See also:

• ALABASTER
• ALABASTER, or ARBLASTIER, WILLIAM (1567-1640)

ALABASTER, or ARBLASTIER, 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 (1567-1640)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English Latin poet and See also:

• SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• HADLEIGH

Hadleigh, See also:

• SUFFOLK
• SUFFOLK, CHARLES BRANDON, 1ST DUKE OF (c. 1484–'545)
• SUFFOLK, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• SUFFOLK, THOMAS HOWARD, 1ST EARL OF (1561-1626)
• SUFFOLK, WILLIAM DE LA POLE

Suffolk, in 1567 . He was, so See also:

• FULLER, ANDREW (1954-1815)
• FULLER, GEORGE (1822—1884)
• FULLER, M
• FULLER, MARGARET, MARCHIONESS
• FULLER, MELVILLE WESTON (1833-1910)
• FULLER, THOMAS (16o8-1661)
• FULLER, WILLIAM (1670--c. 1717)

Fuller states, a See also:

• NEPHEW

nephew by See also:

• MARRIAGE

marriage of Dr See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John Still, See also:

• BISHOP (A.S. bisceop, from Lat. episcopus, Gr. irio-Korros, " overlooker " or " overseer ")
• BISHOP, ISABELLA (1832-1904)
• BISHOP, SIR HENRY ROWLEY (1786-1855)

bishop of See also:

• BATH
• BATH, THOMAS THYNNE
• BATH, WILLIAM

Bath and See also:

• WELLS
• WELLS, CHARLES JEREMIAH (1798?–1879)
• WELLS, DAVID AMES (1828—1898)
• WELLS, HERBERT GEORGE (1866— )
• WELLS, SIR THOMAS SPENCER, 1ST BART

Wells . His surname, some-times written Arblastier, is one of the many variants of arbalester, a See also:

• CROSS

cross-bowman . See also:

• ALABASTER
• ALABASTER, or ARBLASTIER, WILLIAM (1567-1640)

Alabaster was educated at See also:

• WESTMINSTER
• WESTMINSTER, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
• WESTMINSTER, STATUTES OF
• WESTMINSTER, SYNODS OF

Westminster school, and entered Trinity See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, See also:

• CAMBRIDGE
• CAMBRIDGE, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• CAMBRIDGE, RICHARD OWEN (1717-1802)

Cambridge, in 1583 . He became a See also:

• FELLOW

fellow, and in 1592 was incorporated of the university of 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 . About 1592 he produced at Trinity College his Latin tragedy of See also:

• ROXANA, or ROXANE

Roxana.1 It is modelled on the tragedies of See also:

• SENECA

Seneca, and is a stiff and spiritless See also:

• WORK

work . Fuller and See also:

• ANTHONY, SAINT
• ANTHONY, SUSAN BROWNELL (1820-1906)

Anthony a See also:

• WOOD, ANTHONY A2 (1632-1695)
• WOOD, JOHN GEORGE (1827—1889)
• WOOD, MRS HENRY [ELLEN] (1814—1887)
• WOOD, SEARLES VALENTINE (1798—188o)

Wood bestowed exaggerated praise on it,while See also:

• SAMUEL

Samuel See also:

• JOHNSON, ANDREW
• JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
• JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
• JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
• JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
• JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
• JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
• JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
• JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
• JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
• JOHNSON, THOMAS

Johnson regarded it as the only Latin See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse worthy of See also:

• NOTICE

notice produced in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England before See also:

• MILTON
• MILTON, JOHN (1608–1674)

Milton's elegies . Roxana is founded on the La Dalida (See also:

• VENICE
• VENICE (continued)
• VENICE (Venezia)

Venice, 1567) of See also:

• LUIGI

Luigi Groto, known as Cieco di See also:

• HADRIA [mod. Atri (q.v.)]

