Buck was a scholar as well as a printer[56]; the edition of _Poetae Graeci Minores_ printed by him in 1635, which has a title-page engraved by William Marshall, was described, though with some exaggeration, as "the most elegant book of the Cantabrigian press delivered to the public"; Mede's _Clavis Apocalyptica_ (second edition, 1632) is also notable for its fine Hebrew type. Apart from the typographical interest of the work of Thomas Buck and his partners, there are some famous names amongst the authors whose works they printed. Those of Giles and Phineas Fletcher, the two brothers who "head the line of poets who were divines of the English church," are prominent in the list. The former's _Christ's Victorie_ was reprinted in 1632 and 1640 and under the name of Phineas (who, like his brother, had contributed to _Sorrowes Joy_ in 1603) we find _Locustae, vel pietas jesuitica_ (1627), the poem which is said to have contributed to the inspiration of _Paradise Lost_; and, in 1633, _Sylva Poetica_, _The Purple Island_, and _Elisa or An Elegie Upon the Unripe Decease of Sir Antonie Irby_. A more famous work of the period is that of George Herbert, Public Orator from 1619 to 1627, during which time, according to Walton, he managed the office "with as becoming and grave a gaiety, as any had ever before or since his time; for he had acquired great learning, and was blessed with a high fancy, a civil and sharp wit, and with a natural elegance, both in his behaviour, his tongue, and his pen." From his deathbed he sent a manuscript to "his dear brother Ferrar," describing it as "a picture of the many spiritual conflicts that have passed betwixt God and my soul, before I could subject mine to the will of Jesus my Master; in whose service I have now found perfect freedom." This was the manuscript of _The Temple_, published in 1633, and reprinted many times in the following ten years. Another of the 'sacred poets' whose works were printed at Cambridge at this time is Richard Crashaw (_Epigrammatum Sacrorum Liber_, 1634). John Donne is represented by a volume of _Six Sermons upon severall occasions, preached before the King, and elsewhere_, posthumously published in 1634; and Thomas Fuller, that loyal son and historian of the university, by _The Historie of the Holie Warre_ (1639). [Illustration: TITLE-PAGE OF _THE TEMPLE_, 1633] But the most famous name of all is that of John Milton, for at Cambridge was printed the first edition of _Lycidas_. It was included in the _Obsequies to the memorie of Mr Edward King_ (1638)[57] and the University Library copy contains corrections in Milton's own hand. These few titles, selected from the long list of Cambridge books of this period, are themselves a justification of Bowes's conclusion that "the press was in a condition of great activity during the period that Buck was connected with it."