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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

seemeth to have been Earl of ROCHESTER THis Earl for Poetical Wit was accounted the chief of his time his Numbers flowing with so smooth and accute a Strain that had they been all confined within the bounds of Modesty we might well affirm they were unparallel'd yet was not his Muse altogether so loose but that with his Mirth he mixed Seriousness and had a knack at once to tickle the Fancy and inform the Judgement Take a taste of the fluency of his Muse in the Poem which he Wrote in Defence of Satyr When Shakespeare Johnson Fletcher rul'd the Stage They took so bold a freedom with the Age That there was scarce a Knave or Fool in Town Of any note but had his Picture shown And without doubt tho some it may offend Nothing helps more than Satyr to amend Ill Manners or is trulier Vertues Friend Princes may Laws ordain Priests gravely preach But Poets most successfully will teach For as the Passing-Bell frights from his meat The greedy Sick-man that too much wou'd eat So when a Vice ridiculous is made Our Neighbours Shame keeps us from growing bad But wholsom Remedies few Palats please Men rather love what flatters their Disease Pimps Parasites Buffoons and all the Crew That under Friendship 's name weak man undo Find their false service kindlier understood Than such as tell bold Truths to do us good Look where you will and you shall hardly find A man without some sickness of the Mind In vain we wise wou'd seem while every Lust Whisks us about as Whirlwinds do the Dust Here for some needless gain a Wretch is hurld From Pole to Pole and slav'd about the World VVhile the reward of all his pains and cares Ends in that despicable thing his Heir There a vain Fop mortgages all his Land To buy that gaudy Play-thing a Command To ride a Cock-horse wear a Scarf at 's And play the Pudding in a May-pole Farce Here one whom God to make a Fool thought fit In spight of Providence will be a VVit But wanting strength t' uphold his ill made choice Sets up with Lewdness Blasphemy and Noise There at his Mistress feet a Lover lies And for a Tawdry painted Baby dies Falls on his knees adores and is afraid Of the vain Idol he himself has made These and a thousand Fools unmention'd here Hate Poets all because they Poets fear Take heed they cry yonder mad Dog will bite He cares not whom he falls on in his fit Come but in 's way and strait a new Lampoon Shall spread your mangled fame about the Town This Farl died in the Flower of his Age and though his Life might be somewhat Extravagant yet he is said to have dyed Penitently and to have made a very good End. Mr. THOMAS FLATMAN MR. Thomas Flatman a Gentleman once of the middle Temple of Extraordinary Parts equally ingenious in the two Noble Faculties of Painting and Poetry as by the several choice Pieces that have been seen of his Pourtraying and Limning and by his Book of Poems which came out about Fourteen or Fifteen Years ago sufficiently appeareth The so much Celebrated Song of the Troubles of Marriage is ascribed to him Like a Dog with a Bottle tyed close to his Taile Like a Tory in a Bog or a Thief in a Jail c. MARTIN LVELLIN THis Gentleman was bred up a Student in Christ-Church in Oxford where he addicted his Mind to the sweet Delights of Poetry writing an Ingenious Poem entituled Men Miracles which came forth into the World with great applause The times being then when there was not only Cobling Preaching but Preaching Coblers he followed the practice of Physick and whether he be yet living is to me unknown EDMOND FAIRFAX EDmond Fairfax a most judicious elegant and approved Poet and who we should have remembred before But better out of due place than not at all This judicious Poet Translated that most exquisite Poem of Torquato Tasso the Prince of Italian Heroick Poets which for the Exactness of his Version is judged by some not inferior to the Original it self He also wrote some other things of his own Genius which have passed in the World with a general applause HENRY KING Bishop of Chichester THis Reverend Prelate a great lover of Musick Poetry and other ingenious Arts amongst his other graver Studies had some Excursions into those pleasing Delights of Poetry and as he was of an Obliging Conversation for his Wit and Fancy so was he also very Grave and Pious in his Writings Witness his Printed Sermons on the Lords Prayer and others which he Preached on several Occasions His Father was John King Bishop of London one full fraught with all Episcopal Qualities who died Anno 1618. and was Buried in the Quire of St. Paul's with the plain Epitaph of Resurgam But since a prime Wit did enlarge thereon which for the Elegancy of it I cannot but commit it to Posterity Sad Relique of a blessed Soul whose Trust We Sealed up in this religious Dust O do not thy low Exequies suspect As the cheap Arguments of our neglect 'T was a commanded Duty that thy Grave As little Pride