Sir J. Mackintosh, like most other modern writers who mention the book,
seems not to have been aware of the decisive denial of this report, by
Bishop Berkeley's son, inserted in the third volume of Kippis's _Biographia
Britannica_.

L.

_George Wither, the Poet, a Printer_ (Vol. ii., p. 390.).--In addition to
DR. RIMBAULT'S extract from Wither's _Britain's Remembrancer_, showing that
he printed (or rather composed) every sheet thereof with his own hand, I
find, in a note to Mr. R.A. Willmott's volume of the _Lives of the English
Sacred Poets_, in that interesting one of George Wither, the following
corroboration of this singular labour of his: the poem, independent of the
address to the King and the præmonition, consisting of between nine and ten
thousand lines, many of which, I doubt not, were the production of his
brain while he stood at the printing-case. A MS. note of Mr. Park's, in one
of the many volumes of Wither which I possess, confirms me in this opinion.

"Ben Jonson, in _Time Vindicated_, has satirized the custom, then very
prevalent among the pamphleteers of the day, of providing themselves
with a portable press, which they moved from one hiding-place to
another with great facility. He insinuates that Chronomastix, under
whom he intended to represent Wither, employed one of these presses.
Thus, upon the entrance of the Mutes,--

"_Fame._ What are this pair?

_Eyes._ The ragged rascals?

_Fame._ Yes.