'Hic Mercurius in 12ª monstrat felix et sublime ingenium,
sed ipsi autori noxium propter □ cum Luna. Saturnus in Medio
Coeli indicat multos inimicos, quibus tamen natus praevalebit
propter △ quem habet Saturnus cum Venere. Supervivet natus
suae uxori; caveat tamen sibi 1655, minantur enim tunc astra
morbum periculosum, quem si natus superat, poterit (naturaliter
loquendo) pervenire ad annum 1669. Apparet tamen periculum
ab aquis et a veneno. Videtur honorandus ab aliquo principe
externo.--Complexio est frigida et humida, unde bonum erit uti
cibis calidis, sed facilis digestionis propter debilitatem
stomachi.'
Obiit Octob. 20, 1687; sepultus at Beconsfield in the churchyard with
his father and grandfathers, where are two walnutt-trees sett at the
head and foot of his grandfather's grave.
[1146]Edmund Waller[CH], esq., son and heire of <Robert Waller> by
<Anne> Hamden. He was cosen-germane to Oliver Cromwell, Protector,
whose mother was his mother's sister.
He was borne at Beconsfield, in Bucks, Anno Domini ... (quaere) in the
fair brick house, the farthest on the left hand, as you goe to Wickham.
He had grammer learning from the information of Mr. <Gerard>
Dobson[CI], minister of Market Wickham, who taught a private schoole
there, and was (he told me) a good schoolmaster, and had been bred at
Eaton College schoole. I have heard Mr. Thomas Bigge, of Wickham, say
(who was his schoole-fellow, and of the same forme), that he little
thought then he would have been so rare a poet; he was wont to make his
exercise for him.
His paternall estate, and by his first wife, was 3000 _li._ per annum.
His first wife was ... (vide Heralds' Office) of Worcestershire, by
whom he had ... per annum, and issue by her, son. His second wife
(maried to her A.D. ...) was ... Brace; a woman beautifull and very
prudent, by whom he has severall children (I thinke 10 or 12).
About[1147] 23, or between that and thirty, he grew (upon I know not
what occasion) mad; but 'twas (I thinke) not long ere[1148] he was
cured:--this from Mr. Thomas Bigg.
_Non tulit aethereos pectus mortale tumultus._