as thou thy self should have Therefore thy Covering is an humble Stone And but a Word for thy Inscription When those that in the same Earth Neighbour thee Have each his Chronicle and Pedigree They have their waving Penons and their Flags Of Matches and Alliance formal Brags When thou although from Ancestors thou came Old as the Heptarchy great as thy Name Sleepest there inshrin'd in thy admired Parts And hast no Heraldry but thy Deserts Yet let not them their prouder Marbles boast For they rest with less Honour though more Cost Go search the World and with your Mattock wound The groaning Bosom of the patient Ground Dig from the hidden Veins of her dark Womb All that is rare and precious for a Tomb. Yet when much Treasure and more time is spent You must grant his the Nobler Monument Whose Faith stands o're him for a Hearse and hath The Resurrection for his Epitaph This worthy Prelate was born in the same County Town House and Chamber with his Father Namely at Warn-hall nigh Tame in Buckingham-shire and was Bred up at Christ-Church in Oxford in Anno 1641. when Episcopacy was beheld by many in a deep Consumption and hoped by others that it would prove Mortal To cure this if was conceived the most probable Cordial to prefer Persons into that Order not only unblameable for their Life and eminent for their Learning but also generally beloved by all disegaged People and amongst these King Charles advanced this our Doctor Bishop of Chichester But all would not do their Innocency was so far from stopping the Mouth of Malice that Malice had almost swallowed them down her Throat Yet did he live to see the Restitution of his Order live a most religious Life and at leisure times Composed his generally admired and approved Version of Davids Psalms into

us the days more darkish are More short cold moist and stormy cloudy clit For sadness more than mirths or pleasures fit Devising then what Books were best to read Both for that time and sentence grave also For conference of friend to stand in stead When I my faithful friend was parted fro I gat me strait the Printers shops unto To seek some Work of price I surely ment That might alone my careful mind content And then he declareth how there he found the first part of this Mirrour for Magistrates which yet took beginning from the time of King Richard the Second But he knowing many Examples of famous persons before William the Conquerour which were wholly omitted he set upon the Work and beginning from Brute continued it to Aurelius Bassianus Caracalla Emperour of Rome about the year of Christ 209. shewing in his Writings a great deal of Wisdom and Learning He flourished about the beginning of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth ABRAHAM FRAVNCE THis Abraham Fraunce a Versifier about the same time with John Higgins was one who imitated Latine measure in English Verse writing a Pastoral called the Countess of Pembroke ' s Ivy-church and some other things in Hexameter some also in Hexameter and Pentameter He also wrote the Countess of Pembroke ' s Emanuel containing the Nativity Passion Burial and Resurrection of Christ together with certain Psalms of David all in English Hexameters Nor was he altogether singular in this way of writing for Sir Philip Sidney in the Pastoral Interludes of his Arcadia uses not only these but all other sorts of Latine measure in which no wonder he is followed by so few since they neither become the English nor any other modern Language He began also the Translation of Heliodorus his Aethiopick History in the same kind of Verse of which to give the Reader the better divertisement we shall present you with a tast As soon as Sun-beams could once peep out fro the Mountains And by the dawn of day had somewhat lightned Olympus Men whose lust was law whose life was still to be lusting Whose thriving thieving convey'd themselves to an hill top That stretched forward to the Heracleotica entry And mouth of Nylus looking thence down to the main sea For sea-faring men but seeing none to be sailing They knew 't was bootless to be looking there for a booty So that strait fro the sea they cast their eyes to the sea-shore Where they saw that a Ship very strangely without any ship-man Lay then alone at road with Cables ty'd to the main-land And yet full fraighted which they though far fro the hill-top Easily might perceive by the water drawn to the deck-boards c. His Ivy-Church he dedicated to the Countess of Pembroke in which he much vindicated his manner of writing as no Verse fitter for it then that he also dedicated his Emanuel to her which being but two lines take as followeth Mary the best Mother sends her best Babe to a Mary Lord to a Ladies sight and Christ to a Christian When he died we cannot find but suppose it to be about the former part of Queen Elizabeth's Reign WILLIAM WARNER WIlliam Warner one of principal esteem in his time was chiefly famous for his Albion's England which he wrote in the old-fashioned kind of