Whom England now no more return'd must see;
He's gone to heav'n on his fourth embassy'.
On earth be travell'd often, not to say
He'd been abroad to pass loose time away;
For in whatever land he chanc'd to come,
He read the men and manners; bringing home
Their wisdom, learning, and their piety,
As if he went to conquer, not to see.
So well he understood the most and best
Of tongues that Babel sent into the West;
Spoke them so truly, that he had (you'd swear)
Not only liv'd but been born every where.
Justly each nation's speech to him was known;
Who for the world was made, not us alone.
Nor ought the language of that man be less,
Who in his breast had all things to express:
We say that learning's endless, and blame Fate
For not allowing life a longer date.

He did the utmost bounds of knowledge find,
And found them not so large as was his mind;
But, like the brave Pellean youth *, did moan,
Because that art had no more worlds than one.
And when he saw that he through all had past,
He dy'd lest he should idle grow at last.

A. COWLEY.

Sir Henry Wotton's most important erhasses were those to Venace. T. that Republic he was thrice sent ambassador from James 1.

* " Unus Piikro juvesi non sufficit orbus." JUVEX. Sat. X. 168.

APPENDIX.

THE WORKS OF SIR HENRY WOTTON.

SIR HENRY WOTTON is addressed as a port by Bastard

the epigrammatist, in the following lines:

Wotton, the country, and the country -kane,
"How can they yecids a pet do's neve

• How can they stirre him up or heal his vaine
"How can they feed him with intelligence ?
"You have that fire which can a wit enf'ame

** In happy. Lorcoe, 1. and's fayrest eye;
"Well may you ports have of worthy name
Which have the fade and ife of poetry.

“And yet the evantry or that we may sway

"Or bear a jurt, as clownes de in a plav."

His Poems were collected by Isaac Walton, and insertel in RELIQULE WOTTONIAN.E;

or, a

* Collection of Lives, Letters, Poems with Characters "of sundry Personages, and other incomparable Pieces "of Language and Art: By the curious Pencil of the ** ever memorable Sir Henry Wotton, k late Provost "of Eaton College, 1651 " A second edition in 4to appeared in 165 1 密 In the fourth edition third in 1672. which appeared in 1080, is the valuable addition of letters to the Lord Zouch.

This collect on contains the "TREATISE on the ELEMENTS of ARCHITECTURE," first published

VOL. I.

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