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# The fables of Aesop by William Caxton (Jacobs)/Annotated/Vol. II/Preface

First printed by William Caxton in 1484
¶ Here begynneth the book
of the subtyl historyes and fables
of Esope whiche were translated
out of frensshe in to Englysshe
by William Carton
At Westmynstre in the yere of oure Lorde
.m. cccc.lxxxiij
¶ Here begoneth the preface or prologue of the fyrste book of Esope
Romulus son of thybere Cyte of Atyque / gretyng / Esope man of grece / subtyll and Ingenyous / techeth in his fables how men ought to kepe and rewle them well / And to thende that he shold shewe the lyf and customes of al maner of men / he induceth the byrdes / the trees and the beestes spekynge to thende that the men may knowe wherfore the fables were found / In the whiche he hath wreton the malyce of the euylle people and the argument of the Improbes / He techeth also to be humble and for to vse wordes / And many other fayr Ensamples reherced and declared here after / the whiche I Romulus have translated oute of grekes tongue in to latyn tongue / the whiche yf thou rede them / they shalle aguyse and sharpe thy wytte and shal gyue to the cause of Joye /
* ↑ Tiber. (Wikisource contributor note)
* ↑ Attica. (Wikisource contributor note)
# The Works of Abraham Cowley/Volume 1/Upon the Death of the Earl of Balcarres

UPON THE DEATH OF
THE EARL OF BARCARRES.
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# The Works of Abraham Cowley/Volume 2/All-over Love

ALL-OVER LOVE.
# The Works of Abraham Cowley/Volume 1/To the Royal Society

TO
THE ROYAL SOCIETY.
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With courage and success you the bold work begin; Your cradle has not idle been: None e'er, but Hercules and you, would be At five years age worthy a history. And ne'er did Fortune better yet Th' historian to the story fit: As you from all old errors free And purge the body of Philosophy; So from all modern follies he Has vindicated Eloquence and Wit. His candid style like a clean stream does slide, And his bright fancy, all the way, Does like the sun-shine in it play; It does, like Thames, the best of rivers! glide. Where the God does not rudely overturn, But gently pour, the crystal urn, And with judicious hand does the whole current guide: 'T has all the beauties Nature can impart, And all the comely dress, without the paint, of Art,
# The Works of Abraham Cowley/Volume 2/Answer to the Platonicks

ANSWER TO THE PLATONICKS.
# The Works of Abraham Cowley/Volume 2/Against Fruition

AGAINST FRUITION.
# The Works of Abraham Cowley/Volume 2/Against Hope

AGAINST HOPE.
# The Works of Abraham Cowley/Volume 1/To the Bishop of Lincoln, upon his Enlargement from the Tower

TO
THE BISHOP OF LINCOLN,
UPON HIS ENLARGEMENT OUT OF THE TOWER.
# The Works of Abraham Cowley/Volume 2

THE
WORKS
OF
ABRAHAM COWLEY,
IN THREE VOLUMES.
WITH
A PREFACE, BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL,
BY Samuel Johnson, LL. D.
And Remarks,
BY J. AIKIN, M.D.
VOL. II.
THE
WORKS
OF
ABRAHAM COWLEY,
WITH A
PREFACE,
BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL, BY
Samuel Johnson, LL. D.
Re-edited,
WITH NEW BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL MATTER,
BY J. AIKIN, M.D.
Vol. II.
LONDON: PRINTED FOR G. KEARSLEY, FLEET-STREET.
1806.
CONTENTS
OF THE
SECOND VOLUME.
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# The Works of Abraham Cowley/Volume 1/Upon the Chair made out of Sir Francis Drake's Ship

UPON
THE CHAIR
MADE OUT OF
SIR FRANCIS DRAKE'S SHIP,
Presented to the University Library of Oxford by John Davis, of Deptford, Esquire.
# The letters of John Hus/Letter 52, To his Friends

