50 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SANCROFT. 



things to pass. But, as one said wisely, Nolo 

 liodie crastinus esse miser, sufficient to this day 

 is the evil thereof, as wisdom itself said. In 

 the mean time, I will write over my door, as 

 the Italian did upon his house, 



Parva sed apta mihi j sed nuUi obnoxia, sed noii 

 Sordida, parta meo sed tamen sere domus. 



" Afford me your prayers, dear friend ; that, 

 when I remove from hence, (and that cannot be 

 far off,) I may, by God's mercy, have a building 

 of God, a house not made with hands, eternal 

 in the Heavens. 



- W. C. " 



Mr. Wharton had paid him another visit, 

 March 20, 1693; he describes him as having 

 then assumed the outward appearance, together 

 with his secluded habits, of a hermit. He says 

 that he found him in good health, and wearing 

 a long beard. The Archbishop then delivered 

 to him many papers, and promised to leave him 

 all his papers at his death. 



It does not appear that pursuits merely lite- 

 rary formed any considerable part of the occu- 

 pation of his time during the retirement of his 

 latter days. In the earlier portions of his life, 

 his thirst for knowledge had been ardent ; and 

 he had been an eager and industrious collector 

 of useful information. In the high station of 



