[R] In MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 5, is the note:--'Let me see colonel
Lovelace's life to insert some verses;' i.e. Aubrey asks back from
Anthony Wood MS. Aubr. 8, to insert 'some verses.' This seems not to
have been done, unless they be those quoted from Ovid.
[S] The meaning seems to be that these two commissioned Petty to pay
Lovelace a weekly allowance, but never re-paid him. Is 'Sir ... Many'
Sir John Mennis? George Petty was a distant connexion of Anthony Wood:
Clark's Wood's _Life and Times_, i. 35.
=Cyprian Lucar.=
[139]Mr. Cyprian Lucar[T] published a very profitable treatise in 4to
for young beginners in the Mathematicks, intituled
'Lucar solace, divided into fower bookes, which in part are collected
out of diverse authors in diverse languages, and in part devised by
Cyprian Lucar, gentleman. Imprinted at London by Richard Field anno
Domini 1590.'
It is dedicated 'to the right worshipfull his brother-in-law Maister
William Roe, esquier, and alderman of the honorable citie of London.'
This dedicatory epistle is a well writ and close stile. He expresseth
himselfe short and cleare and to have been a publick-spirited and a
good man as well as learned and ingenious. He dates it 'From my house
in London the 1 day of May in the yeare of the creation of the world
5552, and in the yeare of our redemption 1590.'