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His parochial pastor and spiritual superior is a gentleman, or, as Horace says, homo factus ad unguem which is paraphrastically every inch a gentleman or more literally, a gentleman to the tops of his fingers ehem hem down to the very nails as it were.
Thus in 1585 he published a work in Latin hexameter verse with the title 'Amyntas Thomae Watsoni Londinensis I. V. studiosi, divided into eleven 'Querelae, which was 'paraphrastically translated' by Abraham Fraunce into English hexameters, and published under the title 'The Lamentations of Amyntas for the death of Phillis' in 1587.
He supposes that the artifice is such, that the figures of the conquered nations in his tapestry are made to play their part, and are confounded in the machine, utque Purpurea intexti tollant aulæa Britanni; or, as Dryden translates it, somewhat paraphrastically, but not less in the spirit of the prophet than of the poet,
Beck shook his head mysteriously, and without answering the question, resumed the tale, which we must thus paraphrastically continue to deliver. When he was a little more than six years old, Beck began to earn his own livelihood, by running errands, holding horses, scraping together pence and halfpence.
To cut off blinde ambages by the high way side, we made a long stride & got to Venice in short time, where hauing scarce lookt about vs, a precious supernaturall pandor, apparelled in all points like a gentleman, and hauing halfe a dosen seuerall languages in his purse, entertained vs in our owne tongue verie paraphrastically and eloquently, and maugre all other pretended acquaintance, would haue vs in a violent kinde of curtesie to be the guests of his appointment.
There is a legend that on one occasion four machine-gun bullets actually hit him and bounced off, which gave the imitative Hun the idea of armour-plating his machines. Grigson took the slip and read, slowly and paraphrastically: "Night operations.
Beck shook his head mysteriously, and without answering the question, resumed the tale, which we must thus paraphrastically continue to deliver. When he was a little more than six years old, Beck began to earn his own livelihood, by running errands, holding horses, scraping together pence and halfpence.
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