LII. To the Same
(March 24, 1415)
All my gaolers are now taking to flight. I have nothing to eat and I don’t know what is going to happen to me in prison. Please go with the other nobles to the King and get him to take some final steps in my case, lest he fall into sin and confusion on my account.
Please also come to me with the Bohemian nobles, for I must have a word with you.
Noble Baron John and Baron Wenzel and the rest of you, make haste and see my lord the King. There is danger in delay. It is so urgent that it should be done at once. Think carefully and quickly of the other things I want from you.
I am afraid that the master of the Pope’s house hold will carry me off with him by night; for to-day he has been hanging about the monastery. The Bishop of Constance hath sent letters to me hinting that he wishes to have no responsibility for me. The cardinals have done the same.
If you love your poor Goose, get the King to send me guards from his own court or to set me free from prison this very evening. Written in prison (note the introit of the day, “O Lord, make no long tarrying”) late on Sunday night.
# The letters of John Hus/Letter 53, To John of Chlum

LIII. To John of Chlum
(Without date: morning, June 5, 1415)
My dear friend in Christ, still arrange for all the nobles to have access to the King and Council; and get the King and Council to do as they have both already stated “in the hearing that is to take place you will have a brief written statement and to this you shall reply.” They can drive both Sigismund and the Council to this by telling them that by God’s help I will make a plain statement of the truth. I would rather that my body be consumed by fire than that I should thus be kept basely out of sight by them, in order that all Christendom may know the last words I have spoken. I beg my friends the nobles for God’s sake to act by showing to the end their diligence and constancy. My hope in the Lord is always firm.
Lord John, my most trusty and gracious supporter, may God be your reward! I beg you not to leave until you see the end reached. Would that you ​might see me being led to the flames rather than so craftily smothered here! I still cherish the hope that God Almighty is able to snatch me from their hands through the merits of the saints. Let me have the hint if to-morrow I am to be brought up for a hearing. Greet all my friends in Bohemia, beseeching them to pray God on my behalf. If I am to remain a prisoner, let them pray that I may await death without failing of heart. Exhort the masters to stand firm in the truth; also our special friends, the virgin Petra and all her household and Master Jesenicz, urging him to marry. Beg my friend Girzik and the rector to rest content, though I have not been able to do enough for them in return for their service; please let them give my greetings to my friends of either sex. I know not who will repay those who have advanced money, except the Lord Jesus Christ, for whose sake they have advanced it. Yet I should like some of the richer people to club together and pay the poorer ones. But I am afraid that the proverb will be fulfilled in some cases: “Co s očí, to z mysli” (“Out of sight, out of mind”).
* ↑ In regno.
* ↑ Cf. p. 236.
* ↑ Who had left in March (p. 200).
* ↑ Cf. p. 151, where we learn that he was a scholar of Hus by name George. From p. 212 we learn that he had become a rector.
* ↑ i.e., Cardinalis.
* ↑ Ep. Piiss. G. 4: Tzo so-czy, to smyssli, which Luther (Ep. Piissimæ) and the Monumenta naturally left untranslated.
# The letters of John Hus/Letter 48, To John of Chlum

XLVIII. To John of Chlum
(Without date: March 4, 1415)
Will you please expound my last night’s dream? I dreamt that they wanted to destroy all the pictures of Christ in the Bethlehem, and they did so. On rising next morning methought I saw many painters, who had painted other pictures more beautiful, upon which I gazed with joy. And the painters and a great assembly of folk cried out, “Let the priests and bishops come and destroy these pictures of ours!” Whereupon much people rejoiced in the Bethlehem, and I with them. And when I awoke, I found myself laughing.
Note that they had spread it abroad in several quarters that they wanted to destroy the writing on the walls of the Bethlehem Chapel. I will forward a copy of my treatises, which I have copied out in duplicate.
# The letters of John Hus/Letter 51, To his Friends after the Pope's Flight

