . 829
Joannis Trottii Epitaphium. Charissimo Filio, etc.
Pater et Mater, etc. Funebrem Tabulam Cu-

ravimus 881

Edmundi Trottii Epitaphium. Charissimo Filio,
Edmundo Trottio, Posuimus Pater et Mater,

frustra Snperstites 388

TLpdc Ka(>/)o^ap rdv BaatAio 885



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NOTICE OF THE AUTHOR.

Andrew Marvell was a native of Kingston-
upon-Hull,* where he was bom November 15,
1620. His father, of the same name, was master
of the grammar school, and lecturer of Trinity
Church in that town.
He is described by Fuller
and Echard as ^^ facetious,'* so that his son's wit,
it would appear, was hereditary. He is also said
to have displayed considerable eloquence in the
pulpit; and even to have excelled in that kind
of oratory which would seem at first sight least
allied to a mirthful temperament — ^we mean the
pathetic. The conjunction, however, of wit and
sensibility, has been found in a far greater num-
ber of instances than would at first sight be
imagined, as we might easily prove by examples,
if this were the place for it : nor would it be
difficult to give the rationale of the fact. Both, at
all events, are amongst the most general, though
far from universal accompaniments of genius.

* So all the biographers; but a writer in "Notes and
Queries/' says that he was bom at Winstead in Holdemess,
where his baptismal register is still extant.



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X NOTICE OF THE AUTHOR.

The diligence of Mr. MarvelFs pulpit prepara-
tions has been celebrated by Fuller in his " Wor-
thies," with characteristic quaintness. " He was
a most excellent preacher/' says he, " who never
broached what he had new brewed, but preached
what he had pre-studied some competent time
before, insomuch that he was wont to say, that he
would cross the common proverb, which called
Saturday the working day and Monday the holi-
day of preachers. " The lessons of the pulpit he
enforced by the persuasive eloquence of a devoted
life. During the pestilential epidemic of 1637,
we are told that he distinguished himself by an
intrepid discharge of his pastoral functions.

Having given early indications of superior
talents, young Andrew was sent, wl^en not quite
fifteen years of age, to Trinity College, Cam-
bridge, where he was partly or wholly maintained
by an exhibition from his native town. He had
not been long there, when, like Chillingworth,
he was ensnared by the proselyting arts of the
Jesuits, who, with subtilty equal to their zeal,
commissioned their emissaries specially to aim at
the conversion of such of the university youths
as gave indications of signal ability. It appears
that he was inveigled from college to London.
Having been tracked thither by his father, he
was discovered, after some months, in a booksel-
ler's shop, and restored to the university. During
the two succeeding years he pursued his studies



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NOTICE OP THE AUTHOR.