Let it be remembered, that these are not the words of an antiquated or obscure enthusiast, but of a learned and polite Prelate now alive; and were spoken, not to a vulgar congregation, but to the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s-Inn.  His Lordship in this sermon explains the words, ‘deliver us from evil,’ in the Lord’s Prayer, as signifying a request to be protected from ‘the evil one,’ that is the Devil.  This is well illustrated in a short but excellent Commentary by my late worthy friend, the Reverend Dr. Lort, of whom it may truly be said, Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit.  It is remarkable that Waller, in his Reflections on the several Petitions, in that sacred form of devotion, has understood this in the same sense;—­

     ‘Guard us from all temptations of the FOE.’

BOSWELL.  Dr. Lort is often mentioned in Horace Walpole’s Letters.  Multis ille quidem flebilis occidit,’ comes from Horace, Odes, i. xxiv. 9, translated by Francis,—­

     How did the good, the virtuous mourn.’

For Dr. Hurd see ante, p. 189.

[897] There is a curious anecdote of this physician in Gent.  Mag. 1772, p. 467.

[898] See ante, p. 166.  He may have taken the more to Fox, as he had taken to Beauclerk (ante, i. 248), on account of his descent from Charles II.  Fox was the great-great-grandson of that king.  His Christian names recall his Stuart ancestry.

[899] Horace Walpole wrote on April 11 (Letters, viii. 469):—­’In truth Mr. Fox has all the popularity in Westminster; and, indeed, is so amiable and winning that, could he have stood in person all over England, I question whether he would not have carried the Parliament.’  Hannah More (Memoirs, i. 316) in the same month wrote:—­’Unluckily for my principles I met Fox canvassing the other day, and he looked so sensible and agreeable, that if I had not turned my eyes another way, I believe it would have been all over with me.’  See ante, p. 279.

[900] Dr. John Radcliffe, who died in 1714, left by his will, among other great benefactions to the University of Oxford, ’L600 yearly to two persons, when they are Masters of Arts and entered on the physic-line, for their maintenance for the space of ten years; the half of which time at least they are to travel in parts beyond sea for their better improvement.’ Radcliffe’s Life and Will, p. 123.  Pope mentions them in his Imitations of Horace, Epistles, ii. i. 183:—­

     ’E’en Radcliffe’s doctors travel first to France,
      Nor dare to practise till they’ve learned to dance.’