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SUPPLEMENT.

PAGE 6.-Archbishop Sharp, whom Burnet pronounced one of the most popular preachers of the age, was a great reader of Shakspeare. Dr. Mangey, who married his daughter, told the Speaker Onslow, that he advised all young Divines to unite the reading of Shakspeare to the study of the Scriptures; and Dr. Lisle, Bishop of Norwich, who had been Chaplain to Archbishop Wake, assured Onslow that Sharp's declaration, "that the Bible and Shakspeare had made him Archbishop of York," was often repeated at Lambeth Palace.-See Onslow's note to the Oxford edition of Burnet's History of his own Time, vol. iii., p. 100.

Sharp was celebrated for the vigour and effect with which his Sermons were delivered.

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FLETCHER.

Page 29.-Dr. Fletcher formed one of the Commission of the Metropolitan Visitation, appointed in 1581.Strype's Life of Bishop Grindal, p. 396, Oxford edition. In May 1596, Bishop Fletcher wrote to Lord Burleigh, requesting that nobleman to procure for his brother the appointment of Master Extraordinary in Chancery.Strype's Annals of the Reformation, vol. iv., p. 373. Dr. Fletcher was also Remembrancer of the City of London, an office obtained for him by Queen Elizabeth, who addressed a long letter in her own hand to the Lord Mayor, &c., upon the subject. A copy of this singular epistle I have been permitted to peruse, an

the terms in which Dr. Fletcher is recommended, evince the respect he was held in by Elizabeth.

Page 55. This would have been more correctly expressed by saying, that three new books of the Faerie Queen were published in 1596.

WITHER.

Page 89.--Wither was again in prison in 1621. Mr. Collier has communicated to me the following interesting extracts from the Registers of the Privy Council:26 June, 1621.

A Warrant to John Perrial, to bring before the Lords the
person of George Wither.

27 June, 1621. This day George Wither, Gent., having been sent for by warrant from the Lords, hath tendred his appearance, which for his indemnity is here entred, he being nevertheless injoined to remaine in the custody of the Messenger, until by order from the Lords he shalbe dismissed.;

On the same day, however, we find from another entry, that the Council issued a warrant to commit George Wither close prisoner into the Marshalsea, until further order.

15 March, 1621.

A warrant to the Keeper of the Marshalsea, to enlarge and sett at liberty the person of George Wythers, upon Bond, to be given by him, with a Suretie before the Clerke of the Councell attendant, to his Majesty's use for his forthcomeing and appearance at all tyme, as there shalbe cause.

Page 115.-One stanza from the "Prayer of Habakkuk," has been frequently quoted; a free animated manner pervades the entire poem :

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And the matchless Holy One
From Mount Paran forth appeared,
Heaven o'erspreading with his rays,
And earth filling with his praise.
Sun-like was his glorious light;
From his side there did appear
Beaming rays that shined bright;
And his power he shrouded there.
Plagues before his face he sent;
At his feet hot coals there went.

Where He stood, He measure took
Of the earth, and viewed it well;
Nations vanish'd at his look;
Ancient hills to powder fell-

Through the earth Thou rifts didst make,
And the rivers there did flow:
Mountains seeing Thee did shake,

And away the floods did go-
From the deep a voice was heard,

And his hands on high he rear'd.

SANDYS.

Page 128.-An erroneous calculation of the extent of the MS. alone prevented the insertion of a more copious notice of this interesting poet, in the earlier portion of the volume.

GEORGE SANDYS, a younger son of the Archbishop, was born at the palace of Bishop Thorp, in 1587, and in his eleventh year was matriculated at St. Mary's Hall; but Wood conjectures that he afterwards emigrated to Corpus Christi College. It does not appear that he took any degree. In August, 1610, he set out on his travels, during which he visited the most interesting

cities of Europe, and extended his researches into Egypt and the Holy Land. After an absence of several years he returned to England, and prepared the history of his wanderings, which issued from the press in 1615. He seems also to have been one of the early residents in Virginia; for Drayton, in an Elegy addressed to Sandys, . speaks of him as Treasurer to the English Company in that country. After his return, he spent much of his time with his sister, Lady Wenman, at Caswell, near Witney, in Oxfordshire. This situation was rendered still more agreeable to him from its proximity to the retreat of his accomplished and amiable friend, Lord Falkland, whom to know was to esteem. In this delightful seclusion he meditated on the dangers he had escaped, and acknowledged the care of that Heavenly Shepherd by whom he had been conducted in all his journeyings. He has expressed his feelings in that admirable poem, Deo. Opt. Max.:——

O! who hath tasted of Thy clemency
In greater measure, or more oft than I?
My grateful verse thy goodness shall display,
O Thou, who went'st along in all my way--
To where the morning, with perfumed wings,
From the high mour.tairs of Panchæa springs
To that new-found-out-world, where sober night
Takes from the Antipodes her silent flight;
To those dark seas where horrid winter reigns,
And binds the stubborn floods in icy chains;
To Lybian wastes, whose thirst no showers assuage,
And where swoll'n Nilus cools the lion's rage.

Thy wonders on the deep have I beheld,

Yet all by those on Judah's hills excell'd;

There where the Virgin's Son his doctrine taught,
His miracles and our redemption wrought,

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Where I, by Thee inspired, his praises sung,
And on his sepulchre my offering hung;
Which way soe'er I turn my face or feet,
I see Thy glory and Thy mercy meet;
Met on the Thracian shores, when in the strife
Of frantic Simoans thou preserv'dst my life—
So when Arabian thieves belaid us round,
And when by all abandon'd, Thee I found.

Then brought'st me home in safety, that this earth
Might bury me, which fed me from my birth.

Having finished the sacred work for which he believed himself designed, and paid his vows at the altar of his God, Sandys was gathered to his fathers in the beginning of March, 1643. He died at Boxley Abbey, the seat of his niece, Lady Margaret Wyat, and was buried in the chancel of the Parish Church, without any monument. In the Register he is styled the most illustrious poet of his age; a title the amiable minstrel would have been the first to reject. But Pope is known to have studied his writings with great pleasure; and Dryden affirmed him to be the best versifier of the day. At his death he was one of the Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber to Charles the First, who highly valued his productions.

The Paraphrase of the Psalms has been already referred to. These verses are taken from the 102nd and 131st Psalms

Like desert-haunting pelicans,

In cities not less desolate :

Like screech-owls who, with ominous strains,
Disturb the night, and daylight hate;

A sparrow which hath lost his mate,

And on a pinnacle complains.

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