and there made many papers that had passed his pen, both in the days of his youth and in the busy part of his life, useless, by a fire made there to that purpose. These, and several unusual expressions to his servants and friends, seemed to foretell that the day of his death drew near; for which he seemed to those many friends that observed him, to be well prepared, and to be both patient and free from all fear, as several of his letters writ on this his last sick bed may testify. And thus he continued till about the beginning of December following, at which time he was seized more violently with a quotidian fever, in the tenth fit of which fever his better part, that part of Sir Henry Wotton which could not die, put off mortality with as much content and cheerfulness as human frailty is capable of, being then in great tranquillity of mind, and in perfect peace with GoD and man.'

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And thus the circle of Sir Henry Wotton's life--that circle which began at Bocton, and in the circumference thereof did first touch at Winchester school, then at Oxford, and after upon so many remarkable parts and passages in Christendom-that circle of his life was by death thus closed up and completed, in the seventysecond year of his age, at Eton College, where, according to his will, he now lies buried, with his mottoon a plain grave-stone over him. Dying worthy of his name

The following exquisitely beautiful hymn was written by him in his sickness:

"O thou great Power, in whom I move,

For whom I live, to whom I die!
Behold me through thy beams of love,
Whilst on this couch of tears I lie,
And cleanse my sordid soul within
By thy CHRIST's blood, the bath of sin.
No hallow'd oils, no grains I need,
No rags of saints, no purging fire;
One rosy drop from David's seed

Was worlds of seas to quench thine ire.
O, precious ransom! which, once paid,
That consummatum est was said;

And said by him that said no more,
But seal'd it with his dying breath.
Thou then that hast dispung'd my score,
And dying wast the death of Death,
Be to me now on thee I call,
My life, my strength, my joy, my all."

and family; worthy of the love and favor of so many princes and persons of eminent wisdom and learning; worthy of the trust committed unto him for the service of his prince and country.

And all readers are requested to believe, that he was worthy of a more worthy pen to have preserved his memory and commended his merits to the imitation of posterity.

IZ. WA.

THE WORKS

OF

SIR HENRY WOTTON.

SIR HENRY WOTTON's poems were collected by Isaac Walton, and inserted in Reliquiæ Wottoniana; or, a Collection of Lives, Letters, Poems, with Characters of sundry Personages, and other incomparable Pieces of Language and Art. By the curious Pencil of the ever memorable Sir HENRY WOTTON, Kt. late Provost of Eton College, 1651. In the fourth edition which appeared in 1685, is the valuable addition of letters to the Lord Zouch.

This collection contains the Treatise on the Elements of Architecture, first published in 1624, 4to. This Treatise is still held in great estimation: it has been translated into Latin, and annexed to the works of VITRUVIUS, and to FREART'S Parallel of the Ancient Architecture with the Modern.

Besides the pieces in the Remains, Sir HENRY WOTTON wrote

1. A Journal of his Embassies to Rome.

2. Three Propositions to the Court of Angosciola, in Matters of Duels.

3. The State of Christendom; or, a most exact and curious Discovery of many secret Passages and hidden Mysteries of the Times. Written by the renowned Sir HENRY WOTTON, Kt. Ambassador in Ordinary to the Most Serene Republique of Venice and late Provost of Eaton College. London, 1657. To which is added A Supplement to the History of the State of Christendom. Reprinted in 1677.

This work was begun about the year 1599, during Sir Henry Wotton's first residence at Venice, after his hasty departure from England.

THE LIFE

OF

MR. RICHARD HOOKER,

AUTHOR OF THOSE LEARNED BOOKS OF

THE LAWS OF ECCLESIASTICAL POLITY.

TO THE

RIGHT HONORABLE AND RIGHT REVEREND FATHER IN GOD,

GEORGE, LORD BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,

DEAN OF HIS MAJESTY'S CHAPEL ROYAl, and prelate of the MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER.

MY LORD,

I here present you with a relation of the life of that humble man, to whom, at the mention of his name, princes, and the most learned of this nation, have paid a reverence.

It was written by me under your roof, for which, and more weighty reasons, you might, if it were worthy, justly claim a title to it: but indeed, my Lord, though this be a well-meant sacrifice to the memory of that venerable man; yet I have so little confidence in my performance, that I beg your pardon for superscribing your name to it; and desire all that know your Lordship to receive it, not as a dedication, by which you receive any access of honor, but rather as a more humble and a more public acknowledgment of your long-continued, and your daily favors to

your most affectionate

and most humble servant

IZAAK WALTON.

.[Morley.] [At Chelsea.]

(This dedication is not given in ZOUCH's edition. It is here copied from HANBURY'S edition of the Works of Hooker; (London, 1830 ;) Hanbury having given it after the original (separate) edition of The Life of Hooker, 8vo. (665.]