Theatrum poetarum, or, A compleat collection of the poets especially the most eminent, of all ages, the antients distinguish't from the moderns in their several alphabets : with some observations and reflections upon many of them, particularly those of our own nation : together with a prefatory discourse of the poets and poetry in generall / by Edward Phillips.

Eminent Poets Among the MODERNS. (Book modern)

AAron Batalaeus the Au∣thor of a little Poem, Entitled, Plausus Tri∣viliensis, Printed at Basil, with some small Poetical peices of the choicest of the Modern Poets.

Abraham Cowly, the most applaud∣ed Poet of our Nation both of the present and past Ages; his early Muse began to down at the Thirteenth Year of his Age, he being then a Scholar at Westminster School, in Two little Poems

Antonius and Melida, and Pyramus and Thisbe; which discovering a Maturity of sence above the Years that writ them, were thought worthy to be then publisht, though not to be in∣serted into the now compleated Edi∣tion of his Works, divided into 4 parts, his Mistress being the amorous pro∣lusions of his Youthful Muse, his Mis∣cellanies or Poems of various Argu∣ments, his most admir'd Heroick Poem Davideis, the first Books whereof he Compos'd, while but a young Stu∣dent at Trinity Colledge in Cambridge; and lastly that is in order of time though not of place, his Pindaric Odes, so call'd, I suppose, ftom the mea∣sure in which he Translated the first Ithmian and Nemean Odes, whereas the form of those Odes in the Original, is ve∣ry different, & yet in Imitation of him, 'tis pleasant to observe what a notable Trade hath been driven of late in Pin∣daric Odes: Besides these Poems of his in English, there is Extant of his writing in a Volume by it self a Latin Poem of Herbs and Plants; also he hath Translated Two Books of his Davideis into Latin

Verse, which are in the large Volume among the rest of his Works.

Abraham France, a Versisier in Queen Elizabeth's time, who imitat∣ing Latin measure in English Verse, wrote his Iviechurch and some other things in Hexameter, some also in Hexameter and Pentameter, nor was he altogether singular in this way of writing; for Sir Philip Sidny in the pastoral interludes of his Arcadiae, uses not only these but all other sorts of Latin Measure, in which no wonder he is follow'd by so few, since they nei∣ther become the English nor any other Modern Language.

Abrahamus Laescherus, the Author of a Poem Entitled the Monomachie or single Combat between David and Goliah, his Two Books of King•• also, and Lamentations of Jeremie in Latin Verse were printed by the famous Oporinus, not to mention his Epicedes, Epithalamies, and other Poems.

Actius Sincerus Sanazarius, a Nea∣politan Poet, of principal Fame and Reputation for Latin Verse, gain'd

by his Poem de partu Virginis, his piscatory Eclogues, Epigrams, &c.

Adamus Regius a Scoth-man, whose Latin Verses are Extant among the works of some of the chief Latin Poets of that Nation.

Adamus Schroterus a Silesian, who wrote an Epithalamium upon the Nup∣tials of Sigismund K. of Poland, with Catharine the Daughter of the Empe∣rour Ferdinand.

Adamus Siberus a Germane, the Author of Proseucha pro Ecclesia, Epi∣nicia, Acholastica, and several other Poems.

Adriano Polito a Comic writer among the Italians.

Adrianus Blienbergius, Adrianus Laurentius, and Adr. Marius a Trium∣virat of Adrians, of no obscure name among the Belgick Poets.

Adrianus Junius, a most learned Physician of Holland, and moreover by the Testimony of Melchior Adams a Critic, Poet and most exact Historian aud Antiquary.

Adrianus Turnebus Professor Regius at Paris of Philosophy and the Greec

Tongue, he is reckon'd among the French writers of Latin Poesie.

Aegidius Menagius a French-man, whose not uneloquent Poems consist∣ing of Elegies, Epigrams, and Varia Garmina in Latin, Ecloge of various Poems in Greec his Italian Rime, his Sonnets, Madrigals, Balades and Epi∣stles in French were printed at Amster∣dam Anno 1663.

Aemilianus an Elegiac Poet, who wrote Epigrams, and an Epicedium upon the Emperour Frideric.

Aenaeas Sylvius a Hetrurian, born in the City of Siena, and by the name of Pius Secundus, Exalted to the Papal Chair, if ever any, by the merit of his great Learning and Excellent Parts, which produc'd almost innumerable Volumes of various Arguments, and among the rest some in Verse not of the meanest value for Wit and Poetic Fancy, particularly his Epigrams, his Niraphilenticum, and his Epistolar Poems.

Agnobo Firenzuola, see Ottavio Rinue∣cini.

Alexander Brassicanus, see Joannes Alexander Br.

Alexander Brome an Atturny of the Mayors Conrt, yet Poetically addicted, a Man of Law and Poetry at once, (strange incongruity one would think) and that of so Jovial a strain, that among the Sons of Mirth & Bacchus, to whom his Sack-inspired Songs have been so often Sung to the sprightly Vi∣olin, his name cannot chuse but be im∣mortal, and in this respect he may well be stil'd the English Anacreon; many also of the Odes of Horacc, who was like∣wise a good Fellow, are of his Translat∣ing; nor are there wanting among his Extant Poems many other various Subjects as well serious as otherwise; there is also of his writing a Comedy called the Cunning Lovers.

Albertus Cistarellus the Author of a Poem in praise of St. Anna Goriciana.

Alcadinus a Sicilian Poet, who wrote in Verse the Tryumphs of the Empe∣rour Henry, and the acts of his Son Friderie.

Alessandro Gatti, an Italian writer of Madrigals.

Alexander Prior of the Monastery of Essebie, in the Reign of K. Edw. the Third, and reckon'd among the chief of English Poets and Orators of that Age.

Alexander Rosse a Scotch writer, of whose Poetry the only thing noted is his Cento out of Virgil, Entitled Virgi∣lius Evangelizans.

Aloysius Cherchiarius a Regular of the Congregation of Somascha, who professing Poetry and Oratory, open'd an Academy at Venice, called the Aca∣demy of the Generosi.

Andreas Alciatus, a famous Juris-consult of Milan, who though a wri∣ter of many learned works in Prose, is yet best known by his Book of Hiero∣glyphical Emblems Elegantly illustrat∣ed and explained in Elegiac Verse.

Andrea di Bergamo an Italian writer of Satyrs, which were printed at Ve∣nice Anno 1556.

Andreas Canonherius a German of much esteem for Latin Verse, and therefore by Learned men rank'd among the German Poets.

Andreas Dactius, a Florentine, the Author of a Poem Entitled Aeluro-Myomachia, or the Battle between the Cat and Mice; besides underwoods, Epicediums, and other Poems of various Argument.

Andreas Fabricius, a Poet of Chem∣nitz, the Author of a Poem Entitled Christus Lachrymans, which was printed at Wittenberg in the Year 1551.

Andreas Janus Lascaris, a writer of Rhyndacum, with whose Treatise of the Roman Militia, Collected out of Polybius his History, are Extant a num∣be•• of Greec and Latin Epigrams of his Composing.

Andreae Giuseppe Rossolo, an Italian, Author of a Poem Entitled Giacobbe Ripatriante, which was printed at Rome Anno 1646..

Andreas Libavius a German, whose not unhappy Vein in Latin Verse ob∣tains him a place among the eminent Poets of that Nation.

Andreas Melvinus a witty and learn∣ed Scotch-man, and particularly fam'd for Latin Poetry; very notable is his Di∣stich to the Lady Arabella, with whom he was fellow prisoner in the Tower.

Causa mihi tecum communis Carceris, AraBella tibi causa est Carceris Ara mihi.

The cause of his Commitment being his writing Verses against the Altar at Whitehall.

Andreas Navagerius, a Venetian, both Historian Poet and Orator, but among his Poems his Eclogues are particularly fam'd, being printed by Oporinus among the Eclogues of other conspi∣cuous Poets.

Andreas Papius, an exact Master of the Two learned Tongues, yet with∣all so excellent in Musick and Poetry, as if either of them had been his whole business.

Andreas Bamseius, a Scotch Latin Versifier, of whom what is Extant, or at least attainable, is to be found in a Collection Entituled Deliciae Poetarum Scotorum.

Angelinus Gazaeus, a Belgic Poet, whose Pia Hilaria, or Divine Latin Poems are generally esteemed.

Angelo Badalucchi, see Dominico Cor∣nacchini.

Angelo Grilli, an Italian Lyric Poet, or writer of Sonetts, Madrigals and Canzonetts.

Angelus Politianus, a most conspicu∣ous Itali••n Author, the writer of many learned & polite Volumes, among which those in Verse are not the least in same, viz. his Sylvae, his Treatise of Poetry and Poets, and his Epigrams.

Annibal Nicolini a Dramatic Poet of Eugubium a Town in the Dutchy of Spoleto, but chiefly in the pastoral way.

Antimo Gallo, an Italian Lyric, or, pourer forth of amorous conceits in Sonetts, Madrigals &c

Antonie Brewer a contributer to the English Stage by his Lingua, Loves Loadstone, and the Countrey Girl, Co∣medies, The Love-sick King and Landa∣gartha, Tragecomedies, and Loves Do∣minion a Pastoral.

Antonio Cornazano an Orator and Poet of Ferrara, among whose other Poems of various Subjects the princi∣pally noted is that of the Life atd Death of the Blessed Virgin.

Antonio Hungaro, an Italian, both Comic Poet, and writer of Sonetts.

Antonius Brun a writer of certain Lyric Poems printed at Noremberg by Joannes Petreius.

Antonius Codrus Vrseus, a learned and polite Author, in Profe of works of various Subjects, in Verse of 2 Books of Sylvae set forth by a great admirer of them Philippus Beroaldus-junior, be∣sides Satyrs, Eglogues and Epigrams.

Antonio Decio de Horta an Italian Tragic Poet.

Antonio Facchenetti, an Italian Dra∣matic Poet, but chiefly in the way of Pastoral.

Antonius Fayus an eminent French writer, out of whose writing there is also a Miscellanie of Emblems and Epi∣grams.

Antonius Franciscus Rainerius an Ita∣lian Versifier, but chiefly in the Latin Idiom.

Antonio Geraldino, Protonotary to the Apostolic See, and Poet Laureat of Rome, he is principally recommended to the World by his Divine Bucolics, which have been Printed in several

places; his other chiefest Works are his Acts of the Kings of Spain in various Verse, his Fasti in Elegiac, his Hymns of the Heroes in Lyric, the Acts of the Martyrs in Heroic.

Antonio Mancinelli, a Grammarian most professedly, who wrote several Grammatical Treatises at Venice about the Year 1490. but both many of them, and some also of other Subjects, in Verse; he is much esteemed also for his Comments upon Virgils Eclogues and Georgics, and upon Horace his Odes, his Book of Epigrams, with other things.

Antonius Millaeus the Author of a late Poem Entitled Moses Viaetor, print∣ed at Lyons Anno 1636.

M. Antonius Muretus, a most learned Fr. Commentator and Eloquent Ora∣tour; and also so much a Poet that Scaevola Samarthanus in his Elogies of the Learned Men of France, among other Commendations, hath also this of him, That he was so like Catullus, that Catullus was not more like himself; he dyed Anno Dom. 1585.

Antonius Sebastianus, a Native of Minturno, who is not asham'd to ap∣pear among the choice Latin Poets of Italy. Of like Estimation is,

Aonius Palearius another Italian writer of Latin Verse.

Archangelio Archangelio, see Domi∣nico Cornacchini.

Armentoldo Samponiano a Noted Italian writer of Pastoral Dramatic Poesie.

Arthurus Johnstonus, an eminent Scotch Physician, who in his younger Years had the reputation of so excel∣lent a Poet, that he was Laureated at Paris before he had fully arriv'd to the 23^d Year of his Age; of his Poetical works there are particularly Collected rogether, his Epigrams, his Parerga, his Musae Aulicae, his Reges Scoti, and his Heroes Scoti, his Paraphrastical Translation of David's Psalms is also remembred with particular Commen∣dation.

Sir Aston Cockain the Author (what ever he hath written in Poetry besides) of several things to the Stage, as the Obstinate Lady, a Comedy, Trappolin

suppos'd a Prince, and Tyranical Go∣vernment, Tragecomedies, and Ther∣sites an Interlude.

