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    John Andrews was a 17th century English poet and minister. He authored a satirical poem called "The Anatomie of Basenesse" in 1615. Though he published it anonymously, references in the dedication letter suggest he was the author. As a clergyman, he may have wanted to avoid criticism for the poem's harsh criticism. Research identifies Andrews as having studied at Trinity College in the early 1600s and later working as a preacher in Wiltshire. He wrote several other religious works that also incorporated poetry. Only one copy of "The Anatomie of Basenesse" is known to exist today, held by the Bodleian Library. It is considered a vivid poem with memorable sayings that

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    John Andrews was a 17th century English poet and minister. He authored a satirical poem called "The Anatomie of Basenesse" in 1615. Though he published it anonymously, references in the dedication letter suggest he was the author. As a clergyman, he may have wanted to avoid criticism for the poem's harsh criticism. Research identifies Andrews as having studied at Trinity College in the early 1600s and later working as a preacher in Wiltshire. He wrote several other religious works that also incorporated poetry. Only one copy of "The Anatomie of Basenesse" is known to exist today, held by the Bodleian Library. It is considered a vivid poem with memorable sayings that

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    John Andrews was a 17th century English poet and minister. He authored a satirical poem called "The Anatomie of Basenesse" in 1615. Though he published it anonymously, references in the dedication letter suggest he was the author. As a clergyman, he may have wanted to avoid criticism for the poem's harsh criticism. Research identifies Andrews as having studied at Trinity College in the early 1600s and later working as a preacher in Wiltshire. He wrote several other religious works that also incorporated poetry. Only one copy of "The Anatomie of Basenesse" is known to exist today, held by the Bodleian Library. It is considered a vivid poem with memorable sayings that

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    ANDREWS, JOHN (17th cent.), poet, was the author of a striking and too long neglected poem
    called the Anatomie of Basenesse (1615), which has been recently reprinted in the Miscellanies
    of the Fuller Worthies' Library (vol. ii.). The Anatomie was published with only the initials I. A.
    in the epistle dedicatory to Sir Robert Sydney, but this epistle guides to the authorship.
    Apologising for his dedication, the writer says, among other things, that he prints not vainegloriously, or he would have subscribed his name, and that he forbore to have his name
    published out of some respects. The some respects probably refer to his being a minister of the
    Gospel; he seems to have held that his satire was too drastic and vehement for a clergyman, and
    might lay him open to misconstruction. Anthony Wood in his Athen, and his editor Dr. Bliss,
    filled in the initials thusI[ohn] A[ndrews]and wrote of him: John Andrews, a Somersetshire
    man born, was entered a student in Trinity College 1601, aged 18, took one degree in arts [viz.
    M.A., Fasti Oxon.], left the university, became a painfull preacher of God's word, and a publisher
    of certain books. When he died, or where he was buried, I know not. According to Dr. Bliss
    he seems to have been the same person with John Andrews, minister and preacher of the word of
    God at Barrick [Beswick] Bassett, in the county of Wilts, who was the author of Christ's Cross; or
    the most comfortable Doctrine of Christ crucified, and joyful Tidings of his Passion. Oxon. 1614,
    qu. in two parts. To this writer we may ascribe a very rare poetical work entitled the Anatomie of
    Basenesse. Sir Richard Hoare, the historian of Wiltshire, makes no mention of Andrews. It
    would therefore appear that he was curate or assistant or lecturer rather than incumbent.
    All the religious books of John Andrews have interspersed verses of the same stamp as those to be
    found in the Anatomie of Basenesse. They include: 1. Andrewes' Golden Chaine to linke the
    penitent sinner unto Almighty God (1645). 2. Brazen Serpent at Paules Crosse (1621). 3.
    Converted Man's New Birth (1629). 4. Andrewes' Repentance, sounding alarum to returne from
    his sinne unto Almighty God, declaring his repentance. Published by John Andrewes, minister of
    the Word of God in the county of Wilts (1623). 5. A Golden Trumpet sounding an Alarum to
    Judgement, by John Andrewes, minister and preacher of God's Word, of which the twenty-ninth
    impression appeared in 1648. 6. A Celestiall Looking-Glasse by John Andrewes, preacher of
    God's Word (1639). 7. Andrewes' Caveat to win Sinners newly published by John Andrewes,
    preacher of God's Word (1655).
    Of the Anatomie of Basenesse only the solitary exemplar in the Bodleian is known. It is a vivid
    poem, and its terse aphoristic sayings linger in the memory. The Feast of the Envious will still
    bear quotation. It contains these lines:
    Nor can the hand of reconciling Death
    Free men from this injurious monster's sting,
    Which through the bowels of the Earth doth pierce,
    And in the quiet vault appeares more fierce
    Than Deaththe grave's sterne tyrannising king.
    [Dr. Grosart's Miscellanies of the Fuller Worthies' Library; Books as cited, whose verse is given in Introduction in the

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