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ieai the reason thai it takes a hero to recogniBe aero ; sgd aSthpugh Marvcli's fame SlB a poet80 long denied, it ia perhaps no slightiompensation chut it lihouid at las-t have beeneptablished by Lanib, Pp« and Tennyson., The story of MarveU's life is fiili oi interestid bJaak Epacee. His father, a Cambridgrehireman by birth, was rector of Winestead in Yoflt-shire, where Andrew waG born on the jistofMarch 1611, His mother, who died when hewas ge^eBteen years old, belopged tq> the York-shire Pease family. The wit, tnte^Tity andiearntng of the elder MarTeiU which wereiced by Thomas Fulier, made an equal im-Hflion 00 other men, for in 1624 he wasappointed master of the Grammar School ofHull, and became aUo lecturer at Trinity Church,and head of one of the great hospitals of thetown. As Hull was a great Puritan centre,some of his influence may have been due to hisknown iDclination to Cdvinism. He, perhaps,brought hie son up too- rigorously, for whenAndrew was sent, io hie thirteenth year« toTrinity College, Cambridge, he respooded tothe advaocea made by a Roman CatlioltcFellow of Peter house, and, after four yearfi' study,went to live with Bome Jesuits in London. Infew months, however, his father met hima bookshop, and recovered him bodily and INTRODUCTION spiritually. He was received back at TrinityCollege, and two poems by him addresacd toCharles I. — one in Greek and ihe other in Latin— appeared in the Muta Cantahrlgifnni in 1637.He remained at Cambridge until 1640, when hisfather, in croBsing the Humber, was drowned incompany with a Miss Skinner. Fuller says thatthis Miss Skinner was tbe daughter of SirEdward Coke, but possibly he iniBtoofc her forher mother, who waa al&o related to CyriacSkinner, Milton's friend. It is said that MrsSkinner, who adopted Andrew on the death ofthe elder Marvell, left him the ]ittle property»he had, and he also appears to have inherited aamali estate. Somebody must have provide^—him with 3 fair amount of moaey, for he spe^flthe next four years wandering through France^Holkod, Spain and Italy, a galknt younggentleman with scholarly tastes and of a merry,open nature, who aired his §kil] in Latin yereeswhen he itiixeti with the wit8 of Paris, betteredhimself in the art Ci{ fencing in company with theSpaniards of Madrid, and did not care to hearFleckncre read his poems at Rome, when hemight have been taking life more gaily aJtioagthe Romans themselves.
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