the seas again, and never after that was any more student in
Cambridge." Abroad, almost every emperor and nobleman of
distinction, according to his own account, came to see and
hear him. "For recreation, he looked into the method of the
civil law, and profitted therein so much that, in
_Antinomiis_, imagined to be in the law, he had good hap to
find out (well allowed of) their agreements; and also to
enter into a plain and due understanding of diverse civil
laws, accounted very intricate and dark." At Paris, when he
gave lectures upon Euclid's elements, "a thing never done
publicly in any university in Christendom, his auditory in
Rhemes college was so great, and the most part elder than
himself, that the mathematical schools could not hold them;
for many were fain, without the schools, at the windows, to
be _Auditores et Spectatores_, as they could best help
themselves thereto. And by the first four principal
definitions representing to their eyes (which by imagination
only are exactly to be conceived) a greater wonder arose
among the beholders than of his _Aristophanes Scarabaeus_
mounting up to the top of Trinity Hall, _ut supra_."
Notwithstanding the tempting offers to cause him to be
domiciled in France and Germany, our astrologer, like a true
patriot, declined them all. The French king offered an
annual stipend of 200 French crowns; a Monsieur Babeu,
Monsieur de Rohan, and Monsieur de Monluc, offered still
greater sums, but were all refused. In Germany he was
tempted with the yearly salary of 3000 dollars; "and lastly,
by a messenger from the Russie or Muscovite Emperor,
purposely sent with a very rich present unto him at Trebona
castle, and with provision for the whole journey (being
above 1200 miles from the castle where he lay) of his coming
to his court at Moscow, with his wife, children, and whole
family, there to enjoy at his imperial hands 2000 lib.
sterling yearly stipend; and of his Protector yearly a
thousand rubles; with his diet also to be allowed him free
out of the emperor's own kitchen: and to be in dignity with
authority amongst the highest sort of the nobility there,
and of his Privy Counsellors."--But all this was heroically
declined by our patriotic philosopher. Lord Pembroke and
Lord Leicester introdu