[U] Aubrey gives in trick his coat:--'..., two bars gules;' and adds
'the crest is an ape.'
[V] This engraved portrait is now found in MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 17.
Anthony Wood has written at the top, 'Richard Martin, recorder of
London, 1618.' On the back is a note by Aubrey:--'This picture Mr. John
Hoskyns (now Sir John Hoskins, knight and baronet) gave me; grandsonne
to John Hoskyns, Martyn's friend.'
At the top of the picture is engraved 'Anno Dni 1620'; and round the
picture, 'Richardus Martinus, oraculum Londinense.' There are also the
following dedication and verses:--
'Viro illustri Lionello Cranfeildio, equiti aurato, Apothecae augustae
(Guardarobam magnam vulgus vocat) et pupillorum magistro majestatique,
Britannicae e sanctioribus consiliis, Richardum (heu fata) Martinum,
Chr. Brocus, Jo. Hoskinnius, et Hugo (heu iterum!) Hollandus, obsequii
et amoris triumviratu nexi, Amico Amicum Amici, junctis manubus
votisque sacrant.
Princeps amorum, principum necnon amor,
Legumque lingua, Lexque dicendi magis,
Anglorum alumnus, praeco Virginiae ac parens,
Generosus ortu, moribus nec degener,
Invictus animi, corporis formâ decens,
Oriens cadente sole sol, ortu cadens,
Magnae urbis Os, Orbis minoris corculum,
Bono suorum natus, extinctus suo,
Cunctisque cognitus, nec ignotus sibi,
Hollandi amicus, nemini hostis, ni malis,
Virtutis (heu) Martinus hic compendium.
Hugo Hollandus Simon Passaeus sculpsit.
flevit aureumque
aere os exprimi
curavit.'
[W] Anthony Wood has written at the top of fol. 96 of the MS., 'see in
Trin. Coll.'; i.e. in his own _Hist. et Antiq. Univ. Oxon._ (1674),
lib. II. pag. 296. Also, on a slip attached here, Wood notes:--
'Mr. Isaac of Exeter hath told me that Richard Martin, recorder of
London, was son of Richard Martin, merchant, of Exeter: see G. 1. So
this last Richard Martin, borne in Somerset, cannot be he; and he that
was borne in Devonshire
(lib. matric. P, p. 496 <Broadgates Hall>;--Dec. 10, 1585, Rich.
Martin, Devon., generosae conditionis filius, aet. 15)
is too soone.'
For the reference 'G. 1.' see Clark's Wood's _Life and Times_, iv. 232,
233; and for 'lib. Matric. P,' see _ibid._, 136.
[X] An echo of a symposium in which this Richard Martin and other
'jolly companions' took part lingers in a copy of Macaronic verses
by John Hoskyns (see i. 416). I give them here from the copy on fol.
185ᵛ of an old common-place book in Lincoln College Library. Falconer
Madan, Esq., Fellow of Brasenose, has another old copy, with an English
version, which by his kindness I am able to add. The title of it in the
Lincoln MS. is--
'_Convivium philosophicum_: tentum in clauso Termini Sᵗⁱ. Michaëlis in
crastino[181] festi Sᵗⁱ. Egidii in campis, authore Rodolpho Calsabro,
Aeneacensi.'
But in Mr. Madan's MS. it is headed,
'Mr. Hoskins, his Convivium Philosophicum,'
and this attribution of authorship is repeated at the end of the piece.
The _Convivium_ itself must have taken place between 1608 (Tom Coryat's
European tour) and 1612 (Henry, Prince of Wales, died November 6).
Quilibet si sit contentus Whosoever is contented
Ut statutus stet conventus That a number be convented
Sicut nos promisimus; Enough but not too many;
Signum _Mitrae_ erit locus, The _Miter_ is the place decreed,
Erit cibus, erit jocus, For witty jests and cleanly feed,
Optimatatissimus. The betterest of any.
Veniet, sed lente currens, There will come, though scarcely current,
Christoferus vocatus _Torrens_[182] Christopherus surnamèd _Torrent_[182],
Et Johannes _Factus_[183], And John yclepèd _Made_[183],
_Gruicampus_[184] et Arthurus, And Arthur _Meadow-pigmies'-foe_[184],
Ante coenam non pransurus, To sup, his dinner will foregoe,
Veniet primo exactus. Will come as soon as bade.
Robertus _Equorum amicus_[185], Sir Robert _Horse-lover_[185] the while
_Ne vile aestimet_[186] Henricus Ne let Sir Henry _count it vile_[186]
Dignabitur adesse, Will come with gentle speed;
_Cuniculus_que _quercianus_[187], And _Rabbit-tree-where-acorn-grows_[187],
_Caligula_[188] occurret Janus And John surnamèd _Little-hose_[188]
Si modo sit necesse. Will come if there be need.
