In 1607 he began his
series of
apocalyptic
writings by an _Apparatus in Revelationem Jesu
Christi_.
Robert Herrick
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756. _To Prince Charles upon his coming to Exeter._ In August, 1645.
761. _The Wake._ Printed in _Witts Recreations_, 1650, under the title:
_Alvar and Anthea_.
763. _To Doctor Alabaster._ William Alabaster, or Alablaster, born at
Hadleigh, Suffolk (1567); educated at Westminster and Trinity College,
Cambridge; a friend of Spencer; was converted to Roman Catholicism while
chaplain to the Earl of Essex in Spain, 1596.
In 1607 he began his
series of
apocalyptic
writings by an _Apparatus in Revelationem Jesu
Christi_.
On visiting Rome he was imprisoned by the Inquisition,
escaped, and returned to Protestantism. Besides his theological works,
he published (in 1637) a Lexicon Pentaglotton. Died April, 1640.
766. _Time is the bound of things_, etc. From Seneca, _Consol. ad Marc._
xix.: Excessit filius tuus terminos intra quos servitur ... mors omnium
dolorum solutio est et finis.
771. _As I have read must be the first man up_, etc. Hor.