seven-footed Verse which yet sometimes is in use though in different manner that is to say divided into two He wrote also several Books in prose as he himself witnesseth in his Epistle to the Reader but as we said before his Albion's England was the chiefest which he deduced from the time of Noah beginning thus I tell of things done long ago of many things in few And chiefly of this Clime of ours the accidents pursue Thou high director of the same assist mine artless Pen To write the Jests of Brutons stout and Arts of English-men From thence he proceeds to the peopling of the Earth by the Sons of Noah intermixing therein much variety of Matter not only pleasant but profitable for the Readers understanding of what was delivered by the ancient Poets bringing his Matter succinctly to the Siege of Troy and from thence to the coming of Brute into this Island and so coming down along the chiefest matters touched of our British Historians to the Conquest of England by Duke William and from him the Affairs of the Land to the beginning of Queen Elizabeth where he concludeth thus Elizabeth by peace by war for majesty for mild Enrich'd fear'd honour'd lov'd but loe unreconcil'd The Muses check my saucy Pen for enterprising her In duly praising whom themselves even Arts themselves might err Phaebus I am not Phaeton presumptuously to ask What shouldst thou give I could not guide guide give not me thy task For as thou art Apollo too our mighty subjects threats A non plus to thy double power Vel volo vel nollem I might add several more of his Verses to shew the worth of his Pen but the Book being indifferent common having received several Impressions I shall refer the Reader for his further satisfaction to the Book itself THOMAS TVSSER THomas Tusser a person well known by his Book of Husbandry was born at Riuen-hall in Essex of an ancient Family but now extinct where when but young his Father designing him for a Singing-man put him to Wallingford-School where how his Misfortunes began in the World take from his own Pen. O painful time for every crime What toosed ears like baited Bears What bobbed lips what yerks what nips What hellish toys What Robes so bare what Colledge-fare What Bread how stale what penny Ale Then Wallingford how wer 't thou abhorr'd Of silly boys From thence he was sent to learn Musick at Pauls with one John Redford an excellent Musician where having attained some skill in that Art he was afterwards sent to Eaton-School to learn the Latine Tongue where how his Miserie 's encreas'd let himself speak From Pauls I went to Eaton sent To learn straightways the Latine phrase Where fifty three stripes given to me At once I had For fault but small or none at all It came to pass thus beat I was See Vdal see the mercy of thee To me poor Lad. Having attained to some perfection in the Latine Tongue he was sent to Trinity-Hall in Cambridge where he had not continued long but he was vexed with extream sickness whereupon he left the University and betook himself to Court and lived for a while under the Lord Paget in King Edward the Sixth's days when the Lords falling at dissention he left the Court and went to Suffolk where he married his first Wife and took a Farm at Ratwade in that County where he first devised his Book of Husbandry but his Wife not having her health there he removed from thence to Ipswich and soon after buried her Not long after he married again to one Mrs. Amy Moon upon whose Name he thus versified I chanced soon to find a Moon Of chearful

called The English Travellers had an entire hand or at least a main finger in the writing of 220 of them And no doubt but he took great pains therein for it is said that he not only Acted himself almost every day but also wrote each day a Sheet and that he might lose no time many of his Plays were composed in the Tavern on the back-side of Tavern Bills which may be an occasion that so many of them are lost for of those 220. mentioned before we find but 25. of them Printed viz. The Brazen Age Challenge for Beauty The English Travellers The first and second part of Edward the Fourth The first and second part of Queen Elizabeth's Troubles Fair Maid of the West first and second part Fortune by Land and Sea Fair Maid of the Exchange Maidenhead well lost Royal King and Loyal Subject Woman kill'd with kindess Wise Woman of Hogsdon Comedies Four London Prentices The Golden Age The Iron Age first and second part Robert Earl of Huntington ' s downfal Robert Earl of Huntington ' s death The Silver Age Dutchess of Suffolk Histories And Loves Mistress a Mask And as if the Name of Heywood were destinated to the Stage there was also one Jasper Heywood who wrote three Tragedies namely Hercules Furiens Thyestes and Troas Also in my time I knew one Matthew Heywood who wrote a Comedy called The Changling that should have been acted at Audley-end House but by I know not what accident was prevented GEORGE PEEL GEorge Peel a somewhat antiquated English Bard of