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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

things worthy reading and didst do Things worthy writing too Thy Arts thy Valour show And by thy Works we do thy Learning know I shall conclude all with these excellent Verses made by himself a little before his Death It is not I that die I do but leave an Inn Where harbour'd was with me all filthy Sin It is not I that die I do but now begin Into eternal Joy by Faith to enter in Why mourn you then my Parents Friends and Kin Lament you when I lose not when I win Sir FVLK GREVIL NExt to Sir Philip Sidney we shall add his great Friend and Associate Sir Fulk Grevil Lord Brook one very eminent both for Arts and Arms to which the genius of that time did mightily invite active Spirits This Noble Person for the great love he bore to Sir Philip sidney wrote his Life He wrote several other Works both in Prose and Verse some of which were Dramatick as his Tragedies of Alaham Mustapha and Marcus Tullius Cicero and others commonly of a Political Subject amongst which a Posthume Work not publish'd till within a few years being a two fold Treatise the first of Monarchy the second of Religion in all which is observable a close mysterious and sententious way of Writing without much regard to Elegancy of Stile or smoothness of Verse Another Posthume Book is also fathered upon him namely The Five Years of King James or the Condition of the State of England and the Relation it had to other Provinces Printed in the Year 1643. But of this last Work many people are doubtful Now for his Abilities in the Exercise of Arms take this instance At such time when the French Ambassadours came over into England to Negotiate a Marriage between the Duke of Anjou and Queen Elizabeth for their better entertainment Solemn Justs were proclaimed where the Earl of Arundel Frederick Lord Windsor Sir Philip Sidney and he were chief Challengers against all comers in which Challenge be behaved himself so gallantly that he won the reputation of a most valiant Knight Thus you see that though Ease be the Nurse of Poesie the Muses are also Companions to Mars as may be exemplified in the Lives of the Earl of Surrey Sir Philip Sidney and this Sir Fulk Grevil I shall only add a word or two of his death which was as sad as lamentable He kept a discontented servant who conceiving his deserts not soon or well enough rewarded wounded him mortally and then to save the Law a labour killed himself Verifying therein the observation That there is none who never so much despiseth his own life but yet is master of another mans This ingenious Gentleman in whose person shined all true Vertue and high Nobility as he was a great friend to learning himself so was he a great favourer of learning in others witness his liberality to Mr. Speed the Chronologer when finding his wide Soul was stuffed with too narrow an Occupation gave it enlargement as the said Author doth ingeniously consess in his description of Warwick shire Whose Merits saith he to me-ward I do acknowledge in setting his hand free from the daily employments of a Manual Trade and giving it full liberty thus to express the inclination of mind himself being the Procurer of my present Estate He lieth interred in Warwick-Church under a Monument of Black and White Marble wherein he is styled Servant to Queen Elizabeth Councellor to King James and Friend to Sir Philp Sidney He died Anno 16 without Issue save only those of his Brain which will make his Name to live when others Issue they may fail them Mr. EDMOND SPENSER THis our Famous Poet Mr. Edmond Spenser was born in the City of London and brought up in Pembroke-Hall in Cambridge where he became a most excellent Scholar but especially very happy in English Poetry as his learned elaborate Works do declare which whoso shall peruse with a judicious eye will find to have in them the very height of Poetick fancy and though some blame his Writings for the many Chaucerisms used by him yet to the Learned they are known not to be blemishes but rather beauties to his Book which notwithstanding saith a learned Writer had been more salable if more conformed to our modern language His first flight in Poetry as not thinking himself fully fledged was in that Book of his called The Shepherds Kalendar applying an old Name to a new Book It being of Eclogues fitted to each Month in the Year of which Work hear what that worthy Knight Sir Philip Sidney writes whose judgment in such cases is counted infallible The Shepherds Kalendar saith he hath much Poetry in his Eclogues indeed worthy the reading if I be not deceived That same framing his Stile to an old rustick Language I dare not allow since neither Theocritus in Greek Virgil in Latine nor Sanazara in Italian did effect it Afterwards he translated the Gnat a little fragment of Virgil's excellency Then he translated Bellay his Ruins of Rome His most unfortunate Work was that of Mother Hubbard's Tale giving therein offence to one in authority who after wards stuck on his skirts But his main Book and which indeed I think Envy its self cannot carp at was his Fairy Queen a Work of such an ingenious composure as will last as long as time endures Now as you have heard what esteem Sir Philip Sidney had of his Book so you shall hear what esteem Mr. Spenser had of Sir Philip Sidney writing thus in his Ruins of Time. Yet will I sing but who can better sing Than thou thy self thine own selfs valiance That while thou livedst thou madest the Forests ring And Fields resound and Flocks to leap and dance And Shepherds leave their Lambs unto mischance To run thy shrill Arcadian Pipe to hear O happy were those days thrice happy were In the same his Poem of the Rains of Time you may see what account he makes of the World and of the immortal Fame gotten by Poesie In vain do earthly Princes then in vain Seek with Pyramids to Heaven aspir'd Or huge Collosses built with costly pain Or brazen Pillars never to be fir'd Or Shrines made of the metal most desir'd To make their Memories for ever live For how can mortal immortality give For deeds do die however nobly done And thoughts of men do in themselves decay But wise words taught in numbers for to run Recorded by the Muses live for aye Ne may with storming showers be wash'd away Ne bitter breathing with harmful blast Nor age nor envy shall them ever wast There passeth a story commonly told and believed that Mr. Spenser presenting his Poems to Queen Elizabeth she highly affected therewith commanded the Lord Cecil her Treasurer to give him an Hundred Pound and when the Treasurer a good Steward of the Queen's Money alledged that Sum was too much for such a matter then give him quoth the Queen what is reason but was so busied or seemed to be

