Made Mars and Saturn for the Caufe, Quoth Hudibras, the Cafe is clear, Men's Principles, by what they do. This faid, he turn'd about his Steed, What's useful of him, before-hand. . 181, 187. Made Mars, &c.-Made all the Royal Stars re cant.] The hidden Satire of this is extremely fine; by the several Planets and Signs here recapitulated, are meant the feveral Leaders of the Parliament-Army who took the Covenant. As Effex and Fairfax, by Mars and Saturn. But the last made all the Royal Stars recant, &c, evidently alludes to Charles, Elector Palatine of the Rhine, and King Charles the Second, who both took the Covenant. (Mr. W.) y. 196. Gymnofophift.] Vide Jo. & Fra: Pici Mirandula op. paffim. Chamber's Cyclopedia: And their Method of educating their Difciples, Spectator, N° 337. 205 He had been long t'wards Mathematicks, To climb the Wheel, but all in vain, Did he advance his nat'ral Parts ; His Understanding still was clear, . 205. He had been long twards Mathematicks] See 7. Taylor's Poem, intitled, A Figure-Flinger, or Couzning-cunning Man, Works, p. 12. Gruteri Fax Art, tom. 6. par. 2. P. 536, 537. . 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214. But, as a Dog that turns the Spit,-Beftirs himself, and plies his Feet-To climb the Wheel, but all in vain,-His own Weight brings him down again :—And fill he's in the felf-fame Place-Where at his fetting out he was:] Mr. Prior's Imitation of this Simile is very beautiful; and I think an Improvement of it. Dear Thomas, didft thou never pop (Mr. B.) *. 224. Yet none a deeper Knowledge boasted, Since old Hodg Bacon, and Bob Grofted. 225 Th' Intelligible World he knew, And all Men dream on't to be true: Nor can there on the Face of Ground 230 An individual Beard be found, That has not in that Foreign Nation, * .224. Since old Hodg Bacon, &c.] Roger Bacon, commonly called Fryar Bacon, liv'd in the Reign of our Edward the First, and for fome little Skill he had in the Mathematicks, was by the Rabble accounted a Conjurer, and had the fottifh Story of the Brazen Head father'd upon him, by the Monks of thofe Days. Ib.And Bob Grofted.] Bishop Grofied was Bishop of Lincoln, 20. Henry the Third, A. D. 1236. "He was "fufpected by the Clergy to be a Conjurer; for which Crime "(the printed Notes obferve) he was deprived by Pope Innocent "the Fourth, and fummoned to appear at Rome." But this is a Miftake; for the Pope's Antipathy to him was occafioned by his frankly expoftulating with him (both perfonally, and by Letter) his Encroachments upon the English Church, and Mo narchy. He was perfecuted by Pope Innocent, but it is not certain that he was deprived, tho' Bale thinks he was: The Pope was inclined to have had his Body dug up, but was diffuaded from it: He was a Man of great Learning, confidering the Time in which he liv'd, and wrote Books to the Number of almost two hundred. (See Bishop Godwin's Catalogue of Bishops, edit. 1615. P. 298, &c. Fabyan's Chronicle, part. 2. folio 25.) He suppress'd an idle Practice in that Church, in keeping the Feast of Fools, (which was likewise fupprefs'd in the College of Beverley in the Year 1391. See Mr. Anfis's Regifter of the Garter, vol. 1. p. 309.) Quapropter vobis mandamus, in virtute obedientiæ firmiter injungentes: quatenus feftus ftultorum, cum fit vanitate plenum, & voluptatibus fpurcum, Deo odibile, & dæmonibus amabile, de cætera in ecclefiâ Lincoln. Die venerandæ folennitatis circumcifionis Domini, nullatenus permittatis fieri. Vide Opufcul. Ro. Grosseteft, Append. Fafcicul. Rer. expetendar. & fugiendar. epist. 32. p. 331. This Feast was continued in France till about the Year 1444. See an Account of it, Mezeray's Hiftory of France, tranflated by Bulteel, P. 293, 225. Th' intelligible World he knew.] See Narris's Ideal World. 2.233. B 3 235 So cut, fo colour'd, and fo curl'd, The Dev'l, and Euclid, o're and o're; .233. So cut, fo colour'd &c.] Dr. Bulwer obferves from Strabo, (Artificial Changeling, feen. 12. p. 212.) "That in Cathea "the Men for an Ornament dye their Beards with many and di"verse Colours, and many of the Indians do it; for the Region "bears admirable Colours for the Tincture of their Hairs. more, p. 213, 214. See . 