Queen Elizabeth's date some remnants of whose pretty pastoral Poetry we have extant in a Collection entituled England's Helicon He also contributed to the Stage three Plays Edward the first a History Alphonsus Emperour of Germany a Tragedy and David and Bathsabe a Tragi-Comedy which no doubt in the time he wrote passed with good applause JOHN LILLY JOhn Lilly a famous Poet for the State in his time as by the Works which he left appears being in great esteem in his time and acted then with great applause of the Vulgar as such things which they understood and composed chiefly to make them merry Yet so much prized as they were Printed together in one Volume namely Endymion Alexander and Campasce Galatea Midas Mother Boniby Maids Metamorphosis Sapho and Phao Woman in the Moon Comedies and another Play called A Warning for fair Women all which declare the great pains he took and the esteem which he had in that Age. WILLIAM WAGER THis William Wager is most famous for an Interlude which he wrote called Tom Tyler and his Wife which passed with such general applause that it was reprinted in the year 1661. and has been Acted divers times by private persons the chief Argument whereof is Tyler his marrying to a Shrew which that you may the better understand take it in the Author 's own words speaking in the person of Tom Tyler I am a poor Tyler in simple array And get a poor living but eight pence a day My Wise as I get it doth spend it away And I cannot help it she saith wot ye why For wedding and hanging comes by destiny I thought when I wed her she had been a Sheep At board to be friendly to sleep when I sleep She loves so unkindly she makes me to weep But I dare say nothing god wot wot ye why For wedding and hanging comes by destiny Besides this unkindness whereof my grief grows I think few Tylers are matcht to such shrows Before she leaves brawling she falls to deal blows Which early and late doth cause me to cry That wedding and hanging is destiny The more that I please her the worse she doth like me The more I forbear her the more she doth strike me The more that I get her the more she doth glike me Wo worth this ill fortune that maketh me cry That wedding and hanging is destiny If I had been hanged when I had been married My torments had ended though I had miscarried If I had been warned then would I have tarried But now all too lately I feel and cry That wedding and hanging is destiny He wrote also two Comedies The Tryal of Chivalry and The longer thou livest the more Fool thou art NICHOLAS BRETON NIcholas Breton a writer of Pastoral Sonnets Canzons and Madrigals in which kind of writing he keeps company with several other contemporary Emulators of Spencer and Sir Philip Sidney in a publish'd Collection of several Odes of the chief Sonneters of that Age. He wrote also several other Books whereof two I have by me Wits Private Wealth and another called The Courtier and the Country-man in which last speaking of Vertue he hath these Verses There is a Secret few do know And doth in special places grow A rich mans praise a poor mans wealth A weak mans strength a sick mans health A Ladies beauty a Lords bliss A matchless Jewel where it is And makes where it is truly seen A gracious King and glorious Queen THOMAS KID THOMAS WATSON c. 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 remembred his Tragedy Cornelia There also flourish'd about the same time Thomas Watson a contemporary immitater of Sir Philip Sidney as also Tho. Hudson Joh. Markham Tho. Achelly Joh. Weever Ch. Middleton Geo. Turbervile Hen. Constable with some others especially one John Lane whose Works though much better meriting than many that are in print yet notwithstanding had the ill fate to be unpublish'd but they are all still reserved in Manuscript namely his Poetical Vision his Alarm to the Poets his Twelve Months his Guy of Warwick a Heroick Poem and lastly his Supplement to Chaucer's Squires Tale. Sir THOMAS OVERBVRY SIr Thomas Overbury a Knight and Wit was Son to Sir Nicholas Overbury of Burton in Glocester-shire one of the Judges of the Marches who to his natural propension of ingenuity had the addition of good Education being bred up first in Oxford afterwards for a while a Student of the Law in the Middle Temple soon after he cast Anchor at Court the Haven of Hope for all aspiring Spirits afterwards travell'd into France where having been some time he returned again and was entertained into the respects of Sir Rob. Carre one who was newly initiated a Favourite to King James where by his wise carriage he purchased to himself not only the good affection and respect of Sir Robert but also of divers other eminent persons During his abode with Sir Robert Carre he composed that excellent Poem of his entituled A Wife which for the excellency thereof the Author of the Epistle to the Reader prefixed before his Book thus writes Had such a Poem been extant among the ancient Romans altho' they wanted our easie conservation of Wit