and Lyric Poetry For his excellent Genius in which he prefers him next after Horace himself he was the next Bishop of Antuerp after Franciscus Sonnius was Flourishing beyond the year 1595. Lodovic Carlisle the Author of divers formerly not unesteem'd and not yet totally forgotten Tragi-Comedies as the two parts of Arviragus and Felicia The Passionate Lovers in 2 parts Osmond the Great Turk or the Noble Servant a Tragedy Lopez de Vega Carpio the most noted writer among the Spaniards of Comedies and other Dramatic Poems but more noted for the multitude for he is exceeding Voluminous then for the goodness of them and for his singularity in making but 3 Acts to each Fable or Play He also wrote a Poem of S r Francis Drake's Exploits in the West-Indies Lorenzo Medici a Noble Florentine as his Name imports whose Poesie Volgari was printed at Venice an 1554. Lucas Shepheard an English Poet of Colchester in Essex of so much note in Queen Mary's Reign that he is thought not unworthy of mention by some of our English Historians Ludolphus Pithopoeus a learned and ingenious Hollander but most particularly taken notice of among the Belgic Latin Poets for his singular faculty in Latin in Verse Ludovicus Alealmus a French Poetical writer having a principal Place among the Latin Versifiers of that Nation Ludovico Ariosto one of the two most celebrated Heroic Poets of Italy and thereupon Competitor with Torquato Tasso the other his Poem entitled Orlando Furioso takes its argument from the Expedition of the Emperor Charles the Great against the Saracens in Spain There are also of his writing several Elegant Comedies Ludovicus Andreas Resendius an Eminent both Poet Orator Theologist and Antiquary Ludovico Bigi Vittorio or Pittorio a Poet of Ferrara among whose other Poems as Hymns Epitaphs upon the Saints Satyrs Elegies Epigrams c. his Hippolyta an Elegant Poem is most especially noted Ludovico Bruno the commended Author of a Poem upon the Coronation of Maximilian King of the Romans he was Flourishing in the year 1494. Ludovico Celio Calcagnino see Celio Ludovicus Celottus a French Man noted for his Latin Tragedies Sapor Chosroes Adrian the Tragical Marriage of Mahomet the Second besides Hendecasyllables upon the Birth of Christ. Ludovicus Crucius the Author of several Latin Tragedies and Comedies which were printed at Leiden anno 1605. Ludovico Dolce an Italian Lyric Poet or writer of Sonnets one of the next Classis after Ottavio Rinuccini and the rest mentioned with him with this Ludovico may be ranked Ludovico Laurentio Martelli Gabriel Chabriera Giovanni de Casa Mario Colonna Agnolo Firenzuola Cesare Caporale and Burchiello Ludovico Laurentio Martelli see above in Ludovico Dolce Ludovicus Lazarellus the Author of a Poetical Dialogue entitled Crater Hermetis dedicated to Ferdinand King of the Romans and printed at Paris by Henricus Stephanus an 1505. Ludovicus Mazurius a Hollander not inconsiderable among the Belgic Writers of Latin Poesy Ludovico or Luigi Pulci a pretender by his Morgante to a Seat among the Italian Heroic Poets Ludovicus Tribaldus the Author of a Latin Poem entitled Epenesis Iberica which was printed at Antuerp an 1632. Luigi Alamanni a Florentine principally famous for his Heroic Poem entitled Avarchis he wrote also 4 Books of Agriculture in Blanc Verse in which kind of writing not only he but also some others of the most judicious of the Italian Poets have succeeded well enough to demonstrate that Rime is not so very essential in the modern Languages to the making up of a Verse Luigi or Ludovico Tansilli an Italian Poet best known by what he hath written for the Stage yet not solely Dramatic there being other things of his writing of which the chief is his Poem entitled Lagrime di Sancto Pietro Luis Galvez a Poetical Writer of Note among the Spaniards whose Pastor de Philida was printed at Madrid anno 1582. Luke Sheapherd see Lucas Sh. M. MAlens Acidalius a Writer in Latin Poetry of the number of those that are esteem'd of the chief German Writers of that kind Maphaeus Barberinus a great Ornament to the Papal Chair to which he was advanc't by the Name of Vrban the 8 th by reason of his polite Learning and Elegance among other Arts and Sciences in which he had attain'd a great perfection his extant Poetry hath gain'd him a very Flourishing Fame Maphaeus Vegius a Poet of Lodi contemporary with Angelus Politianus among his other Poetical Works his most noted is his Supplement to Virgil's Aeneis He is mentioned Flourishing in the year 1403. Marcellus Palingenius Sirnam'd Stellatus Poeta the Author of a well known and approv'd Poem entitled Zodiacus Vitae whose subject is the right Institution of human Life Study and Manners and dedicated to Hercules the Second Duke of Ferrara it consists of 12 Books according to the number of the 12 Signs and each Book accordingly denominated Marcus Antonius Antimachus a Native of Ferrara who by his assiduous and choice converse with Greec Authors made himself so much Master of that Language that he hath among other things both in Prose and Verse written 8 Books of Greec Epigrams with the success of no vulgar repute he out-liv'd the year 1544. Marcus Aemilius Portus the Son of Franciscus a Cretensian or Native of the Isle of Candie a Professor of the Greec Tongue first at Ferrara next at Orleans whose Metaphrase of David's Psalms in Greec Verse is taken notice 〈◊〉 by Duport though with no extraordinary commendation Marco Antonio Tibaldeo a noted Italian Author of a Poem entitled Tibaldeo which was printed at Venice anno 1556. Marcus Antonius Boba a Cardinal whom Thuanus having convers't with him at Rome commends for his Vein in Poetry and his Eloquence both in speaking and writing Marcus Antonius Flaminius an Italian who besides that he was an excellent Philosopher by his sweet Vein in Latin Poesy sufficiently appearing in his 2 Books of Carmina or Odes indeared himself to several Eminent Men of his time and among others to Cardinal Reginald Pool at whose request he made a Version of David's Psalms in Elegant Latin Verse which by mistake hath been by some imputed to Joannes Antonius Fl. of Forum Cornelii Marcus Antonius Muretus see Antonius Marcus Hieronymus Vida a Noble Poet of Cremona who was promoted to the Bishoprie of Alba his works consist chiefly of these following Poems his Christias or Poem of the Life and death of Christ in 6 Books his three Books De Arte Poetio his 2 Books of the care and management of Silk-worms his Description of the Game at Chesse in one Book besides Hymns Odes Bucolic Eclogues c. He is mentioned by Thuanus among other learned Men under the year 1566. Marcus Joannes Croeselius an Elegiac Writer in two remarkable Books the first his Encomiums of the most noted Emperors Kings and Commanders in War from Constantine the second of Men most Famous for Learning and the Arts. Marcus Joannes Fracta a Poet of Verona
in Poetry Nathan Chytraeus a German whose Vranoscopia Geoscopia and other Poetical pieces of that nature are taken notice of by Learned Men among the works of other writers of Latin Poetry accounted of the Chief of Germany Nicodemus Frischlinus a German writer of nomean account in Poetry not less then Heroic as his Hebreis imports Nicolas Breton a writer of Pastoral Sonnets Canzons and Madrigals in which kind of writing he keeps company with several other Contemporary Aemulators of Spencer and Sr Philip Sidney in a publisht Collection of selected Odes of the chief Pastoral Sonnetters c. of that Age. Nicolaus Causinus a very famous French man Father Confessour joyntly with Iacobus Sirmondus to King Lewis the 13 th of France besides his vulgarly so much admired work The Holy Court his Book De Eloquentia his Thesaurus Graecae Poeseos and other things in Prose he hath also written in Verse several Tragedies Solyma Nebuchadonosor Theodoricus c. and other Latin Poems Nicolaus Cisnerus Mosbachius a Poet of the Palatine or Territory of the Prince Palatine of the Rhine he was in his Prime about the year 1556. Nicolaus Grudius the possessour of a principal Place among the Principal Latin Poets of Germany Nicolaus Kenton an old English Poet that is old in respect of this Age for he wrote in the Reign of K. Edward the 4 th and as Poetry then went was look't upon as a very Famous Man in those times Nicolaus Marius Panicianus a Ferrarese whose Poetic writings were both many and of various subiects Nicolaus Querculus the Author of 2 Books of Moral Hexastichs printed by Reginaldus Calderius at Paris an 1552. Nicolaus Rapinus a Frenchman whose Fame in Latin Poetry hath a Place among the Cheif of that Nation Nicolaus Reusnerus a Professor at Ienes of universal knowledge in all Arts and Sciences by the testimony of Melchior Adams in his Life and Boissardus in his Bibliotheca and for his felicity in Latin Verse rankt among the modern Latin Poets accounted of the Prime of Germany among the rest of his Opera Poetica his Monarchae is peculiarly mentioned Nicolaus Rhedigerus a German one of the principal accounted of that Nation for excellence in Latin Poetry Nicolaus Rigaltius a wriâ—er of Annotations upon Tertullian for which he hath a very high commendation from Grotius in his Epistle to Petrus Puteanus but besides this and several other works in Prose he hath written sufficiently in Latin Verse to gain himself the title to a Place among the modern Latin Poets accounted of the Chief of France He is also mentioned as a Person of universal Literature by Gassendus in his Life of Peireskius Nicolaus Rudingerus one of the number of those that are esteem'd of the Prime of the German Nation for a happy Vein in Latin Poetry Nicolaus Valla a Roman who besides his Latin Version of Homers Ilias and Hesiods Opera Dies hath also left productions of his own invention among which his two Epistles of Rome and Constantinople each to other reciprocal O. OCtavius Boldonius wrote Epigrapica or Elogia in Latin Verse which were printed at Paris anno 1660. Octavius Cleophilus an Elegant Poet of Fano a principal Town of Marca Anconitana among whose Poetical works for he wrote many things both in Prose Verse are his Poem entitled Faneis in 3 Books and his Book De Coetu Poetarum in which he gives a brief touch of all the Ancient both Greec and Latin Poets Octavius Meninus a writer of Latin Poesy among other the Cheif writers of Latin Poesy accounted of the Italians Octavius Rubeus a Paduan born in the year 1570 the Son of Iacobus de Rubeis and Hippolyta of the Family of the Scarpi he wrote the History of Brescia with good success and is moreover reckon'd among the number of Choicest Italians Poets Orlando Pescetti a Tragic writer of Verona Otho of Cremona his Latin Rythms concerning the choice of Simples and Medicinal Ingredients were printed at Francfort anno 1533 by Christianus Egenolphus Ottavio Rinuccini an Italian Lyric Poet or writer of Sonnets one generally so accounted of the first rank after Petrarch for Elegancy and sweetness Of the same Classe with him we may rekon Guido Cavalcanti Girolamo Preti Georgio Gradenico Benedetto Varchi Speron Sperone Francesco Maria Molza Bernardino Rota and Tasso himself who was no less happy in his Sonnets then in his Heroic Poems P. PAcificus Maximus Asculanus an Eminent both Grammarian and Poet among whose Poetical works his Poem Lucretia in 2 Books and his Virginia in as many were seth forth by Hieronymus Soncinus an 1550. He wrote also 20 Books of Elegies a Poem to Joannes Salvalius and an Invective against Angelus Politianus Pamphilius Saxus a Discoverer of his Poetical talent with divers other Italian writers in Latin Poetry whose selected works are publisht together Parthenius Paravicinus a Novocommensian not of the meanest repute of the late Italian writers in Latin Verse Pantaleon Candidus a German Poet of the Chief of those that are fam'd for an Elegant style in Latin Verse M r Paschal a late French writer of a Poem entitled Le Commerce du Parnasse Paulus Areolus an Elegant Poet of Taleacotium born in the year 1570. He was preferr'd to the Government of Lugo by Cardinal Antonius Barberinus Paulus Dolscius a Metaphrast of David's Psalms and Salomon's Book of Wisedom and thereupon mention'd by Conradus Dinnerus in his Catalogue of Greek Poets Paulus Maccius an Italian of Principal note and fame among the Latin Versifiers of that Nation Paulus Marsus a Poet of Piscinae who yet writ also in Prose a Comment upon Ovid's Fasti. Paulus Medius Schedius a French Poet who had so a great repute in Italy that he was made a Citizen of Rome also a Knight and Count of Padua besides his Schediasmata Poetica which were printed at Paris an 1586 he wrote Epigrams upon all the Cities of Italy Paulus Musconius a writer of Latin Tetrastichs containing a System of Christian Religion Paulus Rubigallus a Hungarian whose Hodoeporicon or Itinerary Poem upon his Constantinopolitan journy in Elegiac Verse was printed at Wirtenberg 1554 with his Complaint of Pannonia to Germany Paulus Baron of Swartzenburg and Lord of Lunenberg His Epigrams were printed at Augsburg by Henricus Steiner an 1583. Petrus Aegidius a noted German writer both in Prose and Verse of which last kind are his Threnodie upon the Emperour Maximilian his Epitaphes upon several other great Princes with divers Epigrams Petrus Angelius Bargoeus a Student after several years travel into far Countries in the University at Pisa where among other studies he became chiefly proficient in that of Poetry from whence among other commendable Poems proceeded his Cynegetics and Syrias the mentioned year of his flourishing was 1596. Petrus Bembus a Noble Venetian whose high and well deserved reputation of a most Learned and Eloquent Person soon advanc't him to the Purple among the rest of whose Poetical
several of his Epigrams are extant in the Fourth Book of the Greek Anthologia Contemporary with him was Synaesius Bishop of Ptolemais who besides other Poems wrote Ten Hymns which are yet extant And also Nonnus likewise of Panopolis the Authour of a well known Greek Poem Entitled Dionysiaca in 48 Books and whose Paraphrase upon St. John's Gospel in Heroic Greek verse is of sufficient esteem among the learned Cyrus Theodorus Prodromus a Divine Epigrammatist who living in or somewhat near the time of the antient Fathers wrote in Greek Verse partly in Iambic partly in Heroic Tetrastics the summary heads of the Pentateuch or Five Books of Moses and also of Joshua Judges and Kings and in the New Testament of the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles also Iambic and Heroic Tetrasticks upon the Three Great Hierarchs St. Gregory Basil and Chrysostome with some other things his Works were Printed at Basil by Bebelius An. 1536. D DAmasus a Spaniard who liv'd in the time of Valentinianus Gratianus Valentinianus junior and Theodosius Magnus and was Bishop of Rome he hath left several Poems and Hymns which are sung in the Church of Rome and is laureated a Poet by Suidas Damochares a Grammarian and Writer of Epigrams whereof some are to be found in the Greec Anthologie Damocrates a Poet of an uncertain time who wrote in Verse several medicinal passages extracted out of Galens works Damâ—xenus an Athaenian Comedian whose Syntrophi and Heauton Penthon are quoted by Athenaeus he is also mention'd by Suidas see Cleanthes Daphitas a Poet and Grammarian who for certain bitter Invectives against Monarchy was crucified upon Thorax a mountain of Magnesia David The 2d King of Israel and Judah commonly celebrated with the threefold Title of King Priest and Prophet to which may be added also that of Poet if under the name of Vates Prophet and Poet were not included together His Divine gift in Poetry appears in the composition of those most Coelestial Hymns or Psalms which take place among those Sacred Books which make up the Old Testament of which is generally reputed the intire Authour but was certainly the Authour of most if not all of them Decius Junius Juvenalis see Junius Decius Laberius a Mimic Writer who began to flourish in the Third year of 181st Olympiad and was Contemporary with Cicero who though a much better Oratour than Poet yet we have extant among his Works something also of his Poetry his Aquae Aries Augur and very many more of his Mimes are reckoned up by Charisius his Rector Salinator Scripturae are remembred by Agellius much about the same time also flourisht 1. Lucius Cornelius Sylla a famous though cruel and tyrannical Roman Commander who as saith Athenaeus wrote in his own tongue many facetious Satyrs and Mimes with which according to Nieolaus Damafcenus he was much delighted Plutarch in his life reiateth that he made Verses while he was besieging Athens 2. Quintus Hortensius who besides his Fame in Oratory had so much of a Poet as to make a parcell of wanton Verses which are remembred by Ovid in his Elegies and by Agellius 3. Marcus Valerius Cato who wrote two Poems Lydia and Diana 4. Marcus Furius Bibaculus divers of whose Verses are cited by Macrobius and Agellius among which there are some that appear to have been imitated even word for word by Virgil he is said by Suetonius and Tacitus to have written invective Verses against Julius Caesar 5. Titus Pomponius Atticus whose Excellence in Poetry is fully set fortth by Cornelius Nepos in the Description of his Life 6. Marcus Terentius Varro who is styled Philosopher and Poet by Hieronymus in his Chronicle and out of whose Poems we have several fragments yet extant especially of the Satirae Mcnippeae together with divers Epigrams both in the Appendix of Virgil collected by Scaliger and in the Collection of Epigrams set forth by Petrus Pythaeus but his Books de Re Rustica lingua Latina are most lookt upon besides him there was another Varro sirnamed Atacinus not much less ancient who also wrote Poems viz. Argonautics and a Poem of the Sequanic War 7. Quintus Cicero Brother of Tullius whose Verses of the Twelve Signs are yet extant in Pithaeus his Collection 8. Albinus not Aulus Posthumius though both indeed wrote the same subject viz. the History of the Roman Affairs but Aulus in Greek Prose the other in Latin Verse 9. Caius Helvius Cinna who wrote an obscure Poem Entitled Smyrna which the Grammarian Crassitins undertook to interpret besides which Isidorus hath a Tetrastic of his upon the writing of Aratus his Poem in a leaf of Mallows 10. Caius Licinius Calvus of whom there is nothing remembred but his Epigram upon Cn. Pompeius 11. Macer not Aemilius Macer the Botanic Poet of whose Poem Entitled Iliaca see Scaliger upon Eusebius Decius Magnus Ansonius a Physitian and Poet of Burgedala who flonrisht in the time of the Emperour Valentinian the Elder and his two Sons Gratianus and Valentinian the younger by whom he was prefer'd to great honours having been Praeceptor to the two young Princes besides those Poetical works of his which are extant he wrote Fasti and some other things which are lost Demetrius a Satyric Poet of Tarsus of an uncertain time besides whom there were three others of the same name the one a Comedian sirnamed Phalereus whether the Grammarian so sirnamed I find not out of whose Fable Entitled Sicilia Athenaeus cites 4 Verses the other an Epic the last an Iambic writer Demochares a Solian whose Fable Entitled Demetrius is remembred by Plutarch in his Life of Demetrius Poliorcetes Democritus and Demodocus two antient Epigrammatists whose Names are preservâ—d by several Epigrams yet extant in the Greek Anthologie Demolchus a Syracusian Comic Poet who flourisht in the 73d Olympiad and taught Fourteen Fables in the Doric tongue he was the Son of Epicharmus a Physitian Demonax an old Greek Poet quoted by Stobaeus in his Sermon de Superbia Dexicrates an Athenian whose Fable Entitled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is remembred by Athenaeus and Suidas Dicaeogenes a Tragedian and Dithyrambic Poet remembred by Harpocration Suidas and Stobaeus Dinolochus see Euripides Diocles ibidem Diodorus an old Greec Poet of Sinope out of whom several Iambic verses are quoted by Stobaeus in his Sermon de contrahendis Nuptiis and else-where some think him to be the same with Diodorus a Comic Poet of Syene whose Tibiâ—ina Panegyristae and Epiclerus are cited by Athenaeus and who is also mentioned by Suidas Dionysiades see Aeantides Dionysiodorns a Trazenian out of whom a Verse is cited by Plutarch in the beginning of his Life of Aratus he is also taken notice of by the Scholiast of Apollonius Dionysius sirnamed Epaites an Elegiac writeâ—r out of whom Parthenius is said to have borrowed the 15th History of his Erotica Of this name there are several others not to be forgot The first and most considerable for a Poet was Dionysius of
