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theme, which looks as if he accepted the Doctrine of Signatures :

Nor can this Head-like Nut, shap'd like the Brain
Within, be said that Form by chance to gain,
Or Caryon call'd by learned Greeks in vain.
For Membranes soft as Silk, her Kernel bind,
Whereof the inmost is of tendrest kind,

Like those which on the Brain of Man we find;
All which are in a Seam-join'd Shell enclos'd,
Which of this Brain the Skull may be suppos'd.
This very Skull envelop'd is again

In a green Coat, his Pericranion.

Lastly, that no Objection may remain,

To thwart her near Alliance to the Brain;
She nourishes the Hair, remembring how

Herself deform'd without her leaves does show:
On barren Scalps she makes fresh Honours grow.

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I ought to add that Cowley wrote the poem in Latin, and the translation of Book V., from which the above is extracted, was the work of Nahum Tate,. who succeeded Shadwell as Poet-Laureate in 1690, having in 1697 published a poem on the "Art of Angling" which went into several editions, but which. I do not remember Mr. Andrew Lang baiting his literary hook with.

Cowley's ashes were deemed worthy to rest in Westminster Abbey, near those of Chaucer and

1 Kápvwv = a nut.

↑ Mater pia and dura Mater.—Cowley's Note.

Spenser, and the King delivered himself of what Sprat considered his best epitaph: "that Mr. Cowley had not left a better man behind him in England." Perhaps a more fitting one were the words of his brother poet, Sir John Denham :—

Horace's Wit and Virgil's State

He did not steal, but emulate:

And when he would like them appear,
Their Garb, but not their Cloaths did wear.

In Marvell's poem, "Upon Appleton House," addressed to Lord Fairfax, in Hudibrastic metre, (too long to quote at length,) are continuous allusions to Gardens. One of the early owners, it seems, had a touch of Uncle Toby in his composition:

Who, when retired here to peace,
His warlike studies could not cease;
But laid these gardens out in sport
In the just figure of a fort;

And with five bastions it did fence
As aiming one for ev'ry sense.

See how the flow'rs as at parade
Under their colours stand displaid;
Each regiment in order grows,
That of the tulips, pinke and rose.

Tulips, in several colours barr'd,

Were then the Switzers of our Guard.1

1 Allusion to the Papal Swiss Guard, whose striped uniforms still in use were designed by Michael Angelo.

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The Gardiner had the Souldier's place,
And his more gentle forts did trace;
The Nursery of all things green
Was then the only magazeen.

We may not linger longer with the Laureate of the lowly Glow-worm, but follow loftier Lights, who

Λαμπάδια ἔχοντες διαδώσουσιν ἀλλήλοις.

In Temple we saw a retired Statesman and Diplomatist devoting his leisure to Gardening. The practice of Politics was one of the few forms of action that John Evelyn took no lively share in-though he was too much a Civis Mundi not to be intellectually interested in that, as in most other things. Unlike Edmund Burke, who also, as we learn from his correspondence with Arthur Young, busied himself with practical farming, and in politics, according to Goldsmith,

Narrowed his mind,

And to party gave up, what was meant for mankind. Evelyn made mankind his constant study, and no one better fulfilled Terence's maxim, as was abundantly testified by his anxiety about the condition and relief of the poor discharged seamen, when he was appointed Commissioner for the Care of the Sick, Wounded, and Prisoners in the Dutch War.

Bookman and library-lover as he was, Grolier's generously genial motto, Sibi et Amicis, would not have sufficed the large-hearted and -minded Evelyn, for whom Mundo et Sibi would have better expressed his far-reaching humanity. Not only may he stand for the fine flower of English gentlehood of his day, but he offers the broadest and fullest example of Carolean culture and conduct, as Sidney fitly represents these qualities in the Elizabethan period. It is true that none of Evelyn's numerous writings scales the poetic peaks of Sidney's "Arcadia "-nor glows with the fiery fervour of his "Defence of Poesie." In Evelyn, the chivalry and urbanity of his character and styleinterchangeable words-are toned and tinctured by something of the chill autumnal hues of Puritan austerity or are modified by the sweet seriousness, as well as reasonableness of Falkland, who died a martyr to moderation and the middle course. Although Evelyn held aloof from the storm and stress of politics and revolution, and as a moral-minded man was revolted by the scandalous licence and dissoluteness of Charles's Court, he was a trusted adviser to Charles II. and his brother; and as Member of the Council of Foreign Plantations (or as we should now say, of the Colonies) and a Commissioner of the Privy Seal, he served both

Sovereigns; in brief, as Sir Leslie Stephen writes rather irreconcileably, he was a hearty but cautious Royalist. The libertine levity of the Restoration reaction, its assertion of the "Will to Live," and to enjoy life in its porcine way, was an offence to his delicacy and refinement.

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Of the many subjects touched with his hand or pen, there was hardly one to which he did not lend lustre, for his own age at least. In nearly all he was a teacher, a friend of those who would "live in the spirit," or excel in the artistry of life. Whether the subject were Painting, Architecture, Forestry, Agriculture, Gardens, Engraving, the installation foundation of Libraries, Religion, Commerce, Lucretius's great Epicurean poem, the formation of the Royal Society, the rebuilding of London, the structure of the Earth, the abolition of the Smoke nuisance even the fashions, follies and dress of his generation-in one and all he was an originator, a pioneer, a reformer, or a meliorator-either by his own example and in his own person, by his writings, or the interpretation of other men's. To few men has it been granted to spread so wide a range of excellence over so long a life and so many different branches of art and literature; and to crown all, he has left in his

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