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A66698	The lives of the most famous English poets, or, The honour of Parnassus in a brief essay of the works and writings of above two hundred of them, from the time of K. William the Conqueror to the reign of His present Majesty, King James II / written by William Winstanley, author of The English worthies ...	Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.	1687 (1687)	Wing W3065; ESTC R363	103,021	246

the ground Then here it is where nought but Joy is found That the City of Florence was the ancient Seat of her Family he himself intimates in one of his Sonnets thus From Tuscan came my Ladies worthy Race Fair Florence was sometimes her ancient Seat The Western Isle whose pleasant Shoar doth face Whilst Camber's Cliffs did give her lively heat In the Duke of Florence's Court he published a proud Challenge against all Comers whether Christians Turks Canibals Jews or Saracens in defence of his Geraldines Beauty This Challenge was the more mildly accepted in regard she whom he defended was a Town-born Child of that City or else the Pride of the Italian would have prevented him ere he should have come to perform it The Duke of Florence nevertheless sent for him and demanded him of his Estate and the reason that drew him thereto which when he was advertiz'd of to the full he granteth all Countries whatsoever as well Enemies and Outlaws as Friends and Confederates free access and regress into his Dominions immolested until the Trial were ended This Challenge as he manfully undertook so he as valiantly performed as Mr. Drayton describes it in his Letter to the Lady Geraldine The shiver'd Staves here for thy Beauty broke With fierce encounters past at every shock When stormy Courses answerd Cuff for Cuff Denting proud Beavers with the Counter-buff Which when each manly valiant Arm essays After so many brave triumphant days The glorious Prize upon my Lance I bare By Herald's Voyce proclaim'd to be thy share The Duke of Florence for his approved Valour offered him large Proffers to stay with him which he refused intending as he had done in Florence to proceed through all the chief Cities in Italy but this his Purpose was frustrated by Letters sent to him from his Master King Henry the 8th which commanded him to return as speedily as possibly he could into England Our famous English Antiquary John Leland speaking much in the praise of Sir Thomas Wiat the Elder as well for his Learning as other excellent Qualities meet for a man of his Calling calls this Earl the conscript enrolled Heir of the said Sir Thomas Wiat writing to him in these words Accipe Regnorum Comes illustrissime Carmen Quo mea Musa tuum landavit moesta Viallum And again in another place Perge Houerde tuum virtute referre Viallum Dicerisque tuae clarissima Gloria stirpis A certain Treatise called The Art of English Poetry alledges That Sir Thomas Wiat the Elder and Henry Earl of Surrey 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 I shall only add an Epitaph made by this Noble Earl on Sir Anthony Denny Knight a Gentleman whom King Henry the 8th greatly affected and then come to speak of his Death Death and the King did as it were contend Which of them two bare Denny greatest Love The King to shew his Love gan far extend Did him advance his Betters far above Near Place much Wealth great Honour eke him gave To make it known what Power great Princes have But when Death came with his triumphant Gift From worldly Cark he quit his wearied Ghost Free from the Corps and streight to Heaven it lift Now deem that can who did for Denny most The King gave Wealth but fading and unsure Death brought him Bliss that ever shall endure But to return this Earl had together with his Learning Wisdom Fortitude Munificence and Affability yet all these good and excellent parts were no protection against the King's Displeasure for upon the 12 th of December the last of King Henry the 8th he with his Father Thomas Duke of Norfolk upon certain surmises of Treason were committed to the Tower of London the one by Water the other by Land so that the one knew not of the others Apprehension The 15th day of January next following he was arraigned at Guildhall London where the greatest matter alledged against him was for bearing certain Arms that were said belonged to the King and Prince the bearing whereof he justified To be short for so they were with him he was found guilty by twelve common Juriars had Judgment of Death and upon the 19th day of the said Month nine days before the Death of the said King Henry was beheaded at Tower-Hill He was at first interred in the Chappel of the Tower and afterwards in the Reign of King James his Remainders of Ashes and Bones were removed to Framingham in Suffolk by his second Son Henry Earl of Northampton where in the Church they were interred with this Epitaph Henrico Howardo Thomae Secundi Ducis Norfolciae filio primogenito Thomae tertij Patri Comiti Surriae Georgiam Ordinis Equiti Aurato immature Anno Salutis 