Trinity College

Mr. Benjamin Jonson, poet laureate.

I remember when I was a scholar at Trinity College, Oxon, sixteen forty-six, I heard Dr. Ralph Bathurst, now Dean of Wells, say that Ben Jonson was a Warwickshire man.

Said query, "'Tis agreed that his father was a minister." And by his epistle dedication of Every Man to Mr.

William Camden, that he was a Westminster scholar, and that Mr. W. Camden was his schoolmaster.

Manuscript Aubrey H, folio 55.

Anthony Wood, in his Hist et Antiquæ Unif Oxon, Liber II, page 273, says he was born in Westminster, that at riper years, after he had studied at Cambridge, he came of his own accord to Oxon, and there entered himself in Christ Church, and took his master's degree in Oxon, or conferred on him, anno 1619.

His mother, after his father's death, married a bricklayer, and tis generally said that he wrought some time with his father-in-law, and particularly on the garden wall of Lincoln's Inn next to Chancery Lane, from old Parson Richard Hill of Stretton Hereford, 1646, and that a knight, a bencher, walking through and hearing him repeat some Greek verses out of Homer, discoursing with him, and finding him to have a wit extraordinary, gave him some exhibition to maintain him at Trinity College in Cambridge, where he was query.

Then he went into the low countries, and spent some time, not very long, in the army, not to the disgrace of, as you may find in his epigrams.

He was born in either 1557 or 1558 of a rather prominent middle-class London family, both his father and his mother's father having been lord mayors of the city.

he was sent to Merchant Taylor School, and afterwards to Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1577.

Of his career at the university, we know almost nothing, except that among his fellow students were John Lilly, destined to exert a powerful influence on his style, and George Peel, later to become a dramatist of note, to whom Lodge may, to some extent, have owed his subsequent interest in the drama.

Early work.

I'll just read to you what the Academy of American Poets has to say about him.

He was born in 1892 in London, went to Trinity College at Oxford.

He's the author and translator of The Garden of Bright Waters, 120 Asiatic Love Poems, and Vilhana, Black Marigolds.

He also translated J.C. Mardrew's French version of 1001 Nights, published in four volumes.

John is the author of the new book, Greek to Us: The Fascinating Ancient Greek That Shapes Our World.

John Davie was head of classics at St. Paul's School in London for many years before becoming a teacher at Trinity College, Oxford.

I'm happy to chat with him today about his volume.

John, thank you so much for taking the time.

There are now four documents which cover the fact so far as they are known.

The first is the letter which was written by Mr. Cyrus Headley from the capital of the Grand Canary, to his friend Sir James Talbot of Trinity College, Oxford, upon the only occasion, so far as is known, when the Stratford touched land after leaving the Thames.

The second is the strange wireless call to which I have alluded— the third is that portion of the log of the arabella knolls which deals with the vitreous ball the fourth and last is the amazing contents of that receptacle which either represent a most cruel and complex mystification or else open up a fresh chapter in human experience the importance of which cannot be exaggerated With this preamble I will now give Mr. Headley's letter, which I owe to the courtesy of Sir James Talbot, and which has not previously been published.

It is dated October 1st, 1926.

He was born in either 1557 or 1558 of a rather prominent middle-class London family, both his father and his mother's father having been Lord Mayors of the city.

He was sent to the Merchant Taylor School and afterwards to Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1577.

Of his career at the university we know almost nothing except that among his fellow students were John Lilly, destined to exert a powerful influence on his style, and George Peele, later to become a dramatist of note, to whom Lodge may to some extent have owed his subsequent interest in the drama.

Early Work After leaving Oxford, Lodge returned to London and entered the Society of Lincoln's Inn, in other words, took up the study of the law.

He was born in either 1557 or 1558 of a rather prominent middle-class London family, both his father and his mother's father having been lord mayors of the city.

he was sent to Merchant Taylor School and afterwards to Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1577.

Of his career at the university, we know almost nothing, except that among his fellow students were John Lilly, destined to exert a powerful influence on his style,

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