dismission into the country, with perhaps the loss of a term.


Me tenet urbs reflua quam Thamesis alluit unda,
Meque nec invitum patria dulcis habet.
Jam nec arundiferum mihi cura revisere Camum
Nec dudum vetiti me laris angit amor. -
Nec duri libet usque minas preferre magistri,
Caeteraque ingenio non subeunda meo.
Si sit hoc exilium patrias adiisse penates,
Et vacuum curis otia greta sequi,
Non ego vel profugi nomen sortemve recuso,
Laetus et exilii conditione fruor.


I cannot find any meaning but this, which even kindness and
reverence can give to the term, "vetiti laris," "a habitation from
which he is excluded;" or how "exile" can be otherwise interpreted.
He declares yet more, that he is weary of enduring "the threats of a
rigorous master, and something else which a temper like his cannot
undergo." What was more than threat was probably punishment. This
poem, which mentions his "exile," proves likewise that it was not
perpetual; for it concludes with a resolution of returning some time
to Cambridge. And it may be conjectured, from the willingness with
which he has perpetuated the memory of his exile, that its cause was
such as gave him no shame.

He took both the usual degrees: that of bachelor in 1628, and that
of master in 1632; but he left the University with no kindness for
its institution, alienated either by the injudicious severity of his