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
it is said at one time he had cleared all Suits depending on that Court whereupon one thus versified on him When More some years had Chancellor been No more Suits did remain The same shall never more be seen Till More be there again He was of such excellency of Wit and Wisdom that he was able to make his Fortune good in whatsoever he undertook and to this purpose it is reported of him that when he was sent Ambassador by his Master Henry the Eighth into Germany before he deliver'd his Embassage to the Emperor he bid one of his Servants to fill him a Beer-glass of Wine which he drunk off twice commanding his Servant to bring him a third he knowing Sir Thomas More 's Temperance that he was not used to drink at first refused to fill him another telling Sir Thomas of the weight of his Employment but he commanding it and his Servant not daring to deny him he drank off the third and then made his immediate address to the Emperor and spake his Oration in Latine to the admiration of all the Auditors Afterwards Sir Thomas merrily asking his Man what he thought of his Speech he said that he deserved to govern three parts of the World and he believed if he had drunk the other Glass the Elegancy of his Language might have purchased the other part of the World. Being once at Bruges in Flanders an arrogant Fellow had set up a Thesis that he would answer any Question could be propounded unto him in what Art soever Of whom when Sir Thomas More heard he laughed and made this Question to be put up for him to answer Whether Averia caepta in Withernamia sunt irreplegibilia Adding That there was an Englishman that would dispute thereof with him This bragging Thraso not so much as understanding the Terms of our Common Law knew not what to answer to it and so became ridiculous to the whole City for his presumptuous bragging Many were the Books which he wrote amongst whom his Vtopi beareth the Bell which though not written in Verse yet in regard of the great Fancy and Invention thereof may well pass for a Poem it being the Idea of a compleat Common-wealth in an Imaginary Island but pretended to be lately discovered in America and that so lively counterfeited that many at the reading thereof mistook it for a real Truth insomuch that many great Learned men as Budeus and Johannes Paludanus upon a fervent zeal wished that some excellent Divines might be sent thither to preach Christ's Gospel yea there were here amongst us at home sundry good Men and learned Divines very desirous to undertake the Voyage to bring the People to the Faith of Christ whose Manners they did so well like Mr. Owen the Brittish Epigrammatist on this Book of Vtopia writeth thus More 's Vtopia and Mercurius Britanicus More shew'd the best the worst World 's shew'd by the Thou shew'st what is and he shews what should be But at last he fell into the King's displeasure touching the Divorce of Queen Katherine and for refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy for which he was committed to the Tower and afterwards beheaded on Tower-Hill July 6 1635. and buried at Chelsey under a plain Monument Those who desire to be further informed of this Learned Knight let them read my Book of England's Worthies where his Life is set forth more at large HENRY HOWARD Earl of Surrey THis Honourable Earl was Son to Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk and Frances his Wife the Daughter of John Vere Earl of Oxford He was saith Cambden the first of our English Nobility that did illustrate his high Birth with the Beauty of Learning and his Learning with the knowledge of divers Languages which he attained unto by his Travels into foreign Nations so that he deservedly had the particular Fame of Learning Wit and Poetical Fancy Our famous Poet Drayton in his England's Heroical Epistles writing of this Noble Earl thus says of him The Earl of Surrey that renowned Lord Th' old English Glory bravely that restor'd That Prince and Poet a Name more divine Falling in Love with Beauteous Geraldine Of the Geraldi which derive their Name From Florence whether to advance her Fame He travels and in publick Justs maintain'd Her Beauty peerless which by Arms he gain'd In his way to Florence he touch'd at the Emperor's Court where he fell in acquaintance with the great Learned Cornelius Agrippa osb famous for Magick who shewed him the Image of his Geraldine in a Glass sick weeping on her Bed and resolved all into devout Religion for the absence of her Lord upon sight of which he made this Sonnet All