t and glory of his precious
shoes--when he was pained with the cholic of an evil
conscience, having no other shift, because his soul could
find no other issue,--he took himself a medicine, _ut
emitteret spiritum per posteriora_." Exposition upon the
first Ep. of St. John, p. 404. Thomas Lupset, who was a
scholar of Dean Colet, and a sort of _eleve_ of the
cardinal, (being appointed tutor to a bastard son of the
latter) could not suppress his sarcastical feelings in
respect of Wolsey's pomp and severity of discipline. From
Lupset's works, printed by Berthelet in 1546, 12mo., I
gather, in his address to his "hearty beloved Edmond"--that
"though he had there with him plenty of books, yet the place
suffered him not to spend in them any study: for you shall
understand (says he) that I lie waiting on my LORD CARDINAL,
whose hours I must observe to be always at hand, lest I
should be called when I am not by: the which should be taken
for a fault of great negligence. Wherefore, that I am now
well satiated with the beholding of these gay hangings, that
garnish here every wall, I will turn me and talk with you."
(_Exhortacion to yonge men_, fol. 39, rev.) Dr. Wordsworth,
in the first volume of his _Ecclesiastical Biography_, has
printed, for the first time, the genuine text of Cavendish's
interesting life of his reverend master, Wolsey. It is well
worth perusal. But the reader, I fear, is beginning to be
outrageous (having kept his patience, during this
long-winded note, to the present moment) for some
_bibliomaniacal_ evidence of Wolsey's attachment to gorgeous
books. He is presented, therefore, with the following case
in point. My friend Mr. Ellis, of the British Museum,
informs me that, in the splendid library of that
establishment, there are two copies of Galen's "_Methodus
Medendi_," edited by Linacre, and printed at Paris, in
folio, 1519. One copy, which belonged to Henry the Eighth,
has an illuminated title, with the royal arms at the bottom
of the title-page. The other, which is also illuminated, has
the cardinal's cap in the same place, above an empty shield.
Before the dedication to the king, in the latter copy,
Linacre has inserted an elegant Latin epistle to WOLSEY, in
manuscript. The king's copy is rather the more beautiful