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See also:WITHER, See also:GEORGE (1588-1667) , See also:English poet and satirist, son of George Wither, of See also:Hampshire, was See also:born at Bentworth, near See also:Alton, on the 11th of See also:June 1588. He was sent to Magdalen See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, at the See also:age of fifteen, and remained at the university for two years. His neighbours appear to have had no See also:great See also:opinion of him, for they advised his See also:father to put him to " some mechanic See also:trade." He was, however, sent to one of the Inns of See also:Chancery, eventually obtaining an introduction at See also:court. He wrote an See also:elegy (1612) on the See also:death of See also:Prince See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry, and a See also:volume of gratulatory poems (1613) on the See also:marriage of the princess See also:Elizabeth, but his uncompromising See also:character soon prepared trouble for him. In 1611 he published Abuses Stript and Whipt, twenty satires of See also:general application directed against Revenge, Ambition, Lust and other abstractions. The volume included a poem called " The See also:Scourge," in which the See also:lord See also:chancellor was attacked, and a See also:series of epigrams. No copy of this edition is known, and it was perhaps suppressed, but in 1613 five See also:editions appeared, and the author was lodged in the See also:Marshalsea See also:prison. The See also:influence of the Princess Elizabeth, supported by a loyal " Satyre " to the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king, in which he hints that an enemy at court had fitted See also:personal meanings to his general invective, secured his See also:release at the end of a few months. He had figured as one of the interlocutors, " Roget," in his friend See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:- BROWNE
- BROWNE, EDWARD HAROLD (18,1–1891)
- BROWNE, ISAAC HAWKINS (1705-1760)
- BROWNE, JAMES (1793–1841)
- BROWNE, MAXIMILIAN ULYSSES, COUNT VON, BARON DE CAMUS AND MOUNTANY (1705-1757)
- BROWNE, PETER (?1665-1735)
- BROWNE, ROBERT (1550-1633)
- BROWNE, SIR JAMES (1839–1896)
- BROWNE, SIR THOMAS (1605-1682)
- BROWNE, WILLIAM (1591–1643)
- BROWNE, WILLIAM GEORGE (1768-1813)
Browne's Shepherd's See also:Pipe, with which were See also:bound up eclogues by other poets, among them one by Wither, and during his imprisonment he wrote what may be regarded as a continuation of Browne's See also:work, The Shepherd's See also:Hunting (printed 1615), eclogues in which the two poets appear as " Willie " and " Roget " (in later editions " Philarete "). The See also:fourth of these eclogues contains a famous passage in praise of See also:poetry. After his release he was admitted (:615) to See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn, and in the same See also:year he printed privately Fidelia, a love elegy, of which there is a unique copy in the
Bodleian. Other editions of this See also:book, which contained the lyric " Shall I, wasting in despair," appeared in 1617 and r6rg. In 1621 he returned to the satiric vein with Wither's See also:Motto.' Nee habeo, nec careo, nec curo. Over 30,000 copies of this poem were sold, according to his own See also:account, within a few months. Like his earlier invective, it was said to be libellous, and Wither was again imprisoned, but shortly afterwards released without formal trial on the plea that the book had been duly licensed. In 1622 appeared his Faire-Virtue, The Mistresse of Phil' See also:Arete, a See also:long See also:panegyric of a See also:mistress, partly real, partly allegorical, written chiefly in the seven-syllabled See also:verse of which he was a See also:master.
Wither began as a moderate in politics and See also:religion, but from this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time his Puritan leanings became more and more pronounced, and his later work consists of religious poetry, and of controversial and See also:political tracts. His Hymnes and Songs of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church (1622-1623) were issued under a patent of King See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James I. ordaining that they should be bound up with every copy of the authorized metrical See also:psalms offered for See also:sale (see See also:HYMNS). This patent was opposed, as inconsistent with their See also:privilege to See also:print the " singing-psalms," by the Stationers' See also:Company, to Wither's great See also:mortification and loss, and a second similar patent was finally disallowed by the See also:House of Lords. Wither was in See also:London during the See also:plague of 1625, and in 1628 published See also:Britain's See also:Remembrancer, a voluminous poem on the subject, interspersed with denunciations of the wickedness of the times, and prophecies of the disasters about to fall upon See also:England. He also incidentally avenged See also:Ben See also:Jonson's See also:satire on him as the " Chronomastix " of Time Vindicated, by a reference to Ben's " drunken See also:conclave." This book he was obliged to print with his own See also:hand in See also:con-sequence of his See also:quarrel with the Stationers' Company. In 1635 he was employed by Henry See also:Taunton, a London publisher, to write English verses illustrative of the allegorical plates of See also:Crispin See also:van Passe, originally designed for See also:Gabriel Rollenhagen's See also:Nucleus emblematum selectissimorum (1610-1613). The book was published as a Collection of Emblemes, See also:Ancient and Moderne, of which the only perfect copy known is in the See also:British Museum.