1546. abrepto Et Francisae Vxori ejus filiae Johannis Comitis Oxoniae Henricus Howardus Comes Northhamptoniae filius secundo genitus hoc supremum Pietatis in Parentes Monumentum posuit A. D. 1614. Sir THOMAS WIAT the Elder THis worthy Knight is termed by the Name of the Elder to distinguish him from Sir Thomas Wiat the raiser of the Rebellion in the time of Queen Mary and was born at Allington Castle in the County of Kent which afterwards he repaired with most beautiful Buildings He was a Person of great esteem and reputation in the Reign of King Henry the 8th with whom for his honesty and singular parts he was in high favour Which nevertheless he had like to have lost about the Business of Queen Anne Bullein but by his Innocency Industry and Prudence he extricated himself He was one of admirable ingenuity and truly answer'd his Anagram Wiat a Wit the judicious Mr. Cambden saith he was Eques Auratus splendide doctus And though he be not taken notice of by Bale nor Pits yet for his admirable Translation of David's Psalms into English Meeter and other Poetical Writings Leland forbears not to compare him to Dante and Petrarch by giving him this large commendation Bella suum merito jactet Florentia Dantem Regia Petrarchae carmina Roma probat His non inferior Patrio Sermone Viattus Eloquii secum qui decus omne tulit Let Florence fair her Dante 's justly boast And royal Rome her Petrarchs number'd feet In English Wiat both of them doth coast In whom all graceful eloquence doth meet The renowned Earl of Surrey in an Encomium upon his Translation of David's Psalms thus writes of him What holy Grave what worthy Sepulcher To Wiat's Psalms shall Christians purchase then And afterward upon his death the said Earl writeth thus What Vertues rare were temper'd in thy brest Honour that England such a Jewel bred And kiss the ground whereas thy Corps did rest c. This worthy

make a man to rout Take a Pillow that ye lye not low If nede be spare not to blow To hold wind by mine opinion Will engender colles passion And make men to greven on her rops When they have filled her maws and her crops But toward night eate some Fennell rede Annis Commin or Coriander-seed And like as I have power and might I charge you rise not at midnight Though it be so the Moon shine clere I will my self be your Orlogere To morrow early when I see my time For we will forth parcel afore prime Accompanie parde shall do you good But I have digressed too far To return therefore unto Lydgate Scripsit partim Anglice partim Latine partim Prosa partim Versu Libros numero plures eruditione politissimos He writ saith my Author partly English partly Latine partly in Prose and partly in Verse many exquisite learned Books saith Pitseus which are mentioned by him and Bale as also in the latter end of Chaucer's Works he last Edition amongst which are Eglogues Odes Satyrs and other Poems He flourished in the Reign of Henry the Sixth and departed this world aged about 60 years circiter An. 1440. and was buried in his own Convent at Bury with this Epitaph Mortuus saeclo superis Superstes Hic jacet Lydgate tumulaetus Vrna Qui fuit quondam celebris Britannae Fama Poesis Dead in this World living above the Sky Intomb'd within this Urn doth Lydgate lie In former time fam'd for his Poetry All over England JOHN HARDING JOhn Harding our Famous English Chronologer was born saith Bale in the Northern parts and most likely in Yorkshire being an Esquire of an eminent Parentage He was a man equally addicted to Arms and Arts spending his Youth in the one and his Age in the other His first Military Employment was under Robert Vmfreuil Governor of Roxborough-Castle where he did good Service against the Scots Afterwards he followed the Standard of King Edward the Fourth to whom he valiantly and faithfully adhered not only in the Sun-shine of his Prosperity but also in his deepest Distress But what endeared him the most to his Favour and was indeed the Masterpiece of his Service was his adventuring into Scotland a desperate Attempt and performed not without the manifest hazarding of his Life where he so cunningly demeaned himself and insinuated himself so far into their Favour as he got a sight of their Records and Original Letters a Copy of which he brought with him to England and presented the same to King Edward the Fourth Out of these he collected a History of the several Submissions and sacred Oaths of Fealty openly taken from the time of King Athelstane by the Kings of Scotland to the Kings of England for the Crown of Scotland a Work which was afterwards made much use of by the English although the Scotch Historians stickle with might and main that such Homage was performed only for the County of Cumberland and some parcel of Land their Kings had in England South of Tweed Now as his Prose was very useful so was his Poetry as much delightful writing a Chronicle of our English Kings from Brute to King Edward the Fourth and that in English Verse for which he was accounted one of the chiefest Poets of his time being so