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Jam nec arundiferum mihi cura revifere Camum,
Nec dudum vetiti me laris angit amor;
Nec duri libet ufque minas perferre magiftri,
Cæteraque ingenio non fubeunda meo.

I cannot find any meaning but this, which even kindnefs and reverence can give to the term, vetiti laris, " a habi

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"tation from which he is excluded;" or how exile can be otherwife interpreted. He declares yet more, that he is weary of enduring the threats of a rigorous mafter, and fomething elfe, which a temper like bis cannot undergo. What was more than threat was evidently punishment. This poem, which mentions his exile, proves likewife that it was not perpetual; for it concludes with a refolution of returning fome time to Cambridge.

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He took both the ufual degrees; that of Batchelor in 1628, and that of Master in 1632; but he left the univerfity with no kindness for its inftitution, alienated either by the injudicious feverity of his governors, or his own captious perversenefs. The caufe cannot now be known, but the effect appears in his writings. His scheme of education, infcribed to Hartlib, fuperfedes all academical inftruction, being intended to comprise the whole time which men ufually spend, in literature, from their entrance upon grammar, till they proceed, as it is called, mafters of arts. And in his Difcourfe on the likeliest Way to remove Hirelings out of the Church, he ingeniously proposes, that the profits of the lands forfeited by

the

the act for fuperftitious ufes, fhould be applied to fuch academies all over the land,

where languages and arts may be taught together; fo that youth may be at once brought up to a competency of learning and an honeft trade, by which means' fuch of them as had the gift, being enabled to fupport themselves (without tithes) by the latter, may, by the help of the former," become worthy preachers.

One of his objections to academical education, as it was then conducted, is, that men defigned for orders in the Church were permitted to act plays, writhing and unboning their clergy limbs to all the antick and difhoneft geftures of Trincalos, buffoons and bards, proflituting the shame of that ministry which they had,

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or were near having, to the eyes of cour tiers and court-ladies, their grooms and mademoifelles.

This is fufficiently peevifh in a man, who, when he mentions his exile from the college, relates, with great luxu riance, the compenfation which the pleafures of the theatre afford him. Plays were therefore only criminal, when they were acted by academicks.

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He went to the univerfity with a defign of entering into the church, but in time altered his mind; for he declared, that whoever became a clergyman muft "fubfcribe flave, and take an oath "withal, which, unless he took with a "confcience that could retch, he must

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"it better to prefer a blameless filence " before the office of fpeaking, bought

"and begun with fervitude and forfwearing."

Thefe expreffions are, I find, applied to the subscription of the Articles; but it feems more probable that they relate to canonical obedience. I know not any of the Articles which feem to thwart his opinions; but the thoughts of obedience, whether canonical or civil, raised his indignation.

His unwillingness to engage in the miniftry, perhaps not yet advanced to a fettled refolution of declining it, ap

cars in a letter to one of his friends,

pears

who had reproved his fufpended and

dilatory life, which he feems to have

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