Soul no earthly Flesh why dost thou fade All Gold no earthly Dross why look ' st thou pole Sickness how dar'st thou one so fair invade Too base Infirmity to work her Bale Heaven be distempered since she grieved pines Never be dry these my sad plantive Lines Pearch thou my Spirit on her Silver Breasts And with their pains redoubled Musick beatings Let them toss thee to world where all toil rests Where Bliss is subject to no Fear 's defeatings Her Praise I tune whose Tongue doth tune the Sphears And gets new Muses in her Hearers Ears Stars fall to fetch fresh light from her rich eyes Her bright Brow drives the Sun to Clouds beneath Her Hairs reflex with red strakes paints the Skies Sweet Morn and Evening dew flows from her breath Phoebe rules Tides she my Tears tides forth draws In her sick-Bed Love sits and maketh Laws Her dainty Limbs tinsel her Silk soft Sheets Her Rose-crown'd Cheeks eclipse my dazled sight O Glass with too much joy my thoughts thou greets And yet thou shew'st me day but by twilight He kiss thee for the kindness I have felt Her Lips one Kiss would unto Nectar melt From the Emperor's Court he went to the City of Florence the Pride and Glory of Italy in which City his Geraldine was born never ceasing till he came to the House of her Nativity and being shewn the Chamber her clear Sun-beams first thrust themselves in this cloud of Flesh he was transported with an Extasie of Joy his Mouth overflow'd with Magnificats his Tongue thrust the Stars out of Heaven and eclipsed the Sun and Moon with Comparisons of his Geraldine and in praise of the Chamber that was so illuminatively honoured with her Radiant Conception he penned this Sonnet Fair Room the presence of sweet Beauties pride This place the Sun upon the Earth did hold When Phaeton his Chariot did misguide The Tower where Jove rain'd down himself in Gold Prostrate as holy ground I le worship thee Our Ladies Chappel henceforth be thou nam'd Here first Loves Queen put on Mortality And with her Beauty all the world inflam'd Heaven's Chambers harbouriug fiery Cherubins Are not with thee in Glory to compare Lightning it is not Light which in thee shines None enter thee but streight entranced are O! if Elizium be above
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 Doâ—â—â—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
SIr William Davenant may be accounted one of the Chiefest of Apollo's Sons for the great Fluency of his Wit and Fancy Especially his Gondibert the Crown of all his other Writings to which Mr. Hobbs of Malmsbury wrote a Preface wherein he extolleth him to the Skyes wherein no wonder sayes one if Compliment and Friendly Compliance do a little biass and over-sway Judgment He also wrote a Poem entituled Madagascur also a Farrago of his Juvenile and other Miscelaneous Pieces But his Chiefest matter was what he wrote for the English Stage of which was four Comedies viz. Love and Honour The Man is the Master the Platonick Lovers and The Wits Three Tragedies Albovine The Cruel Brother and The unfortunate Lovers Two Tragi-Comedies the Just Italian and the Lost Lady And Six Masques viz. Brittania Triumphans The Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru Drakes History First Part Siege of Rhodes in two Parts and The Temple of Love Besides his Musical Drama's when the usual Playes were not suffered to be Acted whereof he was the first Reviver and Improver by painted Scenes after his Majesties Restoration erecting a new Company of Actors under the Patronage of the Duke of York Now this our Poet as he was a Wit himself so did several of the Wits play upon him amongst others Sir John Suckling in his Session of the Poets hath these Verses Will. Davenant asham'd of a Foolish mischance That he had got lately Travelling into France Modestly hoped the Handsomness of 's Muse Might any Deformity about him excuse And Surely the Company would have been content If they could have found any President But in all their Records either in Verse or Prose There was not one Laureat without a Nose His Works since his Death have been fairly Published in a large Volume to which I refer my Reader Sir GEORGE WHARTON HE was one was a good Souldier Famous Mathematician and an excellent Poet alwayes Loyal to his Prince For whose Service he raised a Troop of Horse at his own Charge of which he became Captain himself and with much Gallantry and Resolution behaved himself Nor was he less serviceable to the Royal Cause with his Pen of which he was a resolute Assertor Suffering very much by Imprisonment even to the apparent