exactly done that by it Dr. Fuller adjudges him to have drunk as deep a draught of Helicon as any in his Age And another saying that by the same he deservedly claimed a Seat amongst the chiefest of the Poetical Writers But to give you the better view of his Poetical Abilities I shall present you with some of his Chronicle-Verse concerning the sumptuous Houshold kept by King Richard the Second cap. 193. Truly I herd Robert Ireleffe say Clarke of the Green-cloth and that to the Houshold Came euery daye forth most part alway Ten thousand folke by his Messes told That followed the hous aye as thei wold And in the Kechin three hundred Seruitours And in eche Office many Occupiours And Ladies faire with their Gentleweomen Chamberers also and Lauenders Three hundred of theim were occupied then There was great pride emong the Officers And of all men far passing their compeers Of rich arraye and much more costous Then was before or sith and more precious c. This our Poet Harding was living Anno 1461. being then very aged and is judged to have survived not long after ROBERT FABIAN RObert Fabian was born and bred in London as witnesseth Bale and Pits becoming one of the Rulers thereof being chosen Sheriff Anno 1493. He spent his time which he had spare from publick Employments for the benefit of posterity writing two large Chronicles the one from Brute to the Death of King Henry the Second the other from the First of King Richard to the Death of Henry the Seventh He was saith my Author of a merry disposition and used to entertain his Guests as well with good Discourse as good Victuals He bent his Mind much to the Study of Poetry which according to those times passed for currant Take a touch of his Abilities in the Prologue to the second Volume of his Chronicle of England and France Now would I fayne In words playne Some Honour sayne And bring to mynde Of that auncient Cytye That so goodly is to se And full true ever hath be And also full kynde To Prince and Kynge That hath borne just rulynge Syn the first winnynge Of this Iland by Brute So that in great honour By passynge of many a showre It hath euer borne the flowre And laudable Brute c. These Verses were made for the Honour of London which he calleth Ryme Dogerel and at the latter end thereof excuseth himself to the Reader in these words Who so him lyketh these Versys to rede With favour I pray he will theym spell Let not the rudenes of theym hym lede For to dispraue thys Ryme Dogerell Some part of the honour it doth you tell Of this old Cytye Troynouant But not thereof the halfe dell Connyng in the Maker is so adaunt But though he had the Eloquence Of Tully and the Moralytye Of Seneck and the Influence Of the swyte sugred Armony Or that faire Ladye Caliope Yet had he not connyng perfyght This Citye to prayse in eche degre As that shulde duely aske by ryght Sir John Suckling a prime Wit of his Age in the Contest betwixt the Poets for the Lawrel maketh Apollo to adjudge it to an Alderman of London in these words He openly declar'd it was the best sign Of good store of Wit to have good store of Coyne And without a syllable more or less said He put the Lawrel on the Alderman's Head. But had the Scene of this Competition been laid a hundred and fifty years ago and the same remitted to the Umpirage of Apollo in sober sadness he would have given the Lawrel to this our Alderman He died at London Anno 1511. and was buried at St. Michael's

Cal. Feb. sepultus erat apud Fanum S. Albani cujus Animae propitietur altissimus Amen ALEXANDER ESSEBIE THis Alexander was born in Staffordshire say some in Somersetshire say others for which each County might strive as being a Jewel worth the owning being reckoned among the chief of English Poets and Orators of that Age. He in imitation of Ovid de Fastis put our Christian Festivals into Verse setting a Copy therein to Baptista Mantuan Then leaving Ovid he aspired to Virgil and wrote the History of the Bible with the Lives of some Saints in an Heroical Poem which he performed even to admiration and though he fell short in part of Virgtl's lofty style yet went he beyond himself therein He afterward became Prior of Esseby-Abbey belonging to the Augustines and flourished under King Henry the Third Anno Dom. 1220. ROBERT BASTON RObert Baston was born not far from Nottingham and bred a Carmelite Frier at Scarborough in Yorkshire He was of such great Fame in Poetry that King Edward the Second in his Scotish Expedition pitcht upon him to be the Celebrater of his Heroick Acts when being taken Prisoner by the Scots he was forced by Torments to change his Note and represent all things to the advantage of Robert bruce who then claimed the Crown of Scotland This Task he undertook full sore against his will as he thus intimates in the two first Lines In dreery Verse my Rymes I make Bewailing whilest such Theme I take Besides his Poem De Bello Strivilensi there was published of his writing a Book of Tragedies with other Poems of various Subjects HENRY BRADSHAW HEnry Bradshaw was born in