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second wife, the Lady Mary Mainwaring, who was possessed of 

 a large fortune, and he resigned himself to alchemical study in 

 concert with William Lilly and John Aubrey, Esq. of Surrey. 

 In 1660 Charles II. gave him the office of Windsor Herald; 

 and ten years after he produced his excellent History of the 

 Order of the Garter. Ashmole married a third time in 16G8, 

 Elizabeth Dugdale, daughter of Sir William Dugdale, and he 

 died on May 18th, 1692, celebrated for his knowledge of many 

 and various Arts and Sciences. 



Page 30. Mr. George Herbert. 



This pious, learned, and eminent, person, was of the noble fa- 

 mily of Herbert, and a younger brother of the deistical Edward 

 Lord Herbert of Cherbury. He was a King's-Scholar at West- 

 minster, and subsequently a Fellow of Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge ; where, in 1619, he was chosen University Orator. In 

 that station he studied the modern languages with a view to the 

 office of Secretary of State; but being of a consumptive habit, 

 and a retired turn of mind, he entered into holy orders, and 

 was preferred to a Prebend in the Cathedral of Lincoln. He 

 married about 1630, a near relation of the Earl of Danby, and 

 died without issue in 1635, at the age of 42. The printed 

 works of Herbert are, a collection of Religious Poems called 

 the Temple, his Remains, and a Translation of Luigi Cornaro's 

 work on Temperance and Long Life. Walton. The passage 

 quoted in the text is in the first of these, No. 22 of the fore- 

 going list, pp. 110, 113 of that volume; Stanzas 7, 8, 36. The 

 word Owes in Herbert's verses is the older form of Owns. 



Page 30. Gesner, Rondeletius, Pliny, Ausonius, Aristotle. 



Conrad Gesner, an eminent scholar, philosopher, physician, 

 and naturalist, was the son of Vasa Gesner and Barbara Fric- 

 cius, and was born at Zurich in Switzerland in 1516, and there 

 received his initiation into the Greek and Latin languages. 

 His poverty obliged him to travel, and at length to study physic 

 at Basle, where he took his Doctor's degree, and then returned 

 to Zurich. His works are very numerous, and were, many of 

 them, evidently written in haste to procure him a subsistence : 

 of these, the principal is the " Historiae Animalium," for which 

 he was surnamed the Pliny of Germany. For twenty-four 

 years Gesner was Professor of Philosophy at Zurich, and he died 

 of the plague on December 13th, 1565. Qulielmus Rondeletius, 

 or Guillaume Rondelet, was a celebrated physician, who was 

 born at Montpellier in Languedoc, in 1507. He wrote several 

 medical books, but his best production is his Treatise " De Pis- 

 cibus Marinis," of which there is also a French translation. He 

 died, in great poverty, at Realmont in Albigeois, on July 18th, 

 1566, of a surfeit, induced by eating figs to excess. Caius 



