[91] Isaac Barrow, born 1630. He was so little studious as a boy, and so fond of fighting, that his father used often solemnly to wish that if it should please God to take one of his children it might be his son Isaac. When, however, in 1677, he did really die, the Lord Keeper (Lord Nottingham) sent his father a message of condolence, importing that 'he had but too great reason to grieve, since never father lost so good a son.' Dr. Isaac Barrow, Bishop of Man, 1663, and S. Asaph, 1669, was his uncle. _Life of Dr. Barrow_, vol. i. p. ix., ed. 1830. Among his poems is the following, which seems to be incomplete:-- AD. DD. CHR. WREN. Ad te, sed passu tremulo vultuque rubenti, Fertur ad ingenii culmen, opella levis, Nec quid vult aliud (quid enim velit haud tibi notum) Quam ut justum authoris deferat.--_Ib._ vol. viii. p. 541. [92] Samuel Butler, born 1612, died, it is said, in great poverty, and was buried in S. Paul's, Covent Garden, 1680. [93] Wren's lunar globe will be remembered. _Vide supra_, p. 125. The satire made some sensation and caused La Fontaine to write _Un Animal dans la Lune_, in which, courtier like, he pays a compliment to Charles II., and hints at the happiness of England at peace and able to give herself 'à ces emplois,' while France was at war with Holland, Spain, and the Empire. [94] Dr. Richard Bayley, President of S. John's College. [95] Bishop Andrewes bequeathed 332_l._ to the library of Pembroke College. [96] Some alterations have recently been made at Pembroke, in which, under the late Sir G. Scott's orders, the chapel has been lengthened by about 20 feet, the stucco of the exterior stripped, and the red brick pointed. CHAPTER VI. 1664-1667. REPAIR OF S. PAUL'S--SHELDONIAN THEATRE--THE PLAGUE--A LETTER FROM PARIS--CONSECRATION OF PEMBROKE CHAPEL--FIRE OF LONDON--BISHOP WREN'S DEATH--HIS FAMILY. Yet, London, Empress of the Northern Clime, By an high fate thou greatly didst expire, Great as the world's, which, at the death of time, Must fall, and rise a nobler frame by fire _Annus Mirabilis_, ccxii. Dryden. The repairs of S. Paul's Cathedral could not be delayed. Wren, as Sir John Denham's assistant, was greatly occupied about the matter, which was one of no ordinary difficulty. The responsibility was really his, for Sir John went out of his mind, and though he recovered, probably did but little business.