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BAlduinus Berlegomius, a Hollander, whose happy Vein in Latin Verse gives him place among the Belgic Poets.

Baptista Candelarius a Consul of Roan, mention'd by R••visius Textor with much Honour among the Learn∣ed Men and Poets of his time.

Baptista Faustus a Carmelite Friar of Mantua, and therefore generally Sir∣nam'd Mantuanus, vulgarly of such fame for his Poetry, that he is com∣par'd even with his Countrey-man Virgil, but not by Lilius Giraldus, who takes the liberty to term him ra∣ther an Extemporary than Mature Poet, and indeed whoever looks well into his home-spun and plain Verse, shall find him no Virgil though a Man∣tuan, which may in part be attributed to the multitude of his Writings; for besides his 10 Eglogues (the most

known and publisht of all his other Works) 8 of which he confesseth to have written when a Young Student at Padua; there are of his writing almost innumerable other Volumes as well in Verse as Prose, of which first kind are his Lives of St. Denis, St. George, St. Lewis Morbiolus in Heroic Verse, his Hymn upon the Nativity of St. John Baptist in Elegiac, his description and praise of Refrigerius his Villa in He∣roic, his 4 Books of Sylvae, &c. he dyed Anno 1516. in the 72^d Year of his Age.

Baptista, a Friar of Ferrara, of the Order of St. Mary of Mount Carmel, chiefly fam'd for History, but taken notice of also for his Book of Epi∣grams.

Baptista Fiera, a Philosopher and renowned Physician of Mantua, and for Poetry, if not equal in fame to the Mantuan Carmelite before mentio∣ned, yet by no means to be omitted, for his 4 Books of Evan••••••ical History in Verse, with several Hymns he dedicated to Pope Adrian the 6^th; besides which there are Extant of his writ∣ing

Sylvae, Elegies, Epigrams, and other Poems.

Baptista Guarini, a learned Son of a learned Father, of Verona: among his Poetic works, for besides the ma∣ny things he wrote in Prose, he had a Vein sufficiently flowing in all kinds of Poetry; his Dramatic peices are not the least in vogue; but above all his Pastor fido hath been naturaliz'd in all parts of Europe, where the Italian Tongue is not a stranger, and perhaps not the latest of all here in England by the Elegant Pen of Sir Richard Fan∣shaw, who went Lord Embassador from his present Majesty of Great Britain to his Catholick Majesty Phi∣lip the 4^th.

Baptista Persius his Eclogue Thirsis was printed at Strasburg by Jacobus Jucundus in the Year 1540. and at Basil by Oporinus.

Baptista Bishop of Reggio, the Au∣thor of several Divine Poems, viz. de flenda cruce in ••••egiac Verse, de morte, de B. Virgine, &c.

Baptista Sanga his Poems are pecu∣liarly mentioned by Giraldus and Con∣radus Licosthenes.

Battista Spagnolus an Italian, who for his faculty in Latin Verse is remem∣bred among the chief Italian Poets of that kind.

Barnabas Brissonius a French-man, no less Eminent for his Learning than for the great place of Trust and Dignity he he held in the State, Equivalent to the Lord Chief Justice with us. B. An∣drews calls him the Varro of France, and K. H. the 4^th us'd to boast that he durst oppose him against the learnedst man any Prince in Christendome could produce against him; his most cele∣brated Work in Prose is his Book de formulis; and for what he wrote also in Latin Verse he is also rank'd among the principal Poets of his time.

Bartholomaeus Amantius, an Assistant to Petrus Appianus the famous German Cosmographer of Leysnick, in his Col∣lection of ancient Inscriptions which was pompously set forth with Orna∣ments of Verse (the part of Aman∣sius▪) and Sculpture at the charge of

Reymundus Fuggerus at Ingolstade; he was flourishing about the Year 1543.

Bartholomaeus Anulns, a French Poet, whose Picta Poesis consisted of the de∣scriptions of certain Emblematical Fi∣gures in the nature of those of Alciate.

Bartholmew Traheron, a not altoge∣ther obscure writer in his time, name∣ly in the Reign of K. Edw. the 6^th, as well in Verse as Prose.

Barton Holyday an old Student of Christ-Church in Oxford, who besides his Translation of Juvenal with Ela∣borate Notes, hath writ several other things in English Verse rather Learned than Elegant, and particularly a Co∣medy called The Mariage of the Arts.

Basilio Zanchio a Canon of the Late∣ranensian Order, a Native of Ber∣gamo, a Town in the Seigniory of Ve∣nice, of whose Works his Eclogues and Epigrams are not the least in re∣pute; there is also another Basilius of Parma, whose Verses are mentioned by Baptista Mantuan in the latter end of his Third Book of Sylvae.

Benedetto Varchi, see Ottavio Ri∣nuccini.

Benedictus Jovius, the Brother of Paulus, his Epigrams, his Distichs to Laurentio Medici, his Poem of the Fountains of Como, and another En∣titled Philautia, are for Verse of no less account than his History of Como, & his Book of Architecture for Prose.

Benedictus Lampridius a Cremonese writer of Epigrams and Lyric Odes both Greec and Latin.

Benedictus Luscius, chiefly to be re∣membred for his Epithalamium to John Frideric Prince Elector of Saxony.

Benjamin Johnson, the most learned, judicious and correct, generally so ac∣counted, of our English Comedians, and the more to be admired for being so, for that neither the height of na∣tural parts, for he was no Shakesphear, nor the cost of Extraordinary Edu∣cation; for he is reported but a Brick∣layers Son, but his own proper In∣dustry and Addiction to Books ad∣vanct him to this perfection: In three of his Comedies, namely the Fox, Alchymist and Silent Woman; he may be compared, in the Judgment of Learned Men, for Decorum, Language,

and well Humouring of the Parts, as well with the chief of the Ancient Greec and Latin Comedians as the prime of Modern Italians, who have been judg'd the best of Europe for a happy Vein in Comedies, nor is his Bartholmew-Fair much short of them; as for his other Comedies Cinthia's Revells, Poetaster, and the rest, let the name of Ben Johnson protect them against whoever shall think fit to be se∣vere in censure against them: The Truth is, his Tragedies Sejanus and Catiline seem to have in them more of an artificial and inflate than of a pa∣thetical and naturally Tragic height: In the rest of his Poetry, for he is not wholly Dramatic, as his Underwoods, Epigrams, &c. he is sometimes bold and strenuous, sometimes Magisterial, sometimes Lepid and full enough of conceit, and sometimes a Man as other Men are.

Bernardinus Parthenius, a Native of Spilimberg, who hath a place among the choice Collected Works of the Italian writers of Latin Verse.

Bernardino Percivallo, an Italian Dra∣matic

Poet, but chiefly in the way of Pastoral.

Bernardino Pino, see Dominico Cor∣nac••hini.

Bernardino Rota, see Ottavio Rinuc∣cini.

Bernardus Bauhusius, a Belgian, the most notable Man was ever heard of for Ring∣ing the Changes in Verse; for in a Poem he wrote of the B. Virgin, Entitled, Proteus Parthenicus unius versus, he is said to have chang'd one Verse 1022. times according to the re∣puted* 1.1 number of the con∣stellations; he is mention∣ed by Sweertius in his Athe∣noe Belgicae, and by Andreas Valerius in his Bibliotheca Belgica.

Bernardus Praetorius reckon'd a∣mong the principal of German wri∣ters, who have been Eminent for La∣tin Poesie.

Bernardo Tasso, the Father of that Renowned Italian Poet Torquato Tasso, himself also the Author of a noted Poem Entitled Amadei.

Le Sieur de Boisval the Author of a French Heroic Poem Entitled Esther.

Bonaventura Vulcanius, an Author of much Esteem for the many learned Works he hath put forth, and for what he writ in Verse, rank'd in the number of Belgic Latin Poets.

Mr. Bouillon, a French-man, of whose writing there are Extant Epigrams and other pieces of Poetry.

Mr. Boursault, a French writer of Poems, Entitled Poesies d'Obligation & d'Amour printed at Paris Anno 1667.

Mr. Breboef, a late French Poet, of whose Poesie divers things are printed at Paris not many Years since.

Bruno Nolano, see Dominico Cornac∣chini.

Burchiello, see Ludovico Dolce.

C.

CArolo Flamma, an Italian Dra∣matic Poet, but chiefly in the way of Pastoral.

Carolus Malatesta, an Italian writer reckon'd among the principal of that Nation for Latin Poesie.

Carolus Malepertius, a Belgic writer of Latin Verse.

Carolo Noci one of the chief of the Italian writers of Pastoral.

Carolus Vtenhovius, a Native of Gant, Born of a Noble Family, a Man of a wandring and unsetled kind of life, but stedfastly addicted to Learn∣ing in general, and to Poetry in Par∣ticular.

Celio Calcagnino, a most universally Learned Italian Writer, among whose many other Volumes in Humanity, An∣tiquity, Philosophy and Theology, his 3 Books of Sonnets are not in the least repute, being commonly printed, together with those of Ariosto and Pigna.

Celio Magno, an Italian Poet, es∣pecially in the way of Sonnets and other Lyric Poetry.

Cesare Caporale, see Ludovico Dolce.

Cesare Cremonino a Pastoral writer among the Italian Dramatics.

Cesare Rinaldi, a Lyric Poet or Son∣net writer of Bononia, an Ancient Town and University of Romania.

Cesare Simonetti, an Italian Drama∣tic Poet, but principally in the way of Pastoral.

Le Sieur Chappelain, the Author of a French Poem Entitled la Pucelle, or France's delivery.

Mr. Chevreau, the Author of certain French Poems printed at Paris Anno 1656

Christopherus Aulaeus, his Epicedium upon the death of Anne Queen of Hun∣gary and Bohemia, his Tristia, his Epi∣grams, aud his Invective against the K. of France, are all mentioned by Gesner in his Bibliotheca.

Christopherus Caseanus, his Querela nostrorum temporum was printed at Basil by Oporinus 1552.

Christophoro Castelletti, see Dominico Cornacchini.

Christopher Marlow, a kind of a se∣cond Shakesphear (whose contempo∣rary he was) not only because like him he rose from an Actor to be a maker of Plays, though inferiour both in Fame and Merit; but also because in his be∣gun Poem of Hero and Leander, he seems to have a resemblance of that clean and unsophisticated Wit, which is natural to that incomparable Poet; this Poem being left unfinished by

Marlow, who in some riotous Fray came to an untimely and violent End, was thought worthy of the finishing Hand of Chapman; in the perfor∣mance whereof nevertheless he fell short of the Spirit and Invention with which it was begun; of all that he hath written to the Stage his Dr. Faustus hath made the greatest noise with its Devils and such like Tragical sport, nor are his other 2 Tragedies to be forgotten, namely his Edw. the II. and Massacre at Paris, besides his Jew of Malta a Tragecomedie, and his Tragedy of Dido, in which he was joyned with Nash.

Chr. Oclandus, an old English Poet, that is, one of the oldest of the Mo∣derns, who wrote in Verse a Historical piece, called Anglorum Praelia.

Christophorus Longolius, a Parisian, who besides many things in Prose, wrote also Elegies aud Epigrams.

Christopherus Palmensis, his Distichs were printed at Basil by Robert Win∣ter; he flourish'd about 1486.

Christophorus Pannonius is chiefly re∣membred for his Elegy to Nicolas Perenot Granvile printed with Paradin's ancient state of Burgundy, ut Basil.

Cbristophorus Schellembergius, a Ger∣man Poet, principally remembred for his Epithalamium upon the Marriage of Wolfangus Meurerus, a noted Phy∣sician, his Friend.

Christophoro Sicinio, see Dominico Cornacchini.

Christophorus Stummelius, a German, not unfam'd among the Latin Versi∣fiers of that Nation.

Christopherus Syngelius, mentioned for his Elegy upon Magdalen (the Wife of Vdaricus Earl of Reinstein) who great with Ghild perisht misera∣bly by an accidental Fire in the Year 1546.

Claudius Paradinus, a writer of Em∣blems in Imitation of those of Al∣ciate.

Clemens Marotus a French Poet of Cahors, whom Antoin Verd in his Bi∣blio••hec stiles the Poet of Princes, and the Prince of the Poets of his time.