Alexandria vulgarly sirnamed Afer whose Periegesis or description of the World in Greek Verse ia now in great esteem among the learned there was also a Poem call'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 written either by this or another Dionysius he is thonght by Vossius to have lived about the time of Tiberius or not long after Dionysius Pheraeus whom see in Cratinus Dionysius Scytobrachion whom see in Antipater Dionysius a Greec Hymnographer but of what age or sirname is not found if he be not one of those above mentioned of whom there are some few Hymns now extant with the Musical notes to them lately set forth with the Edition of Aratus Printed at the Sheldonian Theater at Oxford Dionysius the Sicilian Tyrant who is said to have written several Comedies and Tragedies whereof his Adonis and Thesmophoros are cited by Athenaeus In his time lived Antipho a Rhamnusian both Tragic and Comic Poet mention'd with praise by Aristotle in his Poetics and one of the Ten Oratours whose lives are written by Plutarch and Philostratus some say he was put to death by the Thirty Tyrants others by Dionysius for deriding his Comedies Also Sthenelus a Tragic Poet remembred by Aristotle in his Poetics and Harpocration Dioscorides an antient Greec Epigramatist whose name is to very many Epigrams in the Greek Anthologie As like wise Diotimus And also Diotiuchus Dioxippus an Athenian Comedian of whose writing there are remembred these Comedies viz. his Philargyrus Diadicazomenus Historiographus and Antipornobosci Diphilus see Menander Domitius Marsus see Publius Ovidius Dorcatius a Latin Poet of an uncertain time out of whom Isidorus l. 8. Orig. l. 69. cites two Verses Doricus otherwise Dorias his Octostich upon Milo of Crotona is cited by Athenaeus l. 10. Dorillus a Tragic Poet remembred by Suidas Dorotheus a Sidonian Poet who wrote Apotelesmata which M. Manlius is said to have imitated he is cited by Athenaeus Dorus a Greek Comic writer quoted by Stobaeus Dosiades a Rhodian mentioned by Lucianus and the Scholiast of Simmias he wrote a Poem called Ara which was a certain number of Verses in form of an Altar but that Ara printed at the end of Theocritus is proved by Salmasius who set forth Simmias his Ovunt to have been neither written by Theocritus nor Dosiades Draco the famously cruel Law-giver of the Athenians he is said to have written precepts of life in 3000 Verses Dracontius see Antigrammaratus Drepanius Florus doubtless not the same as Pacatus Drepanius the Rhetorician an eminent French Poet who liv'd in the time of Constantinus Pogonatus and Clodovaeus Secundus King of France his Psalms Hymns and other divine Poems are extant in the Book called Bibliotheca Patrum Dromo a Comic Poet whose Psaltria is quoted by Athenaeus Dropides see Epimenides Duris an Epigrammatist of Elea whose Epigram upon the deluge of Ephesus is extant in the Florilegium of Planudes E ECdorus an old Greek Poet out of whom several Iambic Verses are quoted by Stobaeus in his Sermon de Ignobilitate Ecphantides a Comic Poet to whom one of the Chaerili but which of them is uncertain was amanuensis in the writing of his Comedies as is testified by Hesychius Egemon see Hegemon Egnatius a Deacon of Constantinople who wrote in Verse the lives of two Patriarchs Tarisius and Nicephorus Iambics against Thomas Aucartes a grand Conspiratour against the State with some other things Empedocles of Agrigentum a writer of natural Philosophy in Heroic Verse following therein Parmenides whose Disciple he is said by some to have been though by others the Disciple of Telauges the Son of Pythagoras in the Collection of Philosophical poesie set out by H. Stephanus are certain fragments both of him and of Parmenides the Disciple of Xenophanes besides which there is extant a small Astronomical Tractat Entitled Empedocles his Sphaera he began to flourish in the 48th Olympiad as the Anonymus Authour and Laertius testifie At the same time with Empedocles flourisht Epicharmus a Sicilian also and Physiological Poet there being fragments of his among the rest in the above mentioned Collection besides very many Fables of his which were in much request many whereof are cited by Pollux and Athenaeus Likewise at the same time besides Simonides the Son of the Lyric to whom Vossius scruples to allow a place among the Poets Archelaus an Athenaean some say a Milesian whom Giraldus will have to be a physiological Poet though Vossius makes a Question Endeleichus otherwise called Severus Sanctus a Rhetorician of an uncertain time whose Eclogue about the death of Oxen is extant in the Collectiset forth by Pithaeus Ennodius by Bernardus Saccus sirnamed Juvenalis and by some called Euodius of whose writing certain Hymns Panegyrics Epigrams c. are set forth by Andreas Schottus Ephippus see Theopompus Ephraem one that wrote the History of the Constinople Emperours in Iambic Verse he liv'd about the time of Michael Ducas Epicharneus see Empedocles Epibycus a Chian Poet of an uncertain time taken notice of by Athenaeus and Suidas Epicrates see Theopompus Epigenes a Comic Poet of whom four Comedies are cited by Athenaeus Epigonus an Epigrammatist of Thessalonica whose name is to several Epigrams in the Grece Anthologie Epilycus an Athenian Comic Poet whose Coraliscus and Phoraliscus are cited by Athenaeus Epimenides a Cretan who is delivered by Suidas to have written in Verse Argonautics also certain old heathen Rites called Expiationes the Genealogie of the Gods and of the Curetes and Corybantes of the different nature of things in 9500 Verses he was also a famous Philosopher by Athenaeus accounted the Authour of the Telchinian History He began to flourish about the 44th Olympiad and is by some reckoned among the Seven Wisemen in the place of Periander About the same time with Epemenides flourisht 1st Bias of Priene one of those Seven accounted the Wise men of Greece who is said by Laertius to have written the affairs of Jonia in Verse 2 Solon the great Lawgiver of Athens whose life see in Plutarch and Laertius he was very considerable in Poetry and so was his Brother Dropides though inferiour to him 3 Chilo another of the Seven all that is remembred of him is an Elegy consisting of 200 Verses 4 Thales of Miletus another of the Seven who is said to have written in verse concerning Meteors and other things in natural Philosophy 5. Pittacus Tyrant of Mitylene whom see in Alcaeus 6. Periander Tyrant of Corinth another of the Seven but of whose poetry I find little or nothing remembred 7. Chersias of Orchomenus who was a great enemy to the Tyrant Periander certain Verses of his are cited by Pansanias in his Boeotics 8. Thespis a Tragic Poet as saith Laertius though Suidas saith an Actor only and that he first brought in the use of Vizards whereas some there be who affirm him to have been the first of Tragaedians others that Epigenes of Sicyon was before him 9. Mimnermus a Colophonian some say Smyrnaean whom
Pausanias in his Boeotics affirms to have described in Elegiac verse a fight between the Smyrnaeans and Lydians under Gyges he is also reckon'd among the Elegiacs by Censorinus there are extant certain verses of his about the Climacterie year in Opposition to Solon's opinion Epinicus a Comic Poet of an uncertain time whose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is cited by Athenaeus Eratosthenes the Son of Aglaus some say Ambrosius a Cyrenean not only Philosopher Astronomer and Geometrician whose Astrismes Epistle to Ptolomy about the duplication of the Cube and some other fragments have been lately publisht with Aratus from the Sheldonian Theater at Oxford but according to Suidas and Strabo excellent Poet contemporary with him he living in the time of Philadelphus and his Successour and succedent to him in the custody of Ptolomies Library was Apollonius of Rhodes who was the Disciple of Callimachus and whose Argonauticks we have extant set forth with a learned Scholiast whom Stephanus calls Tarrhaeus another contemporary was Euphorion of Chalcis the Disciple of Lacydas he was Library keeper to Antiochus Magnus and wrote as saith Suidas several things in Heroic Verse his Works as saith Suetonius were in very much esteem with Tiberius as also those of Rhianus another of the same age who is the same with the above-mention'd Arrianus Ericus or Hericus a Poet of Altissiodorum or Auxerre who liv'd in the time of the Emperour Charles the 3d. sirnamed Crassus he wrote a Poem of the life of St. German which is yet extant Eriphus a Comic writer among the Greecs Three of whose Fables are quoted by Athenaeus in his Dipnosophist l. 14. Erycius the Author of several Epigrams in the Greec Anthologie and cited by the Commentatour of Apollonius Ethelwolphus Bernicius sirnamed Lupus an English Poet who flourisht in the Year of our Lord 750. being in the Reign of the Emperour Constantinus Copronymus Pipin King of France and Ethelwolph of Northumberland he wrote a Poem of the Original of St. Peters Church in the Western part of Northumberland which Poem he dedicated to Bishop Egbert Euages a Greec Poet of an uncertain time taken notice of by Dionysius in his History of Music he was a a person of little learning being as some say bred up a shepherd but very happy for his fancy and ingenuity Euangelus a Comic Poet of an uncertain time whose Fable 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is cited by Suidas and Athenaeus Euanthes an Epic Poet of an uncertain time out of whom Athenaeus cites certain passages concerningâ— Glaucus Anthedonius and of Ariadne Evax a King of Arabia who is said to have wrote a Book of precious stones in Verse Eubulus Cittius see Anaxandrides Eudaemon see Amphilochius Eudemus a writer of several things in the art of Medicin in Greec verse and therefore cited by Galen in his Second Book of Antidotes Eudoxus of Gnidus see Carcinus Eueclus the esteemed writer of certain Verses called Cypria Carmina by some attributed to Homer before whom he is said to have been he is quoted by Tatianus against the Gentiles by the name of Eumiclus by Eusebius by the name of Euculus and by Pansanias by the name of Eucleon Euenus an Elegiac Poet who began to flourish in the first year of the Ninety first Olympiad and was the Master of Philistus the Historian There are extant of his certain Elegies cited by Stobaeus Six Epigrams Two upon Venus of Gnidus and one upon Myro's Cow and Three others besides a Verse cited by Aristotle Eugenes an Epigrammatist whose name is preserv'd in the Greec Anthologie Euhemerus see Menander Eumelus a very ancient Greec Poet contemporary as some think with Hesiod Eumolpus the ancientest of Greec Poets next to the ancient Orpheus whose Disciple he is delivered by Suidas to have been the Son of Musaeus and to have written 3000 verses of which his Poem of the mysteries of Ceres chiefly consisted Euodus of Rhodes an Epic Poet in the time of Nero but of his works which were in Latin Verse there was nothing extant in the time of Suidas There is also the name of Euodus to some Epigrams in the Greec Anthologie Contemporary with him was Labeo who is delivered by the old Commentator upon Persius who mention'd him in the first Satyr to have translated into Latin verse though with little acuteness or judgement Homers Iliads and Odysseus also Antistius Sosianus who was banisht for the Libels which he made in verse against Nero. Euphanes an ancient Poet out of whose Musae divers Senaâ—y Iambic verses are cited by Athenaeus Euphantus of Olynthus see Philetas Euphorion a Poet of Chalcis remembred by several poetical Works as his Elegies his Hesiodus his Mopsopia or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his Five Books of Oracles his Epicedium upon Protogoras the Astronomer c. Certain verses out of Euphorion but whether this of Chalcis or another the Son of Aeschylus is uncertain for both are mention'd by Suidas are quoted by Stobaeus Euphron a Comic Poet of an uncertain time whose Musae Synephebi Theori and Aeschra are remembred by Athenaeus Suidas and Stobaeus Euphronius a Poet of an uncertain time who is delivered by Strabo to have written of Priapus in Greec verse Eupolis a Comic Poet who flourisht with Aristophanes in the Eighty fifth Olympiad in the Fourth year whereof his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 were acted as is testified by the Scholiast of Aristophanes Euripides the Prince and Coriphaeus of Greec Tragoedians who was born in the Seventy fifth Olympiad as Laertius Suidas and Emanuel Moscopulus testifie the Son of Mnesarchus and Clito the Nobility of whose birth Philochorus vindicates against the common opinion of her being an Herb-Woman he is said to have been worried to death by the dogs of King Archelaus to whose Court he betook himself upon the discontent of his Second Wife Chaerila's adultery with Ctephisophon either by chance or set on by Lysimachus Master of the Kings dogs by the instigation of two envious poets Aribeus a Macedonian and Crateuas a Thessalonian in the Seventy fith year of his age leaving behind him 3 Sons Mnesarchus Mnesilochus and Euripides And having flourisht from the 77th to the 92d Olymp. equal with that other excellent Tragoedian Sophocles who as Suidas and others affirm was born in the Seventy third and is said to have written 33. Tragedies and to have been Victor Twenty four times of which 7 only are extant as of Euripides his Ninety two Tragedies Eighteen are extant There was also another Sophocles the Grandchild of the former who is said to have written Fourty Tragedies and to have been Seven times Victor much about the same time with Euripides flourisht 1st Panyasis a Heroic poet the Uncle or Cosin German of Herodotus he was one of those Six as saith the Interpreter of Oppian who were call'd by way of Eminence the Poets the other Five being Homerus Eupolis Hesiodus Antimachus and Nicander 2d Menalippides a Lyric and Dithyrambic Writer Sisters Son of another
Menalippides whom see in his proper place 3d. Stesimbrotus of whom as also of Panyasis Antimachus Clarius was a hearer 4th Hermippus a one-ey'd Comedian who is delivered by Suidas to have written Fourty Fables several of which are remembred by Athenaeus and Pollux he was an enemy to Pericles against whom he wrote Anapaestics and to his Wife Aspasia who was not only a Mistress of Eloquence and general learning but eminent also in Poetry 5. Phrynichus a writer of Vetus Comoedia mentioned by Pansanias and Hephaestion several Comedies of his are mention'd by Athenaeus Pollux Harpocration Suidas and the Scholiast of Aristophanes 6 7. Lycus or Lycis and Amipsias the last already mention'd two Insipid Poets derided by Aristophanes 8 Theodectes a kind of Tragoedian since he is said to have written the Arguments and first Delineations to many of if not all Euripides his Tragedies But there was another of the same name whom see in Theopompus 9. Nicomachus a Tragoedian also much celebrated for his Oedipus and sometimes Victor over Sophocles and Euripides themselves as Suidas testifies 10. Theognis a Comoedian who from his frigidity or faintness of style was sirnamed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Snow he contended with Nicomachus and was vanquisht by him together with Euripides 11. Philocles Comedian Aeschylus his sisters Son he was derided for his deformity by Aristophanes in his Thesmophoriazusai his Tereus is mention'd by the Scholiast of Aristophanes and by Stobaeus he had two Sons Morsimus and Philippides of whom elsewhere 12. Cephisodorus an Athenian writer of Vetus Tragoedia his Antilais Amazones Trophonius and Sus are remembred by Suidas there are besides two others of the same name who were also Historians 13. Socrates the Philosopher who by his Hymn to Apollo and his turning Aesops Fables into Verse a little before his death for which he is commended by Cebes in Plato approv'd himself a Poet. 14. Diocles an Athenian writer of Vetus Comoedia whose Melissae and Thalatta are both mention'd the first with particular commendation by Athenaeus and Pollux 15. Sannyrio or as Giraldus calls him Samyrion a writer of Vetus Comoedia mentioned by Athenaeus for his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by Suidas for his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He was for his slenderness of voice nick-nam'd Canabus by Strattis 16 Philondes an Athenian Writer of old Comoedie remembred by Athenaeus he having been formerly a Fuller scapes not a jeer from phanes no more than his son Nicochares nevertheless his Cothurni is mentioned with commendation by Athenaeus and Pollux 17. Thearus another Object of Aristophanes his laughter 18. Strattis a Comedian of whose writing Cansabon upon Athenaeus reckons 23 Comedies whereas Suidas mistakes him for a Tragoedian which gave occasion to Giraldus to mention another Strattis he was of a biting wit like Aristophanes 19. Dinolochus a Comic Poet of Agrigentum who wrote Fourteen Fables in the Doric Dialect 20. Philyllius another writer of old Comedy remembred by Athenaeus and Pollux as also another of the same name of an uncertain time who wrote a Poem of Cities in Iambic Verse and of whom Suidas also and Stephanus take notice besides Empedocles Parmenides Epicharmus Eupolis Euenus Cratinus and several others Euschemus an ancient Comic writer out of whose Empolis divers Senary Iambic Verses are cited by Athenaeus in his 13th Book Euthycles a Poet of an uncertain time who wrote two Poems 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the first of which is mentioned by Suidas Euthydemus an Athenian of an uncertain time who set forth some things of his own under Hesiod's name Eutyches a Comic writer one of the most copious among the Greecs of whose many Comedies the names are to be found in Athenaeus and Raphael Volaterranus Ezechiel a Jew whose Tragedie of Moses Entitled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is extant with a Latin Translation set forth by Fridericus Morellus F FAbius Dorsenus or Dossennus an ancient Latin Comic Poet though of what time is not known he is remembred by Horace l. 1. Epist. by Pliny l. 14. c. 13. and by Festus in the word Temetum Fabius Planciades Fulgentius see Curiatius Facetus a Latin Poet who flourisht since the time of Charles the Great but in what particular age is unknown to Giraldus who makes mention of him Fannius see Publius Ovidius Faustus see Curiatius Ferius Hilpericus see Paulus Diaconus Flavius see Claudius Claudianus Floretus one of the uncertain ag'd Poets mentioned by Giraldus some have thought him to be the same with St. Bernard Abbot of Claraeval Florus a Latin Poet who flourisht in the time of the Emperour Adrian whether the same with that Florus mentioned by Polianus among the Greec Epigrammatists is uncertain but there are besides Three others differenc'd by their Praenomina viz. Caius Florus already mention'd Julius and Paulus Fontianus an ancient Latin Poet whose description of the Roman Provinces in verse seems by an Epistle of Beatus Rhenanus to have been in the hands of Philippus Puchaimerus Fortunatus an ancient Bishop of Poictou who liv'd in the time of Justinus junior to whom he dedicated a Book of his Poems and another to the Empress Sophia Fulpertus a Gallic Bishop who flourisht about the Year of our Lord 1010. among other things he wrote divers Hymns in honour of the B. Virgin G GAllienus see Caecilius Cyprianus Gallus Milo see Theodulphus Gamphredus one of the uncertain ag'd Poets mention'd by Giraldus Gannius a Latin Poet who liv'd before the time of Charles the Great but in what age is uncertain Several of his verses are cited by Festus in the word Adoris Geminus an ancient Epigrammatist several of whose Epigrams are extant in the Greec Anthology Georgius Pisides Dean of Constantinople and Keeper of the Emperours papers and Records as Suidas and Nicephorus testifie he wrote a Poem of vanity and also of the six days work of Creation a good part is yet extant and of that which is lost some fragments are cited by Suidas Cedrenus and Nicetâ—s besides some other things of his writing mentioned by Suidas Gerbertus a French-man brought up in the Abby of Floriac and for his great proficiency in the Mathematicks for which he was by some accounted a Magitian and other learning prefer'd to be Bishop of Rhemes afterwards Arch-Bishop of Ravenna and lastly Pope of Rome by the Title of Sylvester the Second He is noted for an Elegant Writer of Latin Verse from his Poem in Laudem Boethii of which there is a fragment in the Parisian Collection Entitled Epigrammata and Poematia vetera also several verses of his are selected by Brietius Germanicus see Aelius Saturninus Gildas an ancient British Authour sirnamed Cambrius to distinguish him from two others for Joannes Baleus in his Scriptores Anglici names three viz. Cambrius a Native of Cambria or Wales Albanius and Badonicus but Cambrius the ancientest of the Three for he flourisht in the Sixtieth year from our Saviours Nativity under
