'There was Lucan's translator too.'
[213]Thomas May, esq., a handsome man, debaucht _ad omnia_; lodged in
the little[214]by Canon-rowe, as you goe through the alley. Translated
Virgil's Georgiques. Writt:--Breviary of the historie of the Parliament
of England (London, 1650; reprinted 1680, 8vo.); History of the
victorious Edward IIId., in English verse, by Charles I's speciall
command (8vo, 1639); and also Henry İİd., in English verse, both in 8vo.
[215]As to Tom May, Mr. Edmund Wyld told me that he was acquainted
with him when he was young, and then he was as other young men of this
towne are, scil. he said he was debaucht _ad omnia_: but doe not by any
meanes take notice of it--for we have all been young. But Mr. Marvel in
his poems upon Tom May's death falls very severe upon him.
He was choaked by tyeing his cap.
That of Lucan is true, scil., that it made him incline[216] to a
republic.
He was of the Sussex Mayes, as appeares by his coate of armes: but
where borne or of what university I know not, and cannot enquire.
Dr. <Thomas> Triplet's monument is set up[217] where his stood. Thomas
May's inscription was, after it was pulled downe, in St. Bennet's
chapell, i.e. where the earl of Middlesex's monument is: but perhaps
now converted to some use.
[218]By[219] Camden:--
Quem Anglicana respublica
habuit vindicem,
ornamentum literaria,
secli sui vatum celeberrimus,
deliciae futuri,
Lucanus alter plus-quam Romanus,
historicus fidus,
equitis aurati filius primogenitus,
Thomas Maius
H. S. E.
Qui paternis titulis claritatis suae
specimen usque adeo superaddidit
ut a supremo Anglorum senatu
ad annales suos conscribendos
fuerit accitus.
Tandem, fide intemerata Parlamento
praestita, morte inopina
noctu correptus, diem
suum obiit
Id. Nov.
Anno[220] libertatis { humanae } restitutae { MDCL.
{ Angliae } { II.
Aetatis suae LV.
Hoc in honorem servi tam
bene meriti
Parlamentum Reipublicae Angl.
P. P.
Dr. Triplet's monument now stands in the place where this did.
This was a very fine monument of white marble. This inscription I had
much adoe to find out, after severall enquiries severall yeares. It is
putt upside downe in the chapell where the earle of Middlesex tombe is.