enens flammantem, dextra secum adolescentem capillis
arreptum, manus ad superos tendentem, obtestantemque
immortalium deorum fidem, trahit. Anteit vir pallidus, in
specium impurus, acie oculorum minime hebeti, caeterum plane
iis similis, qui gravi aliquo morbo contabuerunt. Hic livor
est, ut facile conjicias. Quin, et mulierculae aliquot Insidiae
et Fallaciae ut comites Calumniam comitantur. Harum est munus,
dominam hortari, instruere, comere, et subornare. A tergo,
habitu lugubri, pullato, laceroque Poenitentia subsequitur,
quae capite in tergum deflexo, cum lachrymis, ac pudore procul
venientem Veritatem agnoscit, et excipit."

[398] A _Fletcher_ is a maker of bows and arrows.--ASH.

[399] Brooke died at the old mansion opposite the Roman town of
Reculver in Kent. The house is still known as Brooke-farm; and
the original gateway of decorative brickwork still exists. He
was buried in Reculver Church, now destroyed, where a mural
monument was erected to his memory, having a rhyming
inscription, which told the reader:--

"Fifteenth October he was last alive,
One thousand six hundred and twenty-five,
Seaventy-three years bore he fortune's harms,
And forty-five an officer of armes."

Brooke was originally a painter-stainer. His enmity to Camden
appears to have originated in the appointment of the latter to
the office of Clarencieux on the death of Richard Lee; he
believing himself to be qualified for the place by greater
knowledge, and by his long connexion with the College of Arms.
His mode of righting himself lacked judgment, and he was twice
suspended from his office, and was even attempted to be
expelled therefrom.--ED.

[400] In Anstis's edition of "A Second Discoverie of Errors in the
Much-commended 'Britannia,' &c.," 1724, the reader will find
all the passages in the "Britannia" of the edition of 1594 to
which Brooke made exceptions, placed column-wise with the
following edition of it in 1600. It is, as Anstis observes, a
debt to truth, without making any reflections.

[401] There is a sensible observation in the old "Biographia
Britannica" on Brooke. "From the splenetic attack originally
made by Rafe Brooke upon the 'Britanni