Poet of Melos the Son of Crito he flourisht as saith Suidas about the 65th Olympiad and wrote several things in Heroic verse besides Elegies and Epigrams he is by some confounded with another Menalippides a Milesian of whom already in Euripides Meâ—ander an Athenian the Son of Diopithes and Disciple of Theophrastus he was the Prince and first Author of Nova Comoedia and is said to have written 108 Fables and in 8 of them to have been Victor very many of his Comedies are remembred by Athenaeus Pollux Pliny Stobaeus Sidonius Apolâ—inaris and others he began to flourish about the 114th Olymyiad Ptolomaeus Lagides then reigning Of those 27 Comedies of his said by Michael Neander to have been extant in some Library at Constantinople I find no certain proof contemporary with him and a Writer also as some say of Nova Comoedia was Phileman the Son of Damon he is said in contest with Menander to have had several times the better his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is thought to have been imitated by Plautus in his Mercator Some other Comedies of his are also mention'd by Athenaeus and Pollux He wrote also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but probably not in Verse Stobaeus also quotes divers Senary Iambics out of Philemon but 't is uncertain whether this Philemon or his Son of the same name of whose writing Suidas saith there were 54 Fables Of the same time also was 2. Euhemerus who wrote but whether in Verse is doubted a History of the Ethnic Gods which Ennius translated he is reckoned among the Elegiacs by Censorinus 3. Simmias the Rhodian who besides his Ovum already mentioned wrote a little Poem Entitled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the hatchet 3. Posidippus Cassandrius the Son of Cyniscus who succeeded Menander in Nova Comoedia his Fables as saith Suidas were Thirty among which was his Pomoboscus Some fragments of him are to be found in the common Edition of the Poetae Minores there was besides him another of the same name an Epigrammatist 4. Diphilus of Sinope out of whose Synapothnescontes Plautus is thought to have borrowed Of 100. Comedies he is said to have written 33. are named by Athenaeus he is also quoted by Pollux Stobaeus and Clemens Alexandrinus by whom as also by Eusebius he is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 5. Rhinton of Tarentum a Potters Son who wrote Thirty eight Tragi-Comedies whereof his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was one 6. Sophilus a Comic Poet some say of Sicyon some of Thebes out of his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Iambic verse is cited by Laertius in Stilpo 7. Stephanus the Son of Alexis who is said to have been the Uncle of Menander he was a writer of Media Comoedia 8. Zenodotus the Disciple of Philetas whom he succeeded in the tuition of Lagides his Sons 9. Theocritus of Syracuse the Son of Protagoras aud Philine whose 33 Idyls or Bucolic Elogues with several Greec Epigrams and the Altar if that be his are handsomely set forth by Stephanus with the ancient Scholiasts 10. Antagoras of Rhodes who was in great favour with King Antigonus as appears from Pausanias Plutarch Athenaeus he wrote a Poem Entitled Thebais but there is nothing of his extant saving one Epigram and a few Verses cited by Diogenes Laertius 11. Hermodotus another favourite of Antigonus as appears from Plutarch in his Apophthegms and his Book of Isis Osiris 12. Anaxippus a writer of Media Comoedia whose Citharaedus and other Comedies are cited by Athenaeus Of the above named Philemon the Elder Theophrastus was a familiar acquaintance who as Laertius saith wrote a discourse of Comedy but whether he compos'd any thing in verse is doubted Menecrates a Comic Poet of Syracuse whose Manestor and Hermoncus are cited by Athenaeus Suidas and Volaterranus Menelaus a Heroic Poet of Aegos whose Thebais is mentioned by Suidas and Volaterranus Menippus a Comic writer whose Cercopes and other things are cited by Athenaeus and Volaterranus Merboldus otherwise called Marbodaeus a writer of Gems and precious stones in Hexameter Verse who comes near the Verge of the Moderns for he flourisht about the year 1050. Meroboudes a learned Spaniard sirnamed Scholasticus of whose not unelegant Verses de Christo some fragments are to be seen in Brietius and other Collections according to Labbous his Chronology he flourisht about the Year 400. Meropius Pontius Paulinus see Pontius Paulinus in Claudius Claudianus Mesomedes a Lyric Poet of Crete who living in the time of Adrian celebrated his Minion Antinous Metagenes an Athenian Comic Poet whose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is cited by Athenaeus and Suidas Methodius a Christian Greec Poet Bishop of Tyre who suffer'd martyrdom under the Emperours Decins Valerius Metrodorus an old Epigrammatist whose Decastich upon human life and others are extant in the Greec Florilegium Michael sirnamed Grammaticus an Epigrammatist of whom there is extant a Hexastich in the Fourth Book of the Greec Anthologie Milesius see Eudemon Mimnermus see Epimenides Mirteus an old Epigrammatist of whom divers Epigrams are to be found in Paulus Jovius his Icones Mnasalees a Sicyonian certain of whose Epigrams are to be found in Athenaeus Mnesarchius an old Epigrammatist of whom there is extant a Tetrastich in the Greec Anthology Mnesimachus see Anaxandrides Monius an old Jambic Poet and one of the Dipnosophists in Athenaeus Morsimus see Antilochus Morychus see Aristophanes Mâ—schion another Iambic Poet quoted by Stobaeus in several places Moschus a Sicilian contemporary with Aristarchus and Cratinus he wrote Bucolics whereof some few are extant and printed for the most part together with Theocritus Moses the first great Prophet and Law-giver among the Jews and whose Divine gift in Poetry appears not only in those Hymns or Songs he made upon the children of Israels deliverance from the Aegyptian Pharao and others of their enemies but also the Book of Job which is no other than a kind of Tragic Poem and so many learned men judge is supposed to be his Musaeus some very ancient Writer whosoever he was whose name hath been ever illustrious among the Greecs and Latins both for his antiquity and eminence in Poetry if at least there were not more of the same name as there are reckon'd Four namely First Musaeus the Son of Thamyras a Theban he is said to have been a Melic Poet and to have wrote Hymns and Odes Secondly Musaeus the Son of Eumolpus an Athenian who wrote in Greek verse the Generation of the gods Thirdly Musaeus of Eleusis the Son of Antiphonus and Disciple of Orpheus who is said to have wrote Precepts of the life in 400. Verses to his son Eumolpus Fourthly and Lastly Musaeus an Ephesian Poet who was living in the time of Eumenes Attalus King of Pergamus now which of these was that grand Musaeus spoken of by Virgil is hard to determin but probable it is that it was the ancientest of them if there be more then one and the same with Moses the Jewish Law-giver of whom
Cbristophorus Schellembergius a German Poet principally remembred for his Epithalamium upon the Marriage of Wolfangus Meurerus a noted Physician his Friend Christophoro Sicinio see Dominico Cornacchini Christophorus Stummelius a German not unfam'd among the Latin Versifiers of that Nation Christopherus Syngelius mentioned for his Elegy upon Magdalen the Wife of Vdaricus Earl of Reinstein who great with Ghild perisht miserably by an accidental Fire in the Year 1546. Claudius Paradinus a writer of Emblems in Imitation of those of Alciate Clemens Marotus a French Poet of Cahors whom Antoin Verd in his Biblioâ—hec stiles the Poet of Princes and the Prince of the Poets of his time Clemens Janitius a Polonian Poet Laureat whose I. Book of Tristia I. Book of various Elegies and another of Epigrams are said to have been printed at Cracovia Conradus Celtes a German both Philosopher Oratour and Mathematician of great Fame but withall so highly applauded for his singular gift in Poetry that he was honoured by the Emperour Frederic at the Suit of the Duke of Saxony with the Poetical Wreath in the 32d Year of his Age as saith Boxhornius in his Monuments and Elogies of Illustrious Men but Pantaleon in his Book de viris Illustribus saith by the Emperour Maximilian in the 35th Year of his Age Anno 1494. however all agree he was the first Poet Laureat among the Germans Conradus of Alyzeia a Town of the Palatinate but in the Diocess of Mentz of whose Poetical Works for he wrote also in Prose the chief are his Poem of the Virgin Mary and the Redemption of Humane kind his Epistles to divers Friends and his Book of Odes he is mentioned flourishing in the Year 1370. Conradus Lautenbachius a highly reputed German Theologist Historian and also Poet. Conradus Leius a German writer particularly commended for what he hath written in Latin Verse Conradus de Mure a Canon of the Church of Zurich in Switzerland whose Poem of the Natures of Animals is not forgotten among the rest of his Works he is mentioned flourishing Anno 1573. Conradus Ritterhusius a German of no obscure Fame among the Poetical Writers of that Nation Corneille the great Dramatic writer of France wonderfully applauded by the present Age both among his own Countrey-men and our Frenchly affected English for the amorous Intreagues which if not there before he commonly thrusts into his Tragedies and acted Histories the Imitation whereof among us and of the perpetual Colloquy in Rhime hath of late very much corrupted our English Stage Cornelius Musius a Latin Poet none of the least considerable of the Moderns Cornelius Schonaeus the Author of a well known Work Entitled Terentius Christianus consisting of several Divine Comedies taken out of the Sacred Scripture and written in Terence his style Cosmâ— Manuci an Italian as his name Imports but an English writer of the Just General a Tragedy and the Loyal Lovers a Tragecomedie Curtesius Curtesius a Poet of Padua who wrote in Verse the death of St. Justina and the Loves of Orestilla Cyril Turner a writer of Two old Tragedies the Atheists Tragedy and the Revengers Tragedy D. DAniel Heinsius the most fam'd of Hollanders and most Celebrated by * Learned Men for his egregious Wit and deep proficiency in all kind of Literature he was Born at Gaunt Anno 1582. came to be History professour Secretary and Library Keeper at the University of Leideâ— in Prose he is Eminent for his Exercitations upon the New Testament and divers Philological Works in strict Oration for his Excellent style in Greec and Latin Verse of which sufficient Testimonies are Extant and for which he is compar'd by Causabone in his Epistles to Homer for the Greec and to Ovid and Propertius for the Latin besides what he wrote poetically in his Native Tongue Damasus Blienburgius a Hollander who for what he hath written in Latin Poesie is remembred among the chief of Belgic Latin Poets Dante 's Aligerus a most Renowned Florentine and the first of Italian Poets of any Fame or Note for Vernacular Verse but that which most proclaims his Fame to the World is his Triple Poem Entitled Paradice Purgatory and Hell besides which he wrote several things in Prose the Meridian of his flourishing time was the Year 1321. the Emperour Lewes the 5 th Sirnamed Bavarus then Reigning David Echlinus a Scotch-man whose Poem Entitled Ova Paschalia is to be found in a Collection of the choice Works of several Scotch Latin Poets as likewise David Humus his Lusus Poetici David Kynalochus his Poem de Hominis procreatione de Anatome David Wederburnus his various Poems Diomede Borghese a Lyric Poet or Sonnet writer of Siena Dionysius Lebius Taubilius a learned German writer as well in Verse as Prose Dionysio Guazzoni a Dramatic Poet of Cremona chiefly in the way of Pastoral Dionysius Gotofredus a French Civilian of that Eminence that he is styl'd by Learned Men the Papinian of his time and by Dilherus in his Academical Disputations is highly commended for his Notes upon the Body of the Civil Law yet amidst so laborious a Study and such a painful Work he could sometimes be vacant to the Latin Muse. Dominicus Baudius a most grateful Associate and Favourite to the most Learned and also the most noble persons of his time both in England France and the Low-Countries and among the rest coming into England in the retinue of a Splendid Embassie from the States to Queen Elizabeth to the great Patron of all vertue Sir Philip Sidny for the singular Merit of his Worth and Learning of which he had given large Proofs in several famous Universities especially that of Leyden to which at last he wholly betook himself and with great Reputation read Eloquence and History his Extant Latin Poems are particularly commended by Grotius and others the most Excellent of Modern Poets themselves he was Born at Lisle in Flanders the Son of Dominicus and Marie Heems on the 9th of the Ides of April 1561. Dominico Cornacchini an Italian Dramatic but particularly in the way of Comedy among the Multitude of which kind of writers scarce to be numbred these following deserve not to be past by in silence viz. Christophero Sicinio Archangelo Archangelo Bernardino Pino Christophero Castelletti Gio. Battista Verini Angelo Badalucchi M. Hieron Burgaglio Ludovioo Fenarolo Adriano Polito Bruno Nolano Raphael Trianoro Ludovico Contareno Gio. Battista Gelli M. Hieron Razzi M. Ludovico Paterna Dominicus Lampsonius a Belgian who being equally happy both in the art of Painting and Poetry describ'd in Verse the Life of Lambertus Lombardus a most Excellent Painter and his Master in that Art 1598. Dominicus Mancinus an Author no less Elegant then Learned who professing Theology and affecting Poetry applyed his Muse to Divine and Moral Subjects his Poem on the passion of our Saviour and another of the 4 Cardinal Vertues and their Offices in Elegiac Verse were both printed at Basil Anno 1543. he is
Chrysopoea or The Art of making Gold in 3 Books which he dedicated to Pope Leo the 10 th another call'd Geronticon in one Book besides 5 Books of Iambics 2 of Sermones and 2 of Odes Joannes Baleus an English writer who flourisht in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth best known by his Treatise which give account of all the Eminent writers of our Nation of what Art or Faculty soever and by what he hath thereby contributed to this work the better meriting to be here inserted to which place the title he derives is by those Dramatic Pieces out of Holy Scripture which we find enumerated among the rest of his works Ioannes Baptista Almadianus a Viterbian of whom there are several Elegies in Latin Verse upon the death of Platina extant at the end of Platina's works Ioannes Baptista Egnatius an Eminent and General Professor of the Liberal Arts at Venice of which Citty he was also a Native the only Monument of whose Poetic Genius we find mentioned among many other of his Volumes is his Panegyric in Heroic Latin Verse upon Francis the first of that Name King of France Ioannes Baptista Pigna another Venetian of whose writings there are 4 Books of Sonnets printed at Venice together with the Sonnets of Celio Calcagnino and Ludovico Ariosto by Vincentio Valgrisio Ioannes Baptista Scaphenatius a Milanese of whose writing something is preserv'd among the Collected works of several Eminent Italian writers of Latin Poetry Ioannes Barclaius a most acute learned and Elegant Scochman and very famous for what he hath writen both in Prose and Verse but especially for his Argenis and his Euphormio both which works though written for the most part in solute Oration yet may very well be accounted Poems not only for that they are intersperst throughout with Verse but also for that they have their Political and Moral truths allegoris'd or coucht under feign'd and invented Story Ioannes Boccatius see Giovanni Boccatio Ioannes Bonfinius a Frenchman of Auvergne whose Basia and other Poems were printed at Leiden an 1656. Ioannes Busmannus a writer of Poems which were printed at Wirtemberg an 1337. Ioannes Carbonirosa an Author of Kirkhoven who among other things wrote certain Dramatic Pieces out of the Holy Scripture Joannes Columbinus the Author of a little Poem entiled Contra Philomusum or against the Contemners of School Divinity Joannes Cotta a native of Ponte Aliaco a Town upon the River Athesis who publisht an Elegant Book of Latin Epigrams but whose Noble Book of Chorographie begun in Verse was not only left unfinisht but also that which was done of it lost together with his learned Scholia upon Plinie Joannes Crato a Silesian born at Vratislaâ—â— the Cheif City of that Country in the year of our Lord 1512 he is styl'd by Boisaâ—dus in his Icones the Hierophantes of all polite Literature and had indeed the general reputation as well of an excellent Poet as of a profound Philosopher and most skilful Physician but for being so great a Philosopher and Physician it was that he remain'd Counsellor and Chief Physician for 26 years to 3 Emperours successively Ferdinand the first Maximilian the second and Rodulphus the second Joannes Dantiscus a Polonian who wrote in Heroic Verse a Poem entitled Soteria to Sigismund de Erberstein a Knight of Poland upon his return from Muscovie another upon the Victory of Sigismund King of Poland against the Waywod of Moldavia also a Sylva in Elegiac Verse upon the calamities of his times He was flourishing in the year 1531. Joannes Elius a writer of Divine Odes mention'd in Hervagius his Catalogue Joannes Fabritius a Native of Berkena in Lower Alsatia who wrote in Verse the History of Gulielmus Thellius which dedicating to Conradus Pellicanus he publisht himself with other Poems of his He flourisht at Zurich in the year 1554. Joannes Filiczkius a Hungarian Poet remembred for what he hath written in Latin Verse among the Chief of that Nation Joannes Franciscus Camaenus a Native of Perusia a Town of Hetruria but under the Pope's Dominion who wrote an Heroic Poem in name at least of the Rape of Philenis which with several other Poems as Eclogues Elegies Epigrams Odes Epicedia c. was printed at Venice by Gulielmo de Fontaneto an 1520. Ioannes Franciscus Mutius an Italian of whom what is extant in Latin Verse is to be found among the selected workes of divers of the principal Latin Poets of that Nation Ioannes Franciscus Picus Mirandula the Nephew of that Miracle of his time Picus Count of Mirandula and as related to him by Blood so also by Ingenuity and perfection of learning both his Books de Veritate Fidei Christianae and also his Sacred Poems are mentioned with high commendation by Paulus Iovius in his Elogies and also by Boissartus in his Icones Ioannes Franciscus Quintianus Stoa an Italian writer of very many Poetical things in Latin Verse besides some in Prose among his first kind are his Threnodies upon the deaths of the K. of France the K. of Scots Queen Anne Philippus Beroaldus c. His Poem of the Amours of Mars and Venus in 8 Books his Cleopolis or Sylva upon the Glory of the City of Paris his Sylva in praise of Marinus Beichemius his Theandrogenosis and Theanastasis the first an Ode upon our Saviours Nativity the second a Sylva upon his Resurrection 7 Tragedies whereof 2 Divine and 5 Comedies Ioannes de Gerson a French Author of a most wonderful multitude of Volumes whereof some in Verse particularly his Epithalamium upon the Mystical Marriage betwen a Divine and the Study of Theology He was Chancellor of the Parisian Academy and is mentioned flourishing in the year of our Lord 1429. Ioannes Fungerus a German who sung in Heroic Verse the Acts of Maurice William Governor of Friseland Ioannes Gigas the Author of a Treatise concerning the Certainty of Christian Religion to which are added his Divine Poems besides which he wrote many things in Poetry as Sylvae Epigrams Elegies and among the rest his Elegy upon the 2 Eclipses of the Moon that hapened in the year 1538. his Funeral Elegy upon John Prince of Saxonie his Encomium upon the City of Leipsich and his Epicedium upon the death of Erasmus Joannes Gilleius a Burgundian who among other things wrote an Elegant Description of the Stately House and Gardens of Pagnâ—l belonging to the Gileian Family and of the City of Salines and the River Furiosa flowing by it together with the Famous Wilderness belonging to the Sieur Du Sachet Joannes Girardus the Author of a Poem entitled Divionensis Stichostratia with two Centuries of Epigrams Joannes Grasserus the Author of certain Latin Poems which were printed at Colen an 1595. Joannes Hasembergius a Bohemian no less mention'd for his Drolling Verses upon Martin Luther then for his being Tutor to the Emperor Ferdinand's Children Joannes Honterus an Eminent Geographer of Cronstadt in Transilvania who among divers Geographical Treatises wrote one in Hexameter