Clemens Janitius, a Polonian Poet Laureat, whose I. Book of Tristia, I. Book of various Elegies, and ano∣ther of Epigrams are said to have been printed at Cracovia.

Conradus Celtes, a German, both Philosopher, Oratour, and Mathema∣tician of great Fame, but withall so highly applauded for his singular gift in Poetry, that he was honoured by the Emperour Frederic, at the Suit of the Duke of Saxony, with the Poetical Wreath in the 32d. Year of his Age, as saith Boxhornius in his Monuments and Elogies of Illustrious Men; but Pantaleon in his Book de viris Illustribus saith by the Emperour Maximilian in the 35th. Year of his Age Anno 1494. however all agree he was the first Poet Laureat among the Germans.

Conradus of Alyzeia, a Town of the Palatinate, but in the Diocess of Mentz, of whose Poetical Works (for he wrote also in Prose) the chief are his Poem of the Virgin Mary, and the Redemption of Humane kind, his Epistles to divers Friends and his Book of Odes he is mentioned flourishing in the Year 1370.

Conradus Lautenbachius, a highly re∣puted German, Theologist, Historian, and also Poet.

Conradus Leius, a German writer, particularly commended for what he hath written in Latin Verse.

Conradus de Mure, a Canon of the Church of Zurich in Switzerland, whose Poem of the Natures of Ani∣mals is not forgotten among the rest of his Works; he is mentioned flou∣rishing Anno 1573.

Conradus Ritterhusius, a German of no obscure Fame among the Poetical Writers of that Nation.

Corneille, the great Dramatic writer of France, wonderfully applauded by the present Age, both among his own Countrey-men, and our Frenchly affe∣cted English, for the amorous In∣treagues, which if not there before, he commonly thrusts into his Tragedies and acted Histories; the Imitation whereof among us, and of the per∣petual Colloquy in Rhime, hath of late very much corrupted our English Stage.

Cornelius Musius, a Latin Poet, none of the least considerable of the Mo∣derns.

Cornelius Schonaeus, the Author of a well known Work Entitled Terentius Christianus, consisting of several Di∣vine Comedies taken out of the Sacred Scripture, and written in Terence his style.

Cosm•• Manuci, an Italian as his name Imports, but an English writer of the Just General a Tragedy, and the Loyal Lovers, a Tragecomedie.

Curtesius Curtesius a Poet of Padua, who wrote in Verse the death of St. Justina, and the Loves of Orestilla.

Cyril Turner, a writer of Two old Tragedies, the Atheists Tragedy, and the Revengers Tragedy.

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DAniel Heinsius, the most fam'd of Hollanders, and most Cele∣brated by ** 1.2 Learned Men for his egregious Wit, and deep proficiency in all kind of Literature, he was Born

at Gaunt Anno 1582. came to be Hi∣story professour, Secretary, and Li∣brary Keeper at the University of Lei∣de••; in Prose he is Eminent for his Exercitations upon the New Testa∣ment, and divers Philological Works, in strict Oration for his Excellent style in Greec and Latin Verse, of which sufficient Testimonies are Extant, and for which he is compar'd by Causabone in his Epistles to Homer for the Greec, and to Ovid and Propertius for the La∣tin, besides what he wrote poetically in his Native Tongue.

Damasus Blienburgius, a Hollander, who for what he hath written in Latin Poesie is remembred among the chief of Belgic Latin Poets.

Dantes Aligerus, a most Renowned Florentine, and the first of Italian Poets of any Fame or Note for Vernacular Verse; but that which most proclaims his Fame to the World is his Triple Poem Entitled, Paradice, Purgatory and Hell; besides which he wrote several things in Prose; the Me∣ridian of his flourishing time was the Year 1321. the Emperour Lewes

the 5^th Sirnamed Bavarus then Reign∣ing.

David Echlinus a Scotch-man, whose Poem Entitled Ova Paschalia is to be found in a Collection of the choice Works of several Scotch Latin Poets; as likewise

David Humus his Lusus Poetici.

David Kynalochus, his Poem de Ho∣minis procreatione, & de Anatome.

David Wederburnus his various Poems.

Diomede Borghese, a Lyric Poet, or Sonnet writer of Siena.

Dionysius Lebius Taubilius, a learn∣ed German writer as well in Verse as Prose.

Dionysio Guazzoni, a Dramatic Poet of Cremona, chiefly in the way of Pa∣storal.

Dionysius Gotofredus, a French Civi∣lian, of that Eminence, that he is styl'd by Learned Men the Papinian of his time, and by Dilherus in his Academical Disputations is highly com∣mended for his Notes upon the Body of the Civil Law, yet amidst so labo∣rious a Study, and such a painful Work,

he could sometimes be vacant to the Latin Muse.

Dominicus Baudius, a most grateful Associate and Favourite to the most Learned, and also the most noble per∣sons of his time both in England, France and the Low-Countries, and among the rest (coming into England in the retinue of a Splendid Embassie from the States to Queen Elizabeth) to the great Patron of all vertue Sir Philip Sidny, for the singular Merit of his Worth and Learning, of which he had given large Proofs in several fa∣mous Universities, especially that of Leyden, to which at last he wholly betook himself, and with great Repu∣tation read Eloquence and History; his Extant Latin Poems are particularly commended by Grotius and others, the most Excellent of Modern Poets them∣selves; he was Born at Lisle in Flanders, the Son of Dominicus and Marie Heems on the 9th. of the Ides of April 1561.

Dominico Cornacchini an Italian Dra∣matic, but particularly in the way of Comedy, among the Multitude of which kind of writers scarce to be

numbred, these following deserve not to be past by in silence, viz. Christo∣phero Sicinio, Archangelo Archangelo, Bernardino Pino, Christophero Castelletti, Gio. Battista Verini, Angelo Badalucchi, M. Hieron: Burgaglio, Ludovioo▪ Fenarolo, Adriano Polito, Bruno Nolano, Raphael Trianoro, Ludovico Contareno, Gio. Battista Gelli, M. Hieron: Razzi, M. Ludovico Paterna.

Dominicus Lampsonius a Belgian, who being equally happy both in the art of Painting and Poetry describ'd in Verse the Life of Lambertus Lom∣bardus a most Excellent Painter, and his Master in that Art, 1598.

Dominicus Mancinus, an Author no less Elegant then Learned, who pro∣fessing Theology and affecting Poetry, applyed his Muse to Divine and Mo∣ral Subjects, his Poem on the passion of our Saviour, and another of the 4 Cardinal Vertues and their Offices, in Elegiac Verse were both printed at Basil Anno 1543. he is Recorded flou∣rishing Anno 1494.

Domitio Marino, a Venetian both Philosopher and Physician by professi∣on, but a writer also of Poems, which were printed by the Sons of Aldus Manutius Anno 1550.

E.

EDmund Fairfax, one of the most Judicious, Elegant and haply in his time, most approved of English Translatours, both for his choice of so worthily Extoll'd a Heroic Poet as Torquato Tasso; as for the exactness of his Version, in which he is judg'd by some to have approved himself no less a Poet than in what he hath written of his own Genius.

Edmund Prestwich, the Author of a Comedy, which came forth about 20 Years ago, called the Hectors or False Challenge; as also Hippolitus a Tra∣gedy, what ever he might have writ∣ten besides not remembred.

Edmund Spencer, the first of our English Poets that brought Heroic Po∣esie to any perfection, his Faery Queen being for great Invention and Poetic

heighth judg'd little inferiour, if not equal to the chief of the ancient Greeks and Latins or Modern Italians, but the first Poem that brought him in∣to Esteem was his Shepherds Calendar, which so endear'd him to that Noble Patron of all Vertue and Learning Sir Philip Sidny, that he made him known to Queen Elizabeth, and by that means got him preferr'd to be Secretary to his Brother Sir Henry Sidny, who was sent Deputy into Ireland, where he is said to have written his Faerie Queen, but upon the return of Sir Henry, his Employment ceasing, he also return'd into England, and having lost his great Friend Sir Philip, fell into poverty, yet made his last Refuge to the Queens Bounty, and had 500 l. order'd him for his Support, which nevertheless was abridg'd to 100. by Cecil, who hearing of it, and owing him a grudge for some reflections in Mother Hub∣bards Tale, cry'd out to the Queen, What all this for a Song? This he is said to have taken so much to Heart, that he contracted a deep Melancholy, which soon after brought his Life to

a Period: So apt is an Ingenious Spi∣rit to resent a slighting, even from the greatest Persons; and thus much I must needs say of the Merit of so great a Poet from so great a Mona••ch, that as it is incident to the best of Poets sometimes to flatter some Royal or Noble Patron, never did any do it more to the height, or with greater Art and Elegance, if the highest of praises attributed to so Heroic a Prin∣cess can justly be term'd Flattery.

Edmund Waller of Beckonsfeild, one of the mo•••• fam'd Poets, and that not unworthily, of the present Age, be∣ing yet surviving; especially, and (wherein he is not inferiour to Carew himself,) in the charming sweetness of his Lyric Odes or amorous Son∣nets long since wedded to the no less charming Notes of H. Laws, at that time the Prince of Musical Compo∣sers, and one of the principal Gen∣tlemen of the Chappel, as also of the private Music to his late Majesty King Charles the First. In his other ac∣oasional Poems his Verse is smooth, yet strenuous, not barren of con∣ceit,

and frequently adorn'd with pro∣per Similies.

Sir Edward Dier, a person of good account in Queen Elizabeth's Reign, poetically addicted, several of whose Pastoral Odes and Madrigals are Ex∣tant in a printed Collection of certain choice pieces of some of the most emi∣nent Poets of that time.

Edward Shirburn, an intimate Friend and Acquaintance, as well of the an∣cient Greek and Latin, as of the choicest of Modern Poets, both Ita∣lian, French and Spanish, and in what he hath Elegantly and Judiciously Translated either of the former or later, a discoverer of a more pure Po∣etical Spirit and Fancy, then many others can justly pretend to in their original Works; his Version of those Books of Manilius, which relate meerly to Astronomy, is a very Noble Work, being set forth with most Exact Notes, and other Learned and proper Illu∣strations.

Eilardas Alma, a H••llander, whose Fame is not altogether unknown to the Learned for what he hath written in Latin Poesie.

Eilardus Lubinus, a Learned Ger∣man, who amidst several Elaborate Works in Prose, was not wholly un∣conversant with the Muses, being therefore reckon'd among the Latin Poets of that Nation.

Elias Putschius, a Low-Countrey-man, who hath written sufficiently in Latin Verse, to be numbred among the Latin Poets of that Nation.

Elkanah Settle, a present writer to the English Stage, to which he hath already contributed Two Ttagedies, Cambises, and the Empress of Morocco; for which he hath the applause of some, the severe censure of others, and perhaps neither according to ex∣act desert; to those that erre on the right hand that is that over-praise, little is to be said; to the others it may be pleaded in his behalf, that his soaring up to too much affected and immoderate heights, which I take to be his chief failing, may possibly be allayed by the more Mature Judg∣ment of riper Years, he being yet but a young Man.

Elysius Calentius, a writer in Latin Poesie famous in Italy in the Reign of the Emperour Maximilian; his Elegies, Epigrams, Epistles, Poem of Hectors apparition, and another of the War between the Frogs and Mice, Satyrs against the Poets, and other things were printed at Rome Anno 1503.

Emanuel Thesaurus, a Patrician or Noble-man of Turin, the Capital City of the Dukedom of Savoy, and of the Order of the great Cross of St. Laza∣rus and St. Maurice, whose Patriarchae, or Genealogy of Christ divided into Four Periods according to the Four Ages of Man, is written in a style called Lapidaria, so call'd as proper for Inscriptions upon Tombs, being a middle style between Oratory & Poetry, between strict and solute Oration.

Engelhardus Funkius, a Poet of Swobach in Franconia, who wrote in E••egiac Ve••se an Encomium of his Countrey, Epistles, Epigrams, and several other Miscellaneous pieces; he is Recorded flourishing in the Year of our Lord 1494.

Erasmo Valvasonio, an Italian Poet, who wrote Five Books in Verse de Re Rustica, or of Countrey Affairs, in that kind of Stanza commonly called among the Italians Ottava Rima.

