J. G. N.
"Too wise to err."—You will oblige many of your readers if you will inform them from whence the words
"Too wise to err, too good to be unkind,"
are quoted.
T. W. A.
Replies.
THOMAS MAY.
(Vol. iii., p. 167.)
Thomas May, famous amongst the busy characters of his age, both as a politician and a poet, was the eldest son of Sir Thos. May, Knt., of Mayfield, in Sussex, where he was born in 1595. At the usual period of life, he was admitted a fellow-commoner of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge; and having taken the degree of B.A. he entered himself at Gray's Inn, with the intention of studying the law, which, however, it is uncertain whether he ever pursued as a profession. Whilst he was a student of the law, he made the acquaintance of Edward Hyde, afterwards Earl of Clarendon; and became the intimate associate of Ben Jonson, Selden, Cotton, Sir K. Digby, Thos. Carew[[1]], "and some others of eminent faculties in their several ways."