in the

Sebenteenth century.

PART I.

NICHOLAS FERRA R.

Hinc lucem et pocula sacra.

Cambridge:

PRINTED FOR THE EDITOR AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS,

AND SOLD BY MACMILLAN & CO.

1855.

1592-1637

TWO LIVES

BY HIS BROTHER JOHN

AND

BY DOCTOR JEBB.

Now first Edited with Illustrations

BY

J. E. B. MAYOR, M.A.

FELLOW AND ASSISTANT TUTOR OP ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

Cambridge :

PRINTED FOR THE EDITOR AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS,

AND SOLD BY MACMILLAN & CO.

1855.

FOR if that learning's rooms to learned men

Were as their heritage distributed, All this disordered thrust would cease. For when The fit were called, the unworthy frustrated, These would be shamed to seek, those to be unsought And, staying their turn, were sure they should be sped.

Then would our drooping academies, brought
Again in heart, regain that reverend hand
Of lost opinion, and no more be thought
Th' unnecessary furnish of the land ;
Nor (discouraged with their small esteem)
Confused, irresolute and wavering stand,

Caring not to become profound, but seem
Contented with a superficial skill,
Which for a slight reward enough they deem,
When th' one succeeds as well as th' other will :
Seeing shorter ways lead sooner to their end,
And others' longer travels thrive so ill.

Then would they only labour to extend
Their now unsearching spirit beyond these bounds
of others' powers, wherein they must be penn'd,
As if there were besides no other grounds :
And set their bold plus ultra far without
The pillars of those axioms age propounds.