1650." Various names written on title-page.

Most conspicuous this: Gul.

Cookeson E.Coll.

Omn.
Anim.1725.

Oxon.
-- O William Cookeson, of All-Souls College, Oxford,--then writing as I now write,--now in the dust, where I shall lie,--is this line all that remains to thee of earthly remembrance?
Thy name is at least once more spoken by living men;--is it a pleasure to thee?
Thou shalt share with me my little draught of immortality,--its week, its month, its year,--whatever it may be,--and then we will go together into the solemn archives of Oblivion's Uncatalogued Library!] -- If you think I have used rather strong language, I shall have to read something to you out of the book of this keen and witty scholar,--the great Erasmus,--who "laid the egg of the Reformation which Luther hatched." Oh, you never read his Naufragium, or "Shipwreck," did you?
Of course not; for, if you had, I don't think you would have given me credit--or discredit--for entire originality in that speech of mine.