1803.] 
opportunities of information, who were 
equally at a lofs with her hufband-to find 
out the motive for fuch a peregrination ; 
ard when we affigned cur reafons for tak- 
ing that route and that mode of travelling, 
who did not feem to be fo fatisfied with 
the folution a$ was the peafant above-men- 
tioned. The ordinary road to Lubec is 
five Englih miles fhorter than the courte 
we took, and the cuitom is to go ina 
vile waggenin a day, and that to a calcu- 
Jating Hamburger is a fuficient reafon 
for doubting either the veracity or the 
good fenfe of thofe who pretend to judify 
their departure from the common way By 
fuch frivolous reafons as the good woman 
attributed to us. Ld 
About fx miles from Olderflch, a road 
turns on the I.fe to Rheinfeldt, a very 
charming little town, fituated on two hills, 
which have a communication by means of 
a mound acrofs the vale, on which ftands 
an overfhot-mill, very ingenieufly con- 
ftrugted. The miller, feeing we were ex- 
amining it, fet each of the four wheels 
fucccffively to work,and feemed very much 
gratificd by my telling him that T was 
an Englander, arid that [ had not feen an 
oveifhot-wheel better managed in my own 
country. The head-water isa lake which 
fills the valley for a confiderable extent, 
and furnifhes an abundance of excellent 
carp. We loitered here fome time with 
a great deal of pleafure, and then turned 
over the fields to regain the road, agreeing 
that we had not feen any thing fo Englith 
as Rheinfeldt fince we had left England. 
On approaching the territories of Lubic, 
we found the foil more and more faniy; 
and when we paffed the out-poft of the Lu- 
beckers, weentered a heath, which ex- 
tends about a mile anda half, the other 
hali- mile, till we ‘entered the fubu:b, be- 
ing rather {wampy, but well manured, and 
the part we paffed over appeared to give 
very good promifes of an abundant 
crop. “The fuburbs of Lubec are far lupe- 
rior, both in fituation andftyle of building, 
to thofe of Hamburg. + sae enjoy the 
advantage of rus iz urbe more “compieat- 
ly than moft places I have feen; and the 
Trava, with its verdant meadows, which 
are bounded by the green flones of the 
ramparts,crowned with fine trees, exhibit- 
ed a very pleafing contra‘ to the arid plain 
which furrounds fuburbean_ couniry- 
houfes in the environs of the filter- -republic. 
We entered the city by the Holein-gate, 
and went co the hotel called the Stadt Ham- 
burg, the landlord of which received me 
as an old friend, with a degree of cordia- 
_ lity 1 Squi very well have difpenfed with, 
_Cantabrigiana. 
“131 
for he took.me round the neck and kiffed 
me very heartily. 
If you find this defulrory account of my 
ramble acceptable, I may, in a fhort time, 
fend you the concluiion of it. 
Lubec, Aprilz2, 1803. MM. H. 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
CANTABRIGIANA. 
LXXXMII.—SPENSER: 
‘HIS paper is devoted to the Cam- 
biidge poets. —We begin with Spen- 
fer. 
Of this mafer of poetical enchantment 
but little is kaown which is properly con- 
nected with Cambridge. Ajl that can be 
afcertained. may be collect d from a fhort 
inne account of his:lite and writings, 
editea by John Ball in 1732, and written 
by Theodore Batnurft, formerly Fellow of 
Pembroke-hall.... Bathurit, informs us, 
that Spenfer was of Pembroke 5. that, ac- 
cording to the Univerfity Regifter, he was 
matriculated May 20, 1569; that he took 
his Bachelor of Aris Jegree 1 15735: and 
his Matter of Arts in 1576. While 
at Cambridge, he formed an acquaintance 
with Mr. Gabriel Hervey, oh Trinity- 
hall, who was made Doétor o: Laws in 
1585. This acquaintance ripened into 
an interefting, vigorous,and laiting friend- 
fhip: tor Hervey was himfelf a man of 
talents and literature, a {pirit of congenial 
feelings, and prefixed an elegant copy of 
verfes to the Fairy Queen, with the figna~ © 
ture Hobinol: and this is all which. is 
certainly known of Spenfer im connection 
with Cambridge. 
Two reports concerning him have been 
circulated, which may, or may noi, be trues 
One is, that, on the removal of tome old 
boards in # room at Pembroke, feveral 
cards were found, on which were 
written fome rude feraps of the Fairy 
Queen, Iris generally ailowed, that Spen- 
fer became a member of the enieentny at 
the age of fixteen—that he telt at that pe- 
riod the {weet fit of poefy, and tormed — 
very early the defign of ‘writing his great 
poem. 
The other report is, that he fteod fora 
fellowthip, aid was fet afide. His bio- 
greph-rs, particularly Church, are defi- 
rous of treating this report as a miftake; 
but it is confirmed by tolerable authority, 
—Aubrey’s MSS. in the Athmolean 
Muleum—and why fhould i apsear im- 
probable ? Poetry is a tree cn which the 
moft delicious fruit is accuttomed to grow; 
but preferment is to be elfewhere fought : 
and Spen‘er, when he had reached the very 
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