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# The English Historical Review/Volume 37/The Earl of Warwick at Calais in 1460

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The Earl of Warwick at Calais in 1460
Though there is no date of the year in the letter here printed, the reference is clearly to events at Calais in June 1460. The incidents described, though not of importance, are novel, and illustrate the vigour with which Warwick was acting. The earl of Warwick, who held the town in the Yorkist interest, had returned thither from Ireland at the beginning of June. The Friday in Whitsun week, on which day his carvels had their fight with the French, was 6 June. Fauconberg crossed over, probably on 21 June, not to London, but to capture Sandwich in preparation for Warwick's own landing five days later. I have not traced ​any reference to the Burgundian herald on Corpus Christi Eve (11 June), but Warwick had, of course, friendly relations with the duke of Burgundy. The Thomas Thorpe to whom the letter was written can hardly have been the well-known lawyer of that name, who was a strong Lancastrian, since the letter is clearly written in the Yorkist interest. Yorkists of the name are the Thomas Thorpe who was given a jacket by Sir John Howard for the fight between Lord Scales and the Bastard of Burgundy in 1467, and a Thomas Thorpe who had a grant (jointly with Thomas Howard) of Holbrook Park, Suffolk, in 1476, and was forester of Kingswood Heath, Essex, in the same year. The writer does not give his full name, though he adds his mark—a cross in a circle; from his consistent use of 'v' for 'w' ('Vervyk, ver, ve, vreten') one may perhaps conjecture he was a Londoner. The only likely name which I have found is that of Simon Laweles, who was master of the carvel le Marie of Rye in the king's service in 1463 and 1470; the writer's familiarity with the naval operations may favour his identification with Laweles. This letter is one of those which have been recently added to the bound volumes at the Public Record Office. Though previously to repair it must have been in a very frail condition, there are only a few words which cannot be deciphered.
C. L. Kingsford.
   Endorsed. To my Right Worshipfull and … Syr and my gode master Thomas Thorpe in þ$^e$ medyll Temple yn London.
* ↑ Paston Letters, iv. 279.
* ↑ Cal. of Patent Rolls, Edward IV, ii. 564, 586.
* ↑ Ibid. i. 302, ii. 217.
* ↑ pinnace.
* ↑ There is a mark for the insertion of an interlineation; but the words interlined—two or three—are illegible; 'will be soon' probably represents the intended meaning.
# The English Historical Review/Volume 37/The Death of Henry of Blois, Bishop of Winchester

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IN the Register of Bishop John de Pontissara, as printed by the Canterbury and York Society, is a dated charter of Henry II. which was unknown to Eyton. By it the king, at the request of Bishop Henry, confirms to the monks of St. Swithun certain manors which the bishop had recently restored to them; it was ​issued from the bishop's palace at Winchester and is dated 6 August 1171, in the seventeenth year of the reign of the king. It is likely enough that the original grant was undated, and that when the monks entered it in their cartulary, they added the date. But it is evidently correct; for Ralf de Diceto states that the king landed on 6 August, and in passing visited the bishop of Winchester, who was in extremis and died 8 August.
The editor of the register, the late Canon Deedes, has a difficulty about the date of the bishop's death. In the same register is printed a charter of the bishop which is dated 6 January Anno Incarnacionis Domini MCLXXI, which the editor takes to be 6 January 1172; but as the bishop adds that it was in the forty-second year of his episcopacy, and he was consecrated on 17 November 1129, the year must be 1171. It is evident that the monks of St. Swithun, like other Benedictines, began their year at Christmas or on 1 January, not on 25 March. Although the bishop was alive when King Henry reached Winchester on 6 August, yet he was no longer in occupation of the see. This appears from the Pipe Roll for Michaelmas 1172. At Michaelmas 1171 the king received nothing from the episcopal revenues, although the see was certainly in his hands; but at Michaelmas 1172 he received £1,555 1s. 6d. for the year ending at that date, and £379 2s. 8d. for the previous year. Now the latter sum is 89/365 of the former. It is clear, therefore, that the king had held the see from 3 July 1171. The assumption is that the bishop, like one of his predecessors, entered religion in his last illness and so ceased to be bishop. If at Michaelmas 1171 it was uncertain how much the king's share was, so that it was necessary to make an estimate based upon the next year's revenue, it seems that there were no satisfactory episcopal accounts at that time, and the series of Winchester Pipe Rolls, which is practically complete from 1209, cannot have been begun as early as 1171. It is not unlikely that the system of Winchester accounts, which has strong traces of the royal exchequer, was commenced during this vacancy, when the king's clerks received the revenues.
H. E. Salter.
* ↑ p. 628.
* ↑ Rolls Series, i. 347.
* ↑ p. 624.
# The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/To the Lady Mary Villars, Governess to the Princess Henrietta