Hadria, and See also:

• HALLAM
• HALLAM, ROBERT (d. 1417)

Hallam asserts that it is a See also:

• PLAGIARISM

plagiarism (Literature of See also:

• EUROPE

Europe, iii . 54) . A surreptitious edition in 1632 was followed by an authorized version a plagiarii unguibus vindicata, aucta et agnita ab Authore, Gulielmo Alabasteo .. One See also:

• BOOK

book of an epic poem in Latin hexameters, in See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of See also:

• QUEEN
• QUEEN (O.E. cwen, wife, related to "quean," O.E. cwene, a hussy; cf. Gr. yvvi7: from root gan-, to produce; cf. genus, " kin," &c.)

Queen See also:

• ELIZABETH
• ELIZABETH (1533-1603)
• ELIZABETH (1596-1662)
• ELIZABETH (1635–1650)
• ELIZABETH [ AMELIE EUGENIE ] (1837—1898)
• ELIZABETH [1lisabeth Philippine Marie Helene of France] (1764—1794)
• ELIZABETH [PAULINE ELIZABETH OTTILIE LOUISE] (1843– )
• ELIZABETH [PETROVNA] (1709-1762), EMPRESS
• ELIZABETH, SAINT (1207-1231)

Elizabeth, is preserved in MS. in the library of See also:

• EMMANUEL, or IMMANUEL

Emmanuel College, Cambridge . This poem, Elisaeis, See also:

• APOTHEOSIS (Gr. aaoOeou)

Apotheosis poetica, See also:

• SPENSER, EDMUND (c. 1552-1599)
• SPENSER, JOHN (1559-1614)

Spenser highly esteemed .

" Who lives that can match that heroick See also:

• SONG

song?" he says in See also:

• COLIN, ALEXANDRE (1526-1612)

Colin Clout's come See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home againe, and begs " Cynthia " to withdraw the poet from his obscurity . In See also:

• JUNE

June 1596 Alabaster sailed with See also:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

Robert Devereux, See also:

• EARL

earl of See also:

• ESSEX
• ESSEX, ARTHUR CAPEL
• ESSEX, EARLS OF
• ESSEX, KINGDOM OF
• ESSEX, ROBERT DEVEREUX
• ESSEX, ROBERT DEVEREUX, 2ND2 EARL OF (1566-1601)
• ESSEX, WALTER DEVEREUX, IST2 EARL OF (1541–1576)

Essex, on the expedition to See also:

• CADIZ
• CADIZ (Cadiz)
• CADIZ (in Lat. Gades, and formerly called Cales by the English)

Cadiz in the capacity of See also:

• CHAPLAIN

chaplain, and, while he was in See also:

• SPAIN
• SPAIN (Espana)

Spain, he became a See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic . An See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of his See also:

• CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

change of faith is given in an obscurely worded See also:

• SONNET (Ital. Sonetto, dim. of Suono, Fr. Sonnet)

sonnet contained in a MS. copy of Divine Meditations, by Mr Alabaster (see J . P . See also:

• COLLIER, ARTHUR (1680-1732)
• COLLIER, JEREMY (1650-1726)
• COLLIER, JOHN PAYNE (1789–1883)

Collier, Hist. of Eng . Dram . See also:

• POETRY

Poetry, ii . 341) . He defended his See also:

• CONVERSION (Lat. conversio, from convertere, to turn or ,change)

conversion in a pamphlet, Seven Motives, of which no copy is extant . The See also:

• PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)

proof of its publication only remains in two tracts, A Booke of the Seuen See also:

• PLANETS, MINOR

Planets, or Seuen wandring motives of 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 Alablaster's (sic) wit . . . , by John Racster (1598), and An See also:

• ANSWER (derived from and, against, and the same root as swear)

Answer to William Alabaster, his Motives, by See also:

• ROGER (d. 1139)
• ROGER (d. 1181)

Roger See also:

• FENTON
• FENTON, EDWARD (d. 1603)
• FENTON, ELIJAH (1683-1730)
• FENTON, LAVINIA (1708-1760)
• FENTON, SIR GEOFFREY (c. 1539-1608)

Fenton (1599) .

