From Mrs. Pris,
'If that you do
Persuade and woo:
No, pleasure's by extorting fed.

IV.
O may her arms wax black and blue
Only by hard encircling you:
May she round about you twine
Like the easy twisting vine;
And while you sip
From her full lip
Pleasures as new
As morning dew,
Like those soft tyes, your hearts combine.

[Footnote 1: Memoirs, p. 422.]

[Footnote 2: Atheniae Oxon. p. 274.]

[Footnote 3: ibid. vol. ii. col. 34.]

[Footnote 4: Athen. Oxon. col. 35.]

[Footnote 5: Preface to his Poems in 8vo. London, 1651.]

[Footnote 6: Wood.]

* * * * *

GEORGE SANDYS,

A younger son of Edwin, Archbishop of York, was born at Bishops Thorp
in that county, and as a member of St. Mary's Hall, was matriculated
in the university in the beginning of December 1589; how long he
remained at the university Wood is not able to determine. In the year
1610 he began a long journey, and after he had travelled through
several parts of Europe, he visited many cities, especially
Constantinople, and countries under the Turkish empire, as Greece,
Egypt, and the Holy Land[1]. Afterwards he took a view of the remote
parts of Italy, and the Islands adjoining: Then he went to Rome; the
antiquities of that place were shewn him by Nicholas Fitzherbert,
once an Oxford student, and who had the honour of Mr. Sandys's
acquaintance. Thence our author went to Venice, and from that returned
to England, where digesting his notes, he published his travels.
Sandys, who appears to have been a man of excellent parts, of a pious
and generous disposition, did not, like too many travellers, turn his
attention upon the modes of dress, and the fashions of the several
courts which is but a poor acquisition; but he studied the genius, the
tempers, the religion, and the governing principles of the people he
visited, as much as his time amongst them would permit. He returned
in 1612, being improved, says Wood, 'in several respects, by this his
'large journey, being an accomplished gentleman, as being master of
several languages, of affluent and ready discourse, and excellent
comportment.' He had also a poetical fancy, and a zealous inclination
to all literature, which made his company acceptable to the most
virtuous men, and scholars of his time. He also wrote a Paraphrase on
the Psalms of David, and upon the Hymns dispersed throughout the Old
and New Testament, London, 1636, reprinted