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rate accounts of the subject of the pre- 
sent Memoir. 
works are included, and, it might be 
fairly added, entombed, in. three huge 
quarto volames ; so that 1 no one but a li- 
terary picneer would be tempted to dig 
into such a mass, for the entertainment 
and instruction, either of himself, or 
others. Respect, however, for the me- 
mory of this great man, has produced the 
following attempt, to convey an idea 
both of his character and his writings. 
Andrew Marvell was burn at Kingston- 
upon-Hull, November 15, 1620. His 
father, the Rev. Andrew Marvell, bornin 
Cambridgeshire,completed his studies at 
Emanuel College, Cambridge, where he 
obtained the degree of Master of Arts, in 
4608. Hewas afterwards elected master 
of the pnblic grammar school,inKingston- 
upon-Hull, and became lecturer of Tri- 
nity ene in 1624: he is denominated 
“ the facetious Calvinistical minister,” by 
Echard. At the time of the great 
plague,* he displayed great firmness of 
mind, &c. notwithstanding the barial- 
service had been long disused, he not 
only ventured to read it, on he death of 
Mr. Ramsden, the mayor, but also 
preached an excellent funeral sermon at 
the same time. 
In the year 1640, an unhappy event 
put an end to his days, he having been 
drowned in the Humber, while crossing 
in a small boat to Barrow, in Lincoln. 
shire, with a young couple, who were go- 
ing to be married. A few minutes an- 
terior to this fatal event, as if canscious 
of his danger, he called out to some of his 
friends who were walking upon the quay, 
in the following whimsical manner : “Ho! 
ho! for heaven, ay, ho!” and immedi- 
_ ately threw his gold-headed cane on 
shore, which he recommended to be deli- 
vered to his son. 
That son, after having reaped the bene- 
fit of his instructions, was then resident. 
at the University of Cambridge, whither 
he had been sent at the age of fifteen; hav- 
ing been admitted a student of Trinity 
college, in 1635. He had already begun 
to distinguish himself, by the eariy deve- 
lopement of his talents, when he was in- 
‘veigled to London, by the Jesuits, who 
were ambitious of making such a prose- 
lyte. The parent, whose sudden and 
melancholy catastrophe has been just 
mentioned, -follewed him thither, a short 
time anterior to his unhappy ‘fate, and 
finding his son, by accident, in a booksel- 
* 1637. 
Memoir of Andrew Ma well 
Indeed, his life, and 
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ler’s-shop, prevailed afer him to return 
to his studies. 
‘Whether he now repaired to Hull, to 
take possession of the property left him 
by his father, is not-known; but it iscer- 
tain, that soon after, he anid four other 
students having absented themselv 
from their exercises, it was resolved « 
the 24th of September, i641, ‘*to re 
them the benefits of the college.” £ 
following is the entry: “It is ‘agreed y 
the Master and Seniors, that Mr. Carter, 
Dominus Wakefield, Dominus Marvell, 
Dominus W ptechouse: and Dantes 
Mage, in regard that some of these are 
reported to be married, and the others 
look not after their dayes nor acts, shall 
receive no more benefit from the college ; 
and shall be out of their places, unless 
they shew just cause to the college, for the 
contrary, in three months.” —- 
Whether Mr. Marvell obeyed thissum- 
mons, does not _now appear; bat certain. 
it Is, that the charge does great credit to 
the vigilance of those who presided over 
this institution, and we have only to la- 
ment, that in all probability "the same 
degree of strictness is not practised at 
the present day. Certain it is, that he 
was afterwards reproached by one of his 
antagonists, for having been expelled; 
but it is at the same time clear, not only 
from the register, but the evidence of 
the late Dr. Michael Lort, who searched 
the books, that no graver cause was ad- 
duced against him than negligence. 
Having left Cambridge, about the year 
1642, when he was twenty-two years of 
age, Andrew Marvell soon after com- 
menced his travels through Holland, 
France, and Italy. In the last of these 
countries, he is supposed to have seen, 
and to have cultivated the friendship of the 
illustrious Milton, during their residence 
at Rome. Of hts adventures- nothing 
has been transmitted; unless his attack 
on Lancelot Joseph de Maniban, an Ab- 
bot, of a whimsical character, then resi- 
ding at Paris; to whom he addressed a 
satirical epistle, with the following Su-— 
perscription: | ~ 
‘¢ HiustrissimoViro Domino Linreites 
Josepho de Maniban, Grammatomanti.” 
Having pretended to ‘discover the charaé- 
ters of persons whom he had never se€en, 
and even to prognosticate their good or ill 
fortune, from a inere view of their hand- 
writing; these ridiculous pretensions very 
justly laid him open to the chastisement 
of a pen well versed in the Latin lan- 
guage, and tothe ridicule of a man who 
- had long detested imposture of every kind. 
Fram 
