630 HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF LEICESTERSHIRE. as a Divine. Finding it a true censure of the best rum in obitum Horat. Palaricini," Lond. 1600, 4to. Moralists, that they were like to goodly strips, graced The first of them is signed J. Hall, Jmmm. with great titles, the Save-guard, the Triumph, the " In obitum viri ampliffimi Domini Horatii Pullavi- 'Good-speed, and such like, when yet they have been cim Equitis, Epitaphium. both extremely sea-beaten, and at last wrecked. The Utra mihi patria est, utra est peregrina viator? volume is little, perhaps the use more ; 1 have ever Itala terra tulit, terra Brrtasina tegit. thought acceding to the Greek proverb, p%a (3»SM'CV Natus ibi, hie vixi, moriorque ineunte senega, piya x*xi». What it is, even justice challcngeth ic to Ilia mihi cunas contulit, haec tumulum. him, to whom the Author hath devoted himself. The Deserui Latium vivus, meque ilia reliquit children of the bondman are the goods of the parent's Quodque ortu meruit, perdidit exilio. matter. I humbly betake it to your Honour's pro- Hoipitio excepit, fovitque Britannia longo, tection, and your Honour to the protection of the Jure sit ilia suo patria sola mihi, Highest. Your Honour's most humbly devoted in all Non tamen ilia mihi patria est, non ulla sub astris duty and service, Jos. HALL V Sed teneo ætherei regna suprema Poli." Bishop Hall's " Occasional Meditations" and " Balm Thoroughly to understand the allusions of the epitaph, of Gilead" have more than once been presented, in the reader is to understand that sir Horatio Pallavicini various forms, to the publick ; and three several edi- was born at Genoa; and, leaving Italy, resided in the tions of his " Contemplations" have very lately ap- Low Countries; and, after the death of his father, peared, by no ordinary editor, with many alterations2. came and settled in England. Queen Mary appointed A miscellaneous collection from his works has been him receiver of the papal taxes in this kingdom; and printed in a small octavo volume; and a beautiful at her death, having a considerable sum of money in little tract, intituled, " Henochismus, five Tractatus his hands, he abjured the religion of Rome, and re- de modo ambulandi cum Deo, Oxford, 1762," might tained the treasure. Queen Elizabeth, distinguishing alone serve as a specimen of his genius and piety. his talents, gave him a patent ot denization, and other Among his neglected works are two of the earliest marks of her favour ; and he accumulated wealth 5, pieces of°genuine that our nation can boast of. and was employed in her service. He died in 1600, His Virgidemiarum, six books of , published and his widow re-married sirOlive r Cromwell, K.B.6 1597 : and his Mundus alter et idem, 1643. Of the At the first publication of our author's Satires they Virgidemiarum (a performance of which Mr. Pope were attacked by Marjion (a rival satyrist, a player, has "in conversation been known to say high things 3) and a playwright, the friend of Shakespeare and Ben a new edition, with Illustrations and Remarks, may be Jonson) in a style scarcely inferior to our author's own. shortly expected. These Satires* though written by him In an attack like this, it would hardly be expected that at the age of twenty-two, are nervous, witty, and po- the assailant would purloin from the very author he ' etical ; "abounding in the most pointed allusions to the was criticizing; but such was the cafe with Marston, literature and the customs of the Elizabethan age, who frequently not only copies Hall's thought, but the and containing many imitations from the Satyrists very simile by which it was illustrated; his allusions of Antiquity. One of the last of these from the first to antient history are continually the fame with Hall's; Satire shall be here exemplified; where the author but his use of it is far less philosophical. The cha- compliments Surry, Wyat, Dyer, Spenser, and per- racters he has painted are destitute of those striking haps the inimitable Shakspeare, on whom Fancy had lineaments which distinguish the portraits of Hall'; already bestowed her varying pencil*. his sentiments are of a looser turn; and his satires, " Trumpets, and reeds, and socks, and buskins fine, generally speaking, less poetical. 1 them bequeath; whose statues wand'ring twine Another imitator of these Satires was 0/dbam, who Of Ivy mix'd with bays, circlen around," &c. has, however, worked too artfully on Hall's materials Evidently from the Prologue to Persius's Satires. to be termed a copyist. His imitations too display the "' Heliconidasquc pallidamque Pyrerien power of his genius; for he has dilated Hall's ideas, Ill'is remitto, quorum imagines lambunt without detracting from their force. Hederæ fequaces." We have dwelt on the Satires of this illustrious Pre- These Satires, with the Mundus alter et idem, were late, because, though re-edited in 1753 b}' Mr. Horne, attacked by the celebrated Milton, in his Apology for afterwards bishop of Norwich, they are still neglected. the Smectymnuans, in a manner which plainly evinces They will perhaps prove, that in considering him as how much the candour of the critic was leavened by one of the.fathers of English Poetry, we rate him not the acrimony of the Puritan. The latter he unjustly too highly. He was not only the first who wrote legi- termed but a wretched pilgrimage over Minfhew's timate Satire, but was the first who made a true use Dictionary.—The Mundus alter et idem is a work, if of the writings of the Antients. He summoned the possible, less known than the Satires. The plan, per- faculties of his mind to exert themselves to great and haps, originated with fir 's ; ex- useful purposes. And that his faculties thus exerted cept that, as 11 r Thomas had (hewn what the world {hould had some effect on the 'prevailing taste may be ga- be, bilhop Hall, under a pretended description of the thered from the attacks his work sustained. Terra Australis, tore aside the veil, and in a vein of forceful satire exhibited the reigning follies and the JOHN BAINBRIDGE, son of Robert Bainbridge by vices of mankind. In the Virgidemiarum, bishop Alice his wise, daughter of Richard Everard, of Shen- Hall's talent for.English-poetry appears to great ad- ton, was born at Ashby de la Zouch in 1582. He re- vantage; nor did he write Latin verse with less faci- ceived the first rudiments of his education at the gram- lity ; "though I am sorry to add, the only specimen mar-school ot his native town; whence he was trans- of it remaining, if we except six lines prefixed to his planted to Emanuel College, Cambridge, under the Englilh Satires, is to be found in a Collection of Fu- tuition of his kinsman Dr. , afterwards nereal Verses, entitled, " Album feu nigrum amico- bishop of Norwich. When he had taken the degrees 1 Dedication to " Heaven upon Earth ; or, of true Pea^e and Tranquillity of Mind ; 1627." 1 Candour itstlf must allow that some passages, in their original form, were tinctured too strongly with the principles of Calvinism, and others almost unintelligible. To soften the one, Lnd throw a light on the other, was the object of Mr. Glasse. See Gent. Mag. vol. LXII. p. 1094; vol. LXIX. pp. 290. 388. 678.—Mr. Bridges, in the new edition of the " Theatrnm Poe- tarum" by Phillips, mentions an edition of the Contemplations lately published in Scotland. They were likewise edited by Dr,' Dodd in two volumes duodecimo, who inserted in the margin explanations of many obsolete words. s We are told by Dr. Johnson, that " when in Pope's last years Hall's Satires were (hewn him, he wished that he had seen them sooner."' _ \ 4 See Gray.

led on both sides with a falcon and a sceptre, garnished with small sparks of rabies like roses ; and the lady Paiilavizino cave a comfit box of gold, enameled like a rose, the one side set with small diamonds and rubies. .la return, sir Horaro had 2-| ounces of gilt plate, and his lady l8| ounces. *5* See Noble's Memoirs of the Cromwells. Of