Erycus Puteanus, an Fminent both Historian and Poet, who, as Causabon in his Preface to the Augusta Historia saith, was justly reputed in his time among the chief Ornaments of France; he is most known by his Insubric Hi∣story, but withall not unremembred for his Elegant Latin Poems, among which his Musarum Ferculum is parti∣cularly quoted by a Learned English Author.

Euricius Cordus, a late German Poet, whose Opera Poetica were print∣ed at Helmested Anno 1614.

F.

FAmianus Strada, an Italian, both Poet, Historian & Oratour of prin∣cipal Repute, being a Native of Rome, where he was professour of Rhetoric for 15 Years; his History of the Low-Countrey

Wars, and his Academical Prolusions are the chiefest and most fam'd of his Works, in the last of which he so ingeniously imitates the style of each of the principal Ancient Latin Poets, that thereby he shews himself a great Master in Latin Poetry.

Le Sieur de Fargues, the Author of a French Heroic Poem Entitled David.

Faustus Sabaeus, a Brescian, of whose Latin Poetry there is sufficient Ex∣tant to place him among the chief Ita∣lian writers of that kind.

Felix Fidlerus, a German Poet, whose most particularly mentioned Poems are his Eclogue, Entitled Philotas, de∣dicated to the Bishop of Arras, and his Elegy upon the death of Cardinal Perenot Granvile.

Florentius Schonhovius, a Belgic wri∣ter, Native of Gouda, of whom there is Extant a Poem Entitled Lalage, or Amores Pastorales, with the sele∣cted Works of several other noted Latin Poets of that Countrey, in which Society Antonius Schonhovins is also one.

Florentius Volusenus, one of the association, with those other noted Latin Poets of Scotland, the choice of whose Poems are Collected together in a long since publish'd Volume.

Foppius Scheltonus Aesema, a Frisian, whose Juvenilia are to be found with the selected Works of other Belgic Poets already mention'd.

Francis Beaumont, an inseparable Associate and Coadjutor to Fletcher in the making of many of his Plays, be∣sides what he made solely himself; there is also Extant a Poem of his Entitled Salmacis and Hermaphroditus a Fable taken out of Ovids Mctamorphoses.

Francesco Biondi, an Italian Poet, whose most noted Work is his Eri∣mena.

Francesco Bracciolini, another Ita∣lian Poet, the most particularly men∣tion'd of whose Works is his Cruce ricuperata, or regaining of the Cross.

Francesco Contareni, a Venetian not of the meanest rank of the Lyric Poets of Italy.

Don Francesco Manuel, a Spaniard, whose Obras Metricas, or Poetical

Works were printed at Leon, Anno 1665.

Francesco Maria Molza, a Poet of Modena, reckon'd among the chief of the Ly••ics or Sonnet writers of Italy; there is also particularly taken notice of his Elegy in the name of Catharine Queen of England to K. Henry the 7^th.

Francesco Mataracio, a Poet of Pe∣rusia, a Town of that part of Tuscany, which is called Lo stato della chiesa, and belongs to the Pope; his mention'd Poems are Epistles to several Friends, and Epigrams but he wrote also in tendency to Poetry, Instructions for the making Hexameter and Pentameter Verses.

Franciscus Niger Bassianus, a Learn∣ed writer both in Prose and Verse, in which last way his most fam'd piece is his Epitome of Ovid Metamorphoses in Phaleusian Verse.

Francisco Ottavio, an Italion Poet, known chiefly by his Elegies to Julia, and his Epistles.

Francesco Peto, a Poet of Fondi, a Town of Campania, whose Sylva to Augustinus Niphus is of what he wrote

in Verse the most particularly re∣membred.

Francisus Franchinus, a retainer e∣qually to Mars and the Muses, who attending on the Emperour Charles the Fifth in his Algerine Expedition, at his return wrote an Elegant descri∣ption of the said Expedition in Verse.

Franciscus Modius, an Eminent both Civilian and Poet of Bruges in Flan∣ders.

Franciscus Panigarola, one of the Society of those Latin Poets of Italy, whose several Works, or what is of them choicest, are published toge∣ther.

Francisco Petrarcha, a Florentine Poet, Renowned both for Latin and Italian Poesie; his Italian Sonnets in Celebration of Laura, and his Tri∣umps are in very high Esteem.

Franciscus Philelphus, a Knight of Tollentinum, the Author of a Multi∣tude of Volumes, whereof very many in Verse, particularly his Sfortias, his Poem in Commendation of Aenicius Davalus, his Odes both Greec and La∣tin, which with the rest of his Poetical

Works advanc'd his Fame in Poetry to the title of Poet Laureat; he is Re∣corded to have Flourish'd about the Year of our Lord 1481.

Franciscus Pigna, a Countrey-man and Associate of the Poet Curte∣sius.

Franciscus Portus, a Modern Greec Poet, chiefly Epigrammatic.

Francisco Puteolani, a Poet of Parma, one of the chief setters forth of the Acts of Lodowic Sforza, the Famous Souldier of that Age.

Francis Quarles, the darling of our Plebeian Judgments, that is such as have ingenuity enough to delight in Poetry, but are not sufficiently instru∣cted to make a right choice and distin∣ction; his Emblems being a Copy from Hermannus Hugo's Original, his Version of Job into English Verse, his Feast of Worms, or History of Jonas, and other Divine Poems have been ever, and still, are in wonderful Vene∣ration among the Vulgar, and no less his Argalus and Parthenia, a History taken out of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia; there hath been also Acted a Comedy of his called the Virgin Widow.

Don Francesco de Quevedo, a Spanish writer, of signal Fame and Credit both in Prose and Verse, of which later kind are his Obras Metricas, or Poeti∣cal Works, which were printed at Brussels Anno 1660.

Franciscus & Justus Raphelengius, Two Belgic writers, whose Varia Carmina are with the selected Works of others accounted the chief of that Countrey for Latin Verse.

Franciscus Sphondratus, an Italian, whose Latin Poem de Raptu Helenae is Extant among the Collected Works of divers others, accounted the prime of Italy for Latin Poesie.

Francesco Vinta, an Itaelian of prin∣cipal Note among the Pastoral and Comic writers of that Nation.

Fredericus Dedecindus, a German Poet, known most especially by his Poem in praise of a Countrey Life, and his Epithalamium upon the Marriage of Paulus Gusebelius with Magdalena Moniera of Wirten-berg.

Fredericus Taubmannus, a German, chiefly fam'd for a most Learned Com∣mentator and Philologist, but not

to be wholly left out of the Number of Poets.

Fridianus Piginutius, an Italian, who being Oratour and Poet to Erue∣stus Duke of Saxony, wrote in the La∣tin Idiom Elegies to Conradus Celtes, and Martinus Pollichias, a Saphic Ode to St. Sebastian, to implore an aversion of the Pestilence, which were printed with Celtes his Book of the Art of Ver∣sifying.

Sir Fulk Grevil, Lord Brook, a great Friend and Associate of Sir Philip Sidny, whose Life he wrote, as also several things in Poetry both Drama∣tic, as his Tragedies of Alaham, Mu∣stapha, and Marcus Tullius Cicero, and others commonly of a Political Subject, and among the rest a Posthume Work not publisht till within a very few Years, being a Two-fold Treatise, the first of Monarchy, the second of Religion, in all which is observable a close, my∣sterious and sentencious way of wri∣ting, without much regard to E∣legancy of style▪ or smoothness of Verse.

Le Sieur de Furetiere. the Author of certain French Poems printed at Paris Anno 1650.

G.

GAbriel Cabrera, see Ludovic•• Dolce.

Gabriel Faernus, a very Learned Man, and diligent Inquirer into La∣tin Authors, as his setting forth of Terence, and some pieces of Cicero te∣stifie; Moreover he so ingeniously Paraphras'd upon Esops Fables in di∣vers kinds of Latin Verse, that he merits to be rank'd among the Po∣ets; he is of that Rank of Eminent Men, that in Chronology come under the Year 1561.

Gabriel Zinani, an Italian, whose Extant Sonnets, Madrigals, &c. give him place among the Lyric Poets of that Nation.

Gallus Chrudimenus, a writer in Verse, fo•• Elegancy reckon'd of the chief of Modern Latin Poets.

Gaspar Barlaeus, a learned and witty Batavian, and of so Eminent a Fame among the Belgic writers of Latin Poesie, that Vossius in his Book de Arte Grammatica, by doubting whether he were the better Philosopher or Poet, seems to Intimate his Excellence in both Faculties; several of his poeti∣cal Works are quoted by a Learned English Author, as his Hymns, his Poem in praise of the Garden of Ley∣den, his Britannia triumphans, &c.

Gaspar Bruschius, a Poet Laureate of Egra in Bohemia, whose poeti∣cal Works are many, and of various kinds, besides what he also wrote in Prose.

Gaspar Ensius, a German Poet, who for what he hath written in Latin Verse is reckon'd among the principal Latin Poets of that Nation.

Gaspar Greterus, Chaplain to the Prince of Wirtenberg, and a copious writer both in Prose and Verse; among his poetical things his Gospels in La∣tin Verse are particularly taken no∣tice of.

Gaspar Main, a Student of Christ-Church in Oxford, where he lived for many Years in much Credit and Repu∣tation for his florid Wit, and Inge∣nious Vein in Poetry, which produc'd Two Witty and well approved Come∣dies, the City Match and the Amorous War; nor did he, since his applica∣tion to Theology, of which he was Dr. and his Ecclesiastical prefer∣ment, totally relinquish those po∣liter Studies to which he was before addicted, having lately publish'd Lu∣cians Works, of his own Translating into English.

Gaspar Vrsinus, a Noble Poet of Veli, among whose Poems his Mo∣nostichs of the Alban and Roman Kings, and other Illustrious Men of Rome, as also of the Roman Empe∣rours and Popes, down to Charles the 5th. and Pope Hadrian 6th. also his Di∣stichs of the Roman Emperours are es∣pecially noted.

Sir Geoffry Chaucer, the Prince and Coryphaeus, generally so reputed, till this Age, of our English Poets, and as much as we triumph over his old

fashion'd phrase, and obsolete words, one of the first re••iners of the English Language, of how great Esteem he was in the Age wherein he flourish'd, namely the Reigns of Henry the 4^th, Henry the 5^th, and part of Henry the 6^th, appears, besides his being Knight and Poet Laureat, by the Honour he had to be allyed by Marriage to the great Earl of Lancaster Jobn of Gaunt: How great a part we have lost of his Works above what we have Extant of him is manifest from an Author of good Credit, who reckons up many considerable Poems, which are not in his publisht Works; besides the Squires Tale, which is said to be compleat in Arundel-house Library.

Georgio Anselmo, an Epigrammatist of Parma.

Georgius Benedictus, a Hollander of principal repute among the Eelgic wti∣ters of Latin Poesie.

Georgius Bersmannus, a German of no inferiour Estimation among Learn∣ed Men; but particularly fam'd for his happy Genius in Latin Verse.

Georgius Buchananus, the most cele∣brated by the Learned Men of his time, of all the famous writers that Scotland hath produc'd, and that not without reason, being in his Prose both Elegant and Judicious, (in so much that Vossius selecting out for seve∣ral Countries each of their prime Hi∣storians, names him for the History of his own Countrey) and for Verse, if not the chief of Modern Latin Poets, as some account him, yet at least the chief of that Nation, which however barren of Soyl Esteem'd, yet hath been sufficiently fruitful of good VVits, and Men famous particularly for Latin Verse; being so conspicuous a person no wonder he was made choice of for the Education of a Prince that was born to the sole Monarchy of Great Brittain.

George Bullen Lord Rochford, Bro∣ther to Queen Anne, 2^d VVife to K. Henry the 8^th, among other things hath the Fame of being the Author of Songs and Sonnets, which doubt∣less wanted not the applause of those times.

George Chapman, a Poetical wri∣ter, Flourishing in the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James, in that repute both for his Translations of Homer and Hesiod, and what he wrote of his own proper Genius; that he is thought not the meanest of English Poets of that time, and parti∣cularly for his Dramatic writings, as his Blind Beggar of Alexandria, All Fools, The Gentleman Vsher, May-day, The, Widows Tears, Mounsieur d'Olive, A days Mirth, Eastward hoe, Comedies; Bussy d'Amb••ys, Caesar & Pompey Tra∣gedies.

