Under this _learned Schoolmaster_ he attained to a good degree of learning, and was statutably admitted in St. _John's_-Colledge in _Cambridge_, (as many years after incorporated a honorary Member of _Christ-Church_ in _Oxford_) here he staid but some small time, for want of maintainance; for if there be no Oyl in the Lamp, it will soon be extinguish'd: And now, as if he had quite laid aside all thoughts of the University, he betook himself to the Trade of his Father-in-law; And let not any be offended herewith, since it is more commendable to work in a lawful Calling, then having one not to use it. He was one who helped in the building of the new Structure of _Lincolns-Inn_, where, having a Trowel in his hand, he had a Book in his pocket, that as his work went forward, so his study went not backward. But such _rare Parts_ as he had could be no more hid, than the Sun in a serene day, some Gentlemen pitying such rare Endowments should be buried under the rubbish of so mean a Calling, did by their bounty manumise him freely to follow his own ingenious inclinations. Indeed his Parts were not so ready to run of themselves, as able to answer the spur; so that it may be truly said of him, that he had an elaborate wit wrought out by his own industry; yet were his Repartees for the most part very quick and smart, and which favour'd much of ingenuity, of which I shall give you two instances. He having been drinking in an upper room, at the _Feathers_-Tavern in _Cheap side_, as he was coming down stairs, his foot slipping, he caught a fall, and tumbling against a door, beat it open into a room where some Gentlemen were drinking _Canary_; recovering his feet, he said, _Gentlemen, since I am so luckily fallen into your company, I will drink with you before I go_. He used very much to frequent the _Half-Moon_-Tavern in _Aldersgate-street_, through which was a common _Thorough fare_; he coming late that way, one night, was denied passage, whereupon going through the _Sun_-Tavern a little after, he said, _Since that the_ Moon _was so unkind to make me go about, The_ Sun _hence forth shall take my Coin, the_ Moon _shall go without_. His constant humour was to sit silent in learned Company, and suck in (besides Wine) their several Humours into his observation; what was _Ore_ in others, he was able to refine unto himself. He was one, and the chief of them, in ushering forth the Book of _Coriats Crudities_, writing not only a Character of the Author, an explanation of his Frontispiece, but also an Acrostick upon his Name, which for the sutableness of it, (tho' we have written something of others mock Verses) we shall here insert it. T_ry and trust_ Roger, _was the word, but now_ H_onest_ Tom Tell-troth _puts down_ Roger, How? O_f travel he discourseth so at large_, M_arry he sets it out at his own charge_; A_nd therein (which is worth his valour, too)_ S_hews he dare more than_ Paul's _Church-yard durst do._