DSTA, hospes! pretium moræ est, sub isto
Quid sit, discere, conditum sepulchro.
Socci delicia; decus cothurni;
Scena pompa; cor et caput theatri :
Linguarum sacer helluo; perennis
Defluxus venerum; scatebra salsi
Currens lene joci, sed innocentis;
Artis perspicuum jubar; coruscum
Sydus; judicii pumex, profundus
Doctrinæ puteus, tamen serenus;
Scriptorum genius; poeticus dux,
Quantum O sub rigido latet lapillo!
WILLIAM BEW.3
N. Coll. Oxon. soc.
chosen proctor and historical professor: but, following the loyal example of his companions in taking up arms for the king, he was ejected by the Parliamentary visitors. He then travelled into France with sir William Whitmore, "a great patron of distressed cavaliers," but returning to England, he contracted an inveterate disorder which terminated his existence in 1658. GILCHRIST.
3 William Bew was born at Hagborne in Berkshire, and, after being educated at Winchester school, removed to New College, Oxford, of which he became fellow in 1637, and where he took his degree as master of arts in 1644. When his rebellious subjects took up arms against the king, Bew joined the soldiers of his sovereign, and had a majority of horse. Being chosen proctor for 1648, he was set aside by the parliamentary visitors, and, being ejected from his fellowship by the same authority, he quitted England and served the Swedes in their war against the Poles. Hitherto arms appear to have been his profession,-but more peaceable times arriving, with the return of Charles II., Bew returned, and being restored to his fellowship, he became vicar of Ebberbury in Oxfordshire. On the 22nd June 1679, he was consecrated bishop of Landaff, and died, in his ninetieth year, on the 10th Feb. 1705. GILCHRIST.
EC sic excidimus: pars tantùm vilior audit
Imperium Libitina tuum, cælestior urget
Æthereos tractus, mediasque supervolat auras,
Et velut effusum spissa inter nubila lumen
Ingenii strictura micat: fælicior ille,
Quisquis ab hoc victuram actavit lampada Phobo.
In famulante faces accendimus, idque severa.
Quod damus alterius vitæ, concedimus umbra.
Sic caput Ismarii, casa cervice, Poeta,
Nescio quid rapido vocale immurmurat Hebro,
Memnonis adverso sic stridit chordula Phœbo,
Datque modos magicos, tenuesque reciprocat auras.
Seu tu grandiloqui torques vaga fræna theatri,
En tibi vox geminis applaudit publica palmis;
Seu juvat in numeros, palantes cogere voces
Maonia Jonsone cheli, te pronus amantum
Prosequitur cœtus, studioso imitamine vatum.
Benjamini insignis quondam quintuplice ditis
Suffitu mensa, densaque paropside, sed tu
Millena plus parte alios excedis, et auctis
Accumulas dapibus, propriâ de dote, placentam.
SAM. EVANS, LL. Bacc.
No. Coll. Oxon. Soc.
BEN. JONSON.
UOD martes Epico tonat cothurno,
Sive aptat Elegis leves amores,
Seu sales Epigrammatum jocosos
Promit, seu numerosiora plectro
Fungit verba, sibi secundat orsa
Cyrrhaus, nec Hyantiæ sorores
Úlli dexterius favent poetæ,
Hoc cum Mæonide sibi et Marone,
Et cum Callimacho, et simul Tibullo
Commune est, aliisque cum trecentis:
Sed quòd Anglia quotquot eruditos
Facundo ediderit sinu poetas
Acceptos referat sibi, sua omnes
Hos industria finxerit, labosque
Jonsoni, hoc proprium est suumque totum,
Qui Poëmata fecit et Poetas.
Ιωνσωνῳ ποτε φυντι παρεστη ποτνια Μουσα,
Και Βρόμιος, και Έρως, και Χαριτων θιασος,
Ευϊος αρτιτικον λαβε νεβρίδι, σπαιρξε τε κισσῳ,
Λουσας και ποτίσας νεκταρ τῳ βοτρυος.
Κυσσαν δι' αἱ Χαριτες, και αειθαλέεσσι ρόδοισιν
Εστεφον, ηδ' ἱεροις βακχαριδος πεταλοις.
Κεστον τυτθος ερως, συλησας μητερα δωκεν,
«Αγνον θελξινοῳ φίλτρον αοιδοπολῳ
Τοις δ' επι Μωσα σοφῳ ψιθυρισματι παιδ ̓
Χρυσειας πτερυγας λίκνου υπερσχομενη
Χαιρε θεων κηρυξ, γαιης μεγα χαρμα Βρεταννης.
Χαιρ' ελπις Σκηνων των ετι γυμνοπόδων
Αἷς συ χορηγησων ειτ' εμβαδως, ειτε κοθόρνους,
Ελλαδα και Ρωμην ες φθονον οιστρελάσεις
Γαυριοων θριγκοισι νεοδμήτοιο Θεατρου,
Ικρι' αμειψάμενου μαρμαρεων ψαλιδων.
Ην και απιπταμενη, βρεφεος παλαμῃσιν ενηκε
Πλινθον, ἀρειοτερης συμβολον οικοδομης.
Bishop of Chichester. See p. 470.
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