George Fletcher, the Author of a Poem Entitled Christs Victory and Tri∣umph in Heaven and Earth over and after Death; he wrote in the Reign of King James and King Charles the First.

George Etheridge a Comical writer of the present Age; whose Two Come∣dies, Love in a Tub, and She would if She could, for pleasant Wit, and no bad Oeconomy, are judg'd not uu∣worthy the Applause they have met with.

Georgio Gradenico, see Ottavio Ri∣uuco••ni.

George Gascoign, one of the smaller Poets of Queen Elizabeths days, whose poetical Works nevertheless have been thought worthy to be quo∣ted among the chief of that time; his Supposes, a Comedy; Glass of ••overnment, a Tragecomedy; J••∣••••sta a Tragedy, are particularly re∣membred.

George Herbert, a Younger Brother of the Noble Family of the Herberts of Montgomery, whose florid Wit, ob∣liging Humour in Conversation, flu∣ent Eloquution, and great proficience in the Arts, gain'd him that Reputati∣on at Oxford, where he spent his more Youthful age, that he was chosen Uni∣versity Oratour; at last taking upon him Holy Orders, not without special incouragement from the King, who took notice of his parts; he was made Parson of Bemmerton near Salisbury; in this state his affection to Poetry be∣ing converted to serious aud Divine Subjects, produc'd those so generally known and appro••ed Poems Entitled the Temple.

Georgius Macropedius, a German Poet, whose most noted Poems be∣side his Comedies Andrisca, Hecastus, Rebelles and others, and some Trage∣dies out of Sacred History, are his Bassarus, Lazarns Mendicus, and his Calender of the principal Feasts of the Church in Heroie Verse.

Georgius Myliusa German Poet, whose Two Books of Elegies were printed at Leipsich in the Year 1557.

George Peel, a somewhat antiquated English Bard of Queen Elizabeth Date, some Remnants of whose pretty pastoral Poetry we have Extant in a Collection Entitled Englands Helicon.

George Riplay, a Canon of Bridling∣ton in the time of King Henry the 7^th, who in old English Verse wrote several Chymical Misteries pretending to Lead to the attaining of the Philo∣sophers Stone.

Georgius Rotallerus, a German Poet, who besides his Latin Version of He∣siods opera, & dies, in Elegiac Verse, and also Three of Sophocles his Trage∣dies, as his Ajax, Electra and Antigone, hath also written Epigrams and some other Poems.

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Georgius Sabinus, a Brandenburger, the Son in Law of Philip Melanchton, a Person of no obscure Fame among German writers both for Verse and Prose.

George Sands, a well approved wri∣ter of his Travels into Forrein Parts; but a much more admir'd Tran∣slator of Ovid's Metamorphses into English Verse, and Paraphrast of Da∣vids Psalms; and not unapplauded for his Tragedy of Christs Passion.

Georgius Siputus Daripenus, a Ger∣man Poet, the most particularly re∣membred of whose Poems are his Congratulatories upon the Arrival of the Emperour Maximilian to Colen.

Georgius Thurius, a Hungarian, one of the most Eminent of that Nation for Latin Poesie.

Georgius Tilenus, a German writer not forgotten among the chief of the Latin Versisiers of that Nation.

George Withers, a most profuse pourer forth of English Rhime, not without great pretence to a Poetical zeal against the Vices of the times in his Motto, his Remembrancer, and

other such like Satyrical Works; be∣sides which he turn'd into English Verse the Songs of Moses, and other Hymns of the Old Testament; in all which, and whatever else there is of his dis∣perced up and down; for his Works however Voluminous, have been scarce thought worthy to be Collected into a Volume; whoever, shall go about to imitate his lofty style, may boldly venture to ride post and Versi∣fie; yet because vulgarly taken for a a great Poet; and by some for a Pro∣phet; in regard many things are fan∣cied to have come to pass, which he pretended to predict, he must not be omitted; but the most of Poetical Fancy which I remember to have found in any of his Writings, is in a little piece of pastoral Poetry call'd the Shepheards Hunting.

Gerardus Bucoldianus, a German, both Oratour and Poet, the chiefly remembred of whose Poems is that of the Muses progress into Germany: He Flourish'd at Bon••nia in the Year 1535.

Germanus Auber••us Aurelius, one of principal note among the French Po∣etical writers of Latin Verse.

Germanus Brixius of Auxerre, a Canon of Paris, among whose Poeti∣cal writings there are principally men∣tion'd his Antimorus, or Invective against our Countrey-man Sir Thomas More; his Elegy upon the death of Fran is Deloin; and his Epigrams up∣on the death of K. Francis the First of France.

Germanus Valens Guelius, a curious Critic in the Greec Language, and not meanly vers'd in all kind of Humane Li••erature; but according to the Te∣stimony of Thuanus, principally addi∣cted to Poetry.

Giacopo Alegreto, a Poet of Forli a Town in Flaminia, of whom there is Extant a Bucolic Poem, mention'd by Biondi.

Giacopo Gaddi, an Italian, who shares in Fame among the Poetical Wri••ers of that Nation.

Giacopo Ca••••••eo, an Italian, Author of a Poem Entitled Peregrino, which was printed Anno 1538.

Giacopo Sadoletti, a Contempo∣rary, Associate, and as it were Co-partner with Pietro Bembo, not only in agreement of Studies, they being both Eminent writers as well in Verse as Prose; but also of their Fortunes and Preferment in the World, they being both chosen by Pope Leo, the 10^th, to be his Scretaries together, both advanc'd to the Purple by Paul the 3^d, uuder whose Reign they both dyed.

Gilb••rtus Ducherius Vulto, a Poeti∣cal writer, of whom, what ever he wrote beside, there are Extant Five Books of Epigrams, and an Eclogue printed by Oporinus at Basil.

Giovanni Ambrogio Marini, an Ita∣lian Poet, whose Cal••andro Fidele was printed at Venice Anno 1664.

Giovanni Andrea Rosetti, a late Poe∣tical writer among the Italians, the Author of a Poem Entitled M••rmono d'Helicona▪

Giovanni Andreini, another Italian, Author of a Fantastic Poem, as he himself calls it, Entitled Olivastro, which was printed at Bologna Anno 1642.

Giovanni Antonio Flaminio, see Jo∣annes Antonius Flaminius, in regard what he wrote was in Latin Verse.

Giovanni Battista Marini, an Emi∣nent Italian writer, who besides his Sonnets wrote an Heroic Poem En∣titled Adonis.

Giovanni Battista di Pesaro, another of the same Nation, not to be left out of the Number of Italian Poets.

Giovanni Battista Pigna, a noted Ita∣lian Lyric Poet, whose Four Books of Sonnets were printed at Venice by Vincentius Valgrisius Anno 1553. with those of Calcagnino, Ariosto, and other Famous Poets of that kind.

Giovanni Boccaccio de Certaldo, a most generally known and Extolled Floren∣tine Writer, and worthily rank'd a∣mong the Poets not only for his Bu∣colies▪ but several other writings of a poetical nature, as his Genealogia di Dei, his Huomini Illustri, his Decame∣ron, &c. besides which he wrote seve∣ral other things both Historical and Geographical; he Flourish'd in the Year 1375.

Giovanni della Casa, an Italian Ly∣ric Poet, whose Rime or Sonnets were printed at Venice Anno 1559.

Giovanni Georgio Trissini, a Knight and Count of Vicenza, of a very Cele∣brated Fame for what he hath written both in Poetry and Oratory; he was Born in the Year 1478. being the Son of Gaspar Trissini, by Cecilia Bevilac∣qua, the Daughter of Gulielmo a Gen∣tleman of Verona.

Girolamo Caso an Italian Lyric Poet or Sonnet writer of Vderza.

Girolamo Gratiani, an Italian, Au∣thor of a Poem Entitled La Cleopatra, which was printed at Venice Anno 1668.

Girolamo Preti, see Ottavio Rinuc∣cini.

Girolamo Ronconio, a Dramatic wri∣ter of Siena, but chiefly for Pasto∣rals.

Giulio Goselani, an Italian writer of Rime or Sonnets, which were printed at Venice Anno 1588.

Mr. Gomb••ud, a French Epigram∣matist.

Gothofredus Torinus, a French Poet, Eminent among the chief writers of Latin Verse of that Nation.

Godfry Prior of Winchester, an Old English Poet as he is reckon'd, by Camb∣den in his Remains; he is indeed a borde••er between the Antients and Moderns, for he Flourish'd about the Year 1100.

Gnalterus de Castellione, a Philoso∣pher, Theologist, and, as his Poem setting forth the Acts of Alexander the Great in Heroic Verse Testifies, Poet also, of Lisle in Flanders, though some ascribe this Work not to Gual∣terus, but Guillermus de Castellione, by whom then it is to be suppos'd to have been Dedicated to Gnalterus▪

Guido Cavalcanti, see Ottavio Rinuc∣cini.

Guido, First Presbiter, then Bishop of Ferrara, who wrote in Verse Re∣marques upon the Old and New Te∣stament, which Work he called the Pearl of the Bible, and Dedicated it to Pope Clement the 5^th, his Fame brake forth about the Year 1310. so that he was Contemporary with Dante, and

as it were a Frontier Authour between the Ancients and the Moderns.

Guidus Posthumus Sylvestris, a Poet of Pesaro, who wrote Two Books of Elegies to Pope Leo.

Gulielmus Bigotius de la Valle, a French Poet whose Catoptron, a Poem con∣taining precepts for the Instruction of Youth, is the principal of what is Extant of him.

Gulielmus Budaeus, a most learned Parisian, among whose many Treatise; in all sorts of Humane Literature; his Elegies, Epigrams, and other things in Poetry are not forgotten.

Gulielmus Durandus, Sirnamed Spe∣culator, from his Treatise Entitled Speculum juris, a learned French Bishop, and one of the most noted Men of his time, (and he was Flourishing about the Year 1300.) for perfe∣ction in several Faculties; so that he hath from Pasquier in his recherches de la France, the Character both of an Excellent Poet, solid Divine, and ex∣act Lawyer.

Gulielmus Gnapheus, a Poet of Hague, whose most noted Poems, be∣sides

his Comedies the Prodigal Son, and Misobarbarus, and his Trageco∣medy Hypocrisis, are his Triumph of Eloquence in various Verse; and his Poem of Psyche's Calamity and Resto∣ration.

Gulielmus Hondius, a late German Poet, whose Cithara Spiritualis Sex Chordarum was printed at Colen Anno 1637.

Gulielmus Modicius, an Italian, for Latin Poesie reckon'd among the prin∣cipal of that Nation.

Gulielmus Salustius Bartasius, or du Bartas, a French Poet, whose Poem of the 6 days work of Creation, tran∣slated by Joshua Sylvester, hath had a very great Fame here in England, and is yet in great Esteem with many.

Gulielmus X••lander, a learned both Logician, Mathematician, Musician, Historian, Philosopher, Linguist, and also Poet (as Melchior Adams in his Life Characters him) of Augusta, born in the Year of our Lord 1530. he was Professor of the Greec Tongue at Heidelberg.

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HAns Sacs Teucherus, a Poet of special note among the Ger∣mans.

Helius Eobanus, a Hessian of like authority, and preheminence among the German Poets, as Tasso hath been a∣mong the Italians; of his many poetical Works the chief are his Bucoli•• Idyls, his Sylvae, his Elogies of Famous Men, his sacred Heroines, his description of the City Norimberg in Verse, and of the Prince of Hessen's Victory against the Sueves, besides his Elegant Ver∣sion of Davids Psalms in Elegiac Verse.

Henricus Curandinus, a German par∣ticularly taken notice of among those of that Nation that have been Emi∣nent for Latin Poetry.

Henricus Andersonus, a Scotch-man, whose Eglogues, and Musarum Que∣rela are among the selected Works of other Noted Latin Poets of that Nation.

Henricus Bebelius, a Poet of Justin∣gen, a Town which gives Title to a Barony in the Circle of Suevia, who among many other things both in Prose and Verse wrote de Arte Conden∣dorum Carminum.

