Lobelius the botanist, Nathaniel Baxter, Sir Robert Ayton, Meric Casaubon, Theodore Mayerne and William Halliday were among his other friends.
[1] He appears as the hard-drinking "Dr. Torie" in Pierre Gassendi's Life of Nicolas de Peiresc.
[5] Thorius wrote a Latin ode in 1603, exhorting his wife and family to leave London on account of the plague.
In February 1625 Thorius completed a poem of 142 hexameter lines entitled Hyems, dedicated to Constantine Hygins, which is sometimes printed with the Hymnus.
Topics include: the execution of Sir Walter Ralegh; an epitaph for William Camden; an epistle to Baudius; and verses on the naturalists Rondeletius and Lobelius.
[1] The manuscript includes also the verse Thorius wrote with Jacob Cool, on behalf of the London Dutch community, for the 1604 coronation entry of James I of England.