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_Engraved Portrait._--
"All that thou see'st and readest is divine,
Learning thus us'd is water turn'd to wine;
Well may wee then despaire to draw his minde,
View here the case; i'th Booke the Jewell finde."
The above quatrain is placed beneath a portrait characteristically engraved
by Cross. Above the head is the following inscription:--
"Ætatis Suæ 50º. Octob. 10. 1649."
Of whom is this a portrait? It is no doubt well known to collectors, and is
of course a frontispiece; but having never yet seen it _vis-à-vis_ with a
title-page, I am at a loss as to the author of whom it is the _vera
effigies_. Possibly some of your readers will be kind enough to enlighten
me upon the matter, and favour me with the name of the British worthy thus
handed down to posterity by Cross's admirable burin.