MISTAKE ABOUT GEORGE WITHER

In Campbell's *Notices of the British Poets* (edit. 1848 p. 234.) is the following, passage from the short memoir of George Wither:— "He was even afraid of being put to some mechanical trade, when he contrived to get to London, and with great simplicity had proposed to try his fortune at court. To his astonishment, however, he found that it was necessary to flatter in order to be a courtier. To show his independence, he therefore wrote his *Abuses Whipt and Stript*, and, instead of rising at court, was committed for some months to the Marshalsea." The author adds a note to this passage, to whi…