341. TO THE LADY MARY VILLARS, GOVERNESS TO THE PRINCESS HENRIETTA.
When I of Villars do but hear the name, It calls to mind that mighty Buckingham, Who was your brave exalted uncle here, Binding the wheel of fortune to his sphere, Who spurned at envy, and could bring with ease An end to all his stately purposes.
For his love then, whose sacred relics show Their resurrection and their growth in you; And for my sake, who ever did prefer You above all those sweets of Westminster; Permit my book to have a free access To kiss your hand, most dainty governess.
# The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/To the Lark

214. TO THE LARK.
Good speed, for I this day Betimes my matins say: Because I do Begin to woo, Sweet-singing lark, Be thou the clerk, And know thy when To say, Amen. And if I prove Bless'd in my love, Then thou shalt be High-priest to me, At my return, To incense burn; And so to solemnise Love's and my sacrifice.
# The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/To the Most Accomplished Gentleman, Master Edward Norgate, Clerk of the Signet to His Majesty. Epig

301. TO THE MOST ACCOMPLISHED GENTLEMAN, MASTER EDWARD NORGATE, CLERK OF THE SIGNET TO HIS MAJESTY. EPIG.
For one so rarely tun'd to fit all parts, For one to whom espous'd are all the arts, Long have I sought for, but could never see Them all concentr'd in one man, but thee. Thus, thou that man art whom the fates conspir'd To make but one, and that's thyself, admir'd.
# The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/To the Most Fair and Lovely Mistress Anne Soame, Now Lady Abdie

375. TO THE MOST FAIR AND LOVELY MISTRESS ANNE SOAME, NOW LADY ABDIE.
So smell those odours that do rise From out the wealthy spiceries; So smells the flower of blooming clove, Or roses smother'd in the stove; So smells the air of spiced wine, Or essences of jessamine; So smells the breath about the hives When well the work of honey thrives, And all the busy factors come Laden with wax and honey home; So smell those neat and woven bowers All over-arch'd with orange flowers, And almond blossoms that do mix To make rich these aromatics; So smell those bracelets and those bands Of amber chaf'd between the hands, When thus enkindled they transpire A noble perfume from the fire; The wine of cherries, and to these The cooling breath of respasses;
The smell of morning's milk and cream, Butter of cowslips mix'd with them; Of roasted warden or bak'd pear, These are not to be reckon'd here, Whenas the meanest part of her, Smells like the maiden pomander. Thus sweet she smells, or what can be More lik'd by her or lov'd by me.
Factors, workers. Respasses, raspberries. Pomander, ball of scent.
# The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/To the Most Illustrious, and Most Hopeful Prince, Charles, Prince of Wales

TO THE
Most Illustrious and Most Hopeful Prince.
CHARLES,
PRINCE OF WALES.
Well may my book come forth like public day When such a light as you are leads the way, Who are my work's creator, and alone The flame of it, and the expansion. And look how all those heavenly lamps acquire Light from the sun, that inexhausted fire, So all my morn and evening stars from you Have their existence, and their influence too. Full is my book of glories; but all these By you become immortal substances.
# The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/To the King (If when these lyrics, Cæsar, you shall hear)

264. TO THE KING.
If when these lyrics, Cæsar, you shall hear, And that Apollo shall so touch your ear As for to make this, that, or any one, Number your own, by free adoption; That verse, of all the verses here, shall be The heir to this great realm of poetry.
# The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/To the King and Queen Upon Their Unhappy Distances

