His poems are pure naturall witt, delightfull and easie.
Quaere what he hath writt besides his poems: vide part iii, p.[695] 7b.
It appeares by his verses to Master Ailesbury[CV], Dec. 9, 1618, that he had knowledge of analyticall learning, being so well acquainted with him and the learned Mr. Thomas Harriot.
[696]I have not seen the date of his Iter Boreale; but it ends thus:—
We return'd, but just with so much ore,
As Rauleigh from his voyage, and no more.
[697]Memorandum:—his antagonist Dr. <Daniel> Price, the anniversarist, was made deane of the church at Hereford. Dr. <William> Watts, canon of that church, told me, 1656, that this deane was a mighty pontificall proud man, and that one time when they went in procession about the cathedrall church, he would not doe it the usually way in his surplice, hood, etc., on foot, but rode on a mare, thus habited, with the Common-Prayer booke in his hand, reading. A stone-horse happend to breake loose[698] ... he would never ride in procession afterwards.
[699]In the cathedral church of Norwich, upper end of the choeur, towards the steppes to the altar, in the middle is a little altar-tombe of bishop Herbert the founder; south of which tombe is a faire freestone gravestone of bishop Corbet, the inscription and shield of brasse are stollen. Vide A. Wood's Antiq. Oxon. <His> son <is a> fainiant.
Notes.
[CP] Aubrey gives in colours the coat, 'or, a raven sable [Corbet],' wreathed with laurel.
[CQ] An alternative reading is given:—