resenting, disarmed Foote. His next publication was: 4. "A farewell Oration, &c." a translation of the preceding article, 1768, 4to. 5. "Fragmentum Isaaci Hawkins Browne, arm. sive Anti-Bolinbrokius, liber primus. Translated for a second Religio Medici," 1768, 4to. The author modestly calls this “ a very hasty performance;" and says, "In my journey from Oxford to Bath, meeting with continued rain, which kept me three days on the road, in compassion to my servants and horses; and having my friend a pocket companion, I found it the best entertainment my tedious baiting could afford to begin and finish this translation." This was dated Oct. 24, 1768; and his second part was completed on the 20th of the following month: "My undertaking," he says, "to complete, as well as I could, the Fragment of my friend, hath appeared to me so very entertaining a work, even amongst the most charming delights and most cheerful conversations Bath; that I have used more expedition, if the very many avocations there be considered, in performing this, than in that former translation;" and to this part was prefixed a congratulatory poem "To Isaac Hawkins Browne, esq. son of his deceased friend, on his coming of age, Dec. 7, 1766." The good old knight's Opuscula were continually on the increase. The very worthy master of a college at Cambridge, lately living, relates a story of him, that waiting for sir William in some room at the college, where he was come to place a near relation, he found him totally absorbed in thought, over a fine 4to volume of these Opuscula, which he constantly, he said, carried about with him, that they might be benefited by frequent revisals.

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His portrait, in his latter days, is very faithfully drawn by Warburton, in one of his letters to bishop Hurd. "When you see Dr. Heberden, pray communicate to him an unexpected honour I have lately received. The other day, word was brought me from below, that one sir William Browne sent up his name, and should be glad to kiss, my hand. I judged it to be the famous physician, whom I had never seen, nor had the honour to know. When I came down into the drawing-room, I was accosted by a little, round, well-fed gentleman, with a large muff in one hand, a small Horace, open, in the other, and a spying-glass dangling in a black ribbon at his button. After the first salutation, he informed me that his visit was indeed to me; but principally, and in the first place, to

Prior-Park, which had so inviting a prospect from below; and he did not doubt but, on examination, it would sufficiently repay the trouble he had given himself of coming up to it on foot. We then took our chairs; and the first thing he did or said, was to propose a doubt to me concerning a passage in Horace, which all this time he had still open in his hand. Before I could answer, he gave me the solution of this long-misunderstood passage; and, in support of his explanation, had the charity to repeat his own paraphrase of it in English verse, just come hot, as he said, from the brain. When this and chocolate were over, having seen all he wanted of me, he desired to see something more of the seat, and particularly what he called the monument, by which I understood him to mean the Prior's tower. Accordingly, I ordered a servant to attend him thither, and when he had satisfied his curiosity, either to let him out from the Park above, into the Down, or from the garden below into the road. Which he chose, I never asked; and so this honourable visit ended. Herebý you will understand that the design of all this was to be admired. And indeed he had my admiration to the full; but for nothing so much, as for his being able at past eighty to perform this expedition on foot, in no good weather, and with all the alacrity of a boy, both in body and mind." This portrait is correct in every thing but the age, sir William being only then (1767) seventy-five.

On a controversy for a raker in the parish where he lived in London, carried on so warmly as to open taverns for men, and coffee-house breakfasts for ladies, he exerted himself greatly; wondering a man bred at two universities should be so little regarded. (He had been expelled one, and therefore taken degrees at another.) A parishioner answered: "he had a calf that sucked two cows, and a prodigious great one it was." He used to frequent the annual ball at the ladies' boarding-school, Queen-square, merely as a neighbour, a good-natured man, and fond of the company of sprightly young folks. A dignitary of the church being there one day to see his daughter dance, and finding this upright figure stationed there, told him he believed he was Hermippus redivivus, who lived anhelitu puellarum. At the age of eighty, on St. Luke's day, 1771, he came to Batson's coffee-house in his laced coat and band, and fringed white gloves, to shew himself to Mr. Crosby, then lord-mayor. A gentleman present observing that he looked very well,