235, 236. H' bad read Dee's Prefaces before,─The Devil, and Euclid, o're and o're;] Dee was a Welchman, and educated at Oxford, where he commenc'd Doctor, and afterwards travelled into foreign Parts, in queft of Chymiftry, &c. Lilly faith, that he was Queen Elizabeth's Intelligencer, and had a Salary for his Maintenance from the Secretaries of State: That he was the most ambitious Man living; and was never fo well pleased, as when he heard himself stiled moft Excellent. In 1659 was printed in Folio, A Relation of what pass'd for many Years between Dr. John Dee, and fome Spirits. It begins May 28, 1583, and ends September 7, 1607. It was publifh'd by Meric Cafaubon, D. D. with a learned Preface, in which we have the following Account, Dr. Dee, when young, was fought unto by two Emperors, Charles, and Ferdinand his Brother and Succeffor, as he faith in his Letter to the Emperor Rodolph. Mr. Camden in 1572 calls him Nobilis Mathematicus. He dedicated his Monas Hieroglyphica to Maximilian, Ferdinando's Succeffor in 1564. In 1595 he wrote an Apology for himself to the then Archbishop of Canterbury, (Whitgift) in which he gives a Catalogue of his Works, in Number 50 or 51, unprinted; among which is Apologia pro fratre Rogero Bachone Anglo, in quâ docetur nihil illum per dæmoniorum feciffe auxilia: And eight printed ones, three of which are probably alluded to by Mr. Butler, in the Word Prefaces, Epiftola præfixa ephemeridi Johannis Felde 1557. Epiftola ad Commandinum, præfixa libello Machometi de fuperficierum divifionibus 1570; and his Mathematical Preface to Euclid 1570. At the End of his Apology is a Teftimonial from the University of Cambridge, dated 14. Cal. April. 1548, whereby it appears, that he was M. A. & quod plurimam fibi & doctrinæ & honeftatis laudem comparavit. Above thirty Years after that, his (pretended) Commerce with Angels began: The Account of which was all wrote with his own Hand, and communicated by Sir Thomas Cotton: He had a round Stone like a Chryftal brought him (as he faid) by Angels, in which others faw Apparitions, and from whence they heard Voices, which he And all the Intrigues 'twixt him and Kelly, he carefully wrote down from their Mouths. He names at least twenty Spirits: Gabriel, Raphael, Michael, and Uriel are known Names of good Angels; the reft are too fantastical to be mentioned, particularly fuch as Ab, 11, Po, Va, &c. what Kind all these were of, if they were any thing more than Fancy, is plain, from a Revelation of theirs, April 18, 1587, enjoining Community of Wives to Dee and Kelly, which Injunction they most conscientiously obey'd. He was fo confident as to addrefs himself to Queen Elizabeth, and her Council often, and to King James and his, to the Empeperor Rodolph, Stephen King of Poland, and feveral other Princes; to the Spanish Embaffador in Germany. He had Thoughts of going to the Pope, had he not been banished Germany as he thought, at the Inftance of the Nuncio, who feems to deny it in a Letter of his to Dr. Dee, which may be worth reading. Dee's chief Seer was Edward Kelly, from whofe Reports, the Shapes and Words of the Apparitions were wrote. Alafco Palatine of Poland, Pucci a learned Florentine, and Prince Rofemberg of Germany, the Emperor's Viceroy of Bohemia, were long of the Society, and often prefent at their Actions; as was once the King of Poland himself. After Kelly's Death in 1587, Arthur Dee was admitted to be a Seer, and reported to his Father what he saw in the Stone, but heard nothing from it. In 1607 one Bartholomew Hickman was Operator, and both faw and heard: In that Year Dee foretels what was become of ftolen Goods: There is no Account when, or how he died. (Mr. S. W.) In Dee's Account of himself (fee Joban. Glaftonienf. Chronic. 1726, a Tho. Hearne, Appendix, p. 504.) he fays, he was offered two hundred French Crowns yearly, to be one of the French King's Mathematicians; that he might have ferv'd five Chriflian Emperors, namely, Charles the Fifth, Ferdinand, Maximilian, Rodolph, and the then Emperor of Muscovy; cach of them offering him a Stipend, from five hundred Dollars yearly, to one thoufand, two thoufand, three thoufand: and that his Ruffian Majefty offer'd him two thousand Pound Sterling yearly Stipend, with a thousand Rubles from his Protector, and his Diet out of his own Kitchen; and he to be in Dignity and Authority amongst the highest Sort of Nobility and and Privy-Councillors. (See more ibid. from p. 490 to 556 inclufive.) . 238. Læfcus] Albertus Lafcus, Lasky, or Alafco, Prince PaPalatine of Poland, concern'd with Dee and Kelly. See Cafaubon's Preface, and Dee's Book of Spirits; and Append. Johann. Glafienienf. Chronic. P. 510. B 4 *. 239. |