the City of Chester and bred a Benedictine Monk in the Monastery of St. Werburg the Life of which Saint he wrote in Verse as also saith my Author a no bad Chronicle though following therein those Authors who think it the greatest Glory of a Nation to fetch their Original from times out of mind Take a Taste of his Poetry in what he wrote concerning the Original of the City of Chester in these words The Founder of this City as saith Polychronicon Was Leon Gawer a mighty strong Gyant Which builded Caves and Dungeons many a one No goodly Building ne proper ne pleasant But King Leir a Britain fine and valiant Was Founder of Chester by pleasant Building And was named Guer Leir by the King. These Lines considering the Age he lived in which Arnoldus Vion saith was about the Year 1346. may pass with some praise but others say he flourished a Century of years afterwards viz. 1513. which if so they are hardly to be excused Poetry being in that time much refined but whensoever he lived Bale saith he was the Diamond in the Ring Pro ea ipsa aetate admodum pius HAMILLAN SHould we forget the learned Hamillan our Book would be thought to be imperfect so terse and fluent was His Verse of which we shall give you two Examples the one out of Mr. John Speed his Description of Devonshire speaking of the arrival of Brute The God's did guide his Sail and Course the Winds were at command And Totness was the happy shore where first he came on land The other out of Mr. Weever his Funeral Monuments in the Parish of St. Aldermanbury in London speaking of Cornwal There Gyants whilome dwelt whose Clothes were skins of Beasts Whose Drink was Blood Whose Cups to serve for use at Feasts Were made of hollow Wood Whose Beds were bushy Thorns And Lodgings rocky Caves to shelter them from Storms Their Chambers craggy Rocks their Hunting found them Meat To vanquish and to kill to them was pleasure great Their violence was rule with rage and fury led They rusht into the fight and fought hand over head Their Bodies were interr'd behind some bush or brake To bear such monstrous Wights the earth did grone and quake These pestred most the Western Tract more fear made these agast O Conwall utmost door that art to let in Zephyrus blast JOHN GOWER JOhn Gower whom some make to be a Knight though Stow in his Survey of London unknighteth him and saith he was only an Esquire however he was born of a knightly Family at Stitenham in the North-Riding in Bulmore-Wapentake in Yorkshire He was bred in London a Student of the Laws but having a plentiful Estate and prizing his pleasure above his profit he quitted Pleading to follow Poetry being the first renner of our English Tongue effecting mich but endeavouring more therein as you may perceive by the difference of his Language with that of Robert of Glocester who lived in the time of King Richard the First which notwithstanding was accounted very good in those days This our Gower was contemporary with the famous Poet Geoffry Chaucer both excellently learned both great friends together and both alike endeavour'd themselves and employed their time for the benefit of their Country And what an account Chaucer had of this our Gower and of his Parts that which he wrote in the end of his Work entituled Troilus Cressida do sufficiently testifie where he saith O marvel Gower this Book I direct To thee and to the Philosophical Strode To vouchsafe there need is to correct Of your benignitees and zeles good Bale makes him Equitem Auratum Poetam Laureatum proving both from his Ornaments on his Monumental Statue in St. Mary Overies Southwark Yet he appeareth there neither laureated nor hederated Poet except the leaves of the Bays and Ivy be wither'd to nothing since the erection of the Tomb but only rosated having a Chaplet of four Roses about his Head yet was he in great respect both with King Henry the Fourth and King Richard the Second at whose request the wrote his Book called Confessio Amantis as he relateth in his Prologue to the same Book in these words As it befell upon a tide As thing which should tho betide Vnder the town of New Troie Which toke of Brute his first ioye In Themese when it was flowende As I by Bote came rowende So as fortune hir tyme sette My leige Lord perchance I mette And so befelle as I cam nigh Out of my Bote when he me sigh He had me come into his Barge And when I was with him at large Amonges other things seyde He hath this charge upon me leyde And bbad me doe my businesse That to his high worthinesse Some newe thynge I should boke That he hymselfe it might loke After the forme of my writynge And this upon his commandynge Myne herte is well the more glad To write so as he we bad And eke my fear is well the lasse That none enuie shall compasse Without a reasonable wite To feige and blame that I write A gentill hert his tongue stilleth That it malice none distilleth But preiseth that is to be preised But he that hath his word unpeised And handleth with ronge any thynge I praie unto the heuen kynge Froe such tonges he me shilde And