From these it appears that Alabaster was imprisoned for his change of faith in the See also:

• TOWER (Lat. turris; Fr. tour, clocker; Ital. torre; Ger. Thurm)

Tower of See also:

• LONDON

London during 1598 and 1599 . In 1607 he published at See also:

• ANTWERP
• ANTWERP (Fr. Anvers)

Antwerp Apparatus in Revelationem Jesu Christi, in which his study of the See also:

• KABBALAH (late Hebrew kabbalah, gabbalah)

Kabbalah was turned to account in a mystical See also:

• INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)

interpretation of scripture which See also:

• DREW
• DREW, SAMUEL (1765-1833)

drew down the censure alike of Protestants and Catholics . The book was placed on the See also:

• INDEX

Index librorum prohibitorum at See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early in Oro . Alabaster says in the See also:

• PREFACE (Med. Lat. prefatia, for classical praefatio, praefari, to speak beforehand)

preface to his Ecce sponsus venit (1633), a See also:

• TREATISE

treatise on the 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 of the second See also:

• ADVENT (Lat. Adventus, sc. Redemptoris, " the coming of the Saviour ")

advent of See also:

• CHRIST (Gr. X pLQTOS, Anointed)
• CHRIST, WILHELM VON (1831-1906)

Christ, that he went to Rome and was there imprisoned by the See also:

• INQUISITION, THE (Lat. inquisitio, an inquiry)

Inquisition, but succeeded in escaping to England and again embraced the See also:

• PROTESTANT

Protestant faith . He received a prebend in St See also:

• PAUL
• PAUL (PAULUS)

Paul's See also:

• CATHEDRAL

cathedral, London, and the living of Therfield, See also:

• HERTFORDSHIRE [HERrs]

Hertfordshire . He died in 1640 . Alabaster's other cabalistic writings are Commentarius de See also:

• BESTIA

Bestia Apocalyptica (1621) and Spiraculum tubarum . . . . (1633), a mystical interpretation of the See also:

• PENTATEUCH

Pentateuch . It was by these theological writings that he won the praise of Robert See also:

• HERRICK, ROBERT (1591-1674)

Herrick, who calls him " the See also:

• TRIUMPH (triumphus)

triumph of the See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day " and the "one only See also:

• GLORY (through the O. Fr. glorie, modern gloire, from Lat. gloria, cognate with Gr. KXebs, abets)

glory of a million" 1 For an See also:

• ANALYSIS (Gr. avci and Meta, to break up into parts)

analysis of the See also:

• PLAY

play see an See also:

• ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article on the Latin university plays in the Jahrbuch der Deutschen See also:

• SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM (1564-1616)

Shakespeare Gesellschaft (See also:

• WEIMAR

Weimar, 1898) . (" To See also:

• DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

Doctor Alabaster " in See also:

• HESPERIDES

Hesperides, 1648) . He also published (1637) See also:

• LEXICON

Lexicon Pentaglotton, Hebraicum, Chaldaicum, Syriacum, Talmudico-Rabbinicon et Arabicum .

See T . Fuller, Worthies of England (ii . 343); J . P . Collier, Bibl. and Crit . Account of the Rarest Books in the English See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

Language (vol. i . 1865) ; See also:

• PIERRE

Pierre See also:

• BAYLE, PIERRE (1647-1706)

Bayle, See also:

• DICTIONARY

Dictionary, See also:

• HISTORICAL

Historical and See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

Critical (ed . London, 1734) ; also the See also:

• ATHENAEUM

Athenaeum (See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 26, 1903), where Mr See also:

• BERTRAM, CHARLES (1723–1765)

Bertram See also:

• DOBELL, SYDNEY THOMPSON (1824-1874)

Dobell describes a MS. in his See also:

• POSSESSION
• POSSESSION (Lat. possessio, possidere, to possess)

possession containing See also:

• FORTY

forty-three sonnets by Alabaster .