nowme liues euer by endighting.

_Dublin_ this 18 of July, 1586. _Your devoted Friend during life, Edmund
Spencer._"

I avail myself of an opportunity of throwing together a few particulars
of the life and writings of this very intimate friend of Spenser, more
especially as they will throw general light on the present period. He
was born at Saffron-Walden in Essex, [John] Strype's [_Life of the
Learned Sir Thomas] Smith_. [London, 1698] p. 18. He was a fellow of
Pembroke-Hall, Spenser's college: and was one of the proctors of the
university of Cambridge, in 1583. [Thomas] Fuller's [_History of the
University of] Cambridge_, p. 146. [in his] _Ch[urch] Hist[ory of
Britain_]. [London, 1655.] Wood says, he was first of Christ's college,
and afterwards fellow of Trinity-Hall, _Ath. Oxon._ F[asti, I, col.
755]. But Wood must be mistaken, for in the _Epilogus_ to his _Smithus_,
addressed to John Wood Smith's amanuensis, Harvey dates from
Pembroke-Hall. _Smithus_, Signat. G. iij. [G4 verso.] [Warton probably
did not intend to deny that Harvey was a fellow of Trinity, but
evidently felt that Wood was ignorant of the intermediate fellowship at
Pembroke.] He was doctorated in jurisprudence at both universities. With
his brother Henry, he was much addicted to Astrology. (See supr. [Vol.
IV], p. 23.)

He seems to have been a reader in rhetoric at Cambridge from his
_Ciceronianus, vel Oratio post reditum habita Cantabrigiae ad suos
auditores_. Lond. 1577. 4to. It is dedicated to William Lewin, I suppose
of Christ's college. (See Wood, ubi supr.) He published also _Rhetor,
vel duorum dierum oratio de natura arte et exercitatione_ rhetorica,
Lond. 1577. 4'o. It is dedicated to Bartholomew Clark, the elegant
translator of Castilios _Courtier_, who has also prefixed an address to
our author's _Rhetor_, dated at Mitcham in Surrey, Cal. Sept. 1577. He
published in four books, a set of Latin poems called _Gabrielis Harveii
Gratulationum Valdinensium Libri quatuor_, &c. Lond. 1578. 4to. This
book he wrote in honour of queen Elisabeth, while she was on a progress
at Audley-end in Essex, "afterwards presenting the same in print to her
Highnesse at the worshipfull Maister Capels in Hertfordshire." _Notes_
to Spenser's _September_. He mentions a most perfect and elegant
delineation or engraving of all England, _perartificiose expressa_,
procured by his friend M. Saccoford, to which the queen's effigy,
_accuratissime depicta_, was prefixed. Li