[680]Thomas Cooper, Magdalenensis—vide Anthony Wood'sAntiq. Oxon.: quaere if he was not schoolmaster at Winchester Colledge?
Dr. Edward Davenant told me that this learned man had a shrew to his wife, who was irreconcileably angrie with him for sitting-up late at night so, compileing[681]his Dictionarie, (Thesaurus linguae Romanae et Britannicae, Londini, 1584; dedicated to Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, and Chancellor of Oxford). When he had halfe-donne it, she had the opportunity to gett into his studie, tooke all his paines out in her lap, and threw it into the fire, and burnt it. Well, for all that, that good man had so great a zeale for the advancement of learning, that he began it again, and went through with it to that perfection that he hath left it to us, a most usefull worke. He was afterwards made bishop of Winton.
He dyed <29 Apr. 1594>.
In Thesaurum Thomae Cooper, Magdalenensis, hexasticon Richardi Stephani.
Vilescat rutila dives Pactolus arena,Hermus, et auriferi nobilis unda Tagi,Vilescant Croesi gemmae Midaeque talenta,Major apud Britones[XLIX.]eruta gaza patet:Hoc, Wainflete, tuo gens Anglica debet alumno,Qui vigili nobis tanta labore dedit.
Vilescat rutila dives Pactolus arena,Hermus, et auriferi nobilis unda Tagi,Vilescant Croesi gemmae Midaeque talenta,Major apud Britones[XLIX.]eruta gaza patet:Hoc, Wainflete, tuo gens Anglica debet alumno,Qui vigili nobis tanta labore dedit.
[XLIX.]Verstegan deservedly blames him for that expression.
[XLIX.]Verstegan deservedly blames him for that expression.
[682]Mr. Pulleyn[683]tells me that Cowper who wrot the Dictionary was not bishop of Winton but of Lincoln: vide and mend it[684].