Representative Biographies of English Men of Letters
Representative Biographies of English Men of Letters
C T Charles Townsend Copeland
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Xxv), and to him is assigned the first suggestion of those meetings at the Mermaid tavern in Bread Street which Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and many lesser writers long graced with their presence. He made valuable suggestions to Richard Hakluyt, when he was designing his great collection of 'Voyages' (cf. History of the World, bk. Ii. Cap. Iii. Sect. Viii. ). But it was not only literary and archaeological topics that Ralegh discussed with his literary or antiquarian friends. Although he did not p...ersonally adopt the scepticism in matters of religion which was avowed by many Elizabethan authors, it attracted his speculative cast of mind, and he sought among the sceptics his closest companions. Thomas Harriot, who acknowledged him- self to be a deist, he took into his house, on his return from Vir- ginia, in order to study mathematics with him. With Christopher Marlowe, whose religious views were equally heterodox, he was in equally confidential relations. Izaak Walton testifies that he wrote the well-known answer to Marlowe's familiar lyric, ' Come, live with me and be my love.
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