he was made doctor of divinity,
vicar of Cassington, near Woodstock, in Oxfordshire, and prebendary of
Bedminster-secunda, in the church of Sarum.[1]

While he was dean of Christ's church, he made verses on a play acted
before the King at Woodstock, called Technogamia, or the marriage of
Arts, written by Barten Holiday the poet, who afterwards translated
Juvenal. The ill-success it met with in the representation occasioned
several copies of verses, among which, to use Anthony Wood's words,
"Corbet dean of Christ's-church put in for one, who had that day it
seems preached before the King, with his band starched clean, for
which he was reproved by the graver sort; but those who knew him well
took no notice of it, for they have several times said, that he loved
to the last boy's play very well." He was elected, 1629, Bishop of
Oxford, in the room of Dr. Hewson, translated to the See of Durham.
Upon the promotion of Dr. White to Ely he was elected bishop of
Norwich.

This prelate married Alice, daughter of Dr. Leonard Hutton, vicar of
Flower in Northamptonshire, and he mentions that village in a poem of
his called Iter Boreale, or a Journey Northward. Our author was in
that celebrated class of poets, Ben Johnson, Dr. Donne, Michael
Drayton, and others, who wrote mock commendatory verses on Tom
Coryate's [2] Crudities. He concurred likewise with other poets of the
university in inviting Ben Johnson to Oxford, where he was created
Master of Arts. There is extant in the Musaeum Ashmoleanum, a funeral
oration in Latin, by Dr. Corbet, on the death of Prince Henry, Anno
Dom. 1612;[3] This great man died in the year 1635, and was buried the
upper-end of the choir of the cathedral church of Norwich.

He was very hospitable and a generous encourager of all public
designs. When in the year 1634 St. Paul's cathedral was repaired,
he not only contributed himself, but was very diligent in procuring
contributions from others. His works are difficult to be met with, but
from such of his poems as we have had occasion to read, he seems to
have been a witty, delicate writer, and to have had a particular
talent for panegyric. Wood says, a collection of his poems was
published under the title of Poetica Stromata, in 8vo. London 1647.
In his Iter Boreale, or Journey Northward, we meet with a fine moral
reflexion on the burial place of Richard III. and Cardinal Wolsey,
who were both interred at Leicester; with which we shall present the
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