PRIOR, curious character of, from a Whig satire, 216
felicitated himself that his natural inclination for poetry had
been checked, 217
attacked for his political creed, 429
PROCLAMATION issued by James I. against Cowel's book, "The
Interpreter," a curious document in literary history, 195
PRYNNE, a voluminous author without judgment, but the character of
the man not so ridiculous as the author, 146
his intrepid character, 147
his curious argument against being debarred from pen and ink, _n._
148
his interview with Laud in the Tower, _n._ 149
had a good deal of cunning in his character, _n._ 150
grieved for the Revolution in which he himself had been so
conspicuous a leader, 148
his speeches as voluminous as his writings, _n._ 151
seldom dined, _n._ 152
account of his famous "Histriomastix", _ib._
Milton admirably characterises Prynne's absurd learning, _n._
_ib._
how the "Histriomastix" was at once an elaborate work of many
years, and yet a temporary satire--the secret history of the
book being as extraordinary as the book itself, 153