he replied, "he had neither wife nor debts." He next published, "Fragmentum I. Hawkins completum," 1769, 4to. 7. "Appendix ad Opuscula;" six Odes, 1770, 4to, comprising: I. De senectute. Ad amicum D. Rogerum Long, apud Cantabrigienses, aulæ custodem Pembrokianæ, theologum, astronomum, doctissimum, jucundissimum, annum nonagesimum agentem, scripta. Adjecta versione Anglica. Ab amico D. Gulielmo Browne, annum agente ferè octogesimum. II. De choreis, et festivitate. Ad nobilissimum ducem Leodensem, diem Walliæ principis natalem acidulis Tunbrigiensibus celebrantem, scripta. A theologo festivo, D. Georgio Lewis. Adjecta versione Anglica ab amico, D. Gulielmo Browne. III. De ingenio, et jucunditate. Ad Lodoicum amicum, sacerdotem Cantianum, ingeniosissimum, jucundissimum, scripta. Adjecta versione Anglicâ. A. D. Gulielmo Browne, E. A. O. M. L. P. S. R. S. IV. De Wilkesio, et libertate. Ad doctorem Thomam Wilson, theologum doctissimum, liberrimum, tam mutui amici, Wilkesii, amicum, quam suum,. scripta. V. De otio medentibus debito. Ad Moysæum amicum, medicum Bathoniæ doctissimum, humanissimum, scripta. VI. De potiore metallis libertate: et omnia vincente fortitudine. Ad eorum utriusque patronum, Gulielmum illum Pittium, omni et titulo et laude majorem, scripta. 8. Three more Odes, 1771, 4to. 9. "A Proposal on our Coin, to remedy all present, and prevent all future disorders. To which are præfixed, præceding proposals of sir John Barnard, and of William Shirley, esq. on the same subject. With remarks," 1774, 4to, dedicated "To the most revered memory of the right honourable Arthur Onslow, speaker of the house of commons during thirty-three years; for ability, judgement, eloquence, integrity, impartiality, never to be forgotten or excelled; who sitting in the gallery, on a committee of the house, the day of publishing this proposal, and seeing the author there, sent to speak with him, by the chaplain; and, after applauding his performance, desired a frequent correspondence, and honoured him with particular respect, all the rest of his life, this was, with most profound veneration, inscribed." 10. A New-Year's Gift. A problem and demonstration on the XXXIX Articles," 1772, 4to. "This problem and demonstration," he informs us, "though now first published, on account of the præsent controversy concerning these articles, owe their birth to my being called upon to subscribe them, at an early period of life. For in my soph's year, 1711, being a student at Peter-house, in the university of Cambridge, just nineteen years of age, and having performed all my exercises in the schools (and also a first opponency extraordinary to an ingenious pupil of his, afterwards Dr. Barnard, prebendary of Norwich) on mathematical quæstions, at the particular request of Mr. proctor Laughton, of Clare-hall, who drew me into it by a promise of the senior optime of the year), I was then first informed that subscribing these articles was a necessary step to taking my degree of B. A. as well as all other degrees. I had considered long before at school, and on my admission in 1707, that the universal profession of religion must much more concern me through life, to provide for my happiness hereafter, than the particular profession of physic, which I proposed to pursue, to provide for my more convenient existence here: and therefore had selected out of the library left by my father (who had himself been a regular physician, educated under the tuition of sir J. Ellis, M. D. afterwards master of Caius college), Chillingworth's Religion of a Protestant; the whole famous Protestant and Popish controversy; Commentaries on Scripture; and such other books as suited my purpose. I particularly pitched upon three for perpetual pocket-companions; Bleau's Greek Testament; Hippocratis Aphoristica, and Elzevir Horace *; expecting from the first to draw divinity, from the second physic, and from the last good sense and vivacity. Here I cannot forbear recollecting my partiality for St. Luke, because he was a physician; by the particular pleasure I took in perceiving the superior purity of his Greek, over that of the other Evangelists. But I did not then know, what I was afterwards taught by Dr. Freind's learned History of Physic, that this purity was owing to his being a physician, and consequently conversant with our Greek fathers of physic. Being thus fortified, I thought myself as well prepared for an encounter with these articles, as so young a person could reasonably be expected. I therefore determined to read them over as carefully and critically as I could; and upon this, met with so many difficulties, utterly irreconcileable by me to the divine original, that I

almost despaired of ever being able to subscribe them. But, not to be totally discouraged, I resolved to re-consider them with redoubled diligence; and then at last had the pleasure to discover, in article VI. and XX. what appeared to my best private judgement and understanding a clear solution of all the difficulties, and an absolute defeazance of that exceptionable authority, which inconsistently with scripture they seem to assume. I subscribe my name to whatever I offer to the public, that I may be answerable for its being my sincere sentiment: ever open, however, to conviction, by superior reason and argument. WILLIAM BROWNE."

His next was a republication. 11. The pill plot. To doctor Ward, a quack of merry memory, written at Lynn, Nov. 30, 1734, 1772, 4to. 12. " Corrections in verse, from the father of the college, on son Cadogan's Gout dissertation; containing false physic, false logic, false philosophy," 1772, 4to. Although these corrections are jocular, it is not intended that they should be less; but more sensibly felt, for that very reason: according to the rule of Horace,

Ridiculum acri

Fortius et melius magnas plerumque secat res.

AD FILIVM.

Vapulans lauda baculum paternum,
Invidum, FILI, fuge suspicari,

Cujus ἕξ denum trepidavit aetas

Claudere lustrum.

The author repeated these verses to Dr. Cadogan himself, who censured their want of rhyme; he answered, that "the gout had a fourth cause, study, which was never his case: if he did not understand law and gavelkind, he would not talk to him; for there were two sorts of gout, freehold and copyhold; the first where it was hereditary, the other where a person by debauchery took it up." "Speech to the Royal Society," 1772, 4to. 14. "Elogy and address," 1773, 4to. 15. A Latin version of Job, unfinished, 4to.

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We shall subjoin a well-known epigram by sir William Browne, which the critics have pronounced to be a good one:

"The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse,
For tories own no argument but force;
With equal skill, to Cambridge books he sent,
For whigs admit no force but argument,"