Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume IIVaughan, Henry
General
Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II
Vaughan, Henry
Poetry
Marcellus Palingenius, or Petro Angelo Manzoli, wrote his didactic and
satirical poem, the _Zodiacus Vitae_, about 1535. It was translated into
English by Barnabee Googe in 1560-1565. The latest edition of the
original is that by C. C. Weise (1832). As we may gather from Vaughan's
lines, Manzoli was an earnest student of occult lore. _Cf._ Gustave
Reynier, _De Marcelli Palingenii Stellatae Poctae Zodiaco Vitae_ (1893).
P. 195. To Lysimachus.
_Bevis ... Arundel ... Morglay_. The allusion is to the _Romance of Sir
Bevis of Hampton_ (ed. E. Koelbing, E. E. T. S., 1885). Arundel was Sir
Bevis' horse, and Morglay his sword.
P. 197. On Sir Thomas Bodley's Library.
If Vaughan was not himself an Oxford man (_Biog. Note_, vol. ii., p.
xxvi), he may have been in Oxford with the King's troops at the end of
August, 1645 (_Biog. Note_, vol. ii., p. xxxi).
_Walsam_, Walsingham, in Norfolk, famous for the rich shrine of Our Lady
of Walsingham, to which many offerings were made.
P. 200. The Importunate Fortune.
I. 105. _My purse, as Randolph's was._ The allusion is to Randolph's _A
Parley with his Empty Purse_, which begins:
"Purse, who'll not know you have a poet's been,
When he shall look and find no gold herein?"
P. 204. To I. Morgan, of Whitehall, Esq.
Whitehall appears to be an Anglicised form of Wenallt, more properly
Whitehill. John Morgan, or Morgans, of Wenallt, in Llandetty, was a
kinsman of Vaughan's, as the following table (from Harl. MS., 2,289, f.
39) shows:
John Morgans.
|
Morgan Jones = Frances, d. of Charles
| Vaughan of Tretower
_________________________|_______________
| |
John Morgans = Mary, d. to Thomas Anne =
Aubrey of Llantrithid. 1. Charles Williams
of Scethrog.
2. Hugh Powell, parson
of Llansantffread.
P. 211. To the Editor of the Matchless Orinda.
_cf._ p. 100, _note_. These lines do not appear in either the 1664 or
the 1667 edition of Orinda's poems.
P. 213. Upon Sudden News of the Much Lamented Death of Judge Trevers.
"This was probably Sir Thomas Trevor, youngest son of John Trevor, Esq.,
of Trevallyn, co. Denbigh, by Mary, daughter of Sir George Bruges, of
London. He was born 6th July, 1586. He was made one of the Barons of the
Exchequer 12th May, 1625; and was one of the six judges who refused to
accept the new commission offered them by the ruling powers under the
Commonwealth. He died 21st December, 1656, and is buried at
Lemington-Hastang, in Warwickshire." (Dr. Grosart.)
P. 214. To Etesia (for Timander) The First Sight.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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