The life and times of George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, Volume 1 (of 3): From original and authentic sourcesThomson, A. T., Mrs.
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The life and times of George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, Volume 1 (of 3): From original and authentic sources
Thomson, A. T., Mrs.
Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1592-1628
Another play, entitled “Albumazar,” followed the successful
representation of “Ignoramus;” this, and a Latin pastoral, were the
“action or invention of Trinity College, and met with a gracious
approval from the King, who, even at his repasts, was now heard loudly
to extol Cambridge above Oxford; and yet an awkward incident occurred
during the royal visit. During the acts and disputations, in which James
delighted, the University orator addressed Prince Charles, who stood
beside his father, as Prince Jacobissime Carole;” it was also said that
he called him Jacobule, too, which, observed an eye-witness, “neither
pleased the King nor anybody else.”[76] Buckingham, who possibly
understood no Latin, must have found the dramas, the pastoral, the acts
and disputations insufferably tedious; but he was now the tool of a
party, and therefore, doubtless, remained to witness all these various
exhibitions, little dreaming that one day he was to be installed
Chancellor of that very University. Dark and contemptuous looks were
discerned on the faces of sundry jealous Oxonians, who had gone to see
and to ridicule their rivals, the Cambridge men, who were continually,
as a contemporary relates, “applauding themselves, and the Oxford men as
fast condemning and detracting all that was done.”[77] The best comment
upon the exploits of the boastful collegians was that returned by Mr.
Corbet, afterwards Bishop Corbet, who, “being seriously dealt withal by
some friends to say what he thought, answered that he had left his
malice and judgment at home, and came thither only to commend.”[78]
Footnote 76:
Nichols’s Progresses, vol. iii., p. 59.
Footnote 77:
Nichols’s Progresses. Letter from Mr. Chamberlain to Mr. D. Carleton,
State Papers, Domestic, James I.
Footnote 78:
Ibid.
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