Et Richardus _Guasta-stannum_[189] And Richard _Pewter-waster_[189] best
Et Henricus _Bonum-annum_[190] And Henry _Twelve-month-good_[190]
at least
Et Johannes _Occidens_[191] And John _Hesperian_[191] true
Et si quis desideretur If any be desiderated
Protinus amercietur He shal bee amerciated
Pro defaulto fourty-pence. Forty-pence in issue.
Hugo _Inferior-Germanus_[192], Hugh the _Inferior-Germayne_[192],
Nec indoctus nec profanus Not yet unlearned nor prophane
Ignatius _architectus_[193]. Inego _Ionicke-piller_[193].
Sed jocus, nisi invitatus But yet the number is not ri<gh>ted;
Veniet illuc _Coriatus_[194], If _Coriate_[194] bee not invited,
Erit imperfectus. The jeast will want a tiller.
Nam facete super illum, For wittily on him, they say,
Sicut malleus in anvillum, As hammers on an anvil play,
Unusquisque ludet. Each man his jeast may breake.
Coriatus cum potavit, When Coriate is fudled well,
Lingua regnum peragrabit His tongue begins to talke pel-mel,
Nec illum quicquam pudet. He shameth nought to speake.
Puer fuit expers artis A boy he was devoid of skill
Et cum fabis et cum fartis With white-pots and oaten-cakes at will
Somersetizatus. Somersetizated.
Vir cum Scotis et cum Anglis And is a man with Scots and Angles
Et cum scarfis et cum spanglis With silken scarfes and with spangles
Est accommodatus. Fitly accommodated.
Si Londinum, Are you in love with London citty?
Si Latinum, Or else with Venice? he will fitt ye;
Amas, te amabit. You have his heart to prize it.
Sive Graecum, Or love you Greeke--of tongues
<the> chiefe,
Ille tecum Or love you Latin? hee'le in briefe
Sir Edward Ratcliffabit, Sir Edward Ratcliffize itt.
Hic orator aratores, This orator of Odcombe towne
Studens meliorare mores, Meaning to civilize the clowne,
Ubi congregavit, To parlé 'gan to call
Rusticos et Corydones, The rusticks and the Coridons,
Fatuos et moriones, The naturalls and morions,
Dis-coxcombiavit. And dis-coxcombde them all.
Ultra littus, ultra mare, To pass the sea, to pass the shore,
Per Europam Fleetstreetare, And Fleet-street is all Europe o're,
Res periculosa. A thing periculous.
Idem calceus hunc revexit, And yet one paire of shoes, they say,
Eadem camisia texit, And shirt did serve him all the way,
Res pediculosa. A thing pediculous.
Quisquis hunc ecavilat, Whoso him exouthenizth,
Garretando squabberizat, Garretating swaberizeth,
Et pro hac injuria And for this injurie
Disrespectus ambulabit, He shall walk as disrespected,
Cum bonis sociis non coenabit Of good fellows still neglected,
In urbe vel in curia. In city and in curie.
Hic in stolidum elatus, To a fool thus elevated,
Ut mountebankus hic effatus, Mountebanke-like thus hee prated,
Haranguizans bene. Harringuizing rowndly.
Quisquis hic vult esse prudens, Whosoe will be counted prudent,
Adsit, nihil aliud studens, Let him be no other student
Quam potare plene. But to drinke profoundly.
Quicquid agis, quicquid dicis, Whatsoever you speak or doe
Jocundando cum amicis, With your friends, in jocund row,
Eris fortunatus. It cannot be misdeemed.
Hunc secundum rectum stampum, For he that lives not ramp and scramp,
Qui non vivit rampum scrampum According to the swaggering stampe,
Nemo est beatus. Can never be esteemed.
Rex religionem curat, The king religion doth out-bear,
Populus legianciam jurat, The people doe allegiance sweare,
Cives foenerantur; Citizens usurize it.
Miles et mercator clamant, The soldiers and the merchants feare,
Puer<i> et puellae amant, The boyes and girles do love their paire,
Foeminae moechantur. And women cuculize it.
Princeps nescit otiari, Prince Henry cannot idly liven,
Cupiens materiam dari Desiring matter to be given
Propriae virtuti. To prove his valour good.
Carolus, imago patris, And Charles, the image of his father,
Imitatur acta fratris, Doth imitate his eldest brother,
Praelucens juventuti. And leades the noble blood.
Cancellarius[195] juvat multos, The Chancellour[195] relieveth many,
Prudentes juvat, juvat stultos, As well the wyse as fooles, or any
Humillime supplicantes. In humble-wise complayninge.
Thesaurarius[196] juvat summos; The Treasurer[196] doth help the rich,
Sed quoniam non habet nummos, And cannot satisfy the stitch
Invident mendicantes. Of mendicants disdayninge.
Northamptonius[197], nunquam satis Northampton[197], seeking many wayes
Literis et literatis Learning and learned men to rayse,
Juvandis, delectatur. Is still negotiated.
Et Suffolcius[198], severe And Suffolke[198], seeking, in good sorte,
Regis familiam coercere The king his household to supporte,
Quaerens, defatigatur. Is still defatigated.
