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in the discharge of it ; while his liveliness of tem- 

 per, and the unfailing courteousness of his de- 

 meanour to every one who was brought into 

 contact with him, won for him a wide and well- 

 merited popularity. There was one more trait in 

 his character which I cannot refrain fi-om noticing. 

 The Principal was a decided Conservative of the 

 old school, and has recorded in the strongest terms 

 his condemnation of the recent changes in the 

 constitution of the University, and the disregard 

 of the intentions and limitations of founders and 

 benefactors. Nevertheless, his opposition was not 

 to men, but to measures ; and his variety of in- 

 formation, cordiality of manner, and obliging dis- 

 position, made him an acceptable companion even 

 to those who differed most widely from him in 

 University and political matters.* 



The doctor, it may naturally be supposed, had 

 himself a large and valuable library. His books 

 were sold by Sotheby & Wilkinson in 1858. They 

 were many of them enhanced in value by his 

 notes and illustrations. The Catalogue of the first 

 portion contained nearly 5000 lots. There were 

 some unique and numerous rare and curious 

 volumes, which will always be a valuable repertory 

 for bibliographers. They were tastefully and ele- 

 gantly bound, and produced, I believe, upwards of 

 7000Z. J. M. GuTCH. 



Worcester. 



SELECTIONS FROM THE OLD POETS. 

 By the Late Dk. Buss. 



Barnahe Barnes, extracted from his Parthe- 

 iiuphel arid Parthenope, Sonnettas, Madrigals, Ele- 

 gies, and Odes, 1593. 



" Ah ! sweet Content, where is thy mylde abode? 



Is it with shepherds and light harted swaynes 

 Which sing upon the dounes, and pype abroade, 



Tending their flockes, and calleth unto playnes? 

 Ah, sweet Content, where doest thou safely rest? 



In heaven with angels which the prayses sing 

 Of him that made, and rules at his behest, 



The mindes and parts of every living thing ? 

 Ah ! sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold? 



Is it in Churches with religious men 

 Which please the Goddes with praj-ers manifold, 



And in their studies meditate it then? 

 Whether thou dost in heaven or earth appeare, 

 Be where thou wilt, thou wilt not harbour here." 



Joh7i Heath, from his Two Centuries of Epi- 

 grams, 1610. 



" Ned will not keep the Jewish Sabbath, hee, 

 Because the Church hath otherwise ordaiu'd : 

 Nor yet the Christian, for he does not see 



How altering of the da}' can be maintain'd. 

 Thus seeming for to doubt of keeping either. 

 He halts between them both, and so keeps neither." 



Thomas Freeman, who. Bliss says, was highly 

 esteemed by Sam. Daniel, Owen the Epigrammist, 

 Dr. Donne, Shakespeare, Chapman, and Hey wood, 



* Vide the Oxford University Herald for 1857, and the 

 Gentleman's Magazine for 1858, for Memoirs of Dr. Bliss. 



was the atithor of two volumes of Epigrams, which 

 are so extremely rare that, except a copy in 

 Brand's collection, and that in the Bodleian, he 

 knew not where to refer for one. His best piece, 

 in praise of Cornwall, is in Ellis's Specimens of 

 Early Poetry. 



" Epigram 63. 



" Vive tibi : Consanguineo suo. 



" Looke to thj'self and learne to live at home : 

 - Haue fellowship, henceforth, with few or none ; 

 See, see, to what a passe the world is come, 

 Friendship abides not, bee thy fortunes gone. 

 Be thou like winter, that like soramer wast. 

 The swallows flie that flockt before so fast. 



" Friends swim like fishes, as the stream doth run, 

 And like slye serpents lurke in fairest greene; 

 They only reuerence the rising sunne ; 



Scarce looking t'wards hiin when hee doth decline. 

 'Tis wealth preserves good will, that from thee 



taken, 

 Thou that wast followed shalt be soon forsaken. 



" Xa}', marke ! ean now, the very bird of love 

 Betakes herself unto the fairest building. 

 And her owne home abandoneth the dove. 

 If once she sees it ruinous and yeelding ; 

 No marvell though faith faile in the trj'all. 

 When love's true turtle is turn'd thus disloyall. 



" This vile, hart-knawing, vulter-age then flye ; 



Feed not the hounds whose teeth may after teare 

 them ; 

 Let not the serpent in thy bosome lye, 

 Lest stinging, thou repent he lay so near thee. 

 Be thine owne neighbour, and be this thy doome. 

 To looke unto thyself; to live at home." 



" Epigram 4. 

 "0! temporal 0! mores. 



" Had I a hundred mouthes, as many tongues, 



An iron voyce, then should this iron age 

 Be moved, or I would thunder out their wrongs. 



And breathe out boysterous accents, full of rage. 

 I would inveigh against foul usurers 



As those that live by causing others' wants ; 

 I would defy the filthy flatterers 



That shew themselves dissembling s3-cophants: 

 The lawyer too my lavish tongue should lash 



And avarice should not avoid the scourge ; 

 And with the courtier would I have a crash, 



But most of all, the Atheist would I urge. 

 Yea every one (as every one is faulty) 



Should bide the brunt of my all-biting tongue, 

 It should be no excuse t'alledge their frailty, 



Suffiz'd they sinn'd, and I must tell the wrong. 

 Yet well 1 wot, when words had done their worst, 

 Lewd men like foxes fare best when th' are cursed." 



Thomas Coryate, the author of Crudities hastily 

 gobbled up in Five Months' IVavel in France, 

 Savoy, ^c. Sfc. " There is prefixed to these C/nidi- 

 ties several copies of verses by the wits of the age, 

 who all affected to turn Coryate's book into ridi- 

 cule, but which at least is not so foolish as their 

 verses." (Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting.) The 

 following lines. Dr. Bliss says, " which do not ap- 

 pear in the printed collection of verses, were evi- 

 dently intended for a place in the original work. 



