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fourth decree either of blood or affinity, 
and fince her death fhe has been allied to 
thirty more. One inftance'of her piety has 
been omitted by Bifhop Fifher. She was 
admitted into the fraternity of five feveral 
religious houfes, (if not more,) Wefimin- 
fter, Crowland, Durham, Winburn, and 
the Charter-houfe. in London, which, in 
the ftrain of that age, as it entitled her to 
the prayers, fo it gave her a fhare in the 
merits, of all thefe focieties. And for 
her chaftity, as it was unfpotted in her 
marriage, fo fome years before her death 
fhe took on her the vow of celibacy, from 
Bifhop Fifher’s hands, in a form yet ex- 
tant upon ourregifter ; the reafon,~ I fup- 
pofe, that her portraiture is ufually taken 
and depigted with a veil, and in the habit 
ofa nun.” 
CLVI.—-MR. THOMAS RANDOLFH. 
~ Thomas Randolph was formerly Fel- 
low of Trinity College, and pofleffed 
much poetical merit, though his writings 
are now not generally known. After his 
death a few of his poems were publifhed, 
the fifth edition in 1664. 
Prefixed to this volume, afier the man- 
ner of thofe times, are numerous com- 
plimentary-verfes. One of ihe writers, 
Mr. Welt, of Chri Church, Oxford, thus 
rpeaks of thefe remains : 
But all his works are lo#, his fire is out, 
Thefe are but’s afhes which are thrown 
about, f 
And now rak’d up together ; all we have 
With pious facriiege fnatch’d from the grave, 
Are a few meteors, which may make it faid 
That Tom is yet alive, tho’ Randolph’s 
dead. 
CLVII.—LINES BY MR, RANDOLPH. 
The preceding Number was intended 
as an apology for introducing the follow- 
ing verfes of Mr. Randolph’s: they 
require no other. 
¥ 
ON THE POWER OF MUSIC. 
Mufic, thou queen of fouls, get up and 
firing 
Thy powerful lute, and fome fad requiems 
fing 5 
Till flocks requite thy echo with a groan, 
And the dull clifts repeat the duller tone: 
‘Then on a fudden with a nimble hand 
Run gently o’er the chords, and fo command 
The pine to dance, the oak his roots forego, 
The holme, and aged elm, to foot it too: 
Myrtles fhall caper, lofty cedars run, 
And call the courtly palm to make up one 5 
Then in the midf of all the joily train 
Strike a fad note, and fix ’em trees again. 
‘ Cantabrigiana. f 
| [ April 1, 
cCLVin.—J2 Crammaticum Eunuchum. 
By the fame. 
Grammeticam, Diodore, doces, Eunuche, 
puetias : 
Credo Soloecifmum tu, Diodore, facis, 
Cum fis exaétus quam nec Sporus ille Ne- 
ronis, 
Nec merfus liquidis Hermaphroditus aquis. 
Non unam liguit tibi feva noyacula tef- 
tem, 5 
- . Propria que maribus cur,» Diodore, legis ? 
Que Genus aut Sexum variant, Heteroclyta 
tantum 
Pofthac, fi fapias tu, Diodore, legas. 
CLIX.— DR. METCALFE, the POPISH 
MASTER Of ST. JOHN’S COLLEGE. 
Mr. Bakér’s Account of the Matters of 
St. John’s College, in his MS. Hittory of 
that foundation, is written, as we have al- 
ready obferved, with great liberality to all 
parties: and to fhew that he was alfo juft 
in his Skeich of Dr. Metcaite, fhe Popith 
Matter, we fhall make the following 
extract from Roger Afcham’s excellent 
work entitled the Schoolmaiter. 
«< Truly Dr. Metcalie was partial to 
fome—was liberal to all ; amafter for the 
whole ; a father to every one in the Col- 
lege. There was none fo poor, if he had 
either will to goodnels, or wit to learning, 
that could Jack, being there, or fhould 
depart from thence for any need. Iam © 
witnefs myfelf that money many times 
was brought to young men’s. ftudies by 
frangers whom they knew not; in 
which doing this worthy Nicholas follow- 
ed the fteps ef good old Nicholas, that 
learned bifhop. He was a Papilt indeed ; 
but would to God, among us Proteftants, 
I might find but one that would win like 
praife in doing lke good for the advance- 
ment of learning and virtue. And yet, 
though he were a Papift, if any young 
man given to new learning (as they term- 
ed it,) went beyond his fellows in wit, 
labour, and towardnefs, even the fame nei- 
ther lacked open praife to encourage him, 
nor private, exhibition to maintain him 5 
as worthy Sir John Cheke, if he were 
alive, would bear witnefs,and focan many 
alive ; I myfelf, one of the meaneft of a 
great number in that college, becaule 
there appeared in me fome {mall thew of 
towardnefs and diligence, lacked not his 
favour to farther me in learning.” 
Roger Afcham, as every body knows, 
was Queen Elizabeth’s claflical tutor, and 
fellow of St. John’s. He nearly, how- 
ever, loft his eleétion, having fpoken 
againft the Pope, at a time when the tide — 
of opinion in the univerfity ran full in his 
favour. Allthe Fellows were againft him. 
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