Book 4 — INTRODUCTION TO NATHANIEL WHITING.
Reading edition
In 1633 the birth of the Duke of York was commemorated at Cambridge in Ducis Eboracensis Fasciae a Musis Cantabrigiensibus raptim contextae. 'N. Whyting, Coll. Regin. Art. Baccal.' contributes two copies of verse, Latin and Greek, both markedly royalist in tone.
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · I had written 'nowhere', but hastily. The opening has not a little which convicts the haste, and I have noted other passages infra.Note 2 · These oddities of the fifteenth century, with others, were conveniently republished, in Maccheronee di Cinque Poète Italiani (Milan: D li, 1Note 3 · He would almost be worth republishing for this alone, and I say this despite the trouble it has given me. Those who are curious in rare wordNote 4 · As an instance here, take the incident where the false Phaeliche, coming to the nunnery, sees the masons mending the breaches that RivelezzoNote 5 · 'Marget' is used in Albino and Bellama as a generic name. But Whiting's irritable and restless fancy may have put together 'Mag-pie' and PerNote 6 · By the great kindness of the Rev. J. H. Gray, Tutor and Dean of Queens' College, assisted by the President of that Society and by the RegistNote 7 · Canon Hodgson, Rector of Aldwincle, kindly allowed Mr. Simpson to examine the registers. The date of Whiting's institution is March 20, 1652Note 8 · By C. H. and T. Cooper, in the third series, vol. v, p. 420.Note 9 · The Rev. C. R. Thursfield kindly allowed Mr. Simpson to examine the registers.Note 10 · It was not, however, for some time after I had been working on Whiting that I found considerable new light thrown on him by his prose work,