Fertur ad ingenii culmen, opella levis,
Nec quid vult aliud (quid enim velit haud tibi notum)
Quam ut justum authoris deferat.—Ib. vol. viii. p. 541.
[92] Samuel Butler, born 1612, died, it is said, in great poverty, and was buried in S. Paul’s, Covent Garden, 1680.
[93] Wren’s lunar globe will be remembered. Vide supra, [p. 125].
The satire made some sensation and caused La Fontaine to write Un Animal dans la Lune, in which, courtier like, he pays a compliment to Charles II., and hints at the happiness of England at peace and able to give herself ‘à ces emplois,’ while France was at war with Holland, Spain, and the Empire.
[94] Dr. Richard Bayley, President of S. John’s College.
[95] Bishop Andrewes bequeathed 332l. to the library of Pembroke College.
[96] Some alterations have recently been made at Pembroke, in which, under the late Sir G. Scott’s orders, the chapel has been lengthened by about 20 feet, the stucco of the exterior stripped, and the red brick pointed.
[97] For an account of the great rarity of stone roofs see Fergusson’s Illustrated Handbook of Architecture, vol. ii. p. 879. It is said that Wren used often to look at the beautiful roof of King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, and say he would build such another if anyone would tell him where to put the first stone.