A SUCCINCT AND IMPARTIAL ACCOUNT OF ST JOHN'S HOUSE AND ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, WITH SOME OCCASIONAL AND INCIDENTAL ACCOUNT OF THE AFFAIRS OF THE UNIVERSITY, AND OF SUCH PRIVATE COLLEGES AS HELD WITH THE OLD HOUSE OR COLLEGE. COLLECTED PRINCIPALLY FROM RECORDS AND]1 BY A MEMBER OF THE COLLEGE. AN. 1707. A piece cut off. 5 FUNDATRICI VOTA. Accipe, fundatrix, grati pia vota nepotis; At tua progenies vivet, nascentur alumni, April 9, 1511, anno seculari. 10 15 20 Accept this offering from the unenvied store 1-2 Oft had I sent my fervent vows to heaven, And yet thy bounty may I ever sing, 5 Or may the fountain stop, whence it should spring. 10 Januar. quarto, die fundatori meo sacro eique commemorando destinato. IN A WINDOW OF THE DISSOLVED HOSPITAL OF ST INSCRIPTION. Orate pro anima Magistri Hugonis de Asheton, quon- 15 dam Canonici residentiarii Eccl. Cathedralis Ebor. cujus devotione hec Fenestra vitriata fuit A. Dom. millesimo quingentesimo... My God! and what am I? a thing of naught, Hid from myself, and yet composed of thought. How vain these thoughts, how oft without effect! And yet I please myself that I reflect. 5 Proud of a phantom, that can only shew, That I more surely think, than surely know. Ruffled with passions, with affections blind, Involved in clouds, nor rest, nor light I find, Till he that breathed the spark, does reinspire my mind. Thou that breath'st life into th' unthinking clod, Be Thou my Light, as Thou hast been my God. Thou took'st me from the womb, since me upheld, Be Thou my strength, as Thou hast been my shield. And surely so Thou art; from deaths, from tears, 15 Thou oft preserv'dst me, oft renew'dst my years, Dispelled my sorrows, banished all my fears. To dangers oft exposed, Thy help implored, By follies lost, as oft I've been restored. 10 When duty called me forth to risk my all, 25 My sins more justly scourges might demand, } |