ANAGRAMS 273 



ductory verses to the Catalogue of Tradescant's Museum, published 

 in 1656 : 



To John Tradescant the youn- 

 ger, surviving. 



John Tradescant. 

 Cannot hide Arts. 



Heire of thy Fathers goods, and his good parts, 



Which both preservest, and augment'st his store, 

 Tracing th' ingenuous steps he trod before : 



Proceed as thou begin'st, and win those hearts, 



With gentle curt'sie, which admir'd his Arts, 



Whilst thou conceal'st thine own, and do'st deplore 

 Thy want, compar'd with his, thou shew'st them more 



Modesty clouds not worth ; but hate diverts, 



And shames base envy, ARTS he CANNOT HIDE 

 That has them. Light through every chink is spy'd. 



Niigas has ego, pessimus Po'eta 

 Phintaruni tanien, optimique amici 

 Nicsquam pessimus aestvnator, egi, 



GUALTERUS STONEHOUSUS. 

 Theologies serines nafus. 



By re-arranging the lettersof John Tradescant's name he composed 

 the anagram Cannot hide Arts, and by a similar process his own 

 name, Gualterus Stonehousus, became Theologiis servus natus — 

 words quoted by Macray, who, however, did not grasp their meaning, 

 as occurring on the title-page of a volume of his Sermons in 

 Magdalen College Library. 



These verses, his only printed work, were not published until 1656, 

 the year after his death (probably in London) at the age of 58. 



xi. Thomas Johnson, c. 1600-1644. 



The outlines of the life of this distinguished botanist are well 

 known. Trained as an apothecary, with a business on Snow Hill, 

 he attained to be the best herbalist of his age in England and 

 a trusted physician. In 1643 ^e had the rank of Lieutenant- 

 Colonel to Sir Marmaduke Rawdon. During the siege of Basing 

 House he led several sorties with success. ' When a dangerous 

 piece of service was to be done, this doctor, who publickly pretended 

 not to valour, undertook and performed it.^ On one occasion he 

 had a hand to hand struggle with Capt. Clinson, but at last in the 

 affair of 14 Sept., he was shot in the shoulder, whereby contracting 

 a fever he died a fortnight after, his worth challenging funerall tears, 



^ Fuller, Worthies, 1662, p. 204. 

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