ed_ as it is intended for you, but shall be, with all
expedition, done, and you shall have it.' 'Well,' said the
king, 'you must content yourself for a
while.'"--_Ecclesiastical Biography_, vol. v., p. 237.]

[Footnote 350: In the year 1774, was published an octavo
volume, containing the lives of WILLIAM LILLY the
astrologer, and ELIAS ASHMOLE the antiquary: two of the
greatest _cronies_ of their day. The particulars of
Ashmole's life are drawn from his own _Diary_, in which is
detailed every thing the most minute and ridiculous; while
many of the leading features in his character, and many
interesting occurrences in his life, are wholly suppressed.
The editor has not evinced much judgment in causing
posterity to be informed when Ashmole's "_great and little
teeth ached, or were loose_:" when his "_neck break forth,
occasioned by shaving his beard with a bad razor_" (p. 312);
when "_his maid's bed was on fire, but he rose quickly
(thanking God) and quenched it_" (p. 313); and when he
"_scratched the right-side of his buttocks, &c., and applied
pultices thereunto, made of white bread crums, oil of roses,
and rose leaves_;" (p. 363--and see particularly the long
and dismal entries at p. 368.) All this might surely have
been spared, without much injury to the reputation of the
sufferer. Yet, in some other minute entries, we glean
intelligence a little more interesting. At p. 324, we find
that Ashmole had quarrelled with his wife; and that "Mr.
Serjeant Maynard observed to the Court that there were 800
sheets of depositions on his wife's part, and not one word
proved against him of using her ill, or ever giving her a
bad or provoking word:" at page 330, we find Ashmole
accompanying his heraldic friend Dugdale, in his
"visitations" of counties; also that "his picture was drawn
by Le Neve in his herald's coat:" Loggan afterwards drew it
in black lead: p. 352. But here again (p. 353) we are
gravely informed that "_his tooth, next his fore tooth in
his upper jaw, was very loose, and he easily pulled it out,
and that one of his middle teeth in his lower jaw, broke out
while he was at dinner_." He sat (for the last time) for "a
second picture to Mr. Ryley," p. 379. Ashmole's intimacy
with Lilly was the foundation of the former's (suppo