hazard of his Life He having so Satyrically wounded them in his Elenctichus as left indelible Characters of Infancy upon their Actions His Excellent Works collected into one Volume and Published in the Year 1683. By the Ingenious Mr. Gadbury are a sufficient Testimony of his Learning Ingenuity and Loyalty to which I refer the Reader In sum as he participated of his Masters Sufferings So did he enjoy the Benefit of his Restoration having given him a Place of great Honor and Profit with which he lived in Credit and Reputation all the days of his Life Sir ROBERT HOWARD SIr Robert Howard of the Noble Family of the Earls of Berk-shire a Name so reverenced as it had Six Earls at one time of that Name This Noble Person to his other Abilities which Capacitated him for a Principal Office in his Majesties Exchequer attained to a considerable Fame by his Poetical Works Especially for what he hath written to the Stage viz. The Blind Lady The Committee and The Surprizal Comedies The Great Favorite and The Vestal Virgin Tragedies Inforc'd Marriage a Tragi-Comedy and The Indian Queen a Dramatick History WILLIAM CAVENDISH Duke of New-Castle THis Honourable Person for his eminent Services to his Prince and Country preferred from Earl to Duke of New-Castle was a Person equally addicted both to Arms and Arts which will eternize his Name to all Posterity so long as Learning Loyalty and Valour shall be in Fashion He wrote a splendid Treatise of the Art of Horsemanship in which his Experience was no less than his Delight as also two Comedies The Variety and the Country Captain Nor was his Dutchess no less busied in those ravishing Delights of Poetry leaving to Posteriry in Print three ample Volumes of Her studious Endeavors one of Orations the second of Philosophical Notions and Discourses and the third of Dramatick and other kinds of Poetry of which five Comedies viz. The Bridalls Blazing World Cavent of Pleasure The Presence and The Sociable Companions or Female Wits Sir WILLIAM KILLIGREW SIr William Killigrew was one whose Wings of Fancy displayed as high Invention as most of the Sons of Phaebus of his time contributing to the Stage five Playes viz. Ormardes The Princess or Love at first sight Selindra and the Seige of Vrbin Tragi-Comedies and a Comedy called Pandora To whom we may joyn Mr. Thomas Killigrew who also wrote five Plays viz. The Parsons Wedding and Thomaso or the Wanderer Comedies the Pilgrim a Tragedy and Clarasilla and The Prisoners Tragi-Comedies JOHN STVDLEY WAs one who besides other things which he wrote contributed to the Stage four Tragedies viz. Agamemnon Hyppolitus Hercules Oetes and Medea and therefore thought worthy to have a Place amongst the rest of our English Poets JOHN TATHAM JOhn Tatham was one whose Muse began to bud with his Youth which produced early Blossomes of not altogether Contemptible Poetry in a Collection of Poems entituled Fancys Theater which was usher'd into the World by divers of the Chief VVits of that age He was afterwards City Poet making those Speeches and Representations used at the Lord Mayors show and other Publick Meetings He also contributed to the Stage four plays viz. The Scots Fegaries and The Rump or Mirror of the late times Comedies the Distracted State a Tragedy and Love crowns the End a Tragy-Comedy Here a tast of his juvenile wit in his Fancys Theater speaking in the Person of Momus How now presumptuous Lad think'st thou that we VVill be disturb'd with this thy Infancy Of Wit Or does thy amorous Thoughts beget a flame Beyond its merit for to court the name Of Poet or is 't common now a days Such slender VVits dare claim such things as Bays c. THOMAS JORDEN COntemporary with him was Thomas Jorden and of much like equal Fame indulging his Muse more to vulgar Fancies then to the high flying wits of those times yet did he write three Plays viz. Mony 's an Ass and The Walks of Islington and Hogsden Comedies and Fancys Festivals a Mask HVGH CROMPTON HE was born a Gentleman and bred up a Scholar but his Father not leaving him Means enough to support the one and the Times in that Condition that without Money Learning is little regarded he therefore betook him to a Gentile Employment which his Learning had made him capable to do but the succession of a worse fate disemploying him as he himself saith in his Epistle to the Reader of his Book entituled Pierides or the Muses Mount he betook him to his Pen that Idleness might not sway which in time produced a Volume of Poems which to give you a tast of the briskness of his Muse I shall instance in a few lines in one or two