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

giving at my last need like Succour as I have sought all my Life Being in this extremity as void of help as thou hast been of hope Reason would that after so long waste I should not send thee a Child to bring the Charge but consider he is the fruit of thy Womb in whose Face regard not the Father 's so much as thy own Perfections He is yet Green and may grow strait if he be carefully tended otherwise apt enough I fear me to follow his Fathers Folly. That I have offended thee highly I know that thou canst forget my Injuries I hardly believe yet I perswade my self if thou sawest my wretched estate thou couldst not but lament it Nay certainly I know thou wouldst All my wrongs muster themselves about me and every Evil at once plagues me For my contempt of God I am Contemned of Men for my swearing and forswearing no man will believe me for my Gluttony I suffer Hunger for my Drunkenness Thirst for my Adultery ulcerous Sores Thus God hath cast me down that I might be humbled and punisht me for example of others and though he suffers me in this world to perish without succour yet trust I in the world to come to find Mercy by the Merits of my Saviour to whom I commend thee and commit my Soul. Thy Repentant Husband for his Disloyalty Robert Greene. In a Comedy called Green's Tu quoque written by John Cooke I find these Verses made upon his Death How fast bleak Autumn changeth Flora's Die What yesterday was Greene now 's sear and dry THOMAS NASH THomas Nash was also a Gentleman born and bred up in the University of Cambridge a man of a quick apprehension and Satyrick Pen One of his first Books he wrote was entituled Pierce Penniless his Supplication to the Devil wherein he had some Reflections upon the Parentage of Dr. Harvey his Father being a Rope-maker of Saffron-Walden This begot high Contests betwixt the Doctor and him so that it became to be a well known Pen-Combate Amongst other Books which Mr. Nash wrote against him one was entituled Have with ye to Saffron-Walden and another called Four Letters confuted in which last he concludes with this Sonnet Were there no Wars poor men should have no Peace Uncessant Wars with Wasps and Drones I cry He that begins oft knows not how to cease He hath begun I le follow till I die I le hear no Truce Wrong gets no Grave in me Abuse pell-mell encounter with abuse Write he again I le write eternally Who feeds Revenge hath found an endless Muse If Death ere made his black Dart of a Pen My Pen his special Bayly shall become Somewhat I le be reputed of ' mongst men By striking of this Dunce or dead or dumb Await the World the Tragedy of Wrath What next I paint shall tread no common Path. It seems he had a Poetical Purse as well as a Poetical Brain being much straghitned in the Gifts of Fortune as he exclaims in his Pierce Penniless Why is 't damnation to despair and die When Life is my true happiness disease My Soul my Soul thy Safety makes me fly The faulty Means that might my Pain appease Divines and dying men may talk of Hell But in my Heart her several Torments dwell Ah worthless Wit to train me to this Wo Deceitful Arts that nourish Discontent Ill thrive the Folly that bewitch'd me so Vain Thoughts adieu for now I will repent And yet my Wants persuade me to proceed Since none takes pity of a Scholar's need Forgive me God although I curse my Birth And ban the Ayr wherein I breath a wretch Since Misery hath daunted all my Mirth And I am quite undone through Promise breach Oh Friends no Friends that then ungently frown When changing Fortune casts us headlong down Without redress complains my careless Verse And Midas ears relent not at my mone In some far Land will I my griefs rehearse ' Mongst them that will be mov'd when I shall grone England adieu the Soil that brought me forth Adieu unkind where Skill is nothing worth He wrote moreover a witty Poem entituled The White Herring and the Red and two Comedies the one called Summer's last Will and Testament and See me and see me not Sir PHILIP SIDNEY SIr Philip Sidney the glory of the English Nation in his time and pattern of true Nobility in whom the Graces and Muses had their domestical habitations equally addicted both to Arts and Arms though more fortunate in the one than in the other Son to Sir Henry Sidney thrice Lord Deputy of Ireland and Sisters Son to Robert Earl of Leicester Bred in Christ's Church in Oxford Cambridge being nevertheless so happy to have a Colledge of his name where he so profited in the Arts and Liberal Sciences that after an incredible proficiency in all the Species of Learning he left the Academical Life for that of the Court invited thither by his Uncle the Earl of Leicester that great Favourite of Queen Elizabeth Here he so profited that he became the glorious Star of his Family a lively Pattern of Vertue and the lovely Joy of all the learned sort These his Parts so indeared him to Queen Elizabeth that she sent him upon an Embassy to the Emperor of Germany at Vienna which he discharged to his own Honour and her Approbation Yea his Fame was so renowned throughout all Christendom that as it is commonly reported he was in election for the Kingdom of Poland though the Author of his Life printed before his Arcadia doth doubt of the truth of it however it was not above his deserts During his abode at the Court at his spare hours he composed that incomparable Romance entituled The Arcadia which he dedicated to his Sister the Countess of Pembroke A Book saith Dr. Heylin which besides its excellent Language rare Contrivances and delectable Stories hath in it all the strains of Poesie comprehendeth the whole art of speaking and to them who can discern and will observe affordeth notable Rules of Demeanour both private and publick and though some men sharp-witted only in speaking evil have depraved the Book as the occasion that many precious hours are spent no better they consider not that the ready way to make the minds of Youth grow awry is to lace them too hard by denying them just and due liberty Surely saith one the Soul deprived of lawful delights will in way of revenge to enlarge its self out of prison invade and attempt unlawful pleasures Let such be condemned always to eat their meat with no other sawce but their own appetite who deprive themselves and others of those sallies into lawful Recreations whereof no less plenty than variety is afforded in this Arcadia One writes that Sir Philip Sidney in the extream agony of his wounds so terrible the sence of death is requested the dearest friend he had to burn his Arcadia what promise his friend returned herein is uncertain but if he