LI. To his Friends after the Pope’s Flight
(Without date: March 21, 1415)
I have been much comforted by the visit of the Bohemian nobles; but I was grieved that I could not see you. Master Christian has left to carry a despatch of Lord Henry’s, and so has Master Jesenicz. The Council is in confusion, I fancy, because of the Pope’s flight. The reason as I have learnt is: in all our transactions whether contemplated or actually in hand God should be put first, human reason second. This they have ignored, with the result that you see, etc.
If God shall give me a happy issue, I will not forget the faithful friend—you know whom I mean: if the issue is otherwise, I commend him to you.
I have got to know that Lord Wilhelm is my friend. Please give him my thanks.
I noticed Baron Wenzel de Duba in tears while he was speaking to me. Lord Mysska was very friendly.
* ↑ Lacembok’s. For the arrest and release of Christian Prachaticz see p. 196, n. 1. It is possible that the real cause of his departure was concealed from Hus, though cf. p. 212.
* ↑ Gaoler Robert again.
* ↑ Wilhelmus (a good instance of Hus’s Latin) is probably William Zajiic of Hasenburg (see p. 232, where he is associated with Mysska).
* ↑ Wenzel Mysska de Hradek, whose name we find on the petition of the Polish and Czech nobles of May 13 (see infra, pp. 204 and 232).
# The letters of John Hus/Hus Sets off without waiting for the Safe-conduct; Sealed Letters

Sigismund was anxious that Hus should journey in his suite. The Reformer would have fared better, as the King pleaded in his own excuse at a later date, if he had accepted the offer. Such, however, was his confidence in his own integrity, his eagerness to confront his enemies, that Hus set off without even waiting for the safe-conduct. As soon as he had received Sigismund’s official promise of the safe-conduct—dated Bothenburg, October 8—Hus started (October 11, 1414), leaving the formal document to overtake him as best it might. Hence the allusion in the following letter, written in Czech, to his congregation at the Bethlehem, immediately after his departure from Bohemia. This letter, we may add, fell into the hands of Hus’s enemies, and gave him much trouble at Constance, owing, as Hus avers, to the faulty way in which it was mis-translated into Latin. The latter part of the letter is very beautiful. At the same time Hus sent a sealed letter to ‘Master Martin, his disciple,’ which forms one of the treasures of the collection, invaluable for its insight into the tender, somewhat self-upbraiding, spirit of the writer. This letter (XXXV.) should be compared with similar passages in Bunyan’s Grace Abounding.
# The letters of John Hus/Hus and Jerome; The Troubles of Jerome; The Persecution at Vienna

This was not the first time that Jerome had met with opposition at Vienna. In September 1410 we hear of his preaching Lollardism in that newly founded University, and being excommunicated by the clergy of St. Stephen’s. But on September 12 he escaped, ‘like a sparrow from the net of the fowlers,’ to the castle of Bietow, in Moravia, which belonged to a friend of Hus. Whether Jerome had recently visited Vienna it is impossible to say, but on his arrival, in March 1413, at Cracow at the court of Ladislaus of Poland (Jagiello), he found letters of accusation from the University already awaiting him. Jerome, who had allowed his beard to grow in Lithuania, shaved, and presented his passports to Ladislaus, clothed in the red gown of his degree, but in a few days, at the instance of the clergy, was put over the frontier ‘that he might plough in his own country, for our soil seems too dry to receive his seed’ (Doc. 506).
Between the Czech University of Prague and the German University at Vienna, which owed its somewhat struggling existence to the jealousy of the Habsburgs, little love was lost at any time, nor was the rivalry lessened by Prague’s expulsion of the Germans. On the occasion of Jerome’s first trouble at Vienna, the University of Prague had at once petitioned the civil authorities for his protection (September 3, 1410). Now the new rector, Michael Malenicz, hastened to support the letter of Hus ​by a letter dated a week later (July 8, 1413), the similarity of whose language shows that it was inspired by Hus.
# The letters of John Hus/Inquisition at Work; Commision Appointed; "A Dozen Masters"

* ↑ Council of Constance, p. 148.
* ↑ Lea, Hist. Inquis. in Middle Ages, i. c. xi.
# There was an Old Man of the West

