Chapter I: Preface

I desire to express my indebtedness to the following editions of Marvell's Works:--

(1) _The Works of Andrew Marvell, Esq., Poetical, Controversial, and
Political_: containing many Original Letters, Poems, and Tracts
never before printed, with a New Life. By Captain Edward
Thompson. In three volumes. London, 1776.

(2) _The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Andrew Marvell, M.P._
Edited with Memorial-Introduction and Notes by the Rev. Alexander
B. Grosart. In four volumes. 1872.

(_In the Fuller Worthies Library._)

(3) _Poems and Satires of Andrew Marvell, sometime Member of
Parliament for Hull._ Edited by G.A. Aitken. Two volumes.
Lawrence and Bullen, 1892.

_Reprinted_ Routledge, 1905.

Mr. C.H. Firth's Life of Marvell in the thirty-sixth volume of _The Dictionary of National Biography_ has, I am sure, preserved me from some, and possibly from many, blunders.

A.B.

3 NEW SQUARE, LINCOLN'S INN,
June 3, 1905.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I PAGE EARLY DAYS AT SCHOOL AND COLLEGE 1

CHAPTER II

"THE HAPPY GARDEN-STATE" 19

CHAPTER III

A CIVIL SERVANT IN THE TIME OF THE COMMONWEALTH 48

CHAPTER IV

IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS 75

CHAPTER V

"THE REHEARSAL TRANSPROSED" 151

CHAPTER VI

LAST YEARS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS 179

CHAPTER VII

FINAL SATIRES AND DEATH 211

CHAPTER VIII

WORK AS A MAN OF LETTERS 225

INDEX 233

ANDREW MARVELL