----_good parents dy'd
One after one, till both were gone,
Whose souls in bliss, be long ere this._
His remaining ten years at court, where
_Cards and dice, with Venus' vice,
And peevish pride, from virtue wide,
With some so wraught,
That Tyburn play, made them away,
Or beggars state._
His residing in _Suffolk_, as a farmer,
_To moil and toil,
With loss and pain, to little gain,
To cram Sir Knave_;
his removal to near Dereham Abbey, which he left, (though stored with
flesh and fish) from the squabbles and brawls of _lord with lord_; the
death of the worthy Sir Richard Southwell,
----_that jewel great,
Which op'd his door to rich and poor,
So bounteously_,--
on whose decease he was left to _sink or swim_; his removal to
Salisbury, as a singing man; thence
_With sickness worn, as one forlorn,_
he removed to a parsonage house in Essex, to collect tithes, in its
_miry ways_; his foreboding the parson's death, and foreseeing new
charges about to be made for tithes,
----_I spy'd, if parson died,
(All hope in vain) to hope for gain,
I might go dance;
Once rid my hand, of pars'nage land,
Hence, by-and-by, away went I
To London straight, to hope and wait
For better chance._
From which place the plague drove him to Cambridge, to
_The college, best of all the rest,_
_With thanks to thee, O Trinity!_
_Through thee and thine, for me and mine,_
_Some stay I got._
He concludes with pious resignation to God.[27]
DIDYMUS MOUNTAIN, who, in 1571, wrote "The Gardener's Labyrinth," in
4to. "wherein are set forth, divers knottes and mazes, cunningly handled
for the beautifying of gardens." And in 1577 appeared a second part,
"with the wittie ordering of other daintie hearbes, delectable flowres,
pleasaunt fruites, and fine rootes, as the like hath not heretofore been
vttered of any." Other editions in 4to. 1608, and in folio 1652.
BARNABY GOOCHE published The whole art and trade of Husbandry, contained
in foure books, _enlarged_ by Barnaby Googe, Esq. 4to. black letter,
1578. The two later editions, in 1614 and 1631, both in black letter,
and in 4to. are said by Weston to have been re-printed by Gervaise
Markham. The 2nd book treats "Of Gardens, Orchards, and Woods."
In the 2nd vol. of the _Censura Litt._ is some information respecting B.
Gooche, and his epistl
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