g his posthumous spite upon the author of the Rehearsal Transprosed, would have us believe "that our Poet could not speak without a sound basting: whereupon having frequently undergone this d

855.1 When we remember how frequently in those days Marvell's pet subjects were un

Speaker." It was in March 1677, and is thus reported in the Parliamentary Hi

umbling at Sir Philip Harcourt's foot, in recovering himself, seemed to give Sir Philip a box on the ear. The Speaker acq

ffront, nor intended him any. But the Speaker cast a severe reflection upon him yesterday, when he was out of

s vindication. If these two gentlemen are friends already, he wo

ir, and a stroke struck! Marvell deserves for his reflection on you, Mr. Speaker, to be called in questi

blow on one side, and

kind of a stumble, and mine was only

accidental, but if done in jest, not fit to be done here. He

ot excuse Marvell who made a very severe reflection on the Speaker, and since it is so enquired

instead of excusing himself, reflects upon the Sp

em, that there was no heat in the thing. He is sorry he gave an offence to the house. He seldom speaks to the house, and if he commit an error, in the manner of his speech, being not so well tuned, he hopes it is not an offence. Whether out or in the house, he has a respect to the Speaker. But he has been informed that the Speaker resumed

t his eye upon both of them, and both respected him. He would not aggravate

ell flung about three or four times with his

s may explain, whether he saw not Marvell with his hat only give Harco

he right. But Marvell struck Harcourt so hom

ourt say he received a blow, when he has not. He

shall not make the thing greater than it

ouse. Would have them made friends, and give that necessary a

in the house, and people very orderly; not so much as to read a letter, or set up a foot. One could scarce know anybody in the house, b

full of likes and dislikes, readier with his tongue in the lobby than with "set" speeches in the

s ears is a repeated wonder. He is said to have been on terms of intimate friendship with Prince Rupert, and it is a steady tradition that the ki

apus King, le

ng set up to s

ity of London of a statue of the king by Sir Robert Viner, a city knight, to whom Charles was very heavily in debt. Sir Robert, having a frugal mind, had acquired a statue of John Sobiesk

to the fierce

charges their

vanced the King'

ated, and Lomba

a knightly and

ity with a Kin

e might from his w

a calm is abso

ars, from the f

nge and a ma

s birthday to

a monkey much m

t passes finds fa

rm that the Kin

e likeness Sir

the King his o

disfigured-the

panniers more

his seat-that al

Peak1 sits much

ffirms that we d

at work, to ref

will never arr

a King as no

is errors rest

ope in Decemb

he world cannot

ave him than his

satire the following extra

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h, when thou dids

mes, would I ha

all them? Hadst t

ukes, and princ

ish race thou wo

lessings in this

rom thy long b

h me partake

power has force

en, why so unt

night, concealed

court in drunk

, and never

knows who did

shall favouri

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Galloway shal

golden cheat

uderdale shall

es shall cut-nos

happy mother

s parliaments, an

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of French pos

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ear tyrannic a

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and absolut

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tried to separ

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many kings, i

hell, by learni

famed Spense

Tudor's blest

powers her virgi

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it she dropped fr

rs, good deeds,

.

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ughts his long-sc

his throne an

s sound his dea

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good to save

more, for long i

rom the tyra

learned vi

blood his gen

, and make hi

flock, by him

al juice once

otent antido

ep'rous kings,

red, lest the

The elect of t

aw their scept

s base tyrann

, by God for

e Venetian s

outh famed prin

rudence of the

ople in their

pattern such a

e a glorious

Raleigh, teach

riety, and

side over the

ption should the

rts, and arms, i

th-not taverns,

nerous scorn the

pimping, and

rn the Carwells,

Osbornes, Bert

lline, and Ar

ese in lewdness

e the Talbots,

Blake, men void

glory, pillar

eeds all tongues

ardour their brig

arest country

e stone effigies of Charles the First at Charing Cross and Charles the Second

urch, good Chris

and beast have

ot credit the p

between two in

an of Wool-Chur

ruths worth any

Osborn did buy

y monarchs who no

stallion, and the

together, by

were weary of

, incognito, e

o jades, after

ursed, but fel

be quoted. Charles the Sec

romwell had ea

are it, I am

ernment did a

great, and his e

l by Cooper to Sidney Sussex College, is said t

ire end

anst them devise when

reign of the line of

ngland, rejoice, thy

ogether with kin

h, a Commonwealth we

repented the Kin

spread the popular, but mistaken, b

ommon Pleas), on the 17th of August, reports "Andrew Marvell died yesterday of apoplexy." Parliament was not sitting at the time. What was said of th

e bad times was not far-fetched. His satires, rough but moving, had

onster, Arb

iant ever tro

breasts, and

Island's wat

ap and bravely

one of obviou

or Art untwi

s in d

n?um (March 7, 1874) an extract from Richard Morton's Πυρετολογ?α (1692), containing a full account of Marvell's sickness and

em to be done most methodically), blood was copiously drawn from the patient, who was advanced in years." [Here follow more details of treatment, which I pass over.] "The way having been made ready after this fashion, at the beginning of the next fit, a great febrifuge was given, a draught, that is to say, of Venice treacle, etc. By the doctor's orders, the patient was covered up close with blankets, say rather, was buried under them; and composed himself to sleep and sweat, so that he might esc

Church in the Fields, under the window wherein is painted on glass a red lion." So writes

re built by Laud. The present imposing church

he coffin in which Mr. Marvell was placed: in this vault were deposited upwards of a thousand bodies, but I could fin

tance from this slab is the tombstone, recently brought in from the graveyard outside, of Georgius Chapman, Poeta, a fine Roman monument, prepared by the care and at the cost of the poet's friend, Inigo Jones. Still left exposed, in what is now a doleful garden (not

uld never drink hard in company, and was wont to say that he would not play the good fellow in any man's company in whose hands he would not trust his life. He kept bottles of wine at his lodgings, and many times he w

remark, was a grea

affidavit from the widow deposing that she was the lawful relict of the deceased, but this assertion on oath seems in ordinary cases to have been sufficient, if the customary fees were forthcoming. Captain Thompson roundly asserts that the alleged Mary Marvell was a cheat, and no more than the lodging-house keeper where he had last lived-and Marvell was a migratory man.1 Mary Marvell's name appears once again, in the forefront of the first edition of Marvell's Poems (1681), where she certifies all the contents to be her

e Town and Borough had for Andrew Marvell, Esq., one of the Burgesses of Parliament for the same Borough (lately deceased), and for his great merits from the Corporation. It is this da

and had been domestic chaplain to Sir Heneage Finch, a lawyer-member, much lashed by Marvell's bitter pen. Sharp had also taken part in the quarrel with the Dissenters, and is reported to have been very much opposed to

-one now being in the National Portrait Gallery. A

What authority is there for the reports of speeches? In Charles the Second's time some of th

ord May

s Ghost, in Poems

vell's Cottage,' has now disappeared. Several o