his late Majesty his Poems which being few besides his Dramatics Aglaura Brenoralt the Goblins are collected together with his Letters into a Volume entitled Fragmenta Aurea have a pretty touch of a gentile Spirit and seem to savour more of the Grape then Lamp and still keep up their reputation equal with any Writ so long ago his Plays also still bring audience to the Theater Iohn Webster an Associate with Thomas Decker in several not wholly to be rejected Plays viz. Northward Hoe the Noble Stranger New trick to cheat the Divel Westward Hoe the Weakest goes to the wall Woman will have her Will with Samuel Rowly in the Cure for Cuckolds a Comedy besides what he wrote alone the Divels Law case a Tragy-Comedy the White Devil the Dutches of Malfy Tragedies John Wilson a late Writer with no bad success of two Comedies the Cheats and the Projectors and the Tragedy of Andronicus Commenius Jonas ab Elvervelt an Holsatian who wrote a Description of the State of that Country in Elegiac Verse Josephus Iscanus or Joseph of Exeter the very first of the Moderns both in time and Fame of Latin Poets among the English who accompanying King Richard the first in his Expedition into the Holy Land had the better advantage to celebrate as he did the Acts of that Warlike Prince in a Poem entitled Antiocheis He wrote also 6 Books De Bello Trojano in Heroic Verse which as Cambden well observes appears to be no other then that Version of Dares Phrygius into Latin Verse which hath been generally imputed to Cornelius Nepos have been equal to his undertaking Joshua Sylvester the English Translator of Du Bartas his Poem of the six daies work of Creation by which he is more generally fam'd for that Poem hath ever had many great admirers among us then by his own Poems commonly printed therewith Juan de Mena a Spaniard whose Poetical Works were printed at Antuerp anno 1552. Julius Ascanius a Native of Crenta in the Venetian Territory a tast of whose Poetical Fancy is extant among other the choise collected works of the most noted Italian Writers of Latin Verse Julius Caesar Stella the Author of a Latin Poem of Heroic title Columbeis Justulus an Eminent Author of Spoleto whose writings are chiefly Poetical as his Poem of the Culture of Saffron another of Silk-worms his Epicedium of Pomponius Laeta his Musae Phanestres his Description of the Mountain adjacent to Spoleto his Poem to Ferdinand of Arragon and some others Josephus Justus Julius Caesar two most celebrated Authors Son and Father of the Illustrious Family Della Scala of Verona and therefore generally known by the Sirname of Scaligeri of whom Julius hath the testimony of the Great Thuanus for a Person unparallell'd by any of his Age scarce giving Place to any of the Ancients as Josephus is by the same Historian rankt in the next Place to his Father Julius whose extant Poems both Greec and Latin have gain'd him among Learned Men a particular reputation of an excellent Poet and if in any doubtless in that very respect above all others he is to be preferred before his Son Joseph who though accounted in the number of Poets also yet is much more fam'd for what he hath written in Prose yet as much a Poet as Julius passeth for his judgement of some of the Poets in his Critica might for ought I know if well examined bring in some question whither if he had undertaken those great Provinces in Poetry which require the highest judgement his success would Justus Lipsius one of the most Illustrious Antiquarys Critics and Commentatours of his time in Christendom by the testimony of Thuanus Dilherus and Aubertus Miraeus and though what he hath written in Poetry is not so much taken notice of as his Antiquae Lectiones his Notes upon Tacitus his Saturnalia and other fam'd things in Prose yet to be reckon'd also among the cheif of Belgic Latin Poets for he was born at Brussells for his excellent Genius in Latin Verse he was a constant admirer of Joseph Scaliger and by him no less belov'd He was Flourishing beyond the year 1606. Justus Ricehius a Native of Gaunt who for his Varia Carmina is inserted among the Belgic Writers of Latin Poetry L. LAelius Capilupus a Mantuan who had such an artful and igenious way of making Centones out of his Country-Man Virgil's Verses that by Learned Men he is judged to have excell'd Ausonius and Proba Falconia in that way of writing he is mentioned Flourishing in the year 1560. Laevinus Torrentius see Levinus Lambertus a Benedictine Monk of Liege who besides his Life of Heribertus Arch-Bishop of Coloign wrote a Book of Hymns in various kinds of Verse Lambertus Danaeus a Writer of Geography in Latin Verse Lancinus Curtius wrote decads of Epigrams which were printed at Milan by Rochus Ambrosius de Valle anno 1521. Laurentius Bonicontrius a Commentator upon the Poet Manilius his Astronomica being himself both an Astronomer and Poet his chief Poetic work being his Tractate of things Natural and Celestial in Heroic Verse He was Flourishing an 1494. Laurentius Gambarus a principal Favorite of Cardinal Alexander Farnese and that chiefly for his fine with and gentile Spirit in Poetry Laurentius Niendalius the Author of Latin Poems which were printed at Vtrecht an 1641. Lazarâ— Buonamico an Italian Poet of Basiana Paduan Professour 20 years his most noted things in Poetry are his Epistles in Verse to Vrsinus Velius of Silesia Donatus Rullus of Venice Altenerius Avogarus of Verona and several other Eminent Men of Italy and other parts Within the time of his Professourship is comprehended the year of our Lord 1553 the mentioned time of his Flourishing Leonardo Salviati an Italian Comic writer whose Comedy call'd La Spina being particularly taken notice of was printed at Ferrara an 1592. Leonardus Brunus an Eminent both Philosopher Historian Orator and also Poet of Aretium and thereupon generally known by the Appellation of Leonardus Aretinus Leonardus Pellicanus the Brother of the most learned Conradus and had he liv'd might perhaps have arriv'd somewhat near his perfection if not equall'd him at least in another kind for his Genius was Poetical but he was snatcht away in the flour of his age by an untimely death in the year 1510 at Rubeaqua the place also of his nativity a Town of Upper Alsatia however he left behind him no inconsiderable Fame by his elaborate Elegy upon the death of the Lady Margaret the Wife of Philip Count Palatine and Duke of Bavaria and his Poem upon the Resurrection and Last Judgment besides Epigrams in various kind of Verse Levinus Brechtus a Friar Minorite of Lovain who wrote the Lives of divers Illustrious Martyrs both in Frose and Verse Levinus Torrentinus a Native of Gaunt highly extoll'd by Meibomius for his Learning in general by Sandius for his Notes upon Suetonius and Horace and by Aubertus Miraeus for his Odes
Gaza see Christodorus Timotheus of Miletus see Oenâ—maus Titianus a Rhetorician who erected a School at Lyons he is remembred by Ausonius for his Apologies in Trimeter Iambics Titinnius a Latin Comic Poet whose Barathrum and 7 other Comedies are cited by Charisius Titius Septimius see Publius Ovidius Titus Annianus see Annianus Titus Calsurinus Piso a Sicilian Poet whose Bucolic Eglogues are commonly printed with Gratius the Faliscan his Poem of Hunting Titus Lucretius Carus one of the most ancient for he flourisht about 168th Olympiad in the time of the Cymbrian War and for Majesty and Elegancy of Style to be rankt among the best of Latin Poets whoever shall observe his neat Digressions for there he chiefly shews himself his main Subject being a kind of System of Epicurean Philosophy in Heroic Verse Entitled de Rerum Natura There is also another Titus Lucretius a Roman Knight and writer of Mimes in the time of Julius Coesar Titus Pomponius Atticus see Decius Laberius Titus Quintius Atta an old Latin writer of those sort of Comedies called from the kind of Garment used by the Actors Togatae Titus Valgius an old Latin Poet of whom several Verses are cited by Crinitus and Servius Titus Vespatianus a Roman Emperour who besides his great actions in War for which he is renowned in History was considerable in Poetry having written Tragedies in Greec with several other Poems both in Greec and Latine by the Testimony of Eutropius Isidorus and Suidas Toxotius a Roman Senator whose Poems were extant in the time of Capitolinus Trabea a Comic Poet quoted by Cicero and Charisius see Qu. Trabeas Tribonianus Sidetes see Agathias Triphyllius a Cyprian Bishop who as Suidas testifieth wrote the life and miracles in Iambic Verse of Spiridion Bishop of Tremithus in Cyprus who was present at the Nicene Councell Tryphon the Son of Ammonius a Grammarian and Poet of Alexandria cited by Athenaeus and Suidas There is a Tetrastich of Tryphon sirnamed Mercurius in the first Book of the Greec Anthology Tryphiodorus see Christodorus Turanius see Publius Ovidius Turcius Rnfus Festus Asterius a Roman Consul together with Flavius Praesidius in the time of Anastatius he is said to have written in Verse a Comparation of the Old Testament with the New which some nevertheless attribute to Sedulius others to Momertus Turnus see Curiatius Maternus Turpilius see Statius Caecilins Tyrtaeus an Elegiac Poet who as Suidas saith flourisht about the 35th Olympiad In the Messinian War he was once chosen by the Lacedemonians into whom he inspired courage by the Martial spirit which his Verses breathed General against the Messenians V VAgellius an old Latin Poet remembred by Seneca of whom he was an intimate friend Valerius Aedituns an old Latin Epigrammatist in whose Verses his two Mistresses Pamphilia and Philerote are very much celebrated Valerius Cato a Grammarian and Poet who flourisht in the time of Sylla Besides what he wrote in Grammar he wrote also several Poems among which his Lydia and Diana are principally approved He is mentioned most particularly by Suetonius in his Book de Illustribus Grammaticis Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus a Christian Poet who flourisht in the time of the Emperour Justinus the younger he wrote in Verse de partu Virginis de Beneficiis Christi de B. Martino besides his Hymns and several divine Poems mentioned by Giraldus among which are thought to be some which have been attributed to Lactantius Vestritius Spurina a no less famous Souldier for he overcame King Breveterius for which he was honoured with a Statue than Lyric Poet in the time of the Vespatians He addicted himself much to the Imitation of Horace Victorinus Pictaviensis see Caecilius Cyprianus Victorius a Contemporary of Sidonius Apollinaris by whom he is celebrated in the last Epistle of his fifth Book Virgilius Romanus a Comic Poet in the time of the Emperour Trajan he is mentioned with great commendation by Pliny in his Epistle to Caninius Rufus Voconius Victor see Curiatius Maternus Volcatius Sedigitus the Authour of a Treatise of the old Latin Poets both before and in his time in Senary Iambic verse Vomanus one of the 12. sirnamed Scolastici of whom see in Julianus Votienus see Curiatius Maternus X XEnarchus a Comic Poet remembred by Aristotle in his Poetics several of his Comedies are reckon'd up by Athenaeus and Suidas Xenoclides see Theopompus Xenophanes a Physical Poet of Colophon who Flourish'd until the 72 d Olympiad and farther as appearr from Athenaeus he is deliver'd by Laertius who wrote his Life to have written of the Foundation and Antiquities of Colophon and of the Colonie transplanted from thence to Elea in Verse by Hieronymus in his Eusebian Chronicle to have Composed several Tragedies though with what ground I know not but there is nothing Extant of his except certain Fragments in H. Stephanus his Collection it is doubted by Vossius whether Xenophanes cited by Athenaeus be this of Colophon or another but that Xenophanes mentioned by Fulgentius was of Heracleopolis About the same time flonrisht Ibycus not he of Rhegium otherwise Hippicus Hippias or Hipys certain fragments of whom are to be seen in H. Stephanus his Collection of the fragments of the Lyric Poets Phocylides a Milesian commonly reputed the Authour of that Nuthetic Poem printed among the Minor Poets though Vossius judgeth the Authour thereof of a much later time an Alexandrine Jew or else Christian of the same name also Hipponax a Poet mentioned by Pliny l. 35. c. 5. and perhaps the same Ephesian Poet whose Senary Iambics are quoted by Stobaeus his Parodia and Synonyma by Athenaeus and who is also mentioned by Suidas Z ZEnodotus of Ephesus see Menander Eminent Poets Among the MODERNS AAron Batalaeus the Author of a little Poem Entitled Plausus Triviliensis Printed at Basil with some small Poetical peices of the choicest of the Modern Poets Abraham Cowly the most applauded Poet of our Nation both of the present and past Ages his early Muse began to down at the Thirteenth Year of his Age he being then a Scholar at Westminster School in Two little Poems Antonius and Melida and Pyramus and Thisbe which discovering a Maturity of sence above the Years that writ them were thought worthy to be then publisht though not to be inserted into the now compleated Edition of his Works divided into 4 parts his Mistress being the amorous prolusions of his Youthful Muse his Miscellanies or Poems of various Arguments his most admir'd Heroick Poem Davideis the first Books whereof he Compos'd while but a young Student at Trinity Colledge in Cambridge and lastly that is in order of time though not of place his Pindaric Odes so call'd I suppose ftom the measure in which he Translated the first Ithmian and Nemean Odes whereas the form of those Odes in the Original is very different yet in Imitation of him 't is pleasant to observe what a notable Trade hath been driven of late in Pindaric Odes Besides these Poems
Landagartha Tragecomedies and Loves Dominion a Pastoral Antonio Cornazano an Orator and Poet of Ferrara among whose other Poems of various Subjects the principally noted is that of the Life atd Death of the Blessed Virgin Antonio Hungaro an Italian both Comic Poet and writer of Sonetts Antonius Brun a writer of certain Lyric Poems printed at Noremberg by Joannes Petreius Antonius Codrus Vrseus a learned and polite Author in Profe of works of various Subjects in Verse of 2 Books of Sylvae set forth by a great admirer of them Philippus Beroaldus-junior besides Satyrs Eglogues and Epigrams Antonio Decio de Horta an Italian Tragic Poet. Antonio Facchenetti an Italian Dramatic Poet but chiefly in the way of Pastoral Antonius Fayus an eminent French writer out of whose writing there is also a Miscellanie of Emblems and Epigrams Antonius Franciscus Rainerius an Italian Versifier but chiefly in the Latin Idiom Antonio Geraldino Protonotary to the Apostolic See and Poet Laureat of Rome he is principally recommended to the World by his Divine Bucolics which have been Printed in several places his other chiefest Works are his Acts of the Kings of Spain in various Verse his Fasti in Elegiac his Hymns of the Heroes in Lyric the Acts of the Martyrs in Heroic Antonio Mancinelli a Grammarian most professedly who wrote several Grammatical Treatises at Venice about the Year 1490. but both many of them and some also of other Subjects in Verse he is much esteemed also for his Comments upon Virgils Eclogues and Georgics and upon Horace his Odes his Book of Epigrams with other things Antonius Millaeus the Author of a late Poem Entitled Moses Viaetor printed at Lyons Anno 1636. M. Antonius Muretus a most learned Fr. Commentator and Eloquent Oratour and also so much a Poet that Scaevola Samarthanus in his Elogies of the Learned Men of France among other Commendations hath also this of him That he was so like Catullus that Catullus was not more like himself he dyed Anno Dom. 1585. Antonius Sebastianus a Native of Minturno who is not asham'd to appear among the choice Latin Poets of Italy Of like Estimation is Aonius Palearius another Italian writer of Latin Verse Archangelio Archangelio see Dominico Cornacchini Armentoldo Samponiano a Noted Italian writer of Pastoral Dramatic Poesie Arthurus Johnstonus an eminent Scotch Physician who in his younger Years had the reputation of so excellent a Poet that he was Laureated at Paris before he had fully arriv'd to the 23 d Year of his Age of his Poetical works there are particularly Collected rogether his Epigrams his Parerga his Musae Aulicae his Reges Scoti and his Heroes Scoti his Paraphrastical Translation of David's Psalms is also remembred with particular Commendation Sir Aston Cockain the Author what ever he hath written in Poetry besides of several things to the Stage as the Obstinate Lady a Comedy Trappolin suppos'd a Prince and Tyranical Government Tragecomedies and Thersites an Interlude B. BAlduinus Berlegomius a Hollander whose happy Vein in Latin Verse gives him place among the Belgic Poets Baptista Candelarius a Consul of Roan mention'd by Râ—visius Textor with much Honour among the Learned Men and Poets of his time Baptista Faustus a Carmelite Friar of Mantua and therefore generally Sirnam'd Mantuanus vulgarly of such fame for his Poetry that he is compar'd even with his Countrey-man Virgil but not by Lilius Giraldus who takes the liberty to term him rather an Extemporary than Mature Poet and indeed whoever looks well into his home-spun and plain Verse shall find him no Virgil though a Mantuan which may in part be attributed to the multitude of his Writings for besides his 10 Eglogues the most known and publisht of all his other Works 8 of which he confesseth to have written when a Young Student at Padua there are of his writing almost innumerable other Volumes as well in Verse as Prose of which first kind are his Lives of St. Denis St. George St. Lewis Morbiolus in Heroic Verse his Hymn upon the Nativity of St. John Baptist in Elegiac his description and praise of Refrigerius his Villa in Heroic his 4 Books of Sylvae c. he dyed Anno 1516. in the 72 d Year of his Age. Baptista a Friar of Ferrara of the Order of St. Mary of Mount Carmel chiefly fam'd for History but taken notice of also for his Book of Epigrams Baptista Fiera a Philosopher and renowned Physician of Mantua and for Poetry if not equal in fame to the Mantuan Carmelite before mentioned yet by no means to be omitted for his 4 Books of Evanâ—â—â—ical History in Verse with several Hymns he dedicated to Pope Adrian the 6 th besides which there are Extant of his writing Sylvae Elegies Epigrams and other Poems Baptista Guarini a learned Son of a learned Father of Verona among his Poetic works for besides the many things he wrote in Prose he had a Vein sufficiently flowing in all kinds of Poetry his Dramatic peices are not the least in vogue but above all his Pastor fido hath been naturaliz'd in all parts of Europe where the Italian Tongue is not a stranger and perhaps not the latest of all here in England by the Elegant Pen of Sir Richard Fanshaw who went Lord Embassador from his present Majesty of Great Britain to his Catholick Majesty Philip the 4 th Baptista Persius his Eclogue Thirsis was printed at Strasburg by Jacobus Jucundus in the Year 1540. and at Basil by Oporinus Baptista Bishop of Reggio the Author of several Divine Poems viz. de flenda cruce in â—â—egiac Verse de morte de B. Virgine c. Baptista Sanga his Poems are peculiarly mentioned by Giraldus and Conradus Licosthenes Battista Spagnolus an Italian who for his faculty in Latin Verse is remembred among the chief Italian Poets of that kind Barnabas Brissonius a French-man no less Eminent for his Learning than for the great place of Trust and Dignity he he held in the State Equivalent to the Lord Chief Justice with us B. Andrews calls him the Varro of France and K. H. the 4 th us'd to boast that he durst oppose him against the learnedst man any Prince in Christendome could produce against him his most celebrated Work in Prose is his Book de formulis and for what he wrote also in Latin Verse he is also rank'd among the principal Poets of his time Bartholomaeus Amantius an Assistant to Petrus Appianus the famous German Cosmographer of Leysnick in his Collection of ancient Inscriptions which was pompously set forth with Ornaments of Verse the part of Amansius and Sculpture at the charge of Reymundus Fuggerus at Ingolstade he was flourishing about the Year 1543. Bartholomaeus Anulns a French Poet whose Picta Poesis consisted of the descriptions of certain Emblematical Figures in the nature of those of Alciate Bartholmew Traheron a not altogether obscure writer in his time namely in the Reign of K. Edw. the 6 th as well in Verse as Prose Barton Holyday