79. TO THE KING AND QUEEN UPON THEIR UNHAPPY DISTANCES.
Woe, woe to them, who, by a ball of strife, Do, and have parted here a man and wife: Charles the best husband, while Maria strives To be, and is, the very best of wives, Like streams, you are divorc'd; but 'twill come when These eyes of mine shall see you mix again. Thus speaks the oak here; C. and M. shall meet, Treading on amber, with their silver-feet, Nor will't be long ere this accomplish'd be: The words found true, C. M., remember me.
Oak, the prophetic tree.
# The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/To the Most Virtuous Mistress Pot, Who Many Times Entertained Him

226. TO THE MOST VIRTUOUS MISTRESS POT, WHO MANY TIMES ENTERTAINED HIM.
When I through all my many poems look, And see yourself to beautify my book, Methinks that only lustre doth appear A light fulfilling all the region here. Gild still with flames this firmament, and be A lamp eternal to my poetry. Which, if it now or shall hereafter shine, 'Twas by your splendour, lady, not by mine. The oil was yours; and that I owe for yet: He pays the half who does confess the debt.
# The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/To the King (Give way, give way, now, now my Charles shines here)

685. TO THE KING.
Give way, give way! now, now my Charles shines here A public light, in this immensive sphere; Some stars were fix'd before, but these are dim Compar'd, in this my ample orb, to him. Draw in your feeble fires, while that he Appears but in his meaner majesty. Where, if such glory flashes from his name, Which is his shade, who can abide his flame! Princes, and such like public lights as these, Must not be look'd on but at distances: For, if we gaze on these brave lamps too near, Our eyes they'll blind, or if not blind, they'll blear.
Immensive, immeasurable.
# The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/To the Most Learned, Wise, and Arch-antiquary, M. John Selden

365. TO THE MOST LEARNED, WISE, AND ARCH-ANTIQUARY, M. JOHN SELDEN.
I, who have favour'd many, come to be Grac'd now, at last, or glorified by thee, Lo! I, the lyric prophet, who have set On many a head the delphic coronet, Come unto thee for laurel, having spent My wreaths on those who little gave or lent. Give me the daphne, that the world may know it, Whom they neglected thou hast crown'd a poet. A city here of heroes I have made Upon the rock whose firm foundation laid, Shall never shrink; where, making thine abode, Live thou a Selden, that's a demi-god.
Daphne, i.e., the laurel
# The Flags of the World/Plate 22

PLATE XXII.
* 241 Bulgaria.
* 242 Roumania.
* 243 Servia.
* 244 Japanese Ensign.
* 245 Japanese Imperial Standard.
* 246 Japanese Transport Flag.
* 247 Chinese Merchant Flag.
* 248 Japanese Guard Flag.
* 249 Orange Free State.
* 250 Liberia.
* 251 Congo State.
* 252 Rajah of Sarawak.
* 253 South African Republic.
# The Flags of the World/Plate 17

PLATE XVII.
* 179 Oriflamme.
* 180, 181 Early French forms of Flag.
* 182 Soissonois Flag.
* 183 Bourbon Flag.
* 184 Standard of Charles VI.
* 185 Standard, French.
* 186 Man-of-War Pendant.
* 187 Standard, French.
* 188 Flag of French Guards, 1563.
* 189 Flag of Republic, France.
* 190 Tricolor of 1790.
* 191 Modern French Tricolor.
# The Flags of the World/Plate 2

PLATE II.
* 12 Percy Flag, Crescent Badge.
* 13 Arctic Sledge-flag, Expedition of 1875-76.
* 14 The Percy Standard.
* 15 Standard of Sir Thomas de Swynnerton.
* 16 Arctic Sledge-flag, Expedition of 1875-76.
* 17 Banner of St. Edmund.
* 18 Banner of Simon de Montfort.
* 19 Banner of St. Edward.
# The Flags of the World/Plate 15

PLATE XV.
* 152 Confederate States of America.
* 153 Confederate, the Southern Cross.
* 154 Southern Cross, modified.
* 155 South Carolina State Flag, 1861.
* 156 Louisiana State Flag.
* 157 Chili, portion of Pendant.
* 158 South Carolina, 1775.
* 159 South Carolina State Flag, 1861.
* 160 Texas State Flag.
* 161 Chili, Commercial.
* 162 Guatemala, Flag of 1851.
* 163 Guatemala, Flag of 1858.
# The Flags of the World/Plate 16

