The Poems of Richard Corbet, late bishop of Oxford and of Norwich: 4th editionCorbet, Richard
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The Poems of Richard Corbet, late bishop of Oxford and of Norwich: 4th edition
Corbet, Richard
English poetry
[91] Students of Christ-Church College, Oxford, which, as well as
Whitehall, the “palace” before mentioned, was founded by Wolsey.
[92] The figure in these lines is taken from the fine church of St.
Mary’s, Nottingham, in which the long chancel and nave with the tower
in the midst resemble the object of the bishop’s metaphor. The castle
mentioned in the succeeding lines has “perished ’mid the wreck of things
that were.”
[93] Guy and Colebrand.
[94] Where David king of the Scots was kept prisoner.
[95] Which is within the Castle.
[96] Every part of Corbet’s account of Nottingham Castle corresponds so
closely with the relation of Leyland, in his Itinerary, vol. iii. p. 105,
&c., that it would be superfluous to transcribe it. See also Speed’s
Chronicle, p. 540; and Holinshed’s Chronicle, p. 349.
[97] In Nottinghame.
[98] “He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.” Proverbs
xxviii. ver. 20.
[99] Dr. Jucks.
[100] Mr. Edward Mason.—MS. 1625.
[101] “The 25th of April, 1603, being Thursday, his highnesse (James
the First) tooke his way towards New-warke upon Trent, where that night
he lodged in the Castle, being his owne house, where the aldermen of
New-warke presented his Majestie with a faire gilt cup, manifesting their
duties and loving hearts to him; which was kindly received.”
“The true Narration of his Majesty’s Journey from Edenbrough, &c.” 1603.
[102] Leister forrest.
[103] Bosworth field. Edit. 1648.
[104] From this passage we learn that Richard Burbage, the _alter
Roscius_ of Camden, was the original representative of Shakespeare’s
Richard the Third.
He was buried in the parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, as Mr. Chalmers
discovered, on the 16th of March, 1618-19.
[105] The clerical profligate thus gibbeted for the example of posterity
was John Bust, inducted the 8th of April, 1611. He seems to have been a
worthy prototype of the Natta of antiquity:
Non pudet ad morem discincti vivere Nattæ?
Sed stupet hic vitio, et fibris increvit opimum
Pingue; caret culpa; nescit quid perdat, et alto
Demersus, summa rursum non bullit in unda.
Persius, iii. 31.
[106] Guyes cliff. Edit. 1648. The cliff and chapel are engraved in
Dugdale’s Warwickshire, vol. i. 274. Ed. 1730.
[107] Of the Theorbo, or Cithara bijuga, so called from its having two
necks, which appears from Kircher as well as the bishop’s poetry to have
been highly esteemed in Corbet’s time, a graphical representation may be
found in Hawkins’s History of Music, vol. iv. p. 111. 4to. 1776.
[108] Warwick Castle. Edit. 1648.
[109] Fulke Greville, lord Brooke.
[110] Arch-deacon Burton. Edit. 1648.
[111] At the signe of the Alter-stone. Edit. 1648.
[112] Which serve for troughs in the backside. Ibid.
[113] Three dames,
“Well known and like esteemed.”
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