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# There was an Old Man with a beard

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# There was an Old Sailor of Compton

No. 115 from A Book of Nonsense (1846)
 There was an Old Sailor of Compton,
 Whose vessel a rock it once bump'd on;
 The shock was so great,
 that it damaged the pate,
 Of that singular Sailor of Compton.
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# There was an Old Man of New York

No. 114 from A Book of Nonsense (1846)
 There was an Old Man of New York,
 Who murdered himself with a fork;
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 though he very soon died, —
 For that silly Old Man of New York.
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# There was an Old Man of the Hague

No. 76 from The Book of Nonsense (1846)
There was an Old Man of The Hague  Whose ideas were excessively vague  He built a balloon  To examine the moon That deluded Old Man of the Hague
# There was an Old Man of Kildare

No. 113 from A Book of Nonsense (1846)
 There was an Old Man of Kildare,  Who climbed into a very old chair;  When he said, — "Here I stays, —  Till the end of my days,"  That immovable Man of Kildare.
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# The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 12/From Jonathan Swift to Thomas Sheridan - 18

TO DR. SHERIDAN.
MARKET HILL, AUG. 2, 1728.
OUR friends here, as well as myself, were sadly disappointed upon hearing the account of your journey. Nobody in town or country, as we were informed, knew where you were; but I persuaded our family, that you were certainly in a way of making yourself easy, and had got that living you mentioned, and accordingly we were grieved, and ​rejoiced at the loss and settlement of a friend; but it never entered into our heads, that you were bestowing forty days in several stages between constable and constable, without any real benefit to yourself, farther than of exercise; and we wished that nobody should have had the benefit of your long absence from your school, but yourself by a good living, or we by your good company: much less that the pleasure of spiting T—— had been your great motive. I heartily wish you were settled at Hamilton's Bawn, and I would be apt to advise you not to quit your thoughts that way, if the matter may be brought to bear; for by a letter I just received from the bishop of Cork, which was short and dry, with the stale excuse of preengagements, I doubt you can hope nothing from him. — As to what you call my exercise, I have long quitted it; it gave me too much constraint, and the world does not deserve it. We may keep it cold till the middle of winter.
As to my return, there are many speculations. I am well here, and hate removals; my scheme was, that you should come hither as you say, and I return with you in your chaise. Sir Arthur, on hearing your letter, pressed me to stay longer. I am a very busy man, such as at Quilca, which you will know when you come; yet I would contrive to be pressed more to stay till Christmas, and that you may contrive to be here again, and take me back with you time enough for my own visitation: and my reason of staying is, to be here the planting and pruning time, &c. I hate Dublin, and love the retirement here, and the civility of my hosts. This is my state and humour upon it, and accordingly you are to manage my ​scheme. However, I would have you keep your vacation of September here; and let Mrs. Brent send me a dozen guineas (half of them half guineas) by you, and a periwig, and a new riding gown and cassock, and whatever else I may want by a longer absence, provided you will resolve and swear that I shall stay.
I had all Mrs. Brent's packets by Mr. Little. My service to Mrs. Dingley. I cannot say, that I have more to say, than to say that I am, &c.
# The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 12/From Jonathan Swift to Thomas Sheridan - 19

