Lives of Dr John Donne; Sir Henry Wotton; Mr Richard Hooker; Mr George Herbert; and Dr Robert Sanderson . feflions, and was often** told that I fliould deferve better by doinge foe, then by keepingc them to my owne ufe, for by this mcancs I did not only preach to the prefent adge, but to our childrens children. Sir, I write this to you that you may judg what a fad condition a fchoUer is in ; when at a public veftry in this parifli, I was told by a pittifull ignorant baker, I was an idle man, and never preached. Your humble fervant, JO. Another edition of the Biathanatos appeared in 164
Lives of Dr John Donne; Sir Henry Wotton; Mr Richard Hooker; Mr George Herbert; and Dr Robert Sanderson . feflions, and was often** told that I fliould deferve better by doinge foe, then by keepingc them to my owne ufe, for by this mcancs I did not only preach to the prefent adge, but to our childrens children. Sir, I write this to you that you may judg what a fad condition a fchoUer is in ; when at a public veftry in this parifli, I was told by a pittifull ignorant baker, I was an idle man, and never preached. Your humble fervant, JO. Another edition of the Biathanatos appeared in 1648. .a I. • . —^ ERR A TA. Page t, line ji,—to concilitate, r/a</to conciliate.— 19, — 8,—to like his, read too like 16, —— 33,—in fauftus, r^«<y infaiiftus. —— 7 J, 22,—paradoxies, r^a^ paradoKes. —— 76, 18,—by Mr. Pope, and, read by Mr. Pope. His Latin Epigrams arc tranflated by Dr. Jafper Mayne. 85, 25,—PIETATISET, readVlZTATlS ET, =m.— 28, —— 31,—ii/TotrpjeJia |«ir, read ivTOfXf^m^ot^ THE LIFE OE SIR HENRY WOTTON, LATE PROVOST OF EATON .Sl!l£ lIllElNlRY WOTTON. THE LIFE OF SIR HENRY WOTTON. SIR HENRY WOTTON (whofe life I now intend to write) was bornin the year of our Redemption, 1568, in Bo£lon-Hall (commonlycalled Bo£lon, or Bougton-Place, or Palace) in the parifli of Bodton Mal-herbe, in the fruitful country of Kent: Bodlon-hall being an ancient andgoodly fl;rud;ure, beautifying, and being beautified by the parifh-church ofJBodlon Malherbe adjoining unto it, and both feated within a fair park ofthe Wottons, on the brow of fuch a hill as gives the advantage of a largeprofpe£t, and of equal pleafure to all beholders. But this houfe and church are not remarkable for any thing fo much asfor that the memorable family of the Wottons have fo long inhabited the one,and now lie buried in the other, as appears by their many monuments inthat church; the Wottons being a family that hath brought forth diversperfons em
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