92 ANNOTATION. 



Nor ever noted to be toucht with gall, 



To aggravate the worst men's infamy : 



But still have done the fairest offices 



To virtue and the time ; yet naught prevails, 



And all our labours are without success, &c. 



[35] The Rev. Mr. Crabbe. 



[36] The name of Daniel should have been ac- 

 companied with that of his friend Mr. Hoskins, 

 afterwards Mr. Serjeant Hoskins, but less known in 

 these days as a lawyer than as the friend of Daniel, 

 Jonson, Raleigh, Camden, Selden, Donne, Wotton, 

 and, indeed, all the persons who make the close of 

 the reign of EHzabeth and the commencement of that 

 of James the First one of the green spots in English 

 history which it is delightful to look upon. He was 

 the person whom Jonson called his father, and Wood 

 says of him, rather extravagantly, that " he was the 

 most ingenious and admired poet of his time." 



In Wood's account of his life there are ten years 

 unaccounted for — 1591 to 1601, except that he seems 

 to have been living in Somersetshire, so far as Wood 

 knew ; and, finding this entry in the parish register of 

 Bath, that on August 1, 1601, Mr. John Hoskins 

 married Bennet Bourne, which was the name of the 

 poet's wife, I conclude that he spent some portion of 

 his residence in Somersetshire at Bath, teaching 



