The borrower must return this item on or before the last date stamped below. If another user places a recall for this item, the borrower will be notified of the need for an earlier return. Non-receipt of overdue notices does not exempt the borrower from overdue fines. Harvard College Widener Library 617-495-2413 ABRRI 22811999 Please handle with care. at Harvard. Page 113. A Litany. A poem so called, written by Donne, who, in a letter to his friend, Sir Henry Goodyere, gives this account of it. "Since my imprisonment in my bed I have made a meditation in verse, which I call a Litany. The word, you know, imports no other than supplication; but all churches have one form of supplication by that name. Amongst ancient annals, I mean some 800 years, I have met two Letanies in Latin verse, which gave me not the reason of my meditations; for in good faith I thought not upon them, but they give me a defence, if any man to a layman and a private impute it as a fault to take such divine and publique names to his own little thoughts." (Letters, &c. p. 32.) Page 123. Nicholas Wotton. What Sir Henry Wotton said of Sir Philip Sidney, has been applied to Nicholas Wotton. "That he was the very measure of congruity." Henry VIII. thus addressed him on his appointment to a foreign embassy; "I have sent a head by Cromwell, a purse by Wolsey, a sword by Brandon, and must now send the law by you." He was considered as possessing the qualifications of a statesman in a very eminent degree. "Every younker speaks as politic as Bishop Gardner or Dr. Wotton." (Spenser's Letters to his friend Immerito.) Page 135. Albericus Gentilis. A very celebrated Italian lawyer, born at Ancona in 1550, and educated at Perugia. About 1572, he left his own country with his father and brother, they being of the reformed religion, and whilst the two former settled in Germany, he came into England, and was admitted at New Inn Hall, Oxford, in 1580, through the patronage of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, then Chancellor of that University. In 1587, Queen Elizabeth made him Professor of Civil Law, and it is supposed that he died at Oxford, about April, 1611. His works are principally on Jurisprudence, written in Latin. Page 147. Passing-bell. The soul-bell was tolled before the departure of a person out of life, as a signal for good men to offer up their prayers for the dying. Hence the abuse commenced of praying for the dead. "Aliquo moriente campanæ debent pulsari, ut populus hoc audiens oret pro illo." (Durandi Rationale.) Page 160. The queen of Bohemia. The following verses were written by Sir Henry Wotton 66 on his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia: " You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light, You common people of the skies, What are you when the sun shall rise? "You curious chanters of the wood, By your weak accents; what's your praise, When Philomel her voice shall raise? |