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[No. 284. 



bj'cause he dwelt under Bellraore Hill. His lands were 

 about oOOl. p. an., and he kept some three or four men 

 yfth jeyr cloakes lined tliro' with silke, and j'<"' feathers in 

 yy cappes, &c. ; and he was a great monyed man, and 

 had (as some suppose) about 6000/. or above in his purse. 

 He continued a single man all his dayes, and his brother 

 inherited y<= land, whose daughter S'' John Williamson 

 (for as I take it so was his name) had to wife. This 

 Argentine, lyinge on his death-bed, sent for Doctor Grey, 

 ■who told him that he had not longe to live, and Argen- 

 tine answered, ' God-a-mercy, for I thought to live many 

 a day,' &c. ' But what manner of y'°se is death ? is't not 

 a leane, meager, and thinne fellowe, with a dart in his 

 hand .' ' (and y'* he asked bycause Doctor Grey, to his 

 former awnswer [question."], had made y*' reply, y' he 

 had not many houres, and y<"'fore not many daj'es, to 

 live,) and Grey awnswered y* it was. ' Why, y™,' quoth 

 Argentyne, ' if y" be all, I "fear him not ; welcome, by y® 

 grace of God : ' and so, lyinge still for a quarter of an 

 houre, quietly departed y" life, although so much wealthe 

 is a great hindrance to many men fro yy^ quiet death." 



" Of Dr. Grey.* 



" Doctor Grey is a little desperate doctor, dwellinge in 

 Dorsetshire, and commonly wearinge a pistol! about his 

 necke, and yet a man in physicke y' hath healed many. 

 Most of the gentlemen in y' shire y' are younge and 

 sociable are adopted his sonnes. His judgment was 

 good to discern howe neare many weare to y^y^ ends. 

 For beeinge sent for unto Duke Brooke, and cominge to 

 him he p'sently p'ceaued in his visage death approach- 

 inge, and telling Duke Brooke y* he was no long lives 

 man, and askinge of him why he sent for him, told him 

 that he by his bedside might giue him better physicke 

 and directions for his soule y«° he could nowe give him 

 for his body; vi'^^ Brooke beleeved not, called for his 

 doublett. 



" Grey told Mr. Deckham heareof, who was bound for 

 him in a 1000", and had no security ; yeretore Doctor Grey 

 moved unto Brooke y', in recompense yo"of he might 

 have a chest of plate. Brooke consented, and y« chest 

 ■was brought by y" bed's side, and Grey made Brooke to 

 give him a desk in seisin of y*' rest, and caused Deck- 

 hambe to fetch a cart, w'^^^ before he could doe and carry 

 it away Brooke dyed, and so yo"Sfi> Grey's helpe y^y had 

 it away. This Doctor Grey was once arreste by a pedler, 

 ■who cominge to his house knocked at j'" dore as yy (he 

 beeinge desirous of Hobedyes) useth to doe, and y<= pedler 

 havinge gartars uppon his armes, and points, &c., asked 

 him whether he did wante any points or gartars, &c., 

 pedler like. Grey heareat began to storme, and y" other 

 tooke him by y" arme, and told him that he had no neede 

 be so angry, and, holdinge him fast, told him }•* he had 

 y" king's proces for him, and showed him his warrant. 

 ' Hast thou ? ' quoth Grey, and stoode still awhile ; but at 

 length, catchinge y® fellowe by both ends of his collar be- 

 fore, held him fast, and drawinge out a great run-dagger 

 brake his head in two or three places, and y" fellowe, slip- 

 pinge his head yfO"K'>, ranne away, and left his cloake in 

 Grey's hands, and complayned to a justice y' Doctor Grey 

 had stolne his cloake, w"'' Grey, beeinge sent for, denyed ; 

 and havinge torn his cloake into many pieces, told him 

 ■where his lowzy cloake lay in such a kcnnell. 



" Also, in Brooke's time of sicknesse, so great was his 

 skill y* he told y' at such an houre he would beginne to 



talk lightly, and y«° after his forces were past, w*i>in a 

 short time after, lyinge still, he should depart, w'** fell 

 out accordingly. 



" He came one day at y® Assises, wheare y" sheriffe had 

 some sixty men, and hew«'> his twenty sonnes, y^lustyest 

 younge gentlemen and of y<^ best sort and rancke, came 

 and drancke in Dorchester before y» sheriffe, and bad who 

 dare to touch him ; and so after a while blewe his home 

 and came away." 



" Of Monckaster, the famous Fccdagogue.* 



" Monckaster was held to be a good schoolemaster, and 

 yet he was somewhat too severe, and give to insult too 

 much over children that he taught. He beeinge one day 

 about whippinge a boy, his breeches beeinge downe and 

 he ready to indict punishment uppon him, out of his in- 

 sultinge humour he stood pausinge a while over his 

 breech ; and there a merry conceyt taking him he sayd, 

 ' I aske y" banes of matrymony between this boy his but- 

 tockes, of such a parish, on y« one side, and Lady Burch, 

 of y's parish, on the other side : and if any man can shewe 

 any lawfuU cause why y"^ should not be ioyned together, 

 let y™ speake, for y's'is'ye last time of askinge.' A good 

 sturdy boy, and of a quicke conceyt, stood up and sayd, 

 ' Master, I forbid y« banes.' The master, takinge this in 

 dudgeon, sayd, 'Yea, sirrah, and why so?' The boy awn- 

 swered, ' Bycause all partyes are not agreed ; ' whereat 

 Monkaster, likinge that witty awnswer, spared the one's 

 fault and th'other's p«3umption." 



Charles Brooke was the possessor of Brownsea 

 Island, and of the village of Poole, granted to 

 Robert, Earl of Salisbury, 9 Jas. I. 



Ellis Swayne, the narrator, may have been the 

 son of Richard Swayne, who was a member of the 

 Middle Temple in 1582. 



H. Fleetwood Sheppa.kd. 



Cambridge. 



POPIANA. 



• I find in Hutchins's History of Dorset that a Walter 

 Grey of Bridport, A.M.,was buried at Swyre in 1612, who 

 is styled in the register of that parish " Esq. and Profes- 

 sor of Medicine." This, 1 make no doubt, is the " little 

 desperate doctor" alluded to. 



Pope's Works: " Three Hours after Marriage" 

 (Vol. xi., p. 222.).— In reply to Serviens, I beg 

 leave to state, that I know of no doubt or (iiffi- 

 culty as to the authorship of the Three Hours 

 after Marriage. Nothing more can be, or need 

 be, said than Gay's own statement prefixed to 

 the first edition, where he "owns the assistance of 

 two of his friends" (Pope and Arbuthnot). What 

 hints either of the friends may have given, can be 

 no more ascertained or distinguished than the 

 similar hints of Pope and Swift towards the Beg- 

 gar's Opera. 



Sebvibns states that Mr. Roscoe (vol. i. p. 104., 

 and vol. viii. p. 44.) says that " it is clear that 

 Pope had no hand in it." I happen not to have 

 within reach the eighth volume of Roscoe referred 

 to, but In the first volume I do not find any such 

 statement as Serviens quotes ; and, on the con- 

 trary, he recognises the truth of Gay's advertise- 

 ment by saying, that the piece was "equally 



' * Monckaster, the famous psedagogue, is doubtless 

 Richard Mulcaster, the celebrated master of Merchant 

 Taylors' School. 