Henricus Danskinus one of the So∣ciety of those Eminent Latin Poets of Scotland, of whose Works a particular selection is publish'd.

Henricus Ecardus, a Poet of Norem∣berg, in which Town his Poems were printed by Georgius Merkelius Anno 1553.

Henricus Euticus, a Poet of Fran∣conia, who wrote in Verse a Book of Jests, and Witty Conceits, a Satyre aginst Sophists, and Enemies of the study of Humanity, the praises of the B. Virgin, Epigrams, and some other things; he Flourish'd Anno 1494.

Henricus Florentinus wrote a de∣scription in Verse of the Grandeur and state of the Emperour Frideric, and is quoted by the Learned Felix Malleolus.

Henry Glaphthorn, a Dramatic wri∣ter not altogether ill deserving of the

English Stage by his Hollander, Ladies Priviledge and Wit in a Constable Co∣medies; his Argalus and Parthenia a Pastoral; and Albertus Wallestein a Tragedy.

Henry Howard, the most Noble Earl of Surry, who Flourishing in the time of King Henry the 8^th, as his Name is sufficiently famous for the Martial Exploits of that Family for many Generations, so deserves he, had he his due, the particular Fame of Learning, Wit, and Poetic Fancy, which he was thought once to have made sufficiently appear in his pub∣lish'd Poems, which nevertheless are now so utterly forgoten, as though they had never been Extant, so Anti∣quated at present, and as it were out of fashion is the style and way of Po∣etry of that Age; whereas an English writer of those times in a Treatise called the Art of English Poesie al∣ledges, That Sir Th. Wiat the Elder, and Henry Earl of Surry 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 there∣fore justly be shewed to be the Reformers of our English Meeter and Style.

Henricus Husannus, a German con∣spicuous among the Latin Versifiers of that Nation.

Henry King, late Bishop of Chi∣chester, a no less Grave and Reve∣rend Divine in his later time then, in his youthful Age, of an obliging Conver∣sation by his Wit and Fancy, and both in his Younger and Elder Years a con∣stant lover of Music, Poetry, and all Ingenuous Arts; the Effect of his latest and most serious Muse being his generally admired and approved Version of Davids Psalms into English Meeter.

Henricus Lo••itus Glareanus, a Hel∣vetian of the Town of Clarona, among the vast number of whose Elaborate Treatises in various kinds of Learn∣ing; his poetical pieces were both enow, and sufficiently in repute to gain him the Title of Poet Laureate; nor was his Name less Eminent in

Music: He is mentioned Flourishing at Friburg a Town of Bisgoia, in the Circle of Alsatia Anno 1551.

Henricus Meibomius, an Elegant Poet, Expert Musitian, and Judicious Historian of Lemgoia, one of the 7 Free Cities in the Circle of West∣phalia.

Henry Lord Morly. a Nobleman of great account in the Reign of King Henry the 8^h, by whom he was sent with the Garter to the Arch-Duke of Austria: There are mentioned with Honour in our English Histories seve∣ral Works of his writing, for the most part poetical, and particularly several Tragedies and Comedies.

Henricus Oroeus, a not uneminent Modern writer of Latin Verse.

Henricus Petreius, a noted both Civilian, and Poet of Hardcsia.

Henry Picardet, a French-man, whose Poesies Francoises were printed at Paris Anno 1663.

Henricus Ranzovius, a Learned Ger∣man, particularly fam'd among many others of that Nation for his Excel∣lent faculty in Latin Verse.

Henricus Smetius, a Nobleman and Physitian of Alosta in Flanders, who besides his Prosodia, a well known and much used Book among the Ver∣sifying Boys in public Schools, by which they are taught the quantity of words in Latin Verse, by Examples out of all the choicest Latin Poets, had in his younger Years discover'd also his own petic Genius, in several peices of Latin Poesie, as his History of the Kings of Judah, his History of Susanna, his Treatise of several parts of Medicin, and his Translation of Homers Batram••omachia.

Henry Vaughan, Sirnamed Silurist, from that part of Wales whose Inha∣bitants were formerly called Silures; the Author of certain English Poems, which came forth Anno 1658. under the Title of Olor Iscanus.

Henricus Rollochus, one of the Number of Scotch writers of Latin Verse, whose selected Poems are pub∣lish'd together.

Hercules Strozza, see Titus.

Hercole a Poet of Vdene, a Town under the Seignorie of Venice, chiefly known by his Psyche, o•• Poem of the Soul.

Hermannus Hugo, an Eminent Phi∣losopher, Theologist, Musitian and Poet of Brussels in Flanders, from whose Original those Divine Emble∣matical Fancies that bear the Name of Quarles are derived.

Hermolaus Barbarus, a Patrician, or Nobleman of Venice, whose profound Learning and great Parts advanc'd him to be Arch-Bishop and Patriarch of Aquileia, and afterwards to the Colledge of Cardinals.

Hieronymus Amaltheus, a most ex∣cellent Philosopher and Physician by profession; but moreover a Com∣poser of such Elegant Verses for his diversion, that M. Antonins Muretus, an Exact Judge of those things, gives him the Palm before all the Ita∣lian Poets of his time; he is men∣tioned Flourishing in the Year 1574.

Hieronymus Balbus, a writer of Gorcum, who besides several prosaic Treatises, wrote a Book of Epi∣grams concerning the Turkish Affairs, to Pope Clement the ••^h; the mentio∣ned time of his Flourishing is the Year 1520.

Hieronymus Fracastorius, so pro∣found in Philosophy, and the Mathe∣matical Arts, especially Astronomy, and so happy a professour of Medi∣cine, that he might well have been excus'd from Poetry; yet his greatest Aemulators, saith Thuanus, could not but confess that his style came very near the Maiesty of Virgil.

Hieronymus Donatus, an Eminent both Philosopher, Theologist, Ma∣thematician, Oratour, and also Poet, by the Testimony of Angelus Politi∣anus, who mentions him in his Mis∣cellanies.

Hieronymus Guntius, a Poet of Bi∣brac, one of the 35 Free Cities in the Circle of Suevia, who supply'd se∣veral Greec Poets of the latter date, as Prodromus, Xanthopulus, Psellius, Philus, Callieles, and Nonnus Panopolita,

a multitude of Verses expung'd and lost by the injury of time, and other accidents, to which their Manuscripts had been expos'd, besides several Epi∣grams of his own both in Latin and Greec.

Hieronymus Spartanus, the Author of a Poem printed by J. Oporinus at Basil Anno 1550. Entitled Miles Christi∣anus, written in Elegiac Verse.

Hieronymus Zieglerus, a writer of divers Tragecomedies, and other Dramatic pieces out of the Old and New Testament, as his Protoplastus, Immolation of Isaac, Nomothesia, Sampson, Heli, out of the Old; his Vineyard, Ophiletes, and Royal Marri∣age out of the New; besides a Trage∣dy out of Prophane History, Entitled Cyrus Major.

Hippolytus Capilupus, an Italian of paincipal Note and Fame among the Latin Poets of that Nation.

Honoratus Tascitellus, an Italian Au∣thor of a very Elegant Latin Poem Dedicated to the Lady of Piscaria.

Honorio Navazzotti, an Italian Poet, who by his Poem Celebrating the

Vertues of a 100 Noble Women of Casal, celebrates his own memory.

Hubertus Susannius, a Writer of Soissons, both in Prose and Verse, of which last kind are his Book of Epi∣grams, his Book of Games, his Eclogue entitled Sylvius, his Poem upon the Resurrection, with some other things of various subject.

Hugo Grotius, a Native of Delph in Holland, born in the year of our Lord 1513, whose equal in fame for Wit & Learning, Christendom of late Ages hath rarely produc'd, particularly of so happy a Genius in Poetry, that had his Annals, his Book De Veritate Christia∣nae Religionis, De Satisfactione Christi, and other his extolled works in Prose, never come to Light, his extant and universally approved Latin Poems, had been sufficient to gain him a Living Name.

Huldricus Huttenus, a German born, but Knight of France, among whose Poetical works collected together and printed at Frank ford an. 1538, are his Satyr against the times of Julius Secun∣dus, his Hortatory to the Emperour

Maximilian, to prosecute his War a∣gainst the Venetians, his Poem in He∣roic Verse concerning the Fishing of the Venetians, his Marcus in the same kind, a pleasant Poem entitled Outis, &c.

Huldricus Scoberus, another German Poetical Writer of the number of those Latin Versifiers of that Nation, whose fames are not obscure among the Lear∣ned.

Huldricus Vannius, a Poet of Ausburg, the Author of a Heroic Poem entitled Christs Passion.

Humbertus Momnoretanus, the Au∣thour of a Sylva in praise of Upper Bur∣gundy, which is printed with Gilbertus Cognatus his Descriptiou of Burgundy.

Humphry Mills, a Poetical Writer of the last Age, but whose name I believe by this time is known to few, notwith∣standing two Volumes of his Poetry were once publisht under the title of the Melancholy Vision, consisting of se∣veral Moral and Divine Contempla∣tions.

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Jacobus Balde, a Jesuit, of whom there are extant Miscellaneous Poems, divided into 4 tomes.

Iacobus Catzius, an eminent Low-Country Man, both for Dignity, for he was Syndic of West-Freise Land, and Gelder Land, and his zeal to Learning and the Arts, among which Poetry was not his least excellency, as appears by his Patriarcha Bigamus publisht with several Poems of Gaspar Barlaeus, and Cornelius Boius, by both whom he was highly celebrated.

Iacobus Ceporinus, a learned Gram∣marian and Commentatour of Zurich one of the Chief Cantons of Switzers, much esteem'd for his Scholia's upon Hesiod, Dionysius Afer, and Aratus, as also for a Book of Lepid Greec Epi∣grams of his own Composing.

Iacobus Crellius, wrote in Greec Verse Arguments upon all the Books of the Old and New Testament.

Iacobus Crittonius, a Scotch, Writer, particularly in Latin Verse, among se∣veral

other noted Men of that Nation, of whose Latin Poems there is a Select collection.

Iacobus Ghibbesius; a late Authour of Lat. Odes, which were printed at Rome an. 1665.

Iacobus Grevinus, an advancer in the Study of Poetry (to which in his younger years he especially addicted himself) to that degree that Thuanus mentioning with praise his Gelodachrys and other Poems, thinks him wo••thy to be compar'd with the most admir'd of his time, either of France or other parts, and for his Version of Nicander into French Verse, (when not totally abandoning Poetry, he betook himself to Physic) with the most elegant of the Ancient Greecs and Latins: he was flou∣rishing about the year 1570, but what ever else, he intended to oblige the World with; immature death preven∣ted.

Iacobus Iaspar, a Danish Poet, who wrote a Consolatory Poem to the Prince of Orange, upon the death of his First-born Daughter, and a Geneth∣liacon upon the Birth of Renatus the

young Prince, both which are printed with Gilbertus Cognatus his Description of Burgundy.

Jacobus Lectius, a late German Poet, whose Varia Poemata were printed at Geneva, an. 1609.

Jacobus Macolonus, a Scotch-Man, whose Anthroporia Xeniorum is extant among the Selected works of others of the prime Latin Poets accounted of that Nation

Jacobus Micyllus, a fam'd Writer of Strasburg, whose Epigrams both Greec and Latin, Elegy of the Falcon and the Pie, Epistle to Joachimus Ca∣merarius in Elegiac Verse foretelling the precise time of the ruin of the old Castle of Heidelberg, speak him no less a Poet then the rest of his elaborate Works a universal Schollar.

Jacobus Montanus, a Poet of Spire, one of the 18 Imperial Cities: He wrote Christs Passion in four Books in Elegiac Verse, Hymns upon the Feast daies of the whole year, in divers kinds of Verse, the Heroe of Tarsus, or the Life of St. Paul, in Heroic Verse, beside some things in Prose.

Jacobus Rueff, a Chirurgian of Zu∣rick, who besides several useful things in Prose, among which is his Catalo∣gue of the Chief Physitians and Astro∣logers to his time; wrote also several things in Dramatic Poetry, as his Co∣medy of William Thel, the principal promoter of the Helvetian Conspiracy, the Rape of Paulina, the Cheat of the Priests of Isis, with some others of Divine argument taken out of the Holy Scripture.