Proceres aedificant, The noblemen do edifye,
Episcopi sanctificant, The bishops they do sanctifie,
Clerus concionatur; The cleargie preach and pray:
Generosi terras vendunt, And gentlemen their lands doe sell,
Et, dum rustici contendunt, And, while the clownes strive for
the shell,
Juridicus lucratur. The fish is lawyers' prey.
Unusquisque sic facessit, Thus every man is busy still,
Cor nullius conquiescit, Each one practising his skill,
Nemo habet satis. None hath enough of gayne.
Solus Coriatus sapit, But Coriate liveth by his witts,
Nihil perdit quicquid capit, He looseth nothinge that he getts,
Nec stultescit gratis. Nor playes the fool in vayne.
--per Johannem Hoskins[199], --per Johannem Reinolds[200], Socium
London. Coll. Novi, Oxon.
=Andrew Marvel= (1620-1678).
[201]Mr. Andrew Marvell: his father was minister of ... (I thinke,
Hull: quaere) ..., he was borne.
He had good grammar-education: and was after sent to ..., in Cambridge.
In the time of Oliver the Protector he was Latin Secretarie. He was
a great master of the Latin tongue; an excellent poet in Latin or
English: for Latin verses there was no man could come into competition
with him. The verses called _The Advice to the Painter_ were of his
making.
His native towne of Hull loved him so well that they elected him for
their representative in Parliament, and gave him an honourable pension
to maintaine him.
He was of a middling stature, pretty strong sett, roundish faced,
cherry cheek't, hazell eie, browne haire. He was in his conversation
very modest, and of very few words[202]: and though he loved wine he
would never drinke hard in company, and was[XIV.] wont to say that, _he
would not play the good-fellow in any man's company in whose hands
he would not trust his life_.
[XIV.] He was wont to say that he would not drinke high or freely with
any man with whom he would not intrust his life.
He kept bottles of wine at his lodgeing, and many times he would drinke
liberally by himselfe to refresh his spirits, and exalt his muse. I
remember I have been told (Mr. Haake and Dr. Pell) that the learned ...
(an High-German) was wont to keep bottells of good Rhenish-wine in his
studie, and when he had spent his spirits he would drinke a good rummer
of it.
James Harrington, esq. (autor _Oceanae_), was his intimate friend.
John Pell, D.D., was one of his acquaintance. He had not a generall
acquaintance.
He wrote _The Rehersall transprosed_, against Samuel Parker, D.D.; _Mr.
Smirke_, (stich't, 4to, about 8 sheets); _The naked Trueth_.
Obiit Londini, Aug. 18. 1678; and is buried in St. Giles church
in-the-fields about the middle (quaere iterum) of the south aisle. Some
suspect that he was poysoned by the Jesuites, but I cannot be positive.
I remember I heard him say that the earle of Rochester[203] was the
only man in England that had the true veine of satyre.
He[204] lies interred under the pewes in the south side of Saint Giles'
church in-the-fields, under the window wherein is painted in glasse
a red lyon, (it was given by the inneholder of the Red Lyon Inne in
Holborne) and is the ... window from the east. This account I had from
the sexton that made his grave.
=Philip Massinger= (1584?-1639/40).
[205]My brother Tom searcht the register of Wilton from the beginning
and talk't with old men. Philip Massinger was not buried there; but his
wife dyed at Cardiffe in Wales, to whom the earl of Pembroke payd an
annuity.
[206]This day I searched the register of St. Saviour's, Southwark, by
the playhouse then there, vulgo St. Mary's Overy's; and find Philip
Massinger buryed March 18th, 1639. I am enformed at the place where
he dyed, which was by the Bankes side neer the then playhouse, that
he was buryed about the middle of the Bullhead-churchyard--i.e. that
churchyard (for there are four) which is next the Bullhead taverne,
from whence it has its denomination. He dyed about the 66th yeare of
his age: went to bed well, and dyed suddenly--but not of the plague.
=Thomas May= (1595-1650).
[207]He stood candidate for[208] the laurell after B. Jonson; but Sir
William Davenant caried it--
manet alta mente repostum,
perhaps.
A great acquaintance of Tom Chaloner. Would, when _inter pocula_,
speake slightingly of the Trinity.
Shammed[209].
_Amicus_: Sir Richard Fanshawe. Mr. <Emanuel> Decretz heard (was
present at) the debate at their parting before Sir Richard went to the
king, where both camps were most rigorously banded[210].
Clap. Came of his death after drinking with his chin tyed with his cap
(being fatt); suffocated.
Quaere Anthony Wood pro epitaph[211], etc.
Lord Chief Justice <John> Vaughan, _amicus_--verses.
<_Scripsit._>
_The Heire._
Quaere Mr. <John> Dreyden, if not another <play.>
_Lucan_, and _Supplementum_.
_Translation of Georgiques_, 16mo.
_Historie of Civill War_ and _Epitome_.
His translation of Lucan's excellent poeme made him in love with the
republique, which tang[212] stuck by him.