Thou mony newly coyn’d, thou fleete of plate!
Thrice happy childe! whome God thy father sent
To make him rich without a parliament!
VINCENT CORBET,
The only son of the poet, was born (if the authority of a manuscript in the Harleian collection may be relied upon, in which this pathetic address appears,) on the 10th of November, 1627. From the following injunction in the bishop’s will[79], it seems he was educated at one of the universities: “I commit and commend the nurture and maintenance of my sonne and daughter unto the faythfull and loving care of my mother-in-law, declaring my intent, &c., that my sonne be placed at Oxford or Cambridge, where I require him, upon my blessing, to apply himself to his booke studiously and industriously.”
In 1648 he administered to the will[80] of his grandmother Anne Hutton; and of the further circumstances of his life I am ignorant.
TO HIS SON,
VINCENT CORBET,
On his Birth-Day, November 10, 1630, being then Three Years old.