Jacobus Sadoletus, see Giacopo Sado∣letti.

Jacobus Schoepperus Fremonianus, the Author of a Tragi-Comedy entitled the Monomachie, or single Combta be∣tween David and Goliab.

Jacobus Wimphelingus, a Native of Sledstadt in Germany, and Presbyter of the Church of Spire, a very copious and fruitful writer both in Prose and Verse, of which last kind were his Poem in praise of the B. Virgin in Elegiac Verse, dedicated to Bartholdus Arch-Bishop of Mentz, his Angelical Nuncio in Heroic Verse, his Poem to Philip Count Pala∣tine in Heroic Verse, his Elegy to his

Eldest Son Lewis, his Poem to Eber∣hard Duke of Wirtenberg in Heroic, not to mention his Hymns, Epigrams and other various Pieces of Poetry. He flou∣risht at Spire an. 1494.

Iacobus Zevecotius, a Hollander e∣steem'd among the Chief of Belgic writers in Latin Verse, and of whose Poems there are particularly quoted by learned Men; his Elegies, his Trage∣dy Terris-munda, and his Maria Graeca.

Iames Shirly, a just pretender to more then the meanest Place among the English Poets, but most especially for Dramatic Poesy, in which he hath written both very much; and for the most part with that felicity, that by some he is accounted little inferiour to Fletcher himself; his Comedies are the Ball, the Humorous Courtier, the Bro∣thers, Love in a Maze, the Gamester, the Grateful Servant, the Bird in a cage, the Constant Maid, the Coronation, the Court Secret, the Example, Hide Park, the Lady of pleasure, the Oppor∣tunity, the Wedding, the Witty fair one, the Royal Master: Tragedies, the Cardinal, the Maids Revenge, Chabot

Admiral of France, the Traitour; the Imposture, a Tragy-Comedy; Arcadia, a Pastoral, &c.

Iames Stuart, a King of Scotland, the first of that Name, who being taken prisoner, and brought to London, where he was educated in all kind of Liberal and accomplishing Arts and Sciences, prov'd a great proficient in all, and particularly left recorded Memorials behind him of his perfection in Music and Poetry.

Ianus Antonius Balyfius, one of the chief ornaments of his time for polite Learn∣ing, but most peculiarly eminent for what he hath imparted to the world of his Poetical fancy.

Ianus Chunradus Rhumelius, a wri∣ter of Latin Verse, with success sufficient to be rankt among the Cheif of mo∣dern Latin Poets.

Ianus Anysius, a writer of Satyrs and other Poems, which he dedicated to Cardinal Pompeio Colonua.

Ianus Cornarus, a learned German Author of Zwiccaria, among whose multitude of other works, his Carmen Propempticon to Franciscus a Stiten, is

not forgotten, he is mention'd flou rishing in the year 1551.

Janus Douza, a Belgic both Poet and Oratour, born at Nortwick in Hol∣land, of a Noble Family; what with his Poems wherein he discovered a most acute wit and sublime fancy, and the Annals he wrote of his own Country, with no less judgment then learning, he obtain'd to be generally styl'd the Varro of Batavia, and Common Oracle of the Academy. He is recor∣ded flourishing in the year 1604.

Janus Lernutius, a learned German, particularly remember'd among those of that Nation that have a fame in La∣tin Poetry.

Jean de Marests, a French Author of a Poem entitled Clovis, or La France Christienne.

Janus Pannonius, a Poet of Hungary, of whose Poems there are extant his Panegyrical Sylva, to the Bishop of Funfkirken, his Panegyries to Gavariuo of Verona, and Giacopo Antonio Marcello of Venice, his Proseu••htich to Frederik the 3^d for the Peace of Italy, besides Epigrams, Elegies and other Miscel∣lanies.

Janus Parrhasius, a Calabrian, pro∣clam'd by Alstedius the most excellent Poet of his time; he was born in the year of our Lord 1470.

Joachimus Axonius, a Poetical wri∣ter among the Latin Versifiers of Bel∣gium, or the Low-Countrys.

Joachimus Bellaius, a Kinsman of Car∣dinal Bellaius, in whose Family, for he himself was not a Person of any great Fortune, he enjoy'd a happy vacancy to his study and Muse, to which he was wonderfully addicted: his Tristia, and his Ludi Rustici are particularly men∣tion'd by Thuanus, with commenda∣tion.

Joachimus Camerarius, a universally learned and most renowned writer, a∣mong whose almost innumerable Vo∣lumes there are not a few in Verse, as particularly his Precepts for Childrens decent behaviour, his Description of the Constellations, his Prognostics of the weather▪ all in Elegiac Verse; also his Epigrams for the Ordering Diet, in respect to the alteration of the year.

Joachimus Myrioianus, a German of

whose Poetical writings, there are ex∣tant his Verses against Luther, his Elegy upon the death of Empserus his Epice∣dium to Simon Pistor, upon the death of his Wife & his Paraph••ase in Verse upon the Lords Prayer.

Ioachimus Mynsingerus Dentatus, a Jurisconsult by Profession, of Frundeck in Germany, but not thereby wholly taken off from his addiction to the Mu∣ses, by whose instinct he wrote among other things a Poem, which by its title Austrias pretends to be Heroic.

Ioachimus Vadianus, a Helvetian, both Physician, Poet and Orator; the chief of whose Poetic works are his Poem in praise of the Emperours Fre∣deric the third, and his Son Maximilian, his Epi••aph of Rodolphus Bishop of Wurtsburg, his Eglogue entitled Fau∣stus, his Elegy of the Armories and Ensigns of honour given by Sigismund K. of the Romans to the Family of the Vadiani, his Elegy describing his com∣bat with Death, and his Ode upon the Resurrection; he died in the year of our Lord 1551.

Ioan••es Albinus, a German Poet emi∣nent

among the writers of Latin Verse of that Nation.

Ioannes Alexander Brassicanus, an industrious publisher of several antient Authors, which were before unknown, as the workes of Eucherius, the Greec Geoponics of Constantine, Bishop Sal∣vianus his Book of judgment and Pro∣vidence, and Petronius Arbiter's Satyrs, besides what he set forth of the pro∣ductions of his own fancy, which were his Idyliium to Charles King Elect of the Romans, Elegies, Epigrams, Dialogues in Verse, and other Poems.

Ioannes Altus, a Poet of Hessen, who wrote an Epithalamium to Ioannes Fa∣bricius Montanus, and put into Verse Suetonius his History of the 12 Cesars.

Ioannes Antonius Flaminius, a writer of Forum Cornelii, a Principal Town of Flaminia, who wrote in Latin Verse 2 Books of Sylvae, and 3 of Epigrams, besides an elegant Paraphrase upon se∣veral of Davids Psalms; in Prose a Trea∣tise of the several Sects of Philoso∣phers, and of the original of Philo∣sophy.

Ioannes Antonius Hermaphroditus,

the Author of certain Verses which are extant among other choice Poetical Collections in Albertus de Eyb's Mar∣garita Poetica.

Joannes Arnolletus, the Author of a small triple Poem entitled Faith, Hope and Charity, which not amounting to a Volume of it self, was printed with a Collection of Choice Poems of se∣veral Authors by Robert Winter at Ba∣sil.

Joannes Arnoldus, a Poet of Bergella, who wrote an Encomium upon the In∣vention of Chalcography in Elegiac Verse.

Joannes Atrocianus, a German Au∣thor next after whose Commentaries upon Macer's Book of Planets, there is mention'd an Elegy of his upon the Rustic war, begun in Germany in the year 1525; he is mention'd flourishing in the year 1528.

Joannes Aventinus, a writer of se∣veral Treatises in Prose, especially in Grammar, and not altogether a stran∣ger to Verse, in which however he is only taken notice of for his Hymn of the Celestial Sphaere.

Joannes Anratus, The Regius Pro∣fessor of the Greec Tongue at Paris under Charles the 9^th of France, and one of the 3 most approved French Poets, (the other two were Hospita∣lius and Turnebus) whom Vtenhovius in a Latin Distich sets in Competition against 6 Italians, namely Sanazarius, Fracastorius, Flaminius, Vidas, Nava∣gerius and Bembus.

Joannes Aurelius Angurellus, a Poet of Rimini, who being addicted to that kind of Mysterious Philosophy, that pretends to the finding out of the Phi∣sopher's Stone, wrote a Poem in He∣roic Verse, entitled Chrysopoea, or The Art of making Gold in 3 Books, which he dedicated to Pope Leo the 10^th; ano∣ther call'd Geronticon in one Book, be∣sides 5 Books of Iambics, 2 of Sermones, and 2 of Odes.

Joannes Baleus, an English writer, who flourisht in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, best known by his Treatise, which give; account of all the Eminent writers of our Nation of what Art or Faculty soever, and by what he hath thereby contributed to this work, the

better meriting to be here inserted, to which place the title he derives is by those Dramatic Pieces out of Holy Scri∣pture, which we find enumerated a∣mong the rest of his works.

Ioannes Baptista Almadianus, a Vi∣terbian, of whom there are several Ele∣gies in Latin Verse upon the death of Platina, extant at the end of Platina's works.

Ioannes Baptista Egnatius, an Emi∣nent and General Professor of the Li∣beral Arts at Venice, of which Citty he was also a Native; the only Monument of whose Poetic Genius we find men∣tioned among many other of his Vo∣lumes, is his Panegyric in Heroic Latin Verse, upon Francis the first of that Name, King of France.

* 1.3Ioannes Baptista Pigna, an∣other Venetian, of whose writ∣ings there are 4 Books of Son∣nets printed at Venice, together with the Sonnets of Celio Calcagnino, and Ludovico Ariosto, by Vincentio Valgri∣sio.

Ioannes Baptista Scaphenatius, a Mila∣nese, of whose writing something is pre∣serv'd

among the Collected works of several Eminent Italian writers of La∣tin Poetry.

Ioannes Barclaius, a most acute learn∣ed and Elegant Scochman, and very fa∣mous for what he hath writen both in Prose and Verse; but especially for his Argenis, and his Euphormio, both which works, though written for the most part in solute Oration, yet may very well be accounted Poems, not only for that they are intersperst throughout with Verse, but also for that they have their Political and Moral truths allegoris'd or coucht under feign'd and invented Story.

Ioannes Boccatius, see Giovanni Boc∣catio.

Ioannes Bonfinius, a Frenchman of Auvergne, whose Basia and other Poems were printed at Leiden an. 1656.

Ioannes Busmannus, a writer of Poems which were printed at Wirtemberg an. 1337.

Ioannes Carbonirosa, an Author of Kirkhoven, who among other things wrote certain Dramatic Pieces out of the Holy Scripture.

Joannes Columbinus, the Author of a little Poem entiled Contra Philomu∣sum, or against the Contemners of School Divinity.

Joannes Cotta, a native of Ponte A∣liaco, a Town upon the River Athesis, who publisht an Elegant Book of La∣tin Epigrams; but whose Noble Book of Chorographie begun in Verse, was not only left unfinisht, but also that which was done of it lost, together with his learned Scholia upon Plinie.

Joannes Crato, a Silesian, born at Vratisla•••• the Cheif City of that Coun∣try, in the year of our Lord 1512; he is styl'd by Boisa••dus in his Icones the Hierophantes of all polite Literature, and had indeed the general reputation as well of an excellent Poet as of a profound Philosopher, and most skilful Physician; but for being so great a Philosopher and Physician, it was, that he remain'd Counsellor and Chief Phy∣sician for 26 years to 3 Emperours suc∣cessively, Ferdinand the first, Maximi∣lian the second, and Rodulphus the second.

Joannes Dantiscus, a Polonian, who wrote in Heroic Verse a Poem entitled Soteria, to Sigismund de Erberstein, a Knight of Poland, upon his return from Muscovie; another upon the Victory of Sigismund King of Poland against the Waywod of Moldavia: also a Sylva in Elegiac Verse, upon the calamities of his times. He was flourishing in the year 1531.

Joannes Elius, a writer of Divine Odes, mention'd in Hervagius his Ca∣talogue.

Joannes Fabritius, a Native of Ber∣kena, in Lower Alsatia, who wrote in Verse the History of Gulielmus Thellius, which dedicating to Conradus Pellica∣nus, he publisht himself with other Poems of his: He flourisht at Zurich in the year 1554.