The best of Wither's religious poetry is contained in Heleluiah: or Britain's Second Remembrancer, which was printed in See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland in 1641. Many of the poems rise to a high point of excellence. Besides those properly entitled to the designation of hymns, the book contains songs of singular beauty, especially the See also:Cradle-See also:song (" See also:Sleep, baby, sleep, what ails my dear "), the Anniversary Marriage Song (" Lord, living here are we "), the Perambulation Song (" Lord, it See also:bath pleased Thee to say "), the Song for Lovers (" Come, sweet See also:heart, come, let us prove "), the Song for the Happily Married (" Since they in singing take delight ") and that for a Shepherd ("Renowned men their herds to keep") —(Nos. 50 in the first See also:part, 17 and 24 in the second, and 20, 2 r and 41 in the third). There is also in the second part a See also:fine song (No. 59), full of See also:historical as well as poetical See also:interest, upon the evil times in which the poet lived, beginning
" Now are the times, these are the days
Which will those men approve
Who take delight in honest ways
And pious courses love;
Now to the See also:world it will appear
That innocence of heart
Will keep us far more See also:free from fear
Than See also:helmet, See also:shield or dart."
Wither wrote, generally, in a pure See also:nervous English See also:idiom, and preferred the reputation of " rusticity " (an epithet applied to him even by See also:Baxter) to the tricks and artifices of poetical See also:style which were then in favour. It may be partly on that account that he was better appreciated by posterity than by his contemporaries.
Wither had served as See also:captain of See also:horse in 1639 in the expedition of See also:Charles I. against the Scottish Covenanter*, and his religious rather than his political convictions must be accepted as the explanation of the fact that, three years after the Scottish expedition, at the outbreak of the Great See also:Rebellion, he is found definitely siding with the See also:parliament. He sold his See also:estate to raise a See also:troop of horse, and was placed by a See also:parliamentary See also:committee in command of See also:Farnham See also:Castle. After a few days' occupation he See also:left the See also:place undefended, and marched to London. His own
house near Farnham was plundered, and he himself was captured by a troop of Royalist horse, owing his See also:life to the intervention of See also:Sir See also:John See also:Denham on the ground that so long as Wither lived he himself could not be accounted the worst poet in England. After this See also:episode he was promoted to the See also:rank of See also:major. He was See also:present at the See also:siege of See also:Gloucester (1643) and at See also:Naseby (1645). He had been deprived in 1643 of his nominal command, and of his See also:commission as See also:justice of the See also:peace, in consequence of an attack upon Sir See also:Richard See also:Onslow, who was, he maintained, responsible for the Farnham disaster. In the same year parliament made him a See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant of £2000 for the loss of his See also:property, but he apparently never received the full amount, and complained from time to time of his embarrassments and of the slight re-wards he received for his services. An See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order was made to See also:settle a yearly income of £150 on Wither, chargeable on Sir John Denham's sequestrated estate, but there is no See also:evidence that he ever received it. A small place given him by the See also:Protector was forfeited " by declaring unto him (See also:Cromwell) those truths which he was not willing to hear of." At the Restoration he was arrested, and remained in prison for three years. He died in London on the 2nd of May 1667.
His extant writings, catalogued in See also:Park's British Bibliographer, number over a See also:hundred. Sir S. E. See also:Brydges published The Shepherd's Hunting (1814), Fidelia (1815) and See also:Fair Virtue (1818), and a selection appeared in See also:Stanford's See also:Works of the British Poets, vol. v. (1819). Most of Wither's works were edited in twenty volumes for the See also:Spenser Society (1871–1882) ; a selection was included by Henry See also:Morley in his See also:Companion Poets (1891); Fidelia and Fair Virtue are included in See also:Edward See also:Arber's English Garner (vol. iv., 1882; vol. vi. 1883), and an excellent edition of The Poetry of George Wither was edited by F. Sidg« ick in 1902. Among A. C. See also:Swinburne's Miscellanies there is an amusing account of a copy of a selection from Wither's poems annotated by See also:Lamb, then by Dr See also:Nott, whose notes were the subject of further ruthless comment from Lamb.
End of Article: WITHER, GEORGE (1588-1667)
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