[49] Jeremy Taylor, b. 1613; d. 1667. First collected edition of his works issued in 1822 (Bishop Heber); reissued, with revision (C. P. Eden), 1852-61. [50] John Evelyn, b. 1620; d. 1706. His best known books are his _Diary_, and _Sylva_--a treatise on arboriculture. [51] I have not been careful to give the _ipsissima verba_ of Taylor’s version of this old Oriental legend, which has been often cited, but never more happily transplanted into the British gardens of doctrine than by Jeremy Taylor. [52] John Suckling, b. 1609; d. 1642. An edition of his poems, edited by W. C. Hazlitt, was published in 1874. [53] William Prynne, b. 1600; d. 1669. He was a Somersetshire man, severely Calvinistic, and before he was thirty had written about the _Unloveliness of Love Locks_. [54] Robert Burton, b. 1576; d. 1639, was too remarkable a man to get his only mention in a note; but we cannot always govern our spaces. His best-known work, _The Anatomy of Melancholy_, is an excellent book to steal from--whether quotations or crusty notions of the author’s own. [55] Abraham Cowley, b. 1618; d. 1667. Edmund Waller, b. 1605; d. 1687. [56] I give a taste of these young verses, first published in the _Poetical Blossoms_ of 1633; also sampled approvingly by the mature Cowley in his essay _On Myself_: “This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. Some honor I would have Not from great deeds, but good alone. The unknown are better than ill known; Rumour can ope the grave. “Thus would I double my life’s fading space, For he that runs it well, twice runs his race. And in this true delight, These unbought sports, this happy state, I would not fear nor wish my fate. But boldly say each night To-morrow let my sun his beams display, Or in clouds hide them;--I have liv’d to-day!” [57] John Milton, b. 1608; d. 1674. Editions of his works are numberless; but Dr. Masson is the fullest and best accredited contributor to Miltonian literature. [58] John and Edward Phillips both with him; the latter only as pupil. [59] More probably, perhaps, sulking for lack of her old gayeties of life in the range of Royal Oxford. Aubrey’s accounts would favor this interpretation. [60] _Poems of Mr. John Milton, both English and Latin, composed at several Times._ London, 1645. [61] In that day Whitehall Street was separated from Charing Cross by the famous gate of Holbein’s; and in the other direction it was crossed, near Old Palace Yard, by the King’s-Street Gate--thus forming a vast court. [62] Salmasius, a Leyden professor, had been commissioned by Royalists to write a defence of Charles I., and vindicate his memory. Milton was commissioned to reply; and the result was--a Latin battle in Billingsgate. Milton calls his antagonist “a grammatical louse, whose only treasure of merit and hope of fame consisted in a glossary.”