whether he were the better Philosopher or Poet seems to Intimate his Excellence in both Faculties several of his poetical Works are quoted by a Learned English Author as his Hymns his Poem in praise of the Garden of Leyden his Britannia triumphans c. Gaspar Bruschius a Poet Laureate of Egra in Bohemia whose poetical Works are many and of various kinds besides what he also wrote in Prose Gaspar Ensius a German Poet who for what he hath written in Latin Verse is reckon'd among the principal Latin Poets of that Nation Gaspar Greterus Chaplain to the Prince of Wirtenberg and a copious writer both in Prose and Verse among his poetical things his Gospels in Latin Verse are particularly taken notice of Gaspar Main a Student of Christ-Church in Oxford where he lived for many Years in much Credit and Reputation for his florid Wit and Ingenious Vein in Poetry which produc'd Two Witty and well approved Comedies the City Match and the Amorous War nor did he since his application to Theology of which he was Dr. and his Ecclesiastical preferment totally relinquish those politer Studies to which he was before addicted having lately publish'd Lucians Works of his own Translating into English Gaspar Vrsinus a Noble Poet of Veli among whose Poems his Monostichs of the Alban and Roman Kings and other Illustrious Men of Rome as also of the Roman Emperours and Popes down to Charles the 5th and Pope Hadrian 6th also his Distichs of the Roman Emperours are especially noted Sir Geoffry Chaucer the Prince and Coryphaeus generally so reputed till this Age of our English Poets and as much as we triumph over his old fashion'd phrase and obsolete words one of the first reâ—iners of the English Language of how great Esteem he was in the Age wherein he flourish'd namely the Reigns of Henry the 4 th Henry the 5 th and part of Henry the 6 th appears besides his being Knight and Poet Laureat by the Honour he had to be allyed by Marriage to the great Earl of Lancaster Jobn of Gaunt How great a part we have lost of his Works above what we have Extant of him is manifest from an Author of good Credit who reckons up many considerable Poems which are not in his publisht Works besides the Squires Tale which is said to be compleat in Arundel-house Library Georgio Anselmo an Epigrammatist of Parma Georgius Benedictus a Hollander of principal repute among the Eelgic wtiters of Latin Poesie Georgius Bersmannus a German of no inferiour Estimation among Learned Men but particularly fam'd for his happy Genius in Latin Verse Georgius Buchananus the most celebrated by the Learned Men of his time of all the famous writers that Scotland hath produc'd and that not without reason being in his Prose both Elegant and Judicious in so much that Vossius selecting out for several Countries each of their prime Historians names him for the History of his own Countrey and for Verse if not the chief of Modern Latin Poets as some account him yet at least the chief of that Nation which however barren of Soyl Esteem'd yet hath been sufficiently fruitful of good VVits and Men famous particularly for Latin Verse being so conspicuous a person no wonder he was made choice of for the Education of a Prince that was born to the sole Monarchy of Great Brittain George Bullen Lord Rochford Brother to Queen Anne 2 d VVife to K. Henry the 8 th among other things hath the Fame of being the Author of Songs and Sonnets which doubtless wanted not the applause of those times George Chapman a Poetical writer Flourishing in the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James in that repute both for his Translations of Homer and Hesiod and what he wrote of his own proper Genius that he is thought not the meanest of English Poets of that time and particularly for his Dramatic writings as his Blind Beggar of Alexandria All Fools The Gentleman Vsher May-day The Widows Tears Mounsieur d'Olive A days Mirth Eastward hoe Comedies Bussy d'Ambâ—ys Caesar Pompey Tragedies George Fletcher the Author of a Poem Entitled Christs Victory and Triumph in Heaven and Earth over and after Death he wrote in the Reign of King James and King Charles the First George Etheridge a Comical writer of the present Age whose Two Comedies Love in a Tub and She would if She could for pleasant Wit and no bad Oeconomy are judg'd not uuworthy the Applause they have met with Georgio Gradenico see Ottavio Riuucoâ—ni George Gascoign one of the smaller Poets of Queen Elizabeths days whose poetical Works nevertheless have been thought worthy to be quoted among the chief of that time his Supposes a Comedy Glass of â—overnment a Tragecomedy Jâ—â—â—sta a Tragedy are particularly remembred George Herbert a Younger Brother of the Noble Family of the Herberts of Montgomery whose florid Wit obliging Humour in Conversation fluent Eloquution and great proficience in the Arts gain'd him that Reputation at Oxford where he spent his more Youthful age that he was chosen University Oratour at last taking upon him Holy Orders not without special incouragement from the King who took notice of his parts he was made Parson of Bemmerton near Salisbury in this state his affection to Poetry being converted to serious aud Divine Subjects produc'd those so generally known and approâ—ed Poems Entitled the Temple Georgius Macropedius a German Poet whose most noted Poems beside his Comedies Andrisca Hecastus Rebelles and others and some Tragedies out of Sacred History are his Bassarus Lazarns Mendicus and his Calender of the principal Feasts of the Church in Heroie Verse Georgius Myliusa German Poet whose Two Books of Elegies were printed at Leipsich in the Year 1557. George Peel a somewhat antiquated English Bard of Queen Elizabeth Date some Remnants of whose pretty pastoral Poetry we have Extant in a Collection Entitled Englands Helicon George Riplay a Canon of Bridlington in the time of King Henry the 7 th who in old English Verse wrote several Chymical Misteries pretending to Lead to the attaining of the Philosophers Stone Georgius Rotallerus a German Poet who besides his Latin Version of Hesiods opera dies in Elegiac Verse and also Three of Sophocles his Tragedies as his Ajax Electra and Antigone hath also written Epigrams and some other Poems Georgius Sabinus a Brandenburger the Son in Law of Philip Melanchton a Person of no obscure Fame among German writers both for Verse and Prose George Sands a well approved writer of his Travels into Forrein Parts but a much more admir'd Translator of Ovid's Metamorphses into English Verse and Paraphrast of Davids Psalms and not unapplauded for his Tragedy of Christs Passion Georgius Siputus Daripenus a German Poet the most particularly remembred of whose Poems are his Congratulatories upon the Arrival of the Emperour Maximilian to Colen Georgius Thurius a Hungarian one of the most Eminent of that Nation for Latin Poesie Georgius Tilenus a German writer not forgotten
of Creation translated by Joshua Sylvester hath had a very great Fame here in England and is yet in great Esteem with many Gulielmus Xâ—lander a learned both Logician Mathematician Musician Historian Philosopher Linguist and also Poet as Melchior Adams in his Life Characters him of Augusta born in the Year of our Lord 1530. he was Professor of the Greec Tongue at Heidelberg H. HAns Sacs Teucherus a Poet of special note among the Germans Helius Eobanus a Hessian of like authority and preheminence among the German Poets as Tasso hath been among the Italians of his many poetical Works the chief are his Bucoliâ— Idyls his Sylvae his Elogies of Famous Men his sacred Heroines his description of the City Norimberg in Verse and of the Prince of Hessen's Victory against the Sueves besides his Elegant Version of Davids Psalms in Elegiac Verse Henricus Curandinus a German particularly taken notice of among those of that Nation that have been Eminent for Latin Poetry Henricus Andersonus a Scotch-man whose Eglogues and Musarum Querela are among the selected Works of other Noted Latin Poets of that Nation Henricus Bebelius a Poet of Justingen a Town which gives Title to a Barony in the Circle of Suevia who among many other things both in Prose and Verse wrote de Arte Condendorum Carminum Henricus Danskinus one of the Society of those Eminent Latin Poets of Scotland of whose Works a particular selection is publish'd Henricus Ecardus a Poet of Noremberg in which Town his Poems were printed by Georgius Merkelius Anno 1553. Henricus Euticus a Poet of Franconia who wrote in Verse a Book of Jests and Witty Conceits a Satyre aginst Sophists and Enemies of the study of Humanity the praises of the B. Virgin Epigrams and some other things he Flourish'd Anno 1494. Henricus Florentinus wrote a description in Verse of the Grandeur and state of the Emperour Frideric and is quoted by the Learned Felix Malleolus Henry Glaphthorn a Dramatic writer not altogether ill deserving of the English Stage by his Hollander Ladies Priviledge and Wit in a Constable Comedies his Argalus and Parthenia a Pastoral and Albertus Wallestein a Tragedy Henry Howard the most Noble Earl of Surry who Flourishing in the time of King Henry the 8 th as his Name is sufficiently famous for the Martial Exploits of that Family for many Generations so deserves he had he his due the particular Fame of Learning Wit and Poetic Fancy which he was thought once to have made sufficiently appear in his publish'd Poems which nevertheless are now so utterly forgoten as though they had never been Extant so Antiquated at present and as it were out of fashion is the style and way of Poetry of that Age whereas an English writer of those times in a Treatise called the Art of English Poesie alledges That Sir Th. Wiat the Elder and Henry Earl of Surry were the Two Chieftains who having Travelled into Italy and there tasted the sweet and stately Measures and Style of the Italian Poesie greatly polished our rude and homely manner of vulgar Poesie from what it had been before and may therefore justly be shewed to be the Reformers of our English Meeter and Style Henricus Husannus a German conspicuous among the Latin Versifiers of that Nation Henry King late Bishop of Chichester a no less Grave and Reverend Divine in his later time then in his youthful Age of an obliging Conversation by his Wit and Fancy and both in his Younger and Elder Years a constant lover of Music Poetry and all Ingenuous Arts the Effect of his latest and most serious Muse being his generally admired and approved Version of Davids Psalms into English Meeter Henricus Loâ—itus Glareanus a Helvetian of the Town of Clarona among the vast number of whose Elaborate Treatises in various kinds of Learning his poetical pieces were both enow and sufficiently in repute to gain him the Title of Poet Laureate nor was his Name less Eminent in Music He is mentioned Flourishing at Friburg a Town of Bisgoia in the Circle of Alsatia Anno 1551. Henricus Meibomius an Elegant Poet Expert Musitian and Judicious Historian of Lemgoia one of the 7 Free Cities in the Circle of Westphalia Henry Lord Morly a Nobleman of great account in the Reign of King Henry the 8 h by whom he was sent with the Garter to the Arch-Duke of Austria There are mentioned with Honour in our English Histories several Works of his writing for the most part poetical and particularly several Tragedies and Comedies Henricus Oroeus a not uneminent Modern writer of Latin Verse Henricus Petreius a noted both Civilian and Poet of Hardcsia Henry Picardet a French-man whose Poesies Francoises were printed at Paris Anno 1663. Henricus Ranzovius a Learned German particularly fam'd among many others of that Nation for his Excellent faculty in Latin Verse Henricus Smetius a Nobleman and Physitian of Alosta in Flanders who besides his Prosodia a well known and much used Book among the Versifying Boys in public Schools by which they are taught the quantity of words in Latin Verse by Examples out of all the choicest Latin Poets had in his younger Years discover'd also his own petic Genius in several peices of Latin Poesie as his History of the Kings of Judah his History of Susanna his Treatise of several parts of Medicin and his Translation of Homers Batramâ—omachia Henry Vaughan Sirnamed Silurist from that part of Wales whose Inhabitants were formerly called Silures the Author of certain English Poems which came forth Anno 1658. under the Title of Olor Iscanus Henricus Rollochus one of the Number of Scotch writers of Latin Verse whose selected Poems are publish'd together Hercules Strozza see Titus Hercole a Poet of Vdene a Town under the Seignorie of Venice chiefly known by his Psyche oâ— Poem of the Soul Hermannus Hugo an Eminent Philosopher Theologist Musitian and Poet of Brussels in Flanders from whose Original those Divine Emblematical Fancies that bear the Name of Quarles are derived Hermolaus Barbarus a Patrician or Nobleman of Venice whose profound Learning and great Parts advanc'd him to be Arch-Bishop and Patriarch of Aquileia and afterwards to the Colledge of Cardinals Hieronymus Amaltheus a most excellent Philosopher and Physician by profession but moreover a Composer of such Elegant Verses for his diversion that M. Antonins Muretus an Exact Judge of those things gives him the Palm before all the Italian Poets of his time he is mentioned Flourishing in the Year 1574. Hieronymus Balbus a writer of Gorcum who besides several prosaic Treatises wrote a Book of Epigrams concerning the Turkish Affairs to Pope Clement the â— h the mentioned time of his Flourishing is the Year 1520. Hieronymus Fracastorius so profound in Philosophy and the Mathematical Arts especially Astronomy and so happy a professour of Medicine that he might well have been excus'd from Poetry yet his greatest Aemulators saith Thuanus could not but confess that his style came
very near the Maiesty of Virgil. Hieronymus Donatus an Eminent both Philosopher Theologist Mathematician Oratour and also Poet by the Testimony of Angelus Politianus who mentions him in his Miscellanies Hieronymus Guntius a Poet of Bibrac one of the 35 Free Cities in the Circle of Suevia who supply'd several Greec Poets of the latter date as Prodromus Xanthopulus Psellius Philus Callieles and Nonnus Panopolita a multitude of Verses expung'd and lost by the injury of time and other accidents to which their Manuscripts had been expos'd besides several Epigrams of his own both in Latin and Greec Hieronymus Spartanus the Author of a Poem printed by J. Oporinus at Basil Anno 1550. Entitled Miles Christianus written in Elegiac Verse Hieronymus Zieglerus a writer of divers Tragecomedies and other Dramatic pieces out of the Old and New Testament as his Protoplastus Immolation of Isaac Nomothesia Sampson Heli out of the Old his Vineyard Ophiletes and Royal Marriage out of the New besides a Tragedy out of Prophane History Entitled Cyrus Major Hippolytus Capilupus an Italian of paincipal Note and Fame among the Latin Poets of that Nation Honoratus Tascitellus an Italian Author of a very Elegant Latin Poem Dedicated to the Lady of Piscaria Honorio Navazzotti an Italian Poet who by his Poem Celebrating the Vertues of a 100 Noble Women of Casal celebrates his own memory Hubertus Susannius a Writer of Soissons both in Prose and Verse of which last kind are his Book of Epigrams his Book of Games his Eclogue entitled Sylvius his Poem upon the Resurrection with some other things of various subject Hugo Grotius a Native of Delph in Holland born in the year of our Lord 1513 whose equal in fame for Wit Learning Christendom of late Ages hath rarely produc'd particularly of so happy a Genius in Poetry that had his Annals his Book De Veritate Christianae Religionis De Satisfactione Christi and other his extolled works in Prose never come to Light his extant and universally approved Latin Poems had been sufficient to gain him a Living Name Huldricus Huttenus a German born but Knight of France among whose Poetical works collected together and printed at Frank ford an 1538 are his Satyr against the times of Julius Secundus his Hortatory to the Emperour Maximilian to prosecute his War against the Venetians his Poem in Heroic Verse concerning the Fishing of the Venetians his Marcus in the same kind a pleasant Poem entitled Outis c. Huldricus Scoberus another German Poetical Writer of the number of those Latin Versifiers of that Nation whose fames are not obscure among the Learned Huldricus Vannius a Poet of Ausburg the Author of a Heroic Poem entitled Christs Passion Humbertus Momnoretanus the Authour of a Sylva in praise of Upper Burgundy which is printed with Gilbertus Cognatus his Descriptiou of Burgundy Humphry Mills a Poetical Writer of the last Age but whose name I believe by this time is known to few notwithstanding two Volumes of his Poetry were once publisht under the title of the Melancholy Vision consisting of several Moral and Divine Contemplations I. Jacobus Balde a Jesuit of whom there are extant Miscellaneous Poems divided into 4 tomes Iacobus Catzius an eminent Low-Country Man both for Dignity for he was Syndic of West-Freise Land and Gelder Land and his zeal to Learning and the Arts among which Poetry was not his least excellency as appears by his Patriarcha Bigamus publisht with several Poems of Gaspar Barlaeus and Cornelius Boius by both whom he was highly celebrated Iacobus Ceporinus a learned Grammarian and Commentatour of Zurich one of the Chief Cantons of Switzers much esteem'd for his Scholia's upon Hesiod Dionysius Afer and Aratus as also for a Book of Lepid Greec Epigrams of his own Composing Iacobus Crellius wrote in Greec Verse Arguments upon all the Books of the Old and New Testament Iacobus Crittonius a Scotch Writer particularly in Latin Verse among several other noted Men of that Nation of whose Latin Poems there is a Select collection Iacobus Ghibbesius a late Authour of Lat. Odes which were printed at Rome an 1665. Iacobus Grevinus an advancer in the Study of Poetry to which in his younger years he especially addicted himself to that degree that Thuanus mentioning with praise his Gelodachrys and other Poems thinks him woâ—thy to be compar'd with the most admir'd of his time either of France or other parts and for his Version of Nicander into French Verse when not totally abandoning Poetry he betook himself to Physic with the most elegant of the Ancient Greecs and Latins he was flourishing about the year 1570 but what ever else he intended to oblige the World with immature death prevented Iacobus Iaspar a Danish Poet who wrote a Consolatory Poem to the Prince of Orange upon the death of his First-born Daughter and a Genethliacon upon the Birth of Renatus the young Prince both which are printed with Gilbertus Cognatus his Description of Burgundy Jacobus Lectius a late German Poet whose Varia Poemata were printed at Geneva an 1609. Jacobus Macolonus a Scotch-Man whose Anthroporia Xeniorum is extant among the Selected works of others of the prime Latin Poets accounted of that Nation Jacobus Micyllus a fam'd Writer of Strasburg whose Epigrams both Greec and Latin Elegy of the Falcon and the Pie Epistle to Joachimus Camerarius in Elegiac Verse foretelling the precise time of the ruin of the old Castle of Heidelberg speak him no less a Poet then the rest of his elaborate Works a universal Schollar Jacobus Montanus a Poet of Spire one of the 18 Imperial Cities He wrote Christs Passion in four Books in Elegiac Verse Hymns upon the Feast daies of the whole year in divers kinds of Verse the Heroe of Tarsus or the Life of St. Paul in Heroic Verse beside some things in Prose Jacobus Rueff a Chirurgian of Zurick who besides several useful things in Prose among which is his Catalogue of the Chief Physitians and Astrologers to his time wrote also several things in Dramatic Poetry as his Comedy of William Thel the principal promoter of the Helvetian Conspiracy the Rape of Paulina the Cheat of the Priests of Isis with some others of Divine argument taken out of the Holy Scripture Jacobus Sadoletus see Giacopo Sadoletti Jacobus Schoepperus Fremonianus the Author of a Tragi-Comedy entitled the Monomachie or single Combta between David and Goliab Jacobus Wimphelingus a Native of Sledstadt in Germany and Presbyter of the Church of Spire a very copious and fruitful writer both in Prose and Verse of which last kind were his Poem in praise of the B. Virgin in Elegiac Verse dedicated to Bartholdus Arch-Bishop of Mentz his Angelical Nuncio in Heroic Verse his Poem to Philip Count Palatine in Heroic Verse his Elegy to his Eldest Son Lewis his Poem to Eberhard Duke of Wirtenberg in Heroic not to mention his Hymns Epigrams and other various Pieces of Poetry He flourisht at Spire an
