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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

whole Club of Wits in that Age joyned together to write Mock-commendatory Verses in Praise-dispraise of his Book If Art that oft the Learn'd hath stammer'd In one Iron Head-piece yet no Hammer-Lead May joyn'd with Nature hit Fame on the Cocks-comb Then 't is that Head-piece that is crown'd with Odcomb For he hard Head and hard sith like a Whet-stone It gives Wits edge and draws them too like Jet-stone Is Caput Mundi for a world of School-tricks And is not ignorant in the learned'st tricks H' hath seen much more than much I essure ye And will see New-Troy Bethlem and Old-Jury Mean while to give a taste of his first travel With streams of Rhetorick that get golden Gravel He tells how he to Venice once did wander From whence he came more witty than a Gander Whereby he makes relations of such wonders That Truth therein doth lighten while Art thunders All Tongues fled to him that at Babel swerved Lest they for wunt of warm months might have starved Where they do revel in such passing measure Especially the Greek wherein 's his pleasure That jovially so Greek he takes the guard of That he 's the merriest Greek that ' ere was heard of For he as ' t were his Mothers twittle twattle That 's Mother-tongue the Greek can prittle prattle Nay of that Tongue he so hath got the Body That he sports with it at Ruffe Gleek or Noddy c. He died at London in the midst of the Reign of King James I. and lieth buried in St. Giles in the Fields Doctor JOHN DONNE THis pleasant Poet painful Preacher and pious Person was born in Do●●●n of wealthy Parents who took such care of his Education that at nine years of Age he was sent to study at Hart-Hall in Oxford having besides the Latine and Greek attained to a knowledge in the French Tongue Here he fell into acquaintance with that great Master of Language and Art Sir Henry Wootton betwixt whom was such Friendship contracted that nothing but Death could force the separation From Oxford he was transplanted to Cambridge where he much improved his Study and from thence placed at Lincolns Inn when his Father dying and leaving him three thousand pound in ready Money he having a youthful desire to travel went over with the Earl of Essex to Cales where having seen the issue of this Expedition he left them and went into Italy and from thence into Spain where by his Industry he attainted to a perfection in their Languages and returned home with many useful Observations of those Countries and their Laws and Government These his Abilities upon his Return preferred him to be Secretary to the Lord Elsmore Keeper of the Great Seal in whose Service he fell in Love with a young Gentlewoman who lived in that Family Neece to the Lady Elsmore and Daughter to Sir George Moor Chancellor of the Garter and Lieutenant of the Tower who greatly opposed this Match yet notwithstanding they were privately married which so exesperated Sir George Moor that he procured the Lord Elsmore to discharge him of his Secretariship and never left prosecuting him till he had cast him into Prison as also his two Friends who had married him and gave him his Wife in Marriage But Mr. Donne had not been long there before he found means to get out as also enlargement for his two Friends and soon after through the mediation of some able persons a reconciliation was made and he receiving a Portion with his Wife and having help of divers friends they lived very comfortably together And now was he frequently visited by men of greatest learning and judgment in this Kingdom his company desired by the Nobility and extreamly affected by the Gentry His friendship was sought for of most foreign Embassadors and his acquaintance entreated by many other strangers whose learning or employment occasioned their stay in this Kingdom In which state of life he composed his more brisk and youthful Poems in which he was so happy as if Nature with all her varieties had been made to exercise his great Wit and Fancy Nor did he leave it off in his old age as is witnessed by many of his divine Sonnets and other high holy and harmonious Composures as under his Effigies in these following Verses to his Printed Poems one most ingeniously expresses This was for youth strength mirth and wit the time Most count their golden age but times not thine Thine was thy later years so much refin'd From youths dross mirth and wit as thy pure mind Thought like the Angels nothing but the praise Of thy Creator in those last best days Witness this Book thy Emblem which begins With love but ends with sighs and tears for sins At last by King James's his command or rather earnest persuasion setting himself to the study of Theology and into holy Orders he was first made a Preacher of Lincoln's-Inn afterwards advanc'd to be Dean of Pauls and as of an eminent Poet he became a much more eminent Preacher so he rather improved then relinquisht his Poetical fancy only converting it from humane and worldly to divine and heavenly Subjects witness this Hymn made in the time of his sickness A Hymn to God the Father Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun Which was my sin tho' it were done before Wilt thou forgive that sin through which I run And do run still tho' still I do deplore When thou hast done thou hast not done For I have more Wilt thou sorgive that sin which I have won Others to sin and made my sin their door Wilt thou forgive that sin which I did shun A year or two but wallowed in a score When thou hast done thou hast not done For I have more I have a sin of fear that when I have spun My last thrid I shall perish on the shore But swear by thy self that at my death thy son Shall shine as he shines now and heretofore And having done that thou hast done I ask no more He died March 31. Anno 1631. and was buried in St. Paul's-Church attended by many persons of Nobility and Eminency After his burial some mournful friends repaired and as Alexander the great did to the Grave of the most famous Achilles so they strewed his with curious and costly flowers Nor was this tho' not usual all the honour done to his reverend ashes for some person unknown to perpetuate his memory sent to his Executors Dr. King and Dr. Momford an 100 Marks towards the making of a Monument for him which they faithfully performed it being as lively a representation as in dead Marble could be made of him tho' since by that merciless Fire in 1666. it be quite ruined I shall conclude all with these Verses made to the Memory of this reverend person He that would write an Epitaph for thee And do it well must first begin to be Such as thou wert for none can truly know Thy worth thy life but he that

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