Raven he was, yet was no gloomie fowle, Merrie at hearte, though innocente of soule; Where’er he perkt, the birds that came anighe Constrayned caught the humour of his eye: Under that shade no spights and wrongs were spred, Care came not nigh with his uncomlie head. Somewhile the thicke embranching trees amonge, Where Isis doth his waters leade alonge, Kissinge with modeste lippe the holie soyle, Reflecting backe each hallowed grove the while; Here did my raven trie his dulcive note, Charming old Science with his mellow throat. Sometimes with scholiasts deep in anciente lore, Through learnings long defyles he would explore; Then with keene wit untie the perplext knot Of Aristotle or the cunning Scot; Anon loud laughter shook the arched hall, For mirth stood redy at his potente call. Oxforde, thou couldst not binde his outspred wing, My raven flew where bade his princelye king; Norwiche must honours give he did not crave, Norwiche must lend his palace and his grave: And that kinde hearte which gave such vertue birth Must here be shrouded in the greedie earth. Ofte hath thy humble lay-clerke led along, When thou wert by, the eve or matin song; And oftimes rounde thy marble shall he strole, To chaunte sad requiems to thy soothed soul;— Sleep on, till Gabriel’s trump shall break thy sleep, And thou and I one heavenlie holiday shall keep. Bp. Corbet’s Poems. DR. THOMAS RAVIS. In the following tribute to the memory of a fellow-collegian, and predecessor in the deanery of Christ Church, it will not be too much to conjecture that Corbet was urged by gratitude for kindness experienced while the latter was young. The “Elegie” was evidently written immediately upon the interment of its subject, as towards its conclusion he complains that no tomb was raised over his remains; a complaint which was soon after obviated, when a fair monument was erected, bearing the following inscription, which contains all that is necessary to be told here of the circumstances of his life and character: “MEMORIÆ SACRUM. Thomas Ravis, claris natalibus Mauldenæ in Suthreia natus, Regius Alumnus in Schola Westmonasteriensi educatus, in Academiam Oxoniensem adscitus, omnes academicos honores consequutus, et magistratibus perfunctus, Decanus Ecclesiæ Christi ibidem constitutus, et bis Academiæ Pro-Cancellarius. Unde ob doctrinam, gravitatem, et spectatam prudentiam, à Rege Jacobo, primum ad Episcopatum Glocestrensem provectus, deinde ad Londinensem translatus, et demum à Christo, dum Ecclesiæ, Patriæ, Principi vigilaret, in cœlestem patriam evocatus, placide pieque emigravit, et quod mortale fuit, certa spe resurgendi, hic deposuit, die 14 Decembris, An. salutis 1609.” AN ELEGIE WRITTEN UPON THE DEATH OF DR. RAVIS, BISHOP OF LONDON.