Brasenose college . itus) by going to the bridge-foot at Oxfordand hearing the bargemen swear at one another, atwhich he would set his hands to his sides and laughmost profusely. He is buried in the north aisle ofChrist Church Cathedral, and beneath his bust is theimmortal epitaph which he wrote himself: Faucisnotus, paucioribus ignotus, hie jacet DemocritusJunior, cui vitam dedit et mortem Melancholia. Thecurious may still see his portrait in Brasenose has had his reward among those of his own craft,for much of the inspiration of VAllegro and // Pense-roso is drawn from his quaint vol
Brasenose college . itus) by going to the bridge-foot at Oxfordand hearing the bargemen swear at one another, atwhich he would set his hands to his sides and laughmost profusely. He is buried in the north aisle ofChrist Church Cathedral, and beneath his bust is theimmortal epitaph which he wrote himself: Faucisnotus, paucioribus ignotus, hie jacet DemocritusJunior, cui vitam dedit et mortem Melancholia. Thecurious may still see his portrait in Brasenose has had his reward among those of his own craft,for much of the inspiration of VAllegro and // Pense-roso is drawn from his quaint volume ; Lamb is full ofechoes of the fantastic old great man; and theAnatomy had actually the power to raise Dr. Johnsonout of his bed two hours sooner than he intended. About 1(317 Richard Mather, the grandfather of thefamous Cotton Mather, the Puritan theologian, was atBrasenose, coming up from Winwich School to gainmore than he could by private study, and hoping toconverse with Learned Men, and by advantage of dis-. ITS FAMOUS ]\IEN 125 putations, Lectures, &c., to obtain a Treasure of know-ledge. History does not say whether or not he wasdisappointed in his expectations. Another famousinmate of the College at a slightly later date was theRoyalist, Sir John Spelman. He was educated atCambridge, but, after the outbreak of the Civil War,was summoned from his retirement in Norfolk to attendthe Kings Court at Oxford. He took up his quartersin the loyal College of Brasenose, attended Charles council, and would have been appointed a secre-tary of state had he not died of the plague in at Brasenose he compiled a Life of Alfred theGreat, its so-called founder. The Royalist Courtbrought Elias Ashmole also to Oxford, who, under theinfluence of Sir George Wharton, fell so much in lovewith natural science that he entered himself at Brase-nose to study physics and mathematics. Afterwardscame troublous times, and when he went back toLondon he dabbled a good deal in astro
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