1494. Iacobus Zevecotius a Hollander esteem'd among the Chief of Belgic writers in Latin Verse and of whose Poems there are particularly quoted by learned Men his Elegies his Tragedy Terris-munda and his Maria Graeca Iames Shirly a just pretender to more then the meanest Place among the English Poets but most especially for Dramatic Poesy in which he hath written both very much and for the most part with that felicity that by some he is accounted little inferiour to Fletcher himself his Comedies are the Ball the Humorous Courtier the Brothers Love in a Maze the Gamester the Grateful Servant the Bird in a cage the Constant Maid the Coronation the Court Secret the Example Hide Park the Lady of pleasure the Opportunity the Wedding the Witty fair one the Royal Master Tragedies the Cardinal the Maids Revenge Chabot Admiral of France the Traitour the Imposture a Tragy-Comedy Arcadia a Pastoral c. Iames Stuart a King of Scotland the first of that Name who being taken prisoner and brought to London where he was educated in all kind of Liberal and accomplishing Arts and Sciences prov'd a great proficient in all and particularly left recorded Memorials behind him of his perfection in Music and Poetry Ianus Antonius Balyfius one of the chief ornaments of his time for polite Learning but most peculiarly eminent for what he hath imparted to the world of his Poetical fancy Ianus Chunradus Rhumelius a writer of Latin Verse with success sufficient to be rankt among the Cheif of modern Latin Poets Ianus Anysius a writer of Satyrs and other Poems which he dedicated to Cardinal Pompeio Colonua Ianus Cornarus a learned German Author of Zwiccaria among whose multitude of other works his Carmen Propempticon to Franciscus a Stiten is not forgotten he is mention'd flou rishing in the year 1551. Janus Douza a Belgic both Poet and Oratour born at Nortwick in Holland of a Noble Family what with his Poems wherein he discovered a most acute wit and sublime fancy and the Annals he wrote of his own Country with no less judgment then learning he obtain'd to be generally styl'd the Varro of Batavia and Common Oracle of the Academy He is recorded flourishing in the year 1604. Janus Lernutius a learned German particularly remember'd among those of that Nation that have a fame in Latin Poetry Jean de Marests a French Author of a Poem entitled Clovis or La France Christienne Janus Pannonius a Poet of Hungary of whose Poems there are extant his Panegyrical Sylva to the Bishop of Funfkirken his Panegyries to Gavariuo of Verona and Giacopo Antonio Marcello of Venice his Proseuâ—htich to Frederik the 3 d for the Peace of Italy besides Epigrams Elegies and other Miscellanies Janus Parrhasius a Calabrian proclam'd by Alstedius the most excellent Poet of his time he was born in the year of our Lord 1470. Joachimus Axonius a Poetical writer among the Latin Versifiers of Belgium or the Low-Countrys Joachimus Bellaius a Kinsman of Cardinal Bellaius in whose Family for he himself was not a Person of any great Fortune he enjoy'd a happy vacancy to his study and Muse to which he was wonderfully addicted his Tristia and his Ludi Rustici are particularly mention'd by Thuanus with commendation Joachimus Camerarius a universally learned and most renowned writer among whose almost innumerable Volumes there are not a few in Verse as particularly his Precepts for Childrens decent behaviour his Description of the Constellations his Prognostics of the weather all in Elegiac Verse also his Epigrams for the Ordering Diet in respect to the alteration of the year Joachimus Myrioianus a German of whose Poetical writings there are extant his Verses against Luther his Elegy upon the death of Empserus his Epicedium to Simon Pistor upon the death of his Wife his Paraphâ—ase in Verse upon the Lords Prayer Ioachimus Mynsingerus Dentatus a Jurisconsult by Profession of Frundeck in Germany but not thereby wholly taken off from his addiction to the Muses by whose instinct he wrote among other things a Poem which by its title Austrias pretends to be Heroic Ioachimus Vadianus a Helvetian both Physician Poet and Orator the chief of whose Poetic works are his Poem in praise of the Emperours Frederic the third and his Son Maximilian his Epiâ—aph of Rodolphus Bishop of Wurtsburg his Eglogue entitled Faustus his Elegy of the Armories and Ensigns of honour given by Sigismund K. of the Romans to the Family of the Vadiani his Elegy describing his combat with Death and his Ode upon the Resurrection he died in the year of our Lord 1551. Ioanâ—es Albinus a German Poet eminent among the writers of Latin Verse of that Nation Ioannes Alexander Brassicanus an industrious publisher of several antient Authors which were before unknown as the workes of Eucherius the Greec Geoponics of Constantine Bishop Salvianus his Book of judgment and Providence and Petronius Arbiter's Satyrs besides what he set forth of the productions of his own fancy which were his Idyliium to Charles King Elect of the Romans Elegies Epigrams Dialogues in Verse and other Poems Ioannes Altus a Poet of Hessen who wrote an Epithalamium to Ioannes Fabricius Montanus and put into Verse Suetonius his History of the 12 Cesars Ioannes Antonius Flaminius a writer of Forum Cornelii a Principal Town of Flaminia who wrote in Latin Verse 2 Books of Sylvae and 3 of Epigrams besides an elegant Paraphrase upon several of Davids Psalms in Prose a Treatise of the several Sects of Philosophers and of the original of Philosophy Ioannes Antonius Hermaphroditus the Author of certain Verses which are extant among other choice Poetical Collections in Albertus de Eyb's Margarita Poetica Joannes Arnolletus the Author of a small triple Poem entitled Faith Hope and Charity which not amounting to a Volume of it self was printed with a Collection of Choice Poems of several Authors by Robert Winter at Basil Joannes Arnoldus a Poet of Bergella who wrote an Encomium upon the Invention of Chalcography in Elegiac Verse Joannes Atrocianus a German Author next after whose Commentaries upon Macer's Book of Planets there is mention'd an Elegy of his upon the Rustic war begun in Germany in the year 1525 he is mention'd flourishing in the year 1528. Joannes Aventinus a writer of several Treatises in Prose especially in Grammar and not altogether a stranger to Verse in which however he is only taken notice of for his Hymn of the Celestial Sphaere Joannes Anratus The Regius Professor of the Greec Tongue at Paris under Charles the 9 th of France and one of the 3 most approved French Poets the other two were Hospitalius and Turnebus whom Vtenhovius in a Latin Distich sets in Competition against 6 Italians namely Sanazarius Fracastorius Flaminius Vidas Navagerius and Bembus Joannes Aurelius Angurellus a Poet of Rimini who being addicted to that kind of Mysterious Philosophy that pretends to the finding out of the Phisopher's Stone wrote a Poem in Heroic Verse entitled
Verse divided into four Books entitled Rudimenta Geographica Joannes Hospinianus Steinanus a Helvetian who besides several Treatises in Prose wrote in Verse a Panegyric upon the Lord Magnus ab Emerâ— shofen several Epithalamia or Nuptial Poems Joannes Jacobus Gabianus the Author of a Poem entitled Romanensium Victoria with the Office and Commendation of St. Columbanus in Verse Tetrasticks of the Saints and Distichs of Morality with other things Joannes Jovianus Pontanus a very renowned Philosopher Orator and Poet first Tutor and afterwards Secretary to Alphonso the Younger King of Naples among his Poetical works were his five Books of the Constellations his Book of Meteors his Poem of the Culture of Citron entitled The Hesperian Gardens in 6 Books his Lepidina or Pastoral Pomps his Bucolics Melissus Maeon Acon c. Joannes Lanterbachius an Author sufficiently Eminent among the German writers in Latin Verse Joannes Leochaeus a learned Scotchman of considerable repute for his Elegant Latin Poems entitled Musae Priores which in his late Majesties Reign were printed at London and dedicated to William Earl of Pembrok Ioannes Linkius a German reputed one of the Chief among the Latin Poets of that Nation Ioannes Lorichius Hadamarus a well approv'd German Author especially for what he hath written in Poetry as his Book of Riddles and his Ecclesiasticus in Latin Verse as also his Catalogue of Ancient Civilians in Elegiac Verse with some other things Ioannes Ludovicus Brassicanus a German whose Carmen Odoeporicon to Ioachimus Camerarius is the cheif of what I find mentioned of his Poetry In Prose he wrote a Comment upon Cicero's Book De Legibus and other noted things Ioannes Major a Belgian reckon'd among the Principal writers of that Country in Latin Poetry Ioannes Maria Velmatius an Italian whose Latin Muse travell'd through the whole Bible Joannes Maurus the Author of a late Latin Poem entitled Theatrum Vniversae vanitatis printed at Paris anno 1668. Joannes Mercurius Morsheimerus a German who wrote a Poem in Elegiac Verse in praise of Autumn he flourisht at Heidelberg an 1552. Joannes Metellanus a Scotchman whose Epigrams are publisht among the selected Poems of several others esteemed the Cheif Latin Versifiers of that Nation Joannes Morisotus a Physician of Dole who besides what he wrote in Prose both in Physic and several other subjects wrote also in Verse Ethologia in 10 Eclogus 6 Aucupatory Eclogues 7 Books of Odes a Poem entitled Herculeis another Antonias or the Life of St. Antony the Tragedy of Dido 2 Books of Divine Epigrams and other things Joannes Muscopius a German mention'd particularly for his Epithalamium upon the Nuptials of Simon Râ—stius with Margereta the Daughter of Antonius Turlera Ioannes Passeratius a Professor of the Latin Tongue in the University of Paris where what he wrote as well in Verse as in solute Oration both in the French and Latin Tongues had no vulgar repute the mention'd time of his Flourishing is the year 1602. Ioannes Phernandus a German who besides other things in Verse wrote the hours of the Holy Cross and of the Compassion of the B. Virgin in Elegiac Verse he flourisht an 1494. Ioannes Picus Count of Mirandula the Phoenix of his Age and darling of the Muses as he is styl'd by Scaliger Sixtus Senensis also in his Bibliotheca for his many concurring excellencies as his rare Beauty of Body and Mind his Nobility of Birth admirable Wit and profound Literature Sirnames him the Phoenix but Politian in his Epistles among other great Characters gives him particularly that of egregious Poet what Miracle then would he have been had be liv'd longer for he died in the 32 year of his age being the year of our Lord 1449. Joannes Pierius a Poet of Valeria among whose Poems there are noted his Fable of Leucippus and that of the Carp-Fish his Epistle of Protesilaus to Laodamia his Amicitia Romana his Joathas c. Joannes Pedioneus a Writer of Hymns in Latin Verse Joannes Posselius a learned Writer among other things of Rules or Precepts of human Life in Greec Verse Joannes Posthius a learned both Physitian and Poet born in the Palatinate anno 1537 his Poetical works were his Parerga Poetica his works belonging to Physic his Anatomical Observations and some other things Joannes Rhellicanus a Poet of Zurich in Switzerland who at the end of Homer's Life which he translated out of Plutarch hath a Poem entitled Stockhornias in which he describes a journy he made over the Mountain Stockhorn in the Territory of Bearn He wrote also another Poem of the 3 Men of Baden who were beheaded for Religion he was flourishing anno 1538. Joannes Richius a Poet of Annoveriacum who in a Poem which he wrote in Heroic Verse of the Nuptials of Volradus Count of Waldec and Anastasia the Daughter of the Count of Swarzemburg gives a summary view of the Lives and Transactions of several of the Counts of Waldec he also wrote a Propempticon of the Lord Franciscus a Stiten taking a Journy into Livonia Joannes Rosa one of those Latin Poets accounted of the prime of Scotland who are joyn'd together in a publisht Collection of their several Selected Works Joannes Sambucus a Hungarian accounted one of the Chief of that Country for Latin Poesy there are principally taken notice of his Carmina Ethica or Moral Precepts in Verse Joannes Sapidus a Poet of Schledstadt one of the Imperial Cities in the Circle of Rhine He wrote besides Epigrams and other Miscellaneous Poems his Anabion or Lazarus redivivus a Divine Comedy Joannes Schosserus a German Writer well approv'd for his Latin Poems Ioannes Scotus Scototarvatius a Scotch Knight and Person of Eminent Dignity in the State yet more advanc't in Fame by the Place his Elegies have obtain'd among the most esteem'd Latin Poets of that Nation Joannes Secundus an Elegant Poetical Writer of Hague as appears by his 3 Books of Elegies his Funera Epigrams Basia Odes Epistles and Sylvae Joannes Sekervius a Poet of Vratislaw one of the Chief Cities of Poland of whose Poetical invention there are principally mention'd 2 Elegies of Jacob and Esau reciprocal from one to the other Joannes Serranus a Gallic Writer of Vivar whose Version of several of the Psalms of David exceed in the judgement of Duport what ever had been done before of that kind Joannes Simonius a German among whose Poems we find his Princeps most especially quoted Joannes Sommerus a Hungarian of no obscure Note for what he hath written in Latin Verse Joannes Spangenbergius a German Theologist and Preacher at Northausen an Imperial Town in the Circle of Saxonie who as he wrote many things in Prose so he was not averse to Poetry as appears by his Version of David's Psalms into Elegiac Verse Joannes Stabius an Austrian both Poet and Mathematician and honour'd with the Title of Historian to the Emperour Maximilian several things he wrote in Verse but what he wrote in Prose were chiefly
works for he was also a great Historian Philosopher and Philologist that which hath obtained the principal fame is his Benaons a Heroic Poem He was arriv'd to his Meridian Altitude in the year 1640. Petrus Bolaneus his Hymns his Panegyric in Sapphic Verse upon the Emperour Frederic the third his Funeral Elegy upon Rudolphus Agricola his Epigram made of the Sentences of Seneca and Plato and some other Poems made his fame known by the year 1494. Petrus Bonommus an Epigrammatic Poet of Triest a Town of Friuli Contemporary with the above mentioned Bolaneus Petrus Christianus a Representer in Latin Vers of the late War between the several Princes States in Europe but more especially relating to what hath happened in the Low Countries Petrus Crinitus the Author of a Treatise in 5 Books of the Latin Poets in which there are contain'd several Fragments of Ancients Poets whose compleat works are lost besides which Treatise in Prose he hath extant two Books of Odes with other Poems he surviv'd the year 1505. Petrus Curtius the Author of a Poem concerning the Ancient Falisci Veientes and another entitled Roma he was flourishing an 1526. Petrus Labbaeus a French both judicious Censurer of the Ancient Poets and accounted not the meanest himself of Modern Poets whose Latin Elegies and Epitaphs were printed at Grenoble an 1664. Petrus Lindebergius a German both excellent Historian and Laureated Poet by the testimony of Olaus Wormius in his Literatura Danica and of his own works namely his History of the affaiâ—s of Europe and his extant Poems Petrus Lotichius â—cundus the most excellent of German Poets according to the testimony of Thuanus next after Eobanus Hessus Petrus Molinaeus the Son of that generally Learned French man and famous Champion of the Protestant cause Peter du Moulin himself also not unlearned as appears by his Latin Poems consisting in 3 parts Hymns upon the Apostolic Creed 2 Gemitus Ecclesiae 3 Sylva variorum publisht a few years since at Cambridge with the testimony of D r Gunning now Bishop of Chichester and other Learned Men. Petrus Paganus the Author in Latin Heroic Verse of the History of the Triple Combat between the Horatii Curiatii the 3 Roman and 3 Alban Brethren Petrus Ronsardus a French Poet of Vendosme the most to be esteem'd in the judgement of Thuanus not only of the French but of all other Poets that have liv'd since the time of Augustus Petrus Rossetus a Parisian whose Poem entitled Christus in 2 Books as also his Paulus or the Dâ—scription in Verse of the Apostles Acts were first printed at Paris by Ascentius and Colmaeus afterwards at Basil by Oporinus an 1547. Petrus Scotus a native of Strasburg who wrote Encomiums in Elegiac Verse of St. John Baptist and St. Chrysostome and was flourishing an 1492. Petrus Scriverius a Belgian of Harlem both profound Philologist and Antiquary by the testimony of Boxhornius in his Theatrum Hollandiae by Vossius highly commended for his Comment upon Martial by others quoted among the Chief of that Country for Latin Poesy Petrus Tiara a Frislander of no less account for Latin Poetry among the Belgic Poets for his Poem of the Ancient State of the Friselanders another of Nobility and the true Ensigns thereof Philippus Gundelius a Paduan of whose Poetry there are especially remembred his 2 noted Eglogues Apollonodia and Callianera printed at Vienna 1518. Philippus Lonicerus a German who hath written Icones Liviani in Latin Verse Philip Massinger a sufficiently famous and very copious writer both Comic and Tragic to the English Stage his Comedies are his Bondman Emperour of the East Maid of Honour New-way to pay old debts the Picture the Bashful Lover the Renegadâ— the Guardian the Great Duke of Florence his Tragedies the Fatal Dowry the Duke of Millain Philippus Rubenius a Kinsman of the most admired Painter Petrus Paulus Rubens upon whom he wrote Elegies but of chiefest note are his Apobaterion and Eucharistic to Justus Lipsius and his Lachrymae upon his death Sr Philip Sidny the Glory of the English Nation in his time and Pattern of true Nobility as equally addicted both to Arts and Arms though more fortunate in the first for accompanying his Uncle the Earl of Leicester sent by Queen Elizabeth General of the English Forces into the Low Countries he was there unfortunately slain He was the great English Mecaenas of Vertue Learning and Ingenuity though in his own Writings chiefly if not wholy Poetical his Arcadia being a Poem in design though for the most part in solute Oration and his Astrophil and Stella with other things in Verse having if I mistake not a greater Spirit of Poetry then to be altogether disesteem'd Philippus Porta the next in the esteem of Thuanus after Bellaqua for excellency in French Poesy though no native himself that is the fourth after Ronsard Phineas Fletcher the Brother of George before mentioned whom he rather exceeds then comes behind in Poetic fame for his Purple Island is yet memory and mentioned by many with sufficient commendation besides which he wrote a Poem in Latin against the Jesuites but more enlarged in English Pierre Le Moine late French Writer of a Heroic Poem entitled St. Louis Pierius Valarianus a Belluuensium Writer of a Latin Poem of the culture of Smilax or Ridnybean Pompeo Torelli his Italian Poem Vittoria was printed at Parma an 1605. Pompeius Hugonius wrote a Latin Poem of the Victory of Lepanto which is publisht with the selected works of several other Italian writers in Latin Poesy Porcellius a Neapolitan who for his acute Wit and rather quick and ready then sublime vein in Poetry was in high favour with Frederik Duke of Vrbin Publius Faustus Andrelins a Poet of Forli a principal Town of Romania the chief of whose Poems are his Elegies upon the two Neapolitan Victories and the Captivity of Ludovico Sforza his 4 Eclogues and his Book of Distichs Publius Franciscus Amerinus his Funeral Poems upon Baptista Platina are printed with those of other Learned Men at the end of Platina's works Q. QVintius Aemilianus a Cimbrian or Dane who wrote an Elegant Poem in praise of Love in opposition to Petrus Hedaeus his Anterotica also an Epicedium to the Emperor Frideric the third Quintus Septimius Florens Christianus a Frenchman so great a Master of the Latin and Greec tongues that for what he wrote in either of them whither in Prose or Verse he stands comparable in the opinion of Thuanus to most of the Ancients besides what he wrote in both style in his Mother-Tongue he is recorded Flourishing an 1586. R. Sr Ralph Freeman the Author of a Tragedy which by some is held in great esteem Entitled Imperiale Raphael Thorius a learned French Poet whose elegant style in Latin Vers discovers it self in his noted Poem entitled Hymnus Tabaci or Encomium of Tobacco Reinhardus Lorichius Hadamarius a German writer of many elaborate works among which not least to be regarded
