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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

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