‘London, October 25, 1658.’
Dr. Sprat[68] writes also to Christopher at about the same time:
‘Dear Sir,—This day I went to visit Gresham College, but found the place in such a nasty condition, so defiled, and the smells so infernal that if you should now come to make use of your tube, it would be like Dives looking out of hell into heaven. Dr. Goddard, of all your colleagues, keeps possession, which he could never be able to do had he not before prepared his nose for camp perfumes by his voyage into Scotland, and had he not such excellent restoratives in his cellars.’
CHAPTER V.
1659–1663.
APOSTOLICAL SUCCESSION—DIFFICULTY OF PRESERVING IT—LETTERS FROM LORD CLARENDON—BISHOP WREN’S RELEASE—THE RESTORATION—CONVOCATION—SAVILIAN PROFESSORSHIP—ROYAL SOCIETY—‘ELEPHANT IN THE MOON’—PEMBROKE CHAPEL BEGUN.
Yet bethink thee that the spirit whence those princely bounties flowed
To the ties of private feeling all its force and being owed;
Severed from the bonds of kindred, taught his lonely heart to school,