is his Description in Verse of the luxurious and splendid Feasts of Ahasuerus and Darius Kings of Persia he was Flourishing in the year 1542. Richard Brathwait the writer of certain Poems which coming forth about 30 years since though of little or no fame in the World yet not totally perishing in oblivion have gain'd the fortune to be here mentioned Remigius Bellaqua one of the principal Poets reputed of France and by some accounted the third from Ronsard that is by those in whose esteem Joachimus Bellaius holds the 2 d place he wrote many things in Latin but most in the Mother Tongue he is commonly chronologis'd under the year 1577. Renatus Rapinus a French both Critical Judge of the Poets as appears by his Reflections on Aristotle's Treatise of Poetry and Poet also him self of no obscure fame by his Latin Poem of Horticulture or Gardening which hath been of late ingeniouly translated by John Evelin the younger of Says Court by Deptford following in the trac of fame the footsteps of his Learned Father sufficiently known by his many both delightful and to the Public most beneficial works Richard Brome a Servant to Ben. Johnson a Servant suitable to such a Master and who what with his faithful service and the sympathy of his Genius was thought worthy his particular commendation in Verse whatever Instructions he might have from his Master Johnson he certainly by his own natural parts improved to a great heighth and at last became not many parasangues inferior to him in fame by divers noted Comedies as The Antipodes the Novella Mock-Marriage the Covent Garden Wedding the Mad couple well Match't the Ambitious Politic the Court Beggar the Citty wit but especially his Nothern Lasse his Jovial Crew and his Asparagus Garden Richard Corbet a no less witty Poetiser in his Youth when his Iter Boreale and other facetious Poems were the effects of his juvenil fancy then grave Divine in his Elder years when his more serious studies advanc't him to the Bishoprie first of Oxford then of Norwich Richard Crashaw Fellow first of Pembroke-Hall afterwards of St. Peters Colledge in Cambridge a Devout pourer forth of his Divine Raptures and Meditations in smooth and Pathetic Verse His Poems consist of 3 parts the first entitled Steps to the Temple being for the most part Epigrams upon several passages of the New Testament the second part The Delights of the Muses or Poem upon several occasions both English and Latin the third and last part Carmen Deo nostro being Hymns and other Sacred Poems addressed to the Countess of Denbigh that Religious solitude and love of a recluse life which made him spend much of his time and even lodge many nights under Tertullian's roof of Angels in St. Mary's Church drew him at length turning Roman Catholick to betake himself to that so zealously frequented place call'd Our Lady 's of Loretto in Italy where he died Sr Richard Fanshaw heretofore Secretary to his present Majesty when Prince of Wales and after his restoration his Embassador into Spain where he died Besides his Translation of Guarini's Pastor Fido into English Verse and of Spencer's Sheapherds Calender into Latin Verse Richard Rablet and Richard Turner two Contemporaries and therefore perhaps worthie of mention for antiquities sake with Drayton with whose Owl and other old Pieces of Poetry two small things of theirs Rablets Cob's Prophesie and Turner's Nosce te Humours were publisht and seem to be but the track of other Poetical works though now lost and forgotten Richard Lovelace an approv'd both Souldier Gentleman Lover and a fair pretender to the Title of Poet a Souldier having Commanded a Regiment in the late King's Army a Gentleman of a Vicounts Name and Family a Lover Militant under the Bannor of of Lucasta the Lady Regent under a Poetical Name of his Poetical endeavours and as to the last of his Qualififications besides the acute and not unpleasant stile of his Verses a Man may discern therein sometimes those sparks of a Poetic fire which had they been the main design and not Parergon in some work of Heroic argument might happily have blaz'd out into the perfection of sublime Poesy Robertus Aytonus a Scotch Poet of whom there is extant a Panegyric to King James in Latin Verse Robert Baron a Dramatic writer who wrote Don Quixot or the Knight of the Ill-favoured Countenance a Comedy Gripus and Hegio a Pastoral Deorum Dona Dick Scorner Destruction of Jerusalem the Marriage of Wit and Science Masques and Interludes Myrza a Tragedy Robertus Bodius a Scotchman whose Latin Verses have a Place among the works of several Eminent Scotch Poets Robert Chamberlain the Author of a Comedy call'd The Swaggering Damsel and Sicelides a Pastoral Robert Fleming an English writer recorded in History among those that Flourisht in the Reign of King Henry the 6 th not only for his Dictionary in Greec and Latin but also for a work he is said to have writ in Verse of various Argument Robert Garnier a French Counsellor of State and writer of Tragedies Robert Sirnam'd of Glocester a not altogether obscure writer in the Reign of Henry the Third and seeming to passe for a Poet in the esteem of Cambden who quotes divers of his old English Rythms in praise of his native Country England Robert Gomersal the Author of Lodowic Sforza a Tragedy and some other things of Poetical subject Robert Green one of the Pastoral Sonnet makers of Qu. Elizabeth's time Contemporary with D r Lodge with whom he was associated in the writing of several Comedies namely The Laws of Nature Lady Alimony Liberality Prodigality and a Masque call'd Luminalia besides which he wrote alone the Comedies of Friar Bacon and Fair Emme Robert Heath the Author of a Book of Poems which about 20 years ago came forth under the Title of Clarastella the ascribed title of that Celebrated Lady who is suppos'd to have been both the Inspirer and cheif subject of them Robert Herric a writer of Poems of much about the same standing and the same Rank in fame with the last mention'd though not particularly influenc't by any Nymph or Goddess except his Maid Pru. That which is chiefly pleasant in these Poems is now and then a pretty Floury and Pastoral gale of Fancy a vernal prospect of some Hill Cave Rcok or Fountain which but for the interruption of other trivial passages might have made up none of the worst Poetic Landskips S r Robert Howard of the Noble Family of the Earls of Berkshire and Brother to the present Earl besides the Dignity of his present Office as being imploy'd in his Majesties Exchequer but of the most considerable Fame by what he hath written in Poetry especially to the Stage viz. The Blind Lady the Surprisal the Comittie Comedies The Great Favourite a Tragedy Inforc't Marriage a Tragy-Comedy and The Indian Queen a Dramatic History Robert Mead the Author of two not altogether obscure Comedies The Combat of Love
and Friendship and the Costly Whore Robertus Obricius a writer of Latin Hymns D r Robert Wild one of the Poetical Cassock and not of the meanest rank being in some sort a kind of Anti-Cleaveland in regard he stands up in behalf of the Presbyterians as notably as ever Cleaveland did against them the first thing that recommended him to public Fame was his Iter Boreale the same in Title though not in Argument with that little but much commended Poem of Dr Corbet's before mention'd this being upon Monk's Journy iuto Scotland in order to His Majesty's Restoration and lookt upon for a lofty and conceitful style his other things are for the most part of a lepid and facetious nature Rochus a Chartreux Monk mentioned in History among other Eminent Men of K. Edw. the Fourth's time Sr De Roquigni the Author of a late French Poem entitled Muse Chrestienne Rodulphus Agricola a most Famous writer of Groeningen in Friseland who among many other works wrote also Epitaphs and other Poems There were moreover two others of the same name both Poets the first Rodolphus Agricola junior a Poet Laureat the other of Wassenburg Rodolphus Avincatius his Poems dedicated to the Farnesi were printed at Rome an 1543. Rodolphus Avantius an Italian writer of Odes or Sonnets Rodolphus Gualtherus a Native of Zurich in Switzerland and Pastor of the Church of Zurich In Prose he wrote very many things in Heroic verse The Monomachie or Single Combat between David and Goliah with the Allegorical Exposition thereof Rodolphus Langius a German writer Prebend of Munster who wrote a Poem of the 3 Magi or Wisemen another of the Siege of Nuis to the Dean of Colen besides others of various subjects Roger Ascham a Man of that Eminence for learning that he was thought worthy to be chosen Preceptor to that most Glorious Princess Queen Elizabeth and though principally fam'd for his Latin Epistles and other things in Prose yet mentioned with commendation by Balaeus for Epigrams and other Latin Poems Roger Boile Lord Broghil and Earl of Orery the Credit of the Irish Nobility for wit and ingenuous parts and a smooth stile both in Prose and Verse in which last he hath written several Dramatic Histories as Mustapha Edw. the Third Henry the Fifth Tryphon and that with good success applause for the way he writes in namely the continual Riming and love and honour way of the French M r Rostrou a French Tragedian censured by Renatus Rapinus in his Reflections on Aristotle's Treatise of Poetry Ruccelaio an Italian Poet who wrote in Blank Verse of the Culture of Bees S. Mr Sabliquy his Muse Dauphine publisht an 1661. Salmonius Macrinus an Ingenious Poet of Laudun sufficiently known by his 6 Books of Odes in which he made it his study to imitate Horace both in the Argument and manner of Verse but especially Famous for his Lyric Poem entitled Gelonide which he wrote when weary of a single he betook himself to a Married Life Samuel Daniel an Author of good note and reputation in King James his Reign whose History of the 11 first Kings of England from the Norman Conquest though it be of all the rest of his Works most principally sought after and regarded yet are not his Poetical writings totally forgotten as namely his Historical Poem of the Civil Wars between the House of York and Lancaster his Letter of Octavia to Antoninus his Complaint of Rosamund his Panegyric c. and of Dramatic pieces his Tragedy of Philotas and Cleopatra Hymen's Triumph and the Queens Arcadia a Pastoral Samuel Purchas see William Slatyer Samuel Rowly remember'd by his Comical History When you see me you know me and his Tragedy The Noble Spanish Souldier Samuel Woodford a late commended Translator if not rather Paraphrast of David's Psalms in the Pindaric vulgarly so call'd and other various sorts of Verse Scoevola Samarthanus a Learned Frenchman who wrote in Latin Verse Elogies upon all the Eminent Men of France to his time for Learning and Arts. Scipio Capycius the Author of two learned Poems viz. De Vate Maximo and De Principiis rerum M r De Scudery Governour of Nostre-Dome the most Voluminous and of the most Famous of late French Romancers or rather Adulterators of true History with Romantic entreagues of Love yet to say truth in a style and conduct much more gentile and polite then any of the old Romances could boast not without a pretty representing of the heighth of the French Galantry conversation this way of writing will easily be allow'd to be a sort of Poetry but there are besides not very long since publisht his Poesies diverses Sebastianus Aerichalcus a Polonian who describ'd in Heroic Verse the Affections of the Mind out of Philip Melanchton's Book De Anima as also the Solar Eclipse of the year 1546. Sebastianus Castalio the fam'd Author of many learned Works both in Prose and Verse among those in Prose the most known are his Sacred Dialogues as being frequently taught in Grammar Schools His chief things in Poetry are his Eclogue Sirillus upon our Saviour's Nativity his History of the Prophet Jonas in Latin Heroic Verse his Life of St. John Baptist in Heroic Greec Verse his Version of 40 of David's Psalms and of two of Moses's Songs He was Flourishing at Basil about the year 1540. Sebastianus Titio alias Brant an Eminent Jurisconsult of Strasburgh Professour both of Civil and Canon Law but his Writings which were very many were of various subjects and several of them in Verse as his Rosary of the B. Virgin in Sapphics his Elegy upon the death of the Emperour Frederic a Book of Epigrams Divine Satyrs both in Latin and Vernacular Verse the Encomiums of several Saints an Epithalamium upon the Marriage of King Maximilian with Blanca Maria M r Segrais his Poesies printed at Paris anno 1661. Sethus Calvisius a German most learned Historian Poet and Musician whose Opus Chronologicum and other Works have their deserv'd same He died at Leipsich in the 60 th year of his age an 1615. Shakerly Marmion a not obscure or uncopious Writer of English Comedy having sufficiently testified his success therein in his Antiquary his Holland Leaguer his Fleir Fine Companion Fair Maid of the Exchange Sigismundus Fulginas Secretary of the Apostolic Chamber one of the Authors of those Eminent Funeral Poems upon Platina which in honour of that Learned Writer are printed at the end of his works Simon Fagellus Villaticus a Bohemian whose Poetical Works are his Hymns Epigrams Funeral Epitaphs Distichs c. Simon Lemnius a German who besides his Translations of Dionysius Aser and Homer's Odysses into Latin Verse hath left from the product of his own Genius Episodes upon Joachimus Marquese of Brandenburgh and his Lady 5 Bucolic Eglogues and 4 Books of Ethics in Verse He died at Chur in Switzerland of the Pestilence anno 1550. Simon Ogerius a Writer of Silvae and other Latin Poems
with reputation inferior to few of the Modern Latin Poets Simon Sinapius Pastor of the Church of Lubin in Lnsatia who wrote a Poem of Christ's Passion distributed into hours Simon Valambertus a Writer of Epigrams and other Poems which were printed at Lyons by Paganus at Paris by Wechelus Speron Sperone see Ottavio Rinuccini Saint Amant one of the Chief in repute of French Poets out of whom several things being render'd English by a Person of our Nation no less considerable for Poetry then the other have for certain lost no advantage Stanislaus Niger a Polonian whose Encomium of the Poets in Elegiac Verse was printed at Leipsich on 1538. Stephanus Paschasius a French Writer among whose other Works are his Icones Epigrams and Epitaphs He was Flourishing in the year of our Lord 1546 and stands in Ludovicus Jacobus his Book De Claris Scriptoribus Cabilionensibus with a high Character for universal Learning and Eloquence Sylvester Giraldus a Person of a Noble Family in Cambro-Britannia or Wales and therefore commonly Sirnamed Cambrensis the same House whence the Giraldines of Ireland descended as Cambden observes who citing some of his Latin verses seems to reckon him among the Poets of those former Ages he Flourishing in the Reigns of K. John K. Henry the third to the first of whom for the esteem his Learning had in those daies he was made Secretary T. THeodericus Gresemundus a Native of Spire out of whose Poem De Historia violatae Crucis printed at Strasburg by Renatus Bek several Verses are quoted by Wimphelingus in his Adolescentia Theodorus Beza a Famous French Theologist and a great Champion of the Reformed Religion as he was a Person generally learned so particularly he was not a stranger to Poetry having with good success written Epigrams and other Latin Poems which were printed at Paris besides a Tragedy entitled Sacrificium Abrahae printed at Lyons he was Flourishing at Lausanna beyond the year 1555. Theodorus Geza a celebrated Writer of Thessalonica particularly a great Master in the Latin Greec Tongues and not the least to be esteem'd among the rest of his Works for his Book of Latin Epigrams upon the most remarkable passages of Sacred Scripture He deceas't in the year of our Lord 1478. Theodorus Reysman a German taken notice of for his Congratulatory upon the Arrival of the Emperor Charles the Fifth into Germany Theophile a late Writer of French Poems which have obtain'd a general fame and esteem Theophilus Folengus a Mantuan both Philosopher and Poet of very high repute Th. Campion a Writer of no extraordinary same but who hath the honour to be nam'd by Cambden with Spencer Sidny Drayton and other the Chief of our English Poets Thomas Carew one of the Gentlemen of the Bed-Chamber to his late Majesty K. Charles the First he was reckon'd among the Chiefest of his time for delicacy of wit and Poetic Fancy by the strength of which his extant Poems still maintain their fame amidst the Curious of the present Age. Thomas Churchyard see William Warner Thomas Collins his Tears of Love or Cupid's Progress publisht anno 1615 since the materials of it have been preserv'd from the injury of time by being bound up with other small Poetical Pieces much of the same Stamp and standing it will seem but an accident of good fortune if the Name also be preserv'd Thomas Craigius one of the Muster Roll of Scotch Latin Poets whose works are collected in a Book call'd Deliciae Poetarum Scotorum Thomas Deckar a High flier in wit even against Ben. Johnson himself in his Comedy call'd The Vntrussing of the humorous Poet besides which he wrote many others as The Wonder of a Kingdom the Honest Whore in 2 parts Fortunatus the Whore of Babylon If this ben't a good Play the Devils in 't See also John Webster Thomas Dempsterus an ample Commentator upon the Grammarian Corippus his Poem in praise of Justin the Second himself also a Latin Vesifier among the Scotch Poets in the above mentioned Collection S r Thomas Eliot a Person of note in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth and of whose Writing there is a learned Treatise of Government which hath been in principal esteem moreover what he hath writ in Poetry is also mention'd with singular commendation Th. Flatman a Gentleman once of the Middle-Temple equally ingenuous in the two noble Faculties of Painting and Poetry as by the several choice Pieces that have been seen of his Pourtraying and Limning by his Book of Poems very lately come forth may appear Thomas Goff the Author of the Courageous Turk Selimus Orestes Tragedies The Careless Sheapherdess a Tragi-Comedy and Cupid's Whirligig a Comedy Thomas Heywood a great Benefactor no doubt to the Red bull and the other common Theaters that flourisht in those times with many but vulgar Comedies as the Brasen Age the Engâ—ish Travellers the first and second part of Edward the Fourth Fortune by Land and Sea the 4 London Prentices the Fair Maid of the West first and second part the Golden Age the Wise Woman of Hogsden The Iron Age in 2 parts the Royal King and Loyal Subject c. Thomas Hobbs of Malmsbury a Person of the more consideration for what he hath either judged or writ in Poetry by how much the more his writings in Prose have made work for so many Opposers his Latin Poem De Mirabilibus Pexi want not commendation and he seems to have wisely consulted for his quiet at last after having travail'd through so many Volumes of profounder Argument in giving himself a vacancy to the Muse especially where Invention is no otherwise exercised then in rendring the Inventions of others which he doubts not to have done more truly then any of those that went before him in the same subject from his Preface to which work I should choose rather to collect his judgment of Poetry then from his Preface to Davenants Gondibert where no wonder if Complement and Friendly Complyance doe a little bias and oversway judgment Thomas Kid a writer that seems to have been of pretty good esteem for Versifying in former times being quoted among some of the more fam'd Poets as Spencer Drayton Daniel Lodge c. with whom he was either Contemporary or not much later there is particularly remember'd his Tragedy Cornelia Thomas Killigrow one of the Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber to his present Majesty and besides the general esteem of his Lepid Vein of wit in conversation the Author of divers Comedies Tragedies and Tragi-Comedies publisht together in a Volume and therefore not needing to be particularis'd Thomas Linacer an Eminent Grammarian who Flourisht in the Reign of K. Henry the 8 th and who Verfifying on several subjects had the repute also in those daies of no mean Poet. Thomas Lodge a Doctor of Physic who Flourisht in Qu. Elizabeth's Reign and was one of the writers of those pretty old Pastoral Songs and Madrigals which were very much the strain of those