Joannes Filiczkius, a Hungarian Poet, remembred for what he hath written in Latin Verse among the Chief of that Nation.

Joannes Franciscus Camaenus, a Na∣tive of Perusia, a Town of Hetruria, but under the Pope's Dominion, who wrote an Heroic Poem (in name at

least) of the Rape of Philenis, which with several other Poems, as Eclogues, Elegies, Epigrams, Odes, Epicedia, &c. was printed at Venice, by Gulielmo de Fontaneto an. 1520.

Ioannes Franciscus Mutius, an Ita∣lian, of whom what is extant in Latin Verse is to be found among the selected workes of divers of the principal Latin Poets of that Nation.

Ioannes Franciscus Picus Mirandula, the Nephew of that Miracle of his time Picus Count of Mirandula, and as rela∣ted to him by Blood, so also by Inge∣nuity and perfection of learning: both his Books de Veritate Fidei Christianae, and also his Sacred Poems are mention∣ed with high commendation by Paulus Iovius, in his Elogies, and also by Boissartus in his Icones.

Ioannes Franciscus Quintianus Stoa, an Italian writer of very many Poeti∣cal things in Latin Verse, besides some in Prose; among his first kind are his Threnodies upon the deaths of the K. of France, the K. of Scots, Queen Anne, Philippus Beroaldus, &c. His Poem of the Amours of Mars and Venus in 8 Books,

his Cleopolis or Sylva upon the Glory of the City of Paris, his Sylva in praise of Marinus Beichemius, his Theandro∣genosis and Theanastasis, the first an Ode upon our Saviours Nativity, the second a Sylva upon his Resurrection, 7 Tragedies, whereof 2 Divine; and 5 Comedies.

Ioannes de Gerson, a French Author of a most wonderful multitude of Vo∣lumes, whereof some in Verse, par∣ticularly his Epithalamium upon the Mystical Marriage betwen a Divine and the Study of Theology. He was Chancellor of the Parisian Academy, and is mentioned flourishing in the year of our Lord 1429.

Ioannes Fungerus, a German, who sung in Heroic Verse the Acts of Mau∣rice William Governor of Friseland.

Ioannes Gigas, the Author of a Trea∣tise concerning the Certainty of Chri∣stian Religion; to which are added his Divine Poems, besides which he wrote many things in Poetry, as Sylvae, Epi∣grams, Elegies, and among the rest his Elegy upon the 2 Eclipses of the Moon that hapened in the year 1538. his Fu∣neral

Elegy upon John Prince of Sa∣xonie, his Encomium upon the City of Leipsich, and his Epicedium upon the death of Erasmus.

Joannes Gilleius, a Burgundian, who among other things wrote an Elegant Description of the Stately House and Gardens of Pagn••l, belonging to the Gileian Family, and of the City of Sa∣lines, and the River Furiosa flowing by it; together with the Famous Wilder∣ness belonging to the Sieur Du Sachet.

Joannes Girardus, the Author of a Poem entitled Divionensis Stichostratia, with two Centuries of Epigrams.

Joannes Grasserus, the Author of cer∣tain Latin Poems, which were printed at Colen, an. 1595.

Joannes Hasembergius, a Bohemian, no less mention'd for his Drolling Verses upon Martin Luther, then for his being Tutor to the Emperor Ferdi∣nand's Children.

Joannes Honterus, an Eminent Geo∣grapher of Cronstadt, in Transilvania, who among divers Geographical Trea∣tises, wrote one in Hexameter Verse, di∣vided into four Books, entitled Rudi∣menta Geographica.

Joannes Hospinianus Steinanus, a Helvetian, who besides several Trea∣tises in Prose, wrote in Verse a Pane∣gyric upon the Lord Magnus ab Emer•• shofen, several Epithalamia or Nuptial Poems.

Joannes Jacobus Gabianus, the Au∣thor of a Poem entitled Romanensium Victoria, with the Office and Commen∣dation of St. Columbanus in Verse, Te∣trasticks of the Saints, and Distichs of Morality, with other things.

Joannes Jovianus Pontanus, a very renowned Philosopher, Orator, and Poet; first Tutor and afterwards Se∣cretary to Alphonso the Younger King of Naples, among his Poetical works, were his five Books of the Constella∣tions, his Book of Meteors, his Poem of the Culture of Citron, entitled The Hesperian Gardens, in 6 Books, his Le∣pidina, or Pastoral Pomps, his Bucolics, Melissus, Maeon, & Acon, &c.

Joannes Lanterbachius, an Author sufficiently Eminent among the German writers in Latin Verse.

Joannes Leochaeus, a learned Scotch∣man, of considerable repute for his Ele∣gant

Latin Poems entitled Musae Priores, which in his late Majesties Reign were printed at London, and dedicated to William Earl of Pembrok.

Ioannes Linkius, a German, reputed one of the Chief among the Latin Poets of that Nation.

Ioannes Lorichius Hadamarus, a well approv'd German Author, especially for what he hath written in Poetry, as his Book of Riddles, and his Ecclesiasti∣cus in Latin Verse; as also his Catalogue of Ancient Civilians in Elegiac Verse, with some other things.

Ioannes Ludovicus Brassicanus, a Ger∣man, whose Carmen Odoeporicon to Ioa∣chimus Camerarius, is the cheif of what I find mentioned of his Poetry: In Prose he wrote a Comment upon Ci∣cero's Book De Legibus, and other noted things.

Ioannes Major, a Belgian, reckon'd among the Principal writers of that Country in Latin Poetry.

Ioannes Maria Velmatius, an Italian, whose Latin Muse travell'd through the whole Bible.

Joannes Maurus, the Author of a late Latin Poem, entitled Theatrum V∣niversae vanitatis, printed at Paris anno 1668.

Joannes Mercurius Morsheimerus, a German, who wrote a Poem in Elegiac Verse, in praise of Autumn; he flou∣risht at Heidelberg an. 1552.

Joannes Metellanus, a Scotchman, whose Epigrams are publisht among the selected Poems of several others, esteem∣ed the Cheif Latin Versifiers of that Nation.

Joannes Morisotus, a Physician of Dole, who besides what he wrote in Prose, both in Physic and several other sub∣jects, wrote also in Verse, Ethologia in 10 Eclogus, 6 Aucupatory Eclogues, 7 Books of Odes, a Poem entitled Her∣culeis, another Antonias, or the Life of St. Antony; the Tragedy of Dido, 2 Books of Divine Epigrams, and other things.

Joannes Muscopius, a German, men∣tion'd particularly for his Epithalamium upon the Nuptials of Simon R••stius, with Margereta, the Daughter of Anto∣nius Turlera.

Ioannes Passeratius, a Professor of the Latin Tongue in the University of Paris, where what he wrote as well in Verse as in solute Oration, both in the French and Latin Tongues, had no vulgar repute; the mention'd time of his Flourishing is the year 1602.

Ioannes Phernandus, a German, who besides other things, in Verse, wrote the hours of the Holy Cross, and of the Com∣passion of the B. Virgin in Elegiac Verse: he flourisht an. 1494.

Ioannes Picus, Count of Mirandula, the Phoenix of his Age, and darling of the Muses, as he is styl'd by Scaliger: Sixtus Senensis also in his Bibliotheca, for his many concurring excellencies, as his rare Beauty of Body and Mind, his Nobility of Birth, admirable Wit and profound Literature, Sirnames him the Phoenix; but Politian in his Epistles, among other great Characters gives him particularly that of egregious Poet: what Miracle then would he have been, had be liv'd longer? for he died in the 32 year of his age, being the year of our Lord▪ 1449.

Joannes Pierius, a Poet of Valeria, among whose Poems there are noted his Fable of Leucippus, and that of the Carp-Fish, his Epistle of Protesilaus to Laodamia, his Amicitia Romana, his Joathas, &c.

Joannes Pedioneus, a Writer of Hymns in Latin Verse.

Joannes Posselius, a learned Writer (among other things) of Rules or Pre∣cepts of human Life in Greec Verse.

Joannes Posthius, a learned both Phy∣sitian and Poet, born in the Palatinate anno 1537; his Poetical works were his Parerga Poetica; his works belonging to Physic, his Anatomical Observations, and some other things.

Joannes Rhellicanus, a Poet of Zu∣rich in Switzerland, who at the end of Homer's Life, which he translated out of Plutarch, hath a Poem entitled Stock∣hornias, in which he describes a journy he made over the Mountain Stockhorn, in the Territory of Bearn: He wrote also another Poem of the 3 Men of Baden, who were beheaded for Religion; he was flourishing anno 1538.

Joannes Richius, a Poet of Annove∣riacum, who in a Poem which he wrote in Heroic Verse of the Nuptials of Volradus Count of Waldec and Anastasia the Daughter of the Count of Swar∣zemburg; gives a summary view of the Lives and Transactions of several of the Counts of Waldec: he also wrote a Propempticon of the Lord Franciscus a Stiten, taking a Journy into Livonia.

Joannes Rosa, one of those Latin Poets accounted of the prime of Scot∣land, who are joyn'd together in a pu∣blisht Collection of their several Sele∣cted Works.

Joannes Sambucus, a Hungarian, ac∣counted one of the Chief of that Coun∣try for Latin Poesy; there are princi∣pally taken notice of his Carmina Ethi∣ca, or Moral Precepts in Verse.

Joannes Sapidus, a Poet of Schled∣stadt, one of the Imperial Cities in the Circle of Rhine. He wrote, besides Epi∣grams and other Miscellaneous Poems, his Anabion, or Lazarus redivivus, a Divine Comedy.

Joannes Schosserus, a German Writer, well approv'd for his Latin Poems.

Ioannes Scotus Scototarvatius, a Scotch Knight, and Person of Eminent Di∣gnity in the State, yet more advanc't in Fame, by the Place his Elegies have obtain'd among the most esteem'd Latin Poets of that Nation.

Joannes Secundus, an Elegant Poeti∣cal Writer of Hague, as appears by his 3 Books of Elegies, his Funera, Epi∣grams, Basia, Odes, Epistles, and Syl∣vae.

Joannes Sekervius, a Poet of Vra∣tislaw, one of the Chief Cities of Po∣land, of whose Poetical invention there are principally mention'd 2 Elegies of Jacob and Esau, reciprocal from one to the other.

Joannes Serranus, a Gallic Writer of Vivar, whose Version of several of the Psalms of David, exceed in the judge∣ment of Duport, what ever had been done before of that kind.

Joannes Simonius, a German, among whose Poems we find his Princeps most especially quoted.

Joannes Sommerus, a Hungarian of no obscure Note, for what he hath written in Latin Verse.

Joannes Spangenbergius, a German Theologist and Preacher at Northausen, an Imperial Town in the Circle of Sa∣xonie, who as he wrote many things in Prose, so he was not averse to Poetry, as appears by his Version of David's Psalms into Elegiac Verse.

Joannes Stabius, an Austrian, both Poet and Mathematician, and honour'd with the Title of Historian to the Em∣perour Maximilian: several things he wrote in Verse, but what he wrote in Prose were chiefly Astronomical and Geographical.

Joannes Stella, a Venetian Poet, who wrote the Lives of several Popes, in Latin Verse.

Joannes Stigelius, a famous German Astronomer, and not obscure Poet, which last Character he bears from his Epithalamium of Georgius Sabinus, and Anne the Daughter of Philip Melanction; his Versification of several of David's Psalms, with other Scripture Hymns; his Epicedium upon the death of Euri∣cius Cordus, another upon the death of Anne Wife of Philip Earl of Nassaw; his Eclogue Jolas, upon the Emperour

Charles 5^th, &c. He Flourisht in the year 1554.

Joannes Tetthingerus, an Author of Tubingen, one of the 16 Earldoms in the Circle of Suevia, who set forth in Heroic Verse the 4 Wirtembergs wars, which lasted for many years; he flou∣risht at Pfullendorf anno 1534.

Joannes Thomas Musconius, a Member of that Society of Italian Poets, who are joyn'd together in a Publisht Colle∣ction of their selected Works in Latin Verse.

Joannes Thuilius, a Poet of Mons-Mariae, who saluted Nicolaus Contarenus Duke of Venice, with a Solemn Pane∣gyric in