him with thofe neceffaries which attend removes, and a fettlement in such a place; and, to procure that, he wrote to his old friend Mr. Nicholas Pey, for his affiftance. Of which Nicholas Pey I shall here fay a little, for the clearing of fome paffages that I fhall mention hereafter.

He was in his youth a clerk, or in fome fuch way a fervant to the Lord Wotton, Sir Henry's brother; and by him, when he was Comptroller of the King's houshold, was made a great officer in his Majefty's houfe. This and other favours being conferred upon Mr. Pey (in whom there was a radical honefty) were always thankfully acknowledged by him, and his gratitude expreffed by a willing and unwearied serviceableness to that family even till his death. To him Sir Henry Wotton wrote, to use all his interest at Court, to procure five hundred pounds of his arrears, (for less would not fettle him in the college); and the want of fuch a fum" wrinkled his face with care;" ('twas his own expreffion,) and, that money being procured, he fhould the next

day after find him in his college, and "Invidiæ remedium" writ over his study door.

This money, being part of his arrears, was, by his own and the help of honest Nicholas Pey's interest in Court, quickly procured him, and he as quickly in the college; the place where indeed his happiness then seemed to have its beginning; the college being to his mind as a quiet harbour to a fea-faring man after a tempeftuous voyage; where, by the bounty of the pious founder, his very food and raiment were plentifully provided for him in kind, and more money than enough; where he was freed from all corroding cares, and feated on fuch a rock, as the waves of want could not probably shake; where he might fit in a calm, and, looking down, behold the busy multitude turmoiled and toffed in a tempeftuous fea of trouble and dangers; and (as Sir William Davenant has happily expreffed the like of another person)

"Laugh at the graver bufinefs of the State,
"Which speaks men rather wife than fortunate."

Being thus fettled according to the defires of his heart, his first study was the ftatutes of the college; by which he conceived himself bound to enter into holy orders, which he did, being made deacon with all convenient speed. Shortly after which time, as he came in his furplice from the church - fervice, an old friend, a person of quality, met him so attired, and joyed him of his new habit. To whom Sir Henry Wotton replied, "I thank "God and the King, by whofe goodness "I now am in this condition; a condi"tion which that Emperor Charles the "fifth feemed to approve; who, after fo 66 many remarkable victories, when his "glory was great in the eyes of all men, freely gave up his crown, and the many 66 cares that attended it, to Philip his fon, making a holy retreat to a cloisteral "life, where he might, by devout medi"tations, confult with God," which the rich or busy men feldom do; " and have "leifure both to examine the errors of ❝his life past, and prepare for that great "day, wherein all flesh must make an ac

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"count of their actions: and after a kind "of tempeftuous life, I now have the "like advantage from him, that makes "the outgoings of the morning to praise "him; even from my God, whom I daily "magnify for this particular mercy of "an exemption from bufinefs, a quiet "mind, and a liberal maintenance, even "in this part of my life, when my age " and infirmities feem to found me a re"treat from the pleasures of this world, "and invite me to contemplation, in "which I have ever taken the greatest "felicity."

And now to speak a little of the employment of his time in the college. After his customary public devotions, his use was to retire into his ftudy, and there to fpend fome hours in reading the Bible, and authors in divinity, clofing up his meditations with private prayer. This was, for the moft part, his employment in the forenoon. But when he was once fat to dinner, then nothing but cheerful thoughts poffeffed his mind, and those ftill increased by conftant company at his

table,

table, of such persons as brought thither additions both of learning and pleasure : but fome part of most days was usually spent in philofophical conclufions. Nor did he forget his innate pleasure of angling, which he would usually call," his "idle time not idly spent ;" faying often, he would rather live five May months than forty Decembers.

He was a great lover of his neighbours, and a bountiful entertainer of them very often at his table, where his meat was choice, and his difcourfe better.

He was a conftant cherisher of all thofe youths in that school, in whom he found either a conftant diligence, or a genius that prompted them to learning; for whose encouragement he was (befide many other things of neceffity and beauty) at the charge of setting up in it two rows of pillars, on which he caused to be choicely drawn the pictures of divers of the most famous Greek and Latin hiftorians, poets, and orators; perfuading them not to neglect rhetoric, because Almighty God has left mankind affections to be

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