Cambridge

in the

Sebenteenth Century.

PART I.

NICHOLAS FERRAR.

Hinc lucem et pocula sacra.

Cambridge: PR'STEI rorHE EDITOR AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS,

TWO LIVES

BY HIS BROTHER JOHN

AND

BY DOCTOR JEBB.

Now first Edited with Illustrations

BY

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

FEW AND ASSISTANT TUTOR OF ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

Cambriore:
PPINTED 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 rchen The fil vere 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 academics, brought
Again in heart, regain that reverend hand
Of lost opinion, and no more be thought
Thi unnecessary furnish of the land;
Nor (discouraged with their small esteem)
Confuseid, irresolute und uavering stand,

Caring not to become profound, but seeno
Comtented with a superficial skill,
ilhich for a slight reward enough they deem,
When th' one succeeds as well as th' other will :
Seeing shorter ways learl 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 at their bold plus ultra far without
The pillars of those axioms age propounds.