Sir Thomas Browne / by Edmund Gosse.

  • Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928.
Date:
1905
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Credit: Sir Thomas Browne / by Edmund Gosse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of Lincoln College, was his tutor. That Browne was distinguished early for his learning appears from an expression of Anthony a Wood, while Dr. Johnson, proud of his own connection with Pembroke, and having remarked that Browne was the first man of ^ eminence graduated from the new college, characteris- tically continues, to which the zeal or gratitude of those that love it most can wish little better than that it may long proceed as it began. Browne's taking the degree of bachelor, the event thus enthusiastically referred to, occurred on the 30th of June 1626, and he proceeded master on the 11th of June 1629. It was probably between these last two dates that Thomas Browne accompanied his step-father. Sir Thomas Dutton, to Ireland. Dutton seems to have been a man of unbridled temper, whose mutinous and unworthy courage in the camp before Juliers had been severely stigmatised in despatches by Sir Edward Cecil. He, upon base advantage, hurt Sir Hatton Cheke, his colonel, and, being challenged to duel after the campaign was over, he killed Cheke upon Calais Sands. This was in 1610, but at a much later date, the turbulent knight, as we have seen, enjoyed an honourable post in the government of Ireland. There may have been a later duel, for an incident of this kind is believed to have inspired his step-son with a copy of verses among the Sloane Manuscripts of which the following alone seem to be in. a coherent form : — Diseases are the arms whereby We naturally do fall and die. . , . Men, for me, again shall chime To Jared's or Methuselah's time;