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fore the King at court, and in fome public 
places in the kingdom, wearing a veivet 
bonnet or round cap, a damafk gown, and 
a chain of gold about his neck; in which 
habit he was feen and heard preaching 
feveral times in St, Mary’ s church, Ox- 
ford, in the beginning of the reign of 
Queen Elizabeth. But what fort of ‘edifi- 
cation his hearers mult have received 
from his exhortations may be-feen in the 
following {pecimen of his oratorical ta. 
Jents in 1569, at which time he was high- 
fheriff of Oxfordfiire ; in which office he 
appeared in S:. Mary’s pulpit with his 
fword by his fide, and a chain of gold 
about his neck. Thus he began: ‘¢ “Ar 
riving at the mount of St, Mary’s in the 
ftony (tage * where I now fiand, I have 
brought you fome fine bifkets baked in 
the oven of charity, carefully coaferved 
for the chickens of the church, the fpar- 
rows of the fpirit, and the’ {weet fwal- 
Jows of falvation.”” This Richard Ta- 
verner publithed feveral theological medi. 
tations and poems, and died at nis feat 
in Oxfordthue, in 1575. However ri- 
diculous this preacher’s exordium ap- 
pears, yet fome grave divines in the fol- 
lowing century did not come thort of 
him in the metaphorical flyle of ora- 
tory. Dr. John Arrowfmith, Fellow of 
Catherine Hall, Cambridge, in a fermon 
before the Houle of Commons, January 
25, 1642, has the following flowers of 
rhetoric :—‘* “Tis a {piriiual affection, 
that hath the Holy Ghoft fer its father, 
Faith for its mother, Prayer for its mid- 
wife, the Word for its nurfe, Sincerity 
for its keeper, and Trembling for its 
hand- maid.’ Dr. Wilham Spurftow, in 
a faft fermon, before the fame affembiy, 
elegantly obferves, thet ** the frefh re- 
membrance of fia is like a peain an iffue, 
that keeps it open end makes it run.’ 
DR. WALTER POPE, - 
In his Life of Bithop: Ward, inge- 
nuoufly relates the following ee “of 
himfelf. In making the grand tour of 
France, we lodged ‘at a village near La 
Rochelle, whofe name I have forgot ; the 
travellers were fo many, that we were 
forced to inp in a barn, upon feveral ia- 
bles and forms, there being no room in 
the inn capable of (o great a company. 
The fupper and wine was good, and I had 
taken a cheerful cup, though not to excels, 
yet {ufficient to caufe meto do that which 
* st. Mary’s pulpit was then of fine carved 
ftone, but removed for one of wood, by Dr. 
John Owen, about 1954. 
Extracis from the Port-folia of a Man of Letters. 
~ cuckolds. 
[ Nov. ce 
otherwife I fhould. not, have-done. The 
{cholars of Oxford, and I among the reff, 
had a foolith frolic when they were in 
their merriment, to twirle round the hats 
of thofe who fate near them, and call them 
This did I, not confdering 
where or in what company I was, toa 
French gentleman who fate over againft 
me: upon which he immediately “jeaps 
from his feat, rans to me and kifles me on 
both cheeks, adding thele words: ¢* Sir, 
lam more obliged to you than to any per~ 
fox in the world.” * And why, Sir???” 
replied I. .«¢ Becaufe (faid he) you have 
pickt we out for fo good a natur'd mai, 
that would nat take this action of yours 
fer an affrante’ I replied,-with much 
fhime, * Sir, you ‘have cured me, I hum- 
bly thank you for it; had 1 met with a 
perfon of lefs difcretion, w awho could wot 
difiinguifo betwixt an ignorant firanger’s 
Jrotic, and a defiga d affront, it might have 
ndangered my life, whereas I foall now 
only lofe an ill cuftom, which is better log 
than retained.” 
This Dr. Pope, wikia peace great hu, 
mourift, was born at Faulfley in Novth- 
ainptonfhire, and educated at. Wadham- 
college, Oxford, of which he became fel- 
low in 1651. He ftudied phyfic, and in 
1661 was created doétor in thas’ faculty, 
He was fellow of the Royal Society, and. 
profeflor of attronomy-in Grefham-college, 
Wood fpeaks very harfhly of him, and 
charges him with keeping a mifs3 the 
Do&or retaliated in fome meafure, but 
forgot to clear himfelf of the afperfions 
calt upon upon his characters 
Pope wrote the noted Salifoury Ballad, 
and the ftill more celebrated fong, The 
Old Man's Wifh. ; 
& PUN OUT OF ORDER. 
Dr. Thomas Wykes, dean of St, Bu- 
rien in Cornwall, in the reign of Charles 
the Firft, was a man of more wi than 
wifdom. When tne King was in thele 
parts during the civil wars, he was at- 
tended by the Dogtcr, who beingjmounted 
on a handfome horfe, his Majetty faid 
*< Doctor, you have a pretty nag onder 
you, I pray how eld is he?’ To which 
he, out of the abundance of the quibbles 
uf his heart, returned this anfwer—‘‘ If it 
pleafe your Majefty, he is now in the fe- 
cond. year of his reia;” pleafing himfelf 
with the ambiguity of the found of that 
word, fignifying either king/bip or bridle. 
The good king did. not relifh this unman- 
nerly jett, and gave him fuch an anfwer 
as he deferved, “which was tiered ana 
you area fool.” 
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