They prest his lordship wondrous hard, His lordship then did want the guard, So did they throng him for the nonce, Till he bless them all at once, And cry'd _Hodiissime_: _Omnes Magistri estote_. Nor is this all which we do sing, For of your praise the world must ring: Reader, unto your tackling look, For there is coming forth a book, Will spoyl _Joseph Bernesius_ The sale of _Rex Platonicus_. His Majesty was, as usual, entertained with speeches, disputations, and dramatic exhibitions. Fuller relates, that the following EXTRAORDINARY DIVINITY ACT, Or Disputation, was kept at Cambridge before this prince, during this visit, where Dr. John Davenant (afterwards Bishop of Sarum) was respondent, and Dr. Richardson, amongst others, opponent. The question was maintained, in the _negative_, concerning the excommunicating of kings. Dr. Richardson vigorously pressed the practice of St. Ambrose, who excommunicated the emperor Theodosius,--insomuch, says Fuller, that the king, in a great passion, returned,--"_Profecto fuit hoc ab Ambrosio insolentissime factum_." To which Dr. R. rejoined,--"_Responsum vere Regium, et Alexandro dignum, hoc non est argumentu dissolvere, sed desecare_,"--and so, sitting down, discontinued from any further argument. It was for the entertainment of James during this visit, that THE FAMOUS CAMBRIDGE LATIN COMEDY, Entitled IGNORAMUS, was first enacted. It originated in a dispute on the question of precedency, in 1611, when the Mayor, whose name was Thomas Smart, had seated himself in a _superior_ place in the Guildhall of the town, in the presence of the Vice-Chancellor of the University, who asserted his right to the same; but the Mayor refused to resign the seat, till the Vice-Chancellor's attendants forcibly ejected him. The dispute was laid before the Privy Council, who decided in favour of the Vice-Chancellor. But during the progress of the affair, the Recorder of Cambridge, named Brankyn, stoutly defended the Mayor and Corporation against the rights of the University. This it was that induced the author of the play, Geo. Ruggle, Fellow of Clare-Hall, to _show him up_, in the pedantic, crafty, pragmatical character of _Ignoramus_; and if lawyer Brankyn, it is said, had not actually set the dispute agoing, he greatly contributed to keep it alive. At this time King James had long been expected to visit Cambridge, who had a strong prejudice against lawyers, and a ruling passion to be thought the patron of literature. The circumstances suggested to Ruggle the propriety of exposing lawyer Brankyn before his Majesty, in the above character, and to render it the more forcible, he resolved to adopt the common-law forms, and the cant and barbarous phraseology of lawyers in the ordinary discourse. It was, therefore, necessary that he should make himself master of that _dialect_, in which almost the best amongst them were accustomed to