Spanish and French Poets So that we may well conclude him to be both the Glory and Admiration of his time EDWARD PHILLIPS EDward Phillips Brother to John Phillips aforesaid the Judicious Continuator of Sir Richard Bakers Chronicle which will make his name Famous to Posterity no less than his Genuine Poems upon several occasions in which he comes not far short of his Spritely Brother Mr. THOMAS SPRAT MR. Thomas Spart whose Judicious History of the Royal Society for the Smoothness of the Stile and exactness of the Method deserveth high Commendations He hath also writ in Verse a very applauded tho little Poem entitled The Plague of Athens WILLIAM SMITH WIlliam Smith the Author of a Tragedy entituled Hieronymo as also The Hector of Germany Mr. JOHN LACEY MR. John Lacy one of the noted'st Wits of these Times who as William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlow before him rose from an Ator to be an Author to the Stage having written two ingenious Comical Pieces viz. Monsieur Ragou and The Dumb Lady Mr. WILLIAM WHICHERLY MR. William Whicherly a Gentleman of the Inner Temple who besides his other learned Works hath contributed largely to the Stage in his Comedies of Love in a Wood The Gentleman dancing-Dancing-Master The Country Wife c. Sir ROGER L'ESTRANGE AND so we have reckoned up all the most Eminent-Poets which have come to our knowledge craving pardon for those we have omitted We shall conclude all with Sir Roger L' Strange one whose Pen was never idle in asserting the Royal Cause as well before the King's Restoration against his open Enemies as since that time against his Feigned Friends Those who shall consider the Number and Greatness of his Books will admire he should ever write so many and those who have Read them considering the Stile and Method they are writ in will more admire he should Write so well And because some people may imagine his Works not to be so many as he hath Written we will give you a Catalogue of as many as we can remember of them Collections in Defence of the King. Tolleration Discussed Relapsed Apostate Apology for Protestants Richard against Baxter Tyranny and Popery Growth of Knavery Reformed Catholique Free-born Subjects The Case Put. Seasonable Memorials Answer to the Appeal No Papist The Shammer Shamm'd Account Cleared Reformation Reformed Dissenters Sayings in Two Parts Notes on Colledge Citizen and Bumkin in Two Parts Further Discovery of the Plot. Discovery on Discovery Narrative of the Plot. Zekiel and Ephraim Appeal to the King and Parliament Papist in Musquerade Answer to the Second Character of a Popish Successor These Twenty Six with divers others he writ in Quarto Besides which he wrote divers others viz. The History of the Plot in Folio Quevedo's Visions Englished Octavo Erasmus's Coloquies Eng. Oct. Seneca's Morals Oct. Cicero's Offices in English The Guide to Eternity in Twelves Five Love Letters from a Nun to a Cave c. The Holy Cheat. Caveat to the Cavaliers Plea for the Caveat and the Author Besides his indefatigable pains taken in writing the Observator a Work which for Vindicating the Royal Interest and undeceiving the People considering the corruption of the Times of as great use and behoof as may be mens minds having been before so poysoned by Fanatical Principles that it is almost an Herculean Work to reduce them again by Reason or as we may more properly say to Reason Of which useful Work he hath done already Two large Volumes and a Third almost compleated his Pen being never weary in Service of his Country But should I go about to enumerate all the Works of this worthy Gentleman I should run my self into an irrecoverable Labyrinth Not is he less happy in his Verse than Prose which for Elegancy of Language and quickness of Invention deservedly entitles him to the honour of a Poet and therefore I shall forbear to write more of him since what I can do upon that account comes infinitely far short of his deservings FINIS ERRATA PAge 6. line 4. for Arts read Acts l. 25. r. estimation p. 17. l. 1. r. Havillan p. 24. l. 6. r. Son p. 44. l. 5. r better p. 82. l. 29. add it p. 88. l. 18. r. this l. 20 add my p. 117. l. 28. r. London p. 119. l. 21. r. 't was p. 127. l. 14. r. of p. 128. l. 28. r. Athenian l. 30. r. both p. 133. l. 9. r. his p. 143. l. 2. r. still p. 168. l. 18. r. unknown p. 174. l. 20. r. Ap. p. 178. l. 25. r. fare p. 187. l. 13. r. infamy besides several other literal mistakes which I would desire the Reader to Correct with his Pen. †Hen. 5. †Countenance †Guts †Clock †Verily * Resurgam