Rome no doubt already mention'd but some Poetical Writer of what time or place is uncertain whose Name we find to a Tetrastich Epigram in Gillius his Parisian Collection entitl'd Epigrammata Poematia vetera Cajus Caecilius Plinius Secundus hath a Tetrastich Epigram upon Cupid and Bacchus in Nicolaus Gillius his Parisian sian Collection of Epigrams and old Poems who if he be the same with that Cajus Plinius of Novocomo who was the Son of Plinius Secundus of Verona he hath from Brietius the esteem of a most excellent Poet for only a Fragment of one Verse which he quotes of him viz. Lasciva est nobis pagina Vita proba besides that he was the Author of that so much commended Panegyric to Trajan Caius Cassius a Parmensian of the number of the Antients but of what time is uncertain whose name we find to a Description of Orpheus in Verse in Nicolaus Gillius his Parisian Collection of Epigrams and old Poems Cajus Julius Solinus Poly histor a Grammarian and Naturalist of sufficient note though of what time is not determined farther then that he lived beneath Alexander Severus even by Salmacius himself that voluminous Exercitator upon his Plinian Epitome besides which and other things in Prose he is concluded the Author of a Poem entitled Pontica Cajus Licinius Calvus his Verses upon Cneus Pompeius and several of the Caesars are extant in Gillius his Epigrammata Poematia vetera printed at Paris an 1580. Cajus Silius Italicus see Silius in Petronius Arbiter in the foregoing Treatise Cajus Sulpitius Apollinaris a Grammarian of Carthage who Flourisht in the Reigns of the Antonini and was Praeceptor to Helvius Pertinax who before he attain'd the Empire over Men succeded him in his Empire over Boys in his Grammar School this Sulpitius is mention'd by Julius Capitolinus and Aulus Gollius with the Character of the Learnedest Man of his time and that little touch we have of Poetry in his Verses upon Virgil's Aeneis gives the greater sense of the loss of the rest Callimachus besides his extant works already mention'd is said by Suidas to have written many other Poems and among the rest one entitled Ibis an obscure Poem and full of Satyr against Apollonius the Author of the Argonautics Moreover there is mentioned another Poem of his entitled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the Scholiast of Homer Priscian others besides which others mention a Poem of his named Hecale Cneus Naevius the most Antient of Latin Comic Writers after Livius Andronicus he was Contemporary wiâ—h Scipio Africanus and died at Vtica in the 144 th Olympiad being banisht out of Rome by the Metelli See Naevius in the foregoing Treatise St Columbanus an Englishman Abbot of Luxovia Bobia besides his several writings in Prose there is extant a parcel of his Poetry set forth by Jacobus Sirmondus he was the Master of St. Gallus and died about an D. 514. Corippus an African both Grammarian and Poet who flourishing in the Reign of Justinus the Second sung his praises in 4 Books which he dedicated to the Quaestor Anastatius besides which Poem which hath been set forth by Thomas Dempsterus the Scotchman with laborious and prolix notes much above what he deserves in the opinion of many he is said to have written many other things in Poetry which have perisht among the rest a Poem in praise of the Great Captain Belisarius E. Epictetus not the Author doubtless of the Greec Enchiridion his name is to two Distichs in Gillius his Parisian Collection of Epigrams and old Poems Epigenes a Sicyonian by some affirmed the first Inventor of Tragedy Eugenius otherwise Evantius Secundus or Junior an Eminent Arch-Bishop of Toledo which seat he held from the year 647 to 657 in the Reign of Receswinthus a Gothish King of Italy some things of his in Verse are set forth by Jacobus Sirmondus together with Dracontius whose Verses he corrected Euphorbius one of those Sirnamed Sholastici or Grammatici of whom see more in Julianus in the foregoing Treatise Euphorbus Caelius Firmianus Symphosius mentioned in the foregoing Treatise by the name of Symphonius only a Poetical writer of an uncertain Age of whom there are extant Hendecasyllables De Livore by some attributed to Ausonius Choriambics De Fortuna and several Aenigmatical Questions Eurialus Moranius a Poetical writer of Asculum of an uncertain time and of whom no other account can be given but that his name is to 4 or 5 pleasant and not unelegant Epigrams in Gillius his Parisian Collection of Epigrams and old Poems Eusebius Sirnamed Scholasticus a Greec the Author of a Poem entitled Gainia or of the War against Gaina the Gothish King in four Books in Heroic Verse there is also under the name of Eusebius but whether the same may be disputed for there are several more of the same name in the Parisian Collection of Epigrams and Poematia vetera a Decastich entitled Tumulus Veneris Eusthemius one of the foremention'd 12 Scholastici of whom see in Julianus in the foregoing Treatise F. Felix a Benedictin Monk of Crowland whose Pathetical Description of the bugs of Crowland in Latin Verse is quoted by the Learned Cambden Floridus a Mimic writer of an uncertain Age out of whose Fables there are only extant two Sentences but those so acute so much to the purpose that they excite in the Learned and Curious the greater desire of all the rest of him G. Getulicus an old Historian cited by Suetonius but of whom there are also several Verses to be found in Probus the Grammarian his Commentary upon Virgil's Georgiâ—s also a Testrastich and Hexastich in the third Book of the Gr. Anthology and Decastich in the 6 th Glaucus an Athenian whose name is to several Epigrams in the first third and fourth Books of the Greec Anthology H. Hercius named to an Hexastich in the Greec Florilegium Herondas a Comic Poet out of whose Fable Synergazomeni a Senary is cited by Athenaeus L. Leo an Antient Grammarian certain Greec Verses of whose writing were seen in Manuscript by Conradus Gesnerus but the Pentastich in the Greec Florilegium owns rather another Leo viz. that Noble Greec Emperor Leo the Sixth who whether a Poet or not is certainly fam'd for a Philosopher Lucilius not the Latin Satyrist a Greec Epigrammatic Poet whose name hath a large jurisdiction in the Greec Florilegium Lucius Annaeus Florus the Good Fellow who plaid so wittily and freely upon the Emperor Hadrian in that vulgarly known Epigram Ego nolo Caesar esse c. which was as smartly answered by the Emperor besides which and another neat one upon the growth of of Roses several Fragments of him are collected by Salmasius he may upon account of name be without difficulty mistaken for Lucius Julius Florus the Epimator of the Roman History who in some Editions is styl'd Lucius Annaeus Seneca Florus as on the other side this Poet is written in Gillius his Collection Julius Florus but
other things in Verse Henry of Winchester an old Latin Versifier quoted by Cambden among the English Poetical Writers of former Ages Hermannus Blasius wrote a Latin Poem Arethusa Hercole Bentivoglio a noted Person among the Italian Writers of Sonnets and other Lyric Poetry Hildebert Bishop of Main and afterwards Arch-Bishop of Tours a borderer between the Antients Moderns for he flourisht about the year of our Lord 1090 his Exposition upâ— the Office of the Masse in Latin Verse is by some commended for Elegancy of style he wrote also Hymns and Orations in several sort of Verse and is thought to be that old Epigrammatist as Cambden calls him out of whom he cites a parcel of Latin Verses in praise of England Hugh Holland a Poetical Writer thought worthy by some to be mentioned with Spencer Sidny and other the Chief of English Poets with whom nevertheless he must needs be confess 't inferior both in Poetic â—ame ad Merit Hugh Arch-Deacon of York one whom I find mentioned among the Old English Versifiers and the rather to be taken notice of for Antiquities sake I. Jacobus Gaddius an Italian noted for what he writ as well in Latin as Vernacular Poetry Jacobus Sluperius a Flandrian of the Town of Hersel whose Varia are publisht with the collected works of other Belgic Writers of Latin Poetry D r James Duport Master of Magdalen Colledge in Cambridge in which University he was for many years most worthily in respect of his exquisite perfection therein Professor of the Greec Tongue and for Greec Verse how not inferior to the Chief of the Moderns his so well esteemed Metaphrases of Davids's Psalms Job Ecclesiastes and the Canticles sufficiently testifie Joannes Callius a Latin Hymnographer of Erford Joannes Sirnamed from his Order Canonicus an Englishman the Author among other works of a Book of Latin Poems as Balaeus testifies in the Reign of K. Henry the Third Joannes Garisolius a late German Writer of a well approved style in Latin Poetry Joannes Peckam a Franciscan in the Reign of King Edw. the First among whose many other works Balaeus makes mention of his Carmina diversa Sir John Harrington no less noted for his Book of Witty Epigrams then his judicious Translation of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso John Heywood an old fashioned Dramatic writer as appears by the title of his Interludes viz. The Play of Love the Play of the Weather the Play between Johan and his Wife and the Play between the Pardoner and the Fryar the Curate and his Neighbour the Play of Gentleness and Nobility in two parts besides two Comedies the Pinner of Wakefeild and Philotas Scotch There was of this Name in King Henry the Eighth's Reign an Epigrammatist who saith the Author of the Art of English Poetry for the mirth quickness of his conceits more than any good Learning was in him came to be well benefited by the King John Lacy one of the best and most applauded of our English Actors in this present Age but whose wit not wholly confin'd to Action hath also produc't two ingenuous Comical Pâ—eces viz. Monsieur Ragou and the Dumb Lady John Markham see Edw. Dier John de Mehunes a French Poet out of whom Chaucer is said to have borrowed his Troilus and Cressida and some other of his Poems John Skelton the Poet Laureat mentioned in the foregoing Treatise of the Moderns lived in the time of King Henry the Eighth and for his Satyrical Invectives against Cardinal Woolsy was forc't to fly to Sanctuary at Westminster where in a years time he died either of grief or ill usage John Weever see Edw. Dier M. Marco Antonio Giraldi Marco Bartolomeo Gottifredi Marco Lamberti Marco Paulo Antonio Ciocca a Quaternion of Italian Sonnetiers Marco Girolamo Fracastorio was eâ—ually happy in Vernacular and Latin Poetry See Hieronymus Fracastorius in the foregoing Treatise of the Moderns Monsieur Moliere the pleasantest of French Comedians for smart Comic wit and Mirth and to whom our English Stage hath within a few years been not a little beholding N. Nicholas Lord Vaux a Poetical Writer among the Nobility in the Reign of King Henry the Eighth whose Commendation saith the Author of the Art of English Poesy lyeth chiefly in the facility of his Meeter and the aptness of his Descriptions such as he takes upon him to make namely in sundry of his Songs wherein he sheweth the conunterfeit action very lively and pleasantly Nicolaus Stopius a Fleming of the town of Alost whos 's Varia are publisht with the selected works of other Noted Belgic Writers in Latin Poetry P. Paganus Piscator vulgarly Fisher a Notable undertaker in Latin Verse by his Marston Moor other Latin Pieces besides English ones not a few which however meriting that we shall not stand now to examin he must not be forgotten that was retained Poet Laureat to so Notorious a Man as Oliver Cromwell to whom being usurper if his Muse did homage it must be considered that Poets in all times have been inclinable to ingratiate themselves with the highest in power by what title soever Petronio Barbati da Poligno a Sonnet writer among many others of the Italian Lyrics neither of the brightest nor obscurest fame R. Richard Barnfeild one of the same Rank in Poetry with Doctor Lodge Robert Green Nicholas Breton and other Contemporaries already mention'd in the foregoing Treatise of the Moderns Robertus Baston a Carmelite of a Noble Family in Yorkshire who had so great a fame in Poetry that K. Edw. the First in his Scotish Expedition pitcht upon him to be the Celebrator of his Heroic Acts when being taken prisoner by the Scots he was forc't by torments to change his Note and represent all things to the advantage of Robert Bruce who then laid claim to the Kingdom of Scotland Besides his Poem De Bello Strivilensi there were publisht of his writing a book of Tragedies with other Poems of various subject T. Theophilus Hogersius a Latin Versifier among the Chief of Scotland for Latin Poetry Thomas Achelly see Edw. Dier Thomas Lord Buckhurst in King Henry the Eighth's time is esteem'd by the Author of the Art of English Poetry equal with Edward Ferris another Tragic writer already mentioned of both whom he saith For such doings as I have seen of theirs they deserve the price Thomas Charnock his Breviary of Natural Philosophy in English Verse is publisht together with Tho. Nortons's Ordinal of Alchimy John Dastins's dream Bloomfeild's Blossoms Abraham Andrew ' s Hunting of the green Lyon G. Reply ' s Compound of A'chymy and other collected works of the choicest of our old Poetisers in the Mysteries of Chymical Philosophy by my honoured Freind Mr Ashmole a Learned and most industrious Inquirer into all the Curiosities of Antiquity in his Book entitled Theatrum Chymicum Britannicum Thomas Ocleave a very famous English Poet in his time which was the Reign of King Henry the Fourth and Henry the Fifth to which last he Dedicated
his Government of a Prince the chiefly remember'd of what he writ in Poetry and so much the more famous he is by being remember'd to have been the Disciple of the most fam'd Chaucer W. Sir Walter Raleigh a Person both sufficiently known in History and by his History of the World and seems also by the Character given him by the forementioned Author of the Art of English Poetry to have express't himself more a Poet then the little we have extant of his Poetry seems to import For ditty and Amorous Ode saith he I find Sir Walter Raleigh's Vein most lofty insolent and passionate William Herbert Earl of Pembroke Lord Steward of the Houshold to his late Majesty King Charles the First not only a great favourer of Learned and Ingenious Men but also of a Poetical Genious himself as he discovers by those Amorous not unelegant Airs which having been many years known by the Musical numbers of H. Laws and N. Laneer were publisht under his Name in the year 1660 and that as a great testimony of his Genuine title to them with the both approbation and desire of Caeciliana Counâ—ess Dowager of Devonshire as Doctor Donne takes notice in an Epistle to her before these Poems to many of which also are printed the answers of Sir Benjamin Ruddyer by way of Repartee William Leighton Dedicated to King James a Poetical Peice entitled Vertue Triumphant or Lively Description of the four Vertues Cardinal which came forth an 1603. William Wicherly a Gentleman of the Inner Temple the Author of two witty Comedies Love in a Wood and the Gentleman Dancing Master WOMEN Among THE ANTIENTS Eminent for Poetry A. ANYLE an Epigrammatic Poetess whose name is to 17 Greec Epigrams in Planudes his Florilegium her Verses of Birds are said to be yet extant Aspasia a Noble Milesian Dame said to have been the Mistress that is the Instructress of Pericles the Great Athenian Philosopher and Orator for she was a Person of high and general Repute for her Wisedom and Learning but most particularly recommended to Posterity for what she hath written in Poetry several of her Verses being remember'd by Athenaeus Astyanassa one of the Maids of Honour to that Helena whose Beauty set Troy on fire whom yet surpassing in the theory of active love she impudently committed by writing to the public view and as 't is suppos'd in Verse the Descriptions of more Spintrian pranks and Gambols then perhaps her Mistress ever practis'd or understood and which seem to have been a Pattern of those lew'd inventions which the witty ribauld Aretine in after Ages broch't for the use of the Sons of Priapus nor were there wanting in those times apt Schollars to such a Mistress who prosecuted and enlarged upon the subject she had begun Philenis a strumpet of Leucadia as unchast saith a late Author in her Verses as her life and Elephantis whose Molles Libelli are mentioned by Martial as she herself by Plinie Tatianus Suidas and others Athenais the Daughter of Leontius an Athenian Sophist her self also a Woman of that Wisdom and Ingenuity as well natural as acquired by learning that she was thought worthy to be chosen for a Wife by the greatest Prince of the World the Emperor Theodosius the Second B. Bocho a poor Woman of Delphos who pronouncing the Delphic Oracles must needs be inspired with a Poetic Spirit besides which she is said to have composed divers Hymns C. Carmenta see Nicostrata Cassandra the Daughter of Priamus King of Troy a great Prophetess and as some think and that probably by vertue of the same inspiration Poetess also Charixena a very Learned Grecian Lady who besides what she wrote in Prose is said to have written many things in Verse and particularly a Poem entitled Crumata she is mentioned by Aristophanes Claudia Ruâ—ina a Noble British Lady the Wife of Aulus Rufus Pudens a Bononian Philosopher and of the Roman Equestrian Order he is delivered to have been a great Associate with the Poet Martial whom his advice prevail'd with to alter many of his Verses and who in many places extols this Lady to the skies for her Beauty Learning and transcendent Vertues of her Poetic writings there are remember'd by Balaeus her Book of Epigrams Elegy upon her Husband's death and other Verses of various kind and subject besides which she is said to have wrought many things both in Prose and Verse Cleobule or Cleobuline the Daughter of Cleobulus Prince of Lindus she is particularly noted for her faculty in Aenigmatical Sentences or Riddles which she uttered or composed for the most part in Greec Verse Corinna a Theban Poetess who wrote 5 Books of Epigrams and is said to have been 5 times Victress over Pindarus she was the Daughter of Archelodorus and Procratia and the Disciple of Myrthis and is mentioned by Propertius lib. 2. Besides her there were two others of the same Name both fam'd for Poetry also namely Corinna the Thespian much extoll'ed by Antient writers especially by Statius and Corinna the Roman Lady who flourishing in the time of Augustus is highly celebrated by Ovid who had a particucular friendship and admiration for her Cornificia a Roman Epigrammatic Poetesse Sister to Cornificius D. Damophila the Cousen-German Associate and Emâ—latrix of Sappho and Wife of Damophilus the Philosopher she is said to have writ a Poem of Diana besides other Poems of an Amoumorous subject and is mentioned by Theophilus in his Life of Apollonius Thyaneus Debora a great Prophess in Israel of whom such was her repute at that time that though a Wife viz. of Lapidoth she was Judge or Supream Governess her divine Hymn or Song upon the Deliverance of the Israelites from Jabin K. of the Gananites shews her to have been divinly inspir'd with a Poetic no less then Prophetic Spirit E. Erinna a Poetess of Teos who is said to have writ a Poem in the Doric Dialect consisting of 300 Verses besides Epigrams though deceasing in the 19 th year of her age which was under the Reign of Dion Tyrant of Syracuse Eucheria an unknown Poetess except by a Fragment of 32 Latin Verses in Gillius his forementioned Collection of Epigrams and old Poems Eâ—docia see Athenais H. Hannah the Wife of Elkanah and Mother of the great Jewish Prophet Samuel for the joy of whose Birth her divine Muse brake forth into a Hymn of thanksgiving Hedyle a Samian or as some say Athenian Poetess of whom there are remember'd two Poems her Scylla our of which Athenaeus quotes several Verses and the Loves of Glaucus which gift of Poetry as she seems to have receiv'd from a Poetess her Mother viz. Mâ—schine noted for Iambic Poetry so to have bequeathed to a Poet her Son no less famous for Epigram Helena Flavia the Daughter of Coil King of Brittain and by him the Mother of the Emperor Constantine the Great among the rest of her works mentioned by Balaeus is her Book of Greec Verses she is said to have been