PLATE XVI.
* 164 Colombia (formerly New Granada), Commercial.
* 165 Uruguay, General Service.
* 166 Guatemala, Government.
* 167 Costa Rica, Commercial.
* 168 Paraguay, Government.
* 169 Brazil, General Service.
* 170 Venezuela, Commercial.
* 171 Bolivia, Commercial.
* 172 Mexico, Government.
* 173 Portion of Pendant, Brazil.
* 174 Peru, Government.
* 175 San Salvador, General Service.
* 176 Argentine, Government.
* 177 Ecuador, Government.
* 178 Hayti, Commercial.
# The Flags of the World/Plate 20

PLATE XX.
* 217 Russian Man-of-War.
* 218 Russia, Commercial.
* 219 Early Form of Russian Ensign.
* 220 Russia, Consul General.
* 221 Russia, Chargé d'Affaires.
* 222 Russia, Ambassador or Minister.
* 223 Russia, Transport Service.
* 224 Danish Man-of-War.
* 225 Danish, Commercial.
* 226 Russian Imperial Standard.
* 227 Swedish, Commercial.
* 228 Norwegian Man-of-War.
* 229 Union Flag of Sweden and Norway.
* 230 Flag of Norway.
* 231 Flag of Sweden.
* 232 Switzerland.
# The Flags of the World/Plate 14

PLATE XIV.
* 142 American Insurgent Flag, 1775.
* 143 Admiral's Flag, U.S. Navy.
* 144 Flag used at Bunker's Hill.
* 145 American Pine-tree Flag.
* 146 The Stars and Stripes of the United States.
* 147 New England Navy Flag, 1776.
* 148 Massachusetts Flag, 1775.
* 149 Pine-tree and Stripes.
* 150 Early American Flag.
* 151 Portion of Pendant, U.S.Navy.
# The Flags of the World/Plate 19

PLATE XIX.
* 199 Saxony.
* 200 Waldeck.
* 201 Saxe Weimar.
* 202 Pomerania.
* 203 Wurtemburg.
* 204 Oldenburg.
* 205 Mecklenburg Strelitz.
* 206 Brunswick.
* 207 German Empire, War Ensign.
* 208 German Empire, Jack.
* 209 Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
* 210 Schomberg Lippe.
* 211 West Prussia.
* 212 Hesse.
* 213 Austria, Government.
* 214 Austro-Hungarian, Commercial.
* 215 Russian Jack.
* 216 Poland.
# The Flags of the World/Plate 18

PLATE XVIII.
* 192 Spain, War.
* 193 Spain, Commercial.
* 194 Royal Standard of Spain.
* 195 Portugal, Royal Standard.
* 196 Portugal, General Service.
* 197 Italy, Commercial.
* 198 Papal Merchant (obsolete).
# The Flags of the World/Plate 21

PLATE XXI.
* 233 Greece, Commercial Flag.
* 234 Italian Jack.
* 235 Turkey, Commercial.
* 236 Belgium, Commercial.
* 237 Holland, Royal Standard.
* 238 Turkey, Standard.
* 239 Turkey, Government.
* 240 Tunis, Government.
# The Dialogues of Plato (Jowett)/Menexenus

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MENEXENUS.
PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE.
| Socrates. | Menexenus. |
Menexenus. Socrates, Menexenus. Socrates. Whence come you, Menexenus? Are you from the Agora?
Menexenus. Yes, Socrates ; I have been at the Council.
Soc. And what might you be doing at the Council? And yet I need hardly ask, for I see that you, believing yourself to have arrived at the end of education and of philosophy, and to have had enough of them, are mounting upwards to things higher still, and, though rather young for the post, are intending to govern us elder men, like the rest of your family, which has always provided some one who kindly took care of us.
Men. Yes, Socrates, I shall be ready to hold office, if you allow and advise that I should, but not if you think otherwise. I went to the council chamber because I heard that the Council was about to choose some one who was to speak over the dead. For you know that there is to be a public funeral?
Soc. Yes, I know. And whom did they choose ?
Men. No one ; they delayed the election until tomorrow, but I believe that either Archinus or Dion will be chosen.
Soc. O Menexenus! death in battle is certainly in many The gain of dying in battle. respects a noble thing. The dead man gets a fine and costly funeral, although he may have been poor, and an elaborate speech is made over him by a wise man who has long ago prepared what he has to say, although he who is praised may not have been good for much. The speakers praise him for what he has done and for what he has not done — that is the ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/525 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/526 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/527 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/528 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/529 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/530 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/531 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/532 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/533 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/534 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/535 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/536 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/537 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/538 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/539 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/540
# The Dialogues of Plato (Jowett)/Meno/Introduction

