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a guide to country parsons, which Hallam calls 

 a pleasing little book ; but the precepts are some- 

 times so overstrained, according to our notions, 

 as to give an air of affectation (Literary History , 

 Vol. II., Part III, Chapter II.) The first edition 

 of Herbert's Outlandish Proverbs, dc, appeared 

 in 1640. 



When Archbishop Benson was an under- 

 graduate at Cambridge he won a prize for an 

 English declamation on Herbert. It ended thus : — 



"The man himself has been far more to 

 Englishmen, to scholars and to priests, than his 

 work has been, far more deserving too of admira- 

 tion and imitation than many weaklings whom 

 late years have seen held up to us for examples. 

 For he was not the mere muser or devout 

 sentimentalist, but a most active and prosperous 

 clergyman." 



This was delivered in the Hall of Trinity 

 College on Commemoration Day, 1851. (See 

 Benson's Life, by his son, Vol. I., p. 102). The 

 footnote runs thus : "24 Jan. 1852. At the 

 suggestion of the Master ... a window to com- 

 memorate George Herbert, notice of whom had 

 lately been brought before the College by Mr E. W. 

 Benson's English Speech on Commemoration Day." 

 There are two windows in Trinity in which George 

 Herbert is represented. In the one in the ante- 

 chapel he appears standing behind our Lord in an 



