[49] Jeremy Taylor, b. 1613; d. 1667. First collected edition of his works issued in 1822 (Bishop Heber); reissued, with revision (C. P. Eden), 1852-61.
[50] John Evelyn, b. 1620; d. 1706. His best known books are his Diary, and Sylva—a treatise on arboriculture.
[51] I have not been careful to give the ipsissima verba of Taylor’s version of this old Oriental legend, which has been often cited, but never more happily transplanted into the British gardens of doctrine than by Jeremy Taylor.
[52] John Suckling, b. 1609; d. 1642. An edition of his poems, edited by W. C. Hazlitt, was published in 1874.
[53] William Prynne, b. 1600; d. 1669. He was a Somersetshire man, severely Calvinistic, and before he was thirty had written about the Unloveliness of Love Locks.
[54] Robert Burton, b. 1576; d. 1639, was too remarkable a man to get his only mention in a note; but we cannot always govern our spaces. His best-known work, The Anatomy of Melancholy, is an excellent book to steal from—whether quotations or crusty notions of the author’s own.
[55] Abraham Cowley, b. 1618; d. 1667. Edmund Waller, b. 1605; d. 1687.
[56] I give a taste of these young verses, first published in the Poetical Blossoms of 1633; also sampled approvingly by the mature Cowley in his essay On Myself:
“This only grant me, that my means may lie
Too low for envy, for contempt too high.