140 ARTHUR E. SHIPLEY 



that, out of the twenty salaried professors, six- 

 teen should be always resident and four always 

 travelling in the four quarters of the world, in 

 order that they might "give a constant account 

 of all things that belong to the learning and 

 especially Natural Experimental Philosophy, 

 of those parts." To his "Philosophical Col- 

 ledge" was to be attached a school of two hun- 

 dred boys. Both these schemes, according to 

 Bishop Sprat, hastened the foundation of the 

 Royal Society, of which both projectors were 

 original members. 



Cowley's poems were greatly admired dur- 

 ing his lifetime, later critics have considered 

 him affected, perhaps because, like Donne, he 

 understood, and was not afraid to use, the 

 technical language of the schools. We have 

 quoted some of his lines on Harvey, and may 

 add a few from the ode with which he greeted 

 the birth of the Royal Society: 



From all long Errors of the way, 



In which our Praedecessors went, 



And like th' old Hebrews many years did stray 



In Desarts but of small extent, 

 Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last 



