Bobarf. 313 
Browne. Mr. Granger relates a humo« 
rous circumftance in his manners ; that " on 
rejoycing days, he ufed to have his beard 
tagged with filver." He died in 1679, 
at the age of eighty-one ; and left, befides 
Jacoby another fori, named Tilkmanfy who 
was alfo employed in the Phyfic Garden* 
I cannot afcertain the time of Bo- 
bart's death; but from the ftory related 
of him by Dr. Grey^ in his edition Of 
Hudibras he muft have been living 
in 1704. He had transformed a dead rat 
into the feigned figure of a dragon, which 
impofed upon the learned fo far, that fe- 
^* veral fine copies of verfes were wrote on 
fo rare a fubjed:.'' Bobart afterwards 
owned the cheat j but it was prefer ved for 
fome years, as a mafter-piece of art. There 
is a print of the elder Bobart, with a 
diftich, dated 1675, Burghers ; which 
confirms his German origin ; but it is very 
fcarce -f-, 
* Part I. Canto ii. 1. 314, 
■f The name of Bobartia was given by Linn.^us 
to a plant of the graminaceous tribe, which he firft difco^ 
vered in Herman's colkaioA of the plants of Zcykn, 
C H A p. 
