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HISTORICAL VALUE OF SOUTH'S SERMONS.

I seldom take up the Sermons of the eloquent and witty Dr. South without feeling much surprised that so little use is made of them in illus29 trating the History of England from the martyrdom of King Charles I. to the death of Queen Anne. And I now venture to offer this hint through the medium of the "N. & Q.;" for I feel confident that any one who reads them with a historical, as well as a theological view, will be well repaid for his trouble. South passed a long and active life in the service of the Church of England; and amongst her worthies she can scarcely reckon a more able or undaunted son. He was born in 1633, and lived on, through the most eventful period of English history, until July 8th, 1716. He likewise retained the full possession of all his faculties to the last, and was more than eighty-one years old when he dedicated to the Right Hon. Wm. Bromley the fourth volume of his inimitable Sermons:

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In the year 1647, South was entered one of the king's scholars at Westminster; and signalised himself the following year by reading the Latin prayers in the school on the day of King Charles I.'s martyrdom, and praying for his sacred majesty by name about an hour or two before he was beheaded. This anecdote I take partly from 40 the memoirs prefixed to South's Posthumous Works, p. 4., Lond. 1717, 8vo., and partly from his own most valuable sermon upon Proverbs xxii. 6., vol. ii. p. 188., Dublin, 1720, fol. I do wish we could make out the names of the youthful heroes who were South's companions upon this interesting occasion; but the good Dr. Busby was their tutor, which will account for their being "really king's scholars as well as called so.”

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tributed by South. I have read them in the above-mentioned volume, though not very lately, and also in Burton's Cromwellian Diary, where they form the subject of triumph. Very little, I think, can be made of them, and they seem a "forced compliment upon the usurper" (Memoirs, p. 5.), imposed most probably upon South by the head of his college, the notorious John Owen, who had been appointed to the deanery of Christ's Church, Oxford, by Cromwell's interest in 1651. At all events he was no favourite of Owen's, who opposed him severely when he was proceeding to the degree of Master of Arts in 1657, for which he was wittily rebuked by South, as also for reprimanding him for worshipping God according to the prescribed Liturgy of the Church of England. Indeed, "there was no love lost between them;" and when Owen, who was Vice-Chancellor, set up to represent the University of Oxford in parliament, he met a most manly and vigorous opposition, which was chiefly attributable to South. In the year 1658, South was admitted to holy orders by a regular though deprived bishop of the Church of England; and in 1659 preached at Oxford his memorable assize sermon, Interest deposed, and Truth restored. In 1660 he was appointed University orator. At last came the Restoration. South was nominated chaplain to Edward Earl of Clarendon; and in 1663 was installed prebendary of St. Peter's, Westminster. Then followed, in 1670, a canonry of Christ's Church, Oxford; and in 1678, the rectory of Islip, in Oxfordshire. He was chaplain in ordinary to King Charles II.; and refused several bishoprics during his reign. He afterwards refused an Irish archbishopric when James II. was king, and Lord Clarendon, the brother of his great patron Lord Rochester, was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

He did not sign the document inviting over William of Orange, for he held the doctrine of passive obedience. Yet, subsequently, when King James had left England, he did not become a Nonjuror; but, with a memorable compliment upon the deprived bishops, he refused to accept any of their vacant sees.

emissaries amongst the rebels; or Cromwell's first appearance in parliament-"a bankrupt beggarly fellow, with a thread-bare torn cloak and a greasy hat, and perhaps neither of them paid for;" or Hugh Peters; or John Owen; or the "Preaching Colonels ;' or the Puritanical fasts commenced "after dinner;" or "the saving-way of preaching, which saved much labour, but nothing else that he knew of;" or the artizan preachers who "could make a pulpit before they preached in it," and had "all the confusion of Babel amongst them without the diversity of tongues;" or "that great mufti John Calvin, the father of the faithful;" or the Socinianising tendency of Grotius' writings; or the "right worshipful right honourable sinners" of the day?

There are also in his Sermons sly allusions to King James II.'s breach of faith and intolerance; and the real cause of his popery, as well as that of Charles II., is stated to have been the kindness they had received from Romanists, and the injustice they themselves, as well as their fathers, had undergone from their ultra-protestant subjects. In fact, Dr. South's Sermons are not merely unrivalled for force of diction, masterly argument, and purity of style; but I could soon prove that they are likewise most valuable as historical documents were I not fearful of trespassing too much upon the columns of the "N. & Q." RT. Warmington.

SHAKSPEARE READINGS, NO. v.-"CORIOLANUS," ACT III. Sc. 1.

"Bosom multiplied" versus " Bisson multitude." Dissenting from the general acclaim with which the proposed substitution of this latter phrase has been received, it is due to the notoriety of the emendation, as well as to the distinguished names by which it is advocated, to explain the grounds upon which I declare my adhesion to the old reading.

But, in the first place, I wish to observe that I cannot perceive anything in the proposed alteration to exalt it above the common herd of conjectural guesses: on the contrary, with the example of bisson conspectuities in the same play, nothing appears more obvious than the extension of the same correction to any other suspected place to which it might seem applicable. Dealing with it, therefore, merely as conjectural, I reject it,

When Bishop Sprat died, South was offered the see of Rochester and Deanery of Westminster, but refused upon the plea of his advanced age. (Posthumes Works, p. 137.) In fact, he was a great and good man, and his witticisms must not make us forgetful of his true-hearted allegiance to the 1. Because the apologue of "the belly and the Church of England. When the Socinians were members," in the first scene, gives its tone to the gaining ground in consequence of the Act of Tole- prevailing metaphor throughout the whole play. ration, the voice of South was raised most warmly Hence the frequent recurrence of such images as against them. And if we want to know Puritan-"the many-headed multitude," "the beast with ism in its rampant state, we must read South as well as Cleveland's Poems or Hudibras.

Has any one ever described more vividly than South the apparent sanctity and real profligacy of the Puritanical leaders; or the mixture of papal

many heads butts me away," "the horn and noise of the monster," "the tongues of the common mouth," &c.; and hence a strong probability that, in any given place, the same metaphor will prevail.

2. Because in Coriolanus there are three several

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