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November 19. Sir William Rider diing at Leyton, had his funeralle solemnized in our Church, the hearss being brought from Clothworkers' Hall." In a note to the above entry a further reference is made to Lyson's _Environs_, vol. iv. pp. 160, 161. 165. SONNET. _Written on the opening of the Session_, 1847. "For him was lever han at his beddes hed Twenty bokes clothed in black or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie." CHAUCER "Me, poor man! my library Was dukedom large enough."--SHAKSPEARE. Farewell, my trusty leathern-coated friends! 'Tis fitting, for a while, that we should part; For I, as duty points, must shape my ends, Obey what reason bids, and not my heart. What though 'tis mine to listen in that Hall Where England's peers, "grave, rev'rend, potent," sit, To hear the classic words of STANLEY fall, BROUGHAM'S biting sarcasm, LYNDHURST'S polished wit, The measur'd sentence of THE GREAT CALM DUKE-- It is not mine to commune with the men. Not so when I unfold some favorite book, CHAUCER and I grow boon companions then; And SHAKSPEARE, deigning at my hearth to sit, Charms me with mingled love, philosophy, and wit. WILLIAM J. THOMS. _Pilgrimages of Princes--Bernard Calver--Passage from Hudibras_.--In reply to Mr. Beauchamp's query, No. 11. p. 173., _The Pilgrimage of Princes, penned out of Greek and Latine Authors, London_, 1586, 4to., was written by Ludowic Lloyd. See Watt's _Bibliotheca Brit_., vol. iii. p. 612. No. 11., p. 167. Mr. Stevens will find some account of "Bernard Calver," in Granger's _Letters_, 8vo., but I have not the book to refer to. No. 12., p. 177. Menage observes, in speaking of Monsieur Perier's abuse of Horace for running away from the battle of Philippi, "Relieta non bene parmula," "Mais je le pardonne, parce qu'il ne sait peut-etre pas que les Grecs ont dit en faveur des _Fuiars_." "[Greek: Aner o pheugon kai palin machesetai]" _Menagiana_, vol. i. p. 248. Amst. 1713. Perhaps Erasmus translated this "_apophthegme_." Audley End, Jan. 19. 1850. BRAYBROOKE. _Seal of Killigrew, Master of the Revels_.--In the Museum at Sudbury, in the county of Suffolk, is, or was when I made a note of it about three years since, a silver seal with a crystal handle, which is said to have belonged to Killigrew, King Charles's celebrated Master of the Revels. The arms are
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