Oct. 30. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



417 



THE TKUSTY SERVANT AT WINCHESTER COLLEGE. 



(Vol. vi., p. 12.) 



I am much obliged to Sir F. Madden for his 

 answer to my former Query on this subject, under 

 the signature of M. Y. R. W. The reference 

 which I wished to recover was that to Hoffman's 

 Lexicon Universale : I fear that the Bursars' Rolls 

 will yield no further information than what has 

 been already obtained from them, relating to this 

 curious figure. But I think that the Latin verses 

 which accompany the portrait may afford a clue to 

 the date of the original painting : I strongly sus- 

 pect that the author of them was Christopher 

 Johnson, M.D., Head Master of the School, a.d. 

 1560-71 ; a date which would agree with the one 

 conjectured by Sir Fred. Madden. I cannot 

 positively assign the authorship of these verses ; 

 but I find them included in a small MS. volume of 

 Latin verses, in the library of this college, which 

 seems to be a collection of pieces by Johnson. 

 Certainly these verses are mixed up with pieces 

 unquestionably Johnson's. Plis most remarkable 

 piece was a history in hexameter verse of the 

 college and school, with an account of the customs 

 observed in it, of the times assigned to the various 

 duties, and of the course of study throughout each 

 day of the week, and the authors used in the dif- 

 ferent classes in the school. It is in truth a very 

 complete account of the system of instruction then 

 pursued. This poem was published in a volume 

 edited by the Rev. C. Wordsworth, M.A., entitled 

 The College of St. Mary Winton, near Winchester : 

 J. H. Parker, Oxford, and D.Nutt, London : 1848. 

 The MS. above referred to, besides other pieces 

 of Johnson's, contains his Epigrams on the Wardens 

 and Head Masters who had preceded him, in which, 

 assigning a distich to each, he sets forth some 

 leading feature of their character or conduct ; 

 concluding with the following on himself: 



" C. Johnson: de seipso, 1560. 

 Ultimus hie ego sum ; sed quam bene, quam male, nolo 

 Dicere; qui de me judicet, alter erit." 



I would suggest that the name of Apelles in the 

 passage from Hoffman's Lexicon is not meant to 

 apply to the celebrated painter of antiquity, but is 

 a metaphorical expression for a painter, — a usage 

 of the term by no means uncommon; as, for 

 example, in the following verse, on Quintin Matsys 

 at Antwerp : 

 " Quem crudelis amor de Mulcibre fecit Apellem." 



W. H. Gunner. 

 "Winchester. 



" INVENI PORTUM," ETC. 



O^ol. v., pp. 10. 64.) 



I beg to be allowed to throw in my mite in 

 your useful periodical towards the illustration of 



this remarkable epigram, it being the result of 

 some researches on the subject made a few year a 

 ago. Nearly a century before Gil Bias thought 

 of inscribing the lines over his door in letters of 

 gold, Robert Burton, alias " Democritus Junior," 

 concludes Part IL Sect. iii. Memb. 6. of that ex- 

 traordinary tome, the Anatomy of Melancholy, in 

 the following words : 



" And now, as a mired horse that struggles at first 

 wuh all his might and main to get out, but when he 

 sees no remedy, that his beating will not serve, lies, 

 still : I have laboured in vain, rest satisfied ; and, if I 

 may usurpe that of Prudentius, — 



' Inveni portum. Spes et Fortuna, valete ! 

 Nil mihi vobiscum : ludite nunc alios.' 

 ' Mine haven's found. Fortune and Hope, adieu ! 

 Mock others now : for I have done with you.' " 



Burton quotes in a note as his authority, " Dis- 

 tichon ejus in militem Christianum, e Graeco, 

 Engraven on the tomb of Fr. Puccius the Flo- 

 rentine, in Rome. — Chytreus in delicils." I do 

 not, however, believe the lines are ta be found in 

 Prudentius. I have met with them in Joannes 

 Soter's Epigrammata^Colon. 1525 ; and as forming 

 Francesco Pucci's epitaph, " engraven on his 

 tomb " at Rome, it will be necessary first to quote 

 Anthony a Wood, who, in his life of that theo- 

 logical mountebank and associate of the "ma- 

 gicians " Dr. Dee and Edward Kelley, says (^Athen, 

 Oxon., edit. Bliss, i. 589.) : 



"After the year 1592 he (Pucci) went to Rome, 

 and became secretary to Cardinal Pompeius Arragon, 

 from whom he expected great matters ; but death 

 snatching him untimely away, in the midst of his as- 

 piring thoughts, about the year 1600, he was buried in 

 the church of St. Onuphrius in Rome. I have more 

 than twice sent to that place for the day and year of 

 his death, with a copy of his epitaph, but as yet I have 

 received no answer. Therefore I take this epitaph 

 made for him, which I have met with elsewhere : 



' Inveni portum. Spes et Fortuna, valete ! 

 Nil mihi vobiscum : ludite nunc alios.' " 



Now here Wood must be in error, for in the 

 very year that he states Pucci went to Rome as 

 secretary to Cardinal Pomp. Arragon, viz. 1592, 

 we find his epitaph printed as follows in Lauren- 

 tius Schraderus {Monumenta Italice : folio, Helmas- 

 stadii, p. 164.) : 



" Francisci Puccil . 

 yvcodi ffeavrhv . 

 Florentini Cardinalis Aragon. Secretarij, cui importuna 

 mors honores maioresq ; titulos praeripuit. 

 Inveni portum," &c. (as above). 

 We meet with it likewise in Nath. ChytrsBus, 

 Variorvm in Europa Itinerum delicicB, in the se- 

 veral editions of 1594, 1599, and 1606; and in 

 Franc. Sweertius, Select. Christiani orbis delicice, 

 1626. The Greek epigram, as given by Mr. 

 Singer (Vol. v., p. 64.), is printed in Brunck'a 