DR. SWIFT TO DR. SHERIDAN.
SEPT. 18, 1728.
MY continuance here is owing partly to indolence, and partly to my hatred to Dublin. I am in a middling way, between healthy and sick, hardly ever without a little giddiness or deafness, and sometimes both: so much for that. As to what you call my lesson, I told you I would think no more of it, neither do I conceive the world deserves so much trouble from you or me. I think the sufferings of the country for want of silver deserves a paper, since the remedy is so easy, and those in power so negligent. I had some other subjects in my thoughts; but truly I am taken up so much with long lampoons on a person, who owns you for a ​back, that I have no time for any thing else; and if I do not produce one every now and then of about two hundred lines, I am chid for my idleness, and threatened with you. I desire you will step to the deanery, speak to Mrs. Brent, bid her open the middle great drawer of Ridgeway's scrutoire in my closet, and then do you take out from thence the history in folio, marble cover; and two thin folios fairly writ. I forget the titles, but you have read them; one is an account of the proceedings of lord Oxford's ministry, and the other to the same purpose. There are foul copies of both in the same drawer, but do you take out the fair ones, not in my hand. Let them be packed up, and brought hither by the bearer. My lady is perpetually quarrelling with sir Arthur and me, and shows every creature the libels I have writ against her.
Mr. Worrall sent me the particulars of the havock made in Naboth's vineyard. — The d— burst, &c.
I think lady Dun's burning would be an admirable subject to show, how hateful an animal a human creature is, that is known to have never done any good. The rabble all rejoicing, &c, which they would not have done at any misfortune to a man known to be charitable.
I wish you could get in with the primate, on the ​account of some discourse about you here to day with Whaley and Walmsley. Whaley goes to Dublin on Monday next in order for England. I would have you see him. I fancy you may do some good with the primate as to the first good vacant school, if you wheedle him, and talk a little whiggishly.
* ↑ This should also be dated from Market-hill.
* ↑ In the Intelligencer, the xixth number of which is on this subject.
* ↑ The dean's housekeeper.
* ↑ History of the Peace of Utrecht.
* ↑ The State of Affairs in 1714.
* ↑ See Hamilton's Bawn, or the Grand Question Debated.
* ↑ A field not far from the deanery house, which doctor Swift enclosed at a great expense with a fine stone wall lined with brick, against which he planted vines and the best chosen fruit trees, for the benefit of the dean of St. Patrick's for the time being.
# The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 12/From Jonathan Swift to Thomas Sheridan - 15

TO DR. SHERIDAN.
TWICKENHAM, AUG. 12, 1727.
I AM cleverly caught, if ever gentleman was cleverly caught; for three days after I came to town with lord Oxford from Cambridgeshire, which was ten days ago, my old deafness seized me, and hath continued ever since with great increase; so that I am now deafer than ever you knew me, and yet a little less I think than I was yesterday; but which is worse, about four days ago my giddiness seized me, and I was so very ill, that yesterday I took a hearty vomit, and though I now totter, yet I think I am a thought better; but what will be the event, I know not; one thing I know, that these deaf fits use to continue five or six weeks, and I am resolved if it continues, or my giddiness, some days longer, I will leave this place, and remove to Greenwich, or somewhere near London, and take my cousin Lancelot to be my nurse. Our friends know her; it is the same with Pat Rolt. If my disorder should keep me longer than my license of absence lasts, I would have you get Mr. Worrall to renew it; it will not expire till the sixth or seventh of October, and I resolved to begin my journey September 15th. Mr. Worrall will see by the date of my license what time the new one should commence; but he has seven weeks yet to consider: I only speak in ​time. I am very uneasy here, because so many of our acquaintance come to see us, and I cannot be seen; besides, Mr. Pope is too sickly and complaisant; therefore I resolve to go somewhere else. This is a little unlucky, my head will not bear writing long: I want to be at home, where I can turn you out, or let you in, as I think best. The king and queen come in two days to our neighbourhood; and there I shall be expected, and cannot go; which however is none of my grievances, for I would rather be absent, and have now too good an excuse. I believe this giddiness is the disorder, that will at last get the better of me; but I would rather it should not be now; and I hope and believe it will not, for I am now better than yesterday. —— Since my dinner my giddiness is much better, and my deafness a hair's breadth not so bad. It is just as usual, worst in the morning and at evening. I will be very temperate; and in the midst of peaches, figs, nectarines, and mulberries, I touch not a bit. I hope I shall however set out in the midst of September, as I designed. — This is a long letter for an ill head: so adieu. My service to our two friends and all others.
* ↑ Son of the late right honourable Robert Harley, lord high treasurer of England, created earl of Oxford and Mortimer by queen Anne.
* ↑ Richmond.