INTRODUCTION.
Meno. Analysis. This Dialogue begins abruptly with a question of Meno, who asks 'whether virtue can be taught.' $^{71}$ Socrates replies that he does not as yet know what virtue is, and has never known any one who did. 'Then he cannot have met Gorgias when he was at Athens.' Yes, Socrates had met him, but he has a bad memory, and has forgotten what Gorgias said. Will Meno tell him his own notion, which is probably not very different from that of Gorgias? $^{72}$ 'O yes—nothing easier: there is the virtue of a man, a woman, of an old man, and of a child; there is a virtue of every age and state of life, all of which may be easily described.'
$^{73}$ Socrates reminds Meno that this is only an enumeration of the virtues and not a definition of the notion which is common to them all. In a second attempt Meno defines virtue to be 'the power of command.' But to this, again, exceptions are taken. For there must be a virtue of those who obey, as well as of those who command; and the power of command must be justly of not unjustly exercised. Meno is very ready to admit that justice is virtue: 'Would you say virtue or a virtue, for there are other virtues, such as as courage, temperance, and the like; $^{74}$ just as round is a figure, and black and white are colours, and yet there are other figures and colours. Let Meno take the examples of figure and colour, and try to define them.' Meno confesses his inability, and after a process of interrogation, in which Socrates explains to him the nature of a 'simile in multis,' $^{75}$ Socrates himself defines figures as the 'accompaniment of colour.' But some one may object that he does not know the meaning of the word 'colour;' and if he is a candid friend, and not a mere disputant, Socrates is willing to furnish him with a simpler and ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/11 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/12 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/13 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/14 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/15 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/16 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/17 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/18 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/19 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/20 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/21 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/22 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/23 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/24 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/25 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/26 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/27 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/28 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/29 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/30 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/31 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/32 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/33
# The Dialogues of Plato (Jowett)/Lesser Hippias

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LESSER HIPPIAS.
PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE.
| Eudicus. | Socrates. | Hippias. |
Lesser Hippias. Socrates, Eudicus, Hippias. Eudicus. Why are you silent, Socrates, after the magnifi- Lesser 363 cent display which Hippias has been making ? Why do you not either refute his words, if he seems to you to have been wrong in any point, or join with us in commending him? There is the more reason why you should speak, because we are now alone, and the audience is confined to those who may fairly claim to take part in a philosophical discussion.
The Iliad of Homer a finer work than the Odyssey, because Achilles, the hero of the poem, is greater than Odysseus. Socrates. I should greatly like, Eudicus, to ask Hippias the meaning of what he was saying just now about Homer. I have heard your father, Apemantus, declare that the Iliad of Homer is a finer poem than the Odyssey in the same degree that Achilles was a better man than Odysseus; Odysseus, he would say, is the central figure of the one poem and Achilles of the other. Now, I should like to know, if Hippias has no objection to tell me, what he thinks about these two heroes, and which of them he maintains to be the better; he has already told us in the course of his exhibition many things of various kinds about Homer and divers other poets.
Eud. I am sure that Hippias will be delighted to answer anything which you would like to ask; tell me, Hippias, if Socrates asks you a question, will you answer him?
Hippias. Indeed, Eudicus, I should be strangely inconsistent if I refused to answer Socrates, when at each Olympic festival, as I went up from my house at Elis to the temple of ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/447 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/448 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/449 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/450 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/451 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/452 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/453 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/454 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/455 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/456 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/457 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/458 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/459 ​Page:The Dialogues of Plato v. 2.djvu/460