When James paid a second visit to Oxford in 1621, Corbet, in his office of chaplain, preached before the monarch[14], who had presented him (as it seems) with a token of his favour, such as flattered in no small degree the vanity of the dean. The progress of the court and its followers is thus ludicrously described in an anonymous poem transcribed from Antony Wood’s papers[15] in Ashmole’s Museum:
The king and the court,
Desirous of sport,
Six days at Woodstock did lie;
Thither went the doctors,
And sattin-sleev’d proctors,
With the rest of the learned fry;
Whose faces did shine
With beere and with wine,