H. M. starts up-" Mr. Speaker, a motion has been made to turne out the Nodders; I desire the Noddees may also be turned out." He sayd, that he had seen the Scripture fulfilled-Thou hast exalted the humble and meeke; thou hast filled the emptie with good things, and the rich hast thou sent emptie away. See a prettie speech of his in print about the comeing in of the Scotts to assist and direct us.

MR. ANDREW MARVEL.

His father was minister of . . . . . . He had good gramar education; and was after sent to . . . in Cambridge. In the time of Oliver, the Protector, he was Latin Secretarie. He was a great master of the Latin tongue; an excellent poet in Latin or English: for Latin verses there was no man could come into competition with him. The verses called The Advice to the Painter were of his making. His native towne of Hull loved him so well that they elected him for their representative in Parliament, and gave him an honourable pension to maintaine him. He was of a middling stature, pretty strong sett, roundish faced, cherry cheek't, hazell eie, browne haire. He was in his conversation very modest, and of very few words. Though he loved wine

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he would never drink hard in company, and was wont to say, that he would not play the good-fellow in any man's company in whose hands he would not trust his life. He kept bottles of wine at his lodgeing, and many times he would drink liberally by himselfe to refresh his spirits, and exalt his muse. I remember I have been told yt the learned : (a high German) was wont to keep bottles of good Rhenish wine in his studie, and when he had spent his spirits he would drinke a good rummer of it. James Harrington, Esq. (author of Oceana) was his intimate friend. J. Pell, D.D. was one of his acquaintance. He had not a generall acquaintance. He wrote The Rehersall transposed, against Sam. Parker, D.D. Mr. Smirke, (sticht 4 about 8 sheets). The naked Trueth.

Obijt Londini, Aug. 18. 1678. Some suspect that he was poysoned by the Jesuites. I remember I heard him say that the Earle of Rochester was the only man in England that had the true veine of Satyre.

He lies interred under y pewes in y® South side of Saint Giles' church in y Fields, under the window wherein is painted in glasse a red lyon, (it was given by the Inneholder of the Red Lyon Inne, in Holborne) and is ye..... window from the East. This account I had from the Sexton y' made his grave.

MERITON,

[Author of "The English Rogue."]

His true name was HEAD. Mr. Bovey knew him well. Borne. Was a bookseller in

Little Britaine. He had been amongst the gipsies. He looked like a knave with his gogling eies. He could transforme himselfe into [any] shape. Brake 2 or 3 times. Was at last. a bookseller, or towards his later end. He maintained himselfe by scribling. He [earned] 20: per sheet. He wrote severall pieces, viz. "The English Rogue," "The Art of Wheadling," &c.

He was drowned goeing to Plymouth by long sea about 1676, being about 50 yeares of age.

MR. JOHN MILTON*

Was of an Oxfordshire familie: his grandfather (a Rom. Cath.) of Holton, in Oxfordshire, neer

* [It must be observed that this Life is given as nearly as possible verbatim from the original MS. which will account for the incoherence and want of connection visible throughout. It has been thought right to state this circumstance, as in a few of the other lives, some passages which were added

Shotover. His father* was brought up in yo univ? of Oxon, at Christ Church, and his gr. father disinherited him because he kept not to the Catholique Religion;† so thereupon he came to London, and became a scrivener (brought up by a friend of his, was not an apprentice), and got a plentifull estate by it, and left it off many yeares before he dyed. He was an ingeniose man, delighted in musique, composed many songs now in print, especially that of Oriana.

His son Jo. was borne in Bread-street, in London, at y Spread Eagle, wch was his house (he had also in y' street another house, the Rose, and other houses in other places.) He was borne A: Da.... the .... day of.... about.... a clock in the . . . . He went to schoole to old Mr. Gill, at Paule's schoole, went, at his owne chardge only, to Christ college in Cambr. at fifteen, where he stayed eight yeares at least, then he travelled into France and Italie. At Geneva he contracted a great friendship with the learned Dr. Diodati, of Geneva (vide his Poems). He was acquainted with S. Henry Wotton, Ambassador at Venice, who delighted in his com

by Aubrey after the narrative was first written, are now inserted in their proper places, according to chronological arrangement. EDIT.]

* His mother was a Bradshaw.

+ Q. He found a Bible, in English, in his chamber.

Had S H. Wotton's comendatory letters.

pany. He was severall yeares* beyond sea, and returned to England just upon the breaking out of the civil warres. He was Latin secretary to the Parliament.

A: D 1619 he was ten yeares old, as by his picture, and was then a poet. His school-master then was a Puritan, in Essex, who cutt his haire short.

He maried his first wife. . . . Powell, of Fosthill,+ at Shotover, in Oxonshire. She was a zealous Royalist, and went without her husband's consent to her mother in the King's quarters.‡ She dyed A: D . . . . .

A: Di.. by whom he had 4 children. Hath two daughters living; Deborah was his amanuensis he taught her Latin, and to reade Greeke to him when he lost his eie-sight, wch was A: Di...

He was scarce so tall as I am. He had light

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* Qu. How many? Resp. Two yeares. [Forest-hill, about five miles from Oxford. She went from him to her mother's at King's quarters, neer Oxford. Two opinions doe not well on the same boulster. She was a ..... Royalist, and went to her mother, the K.'s quarters, neer Oxford. I have so much charity for her that she might not wrong his bed; but what man (especially contemplative) would like to have a young wife environ'd and storm'd by the sons of Mars, and those of the enemie partie ?

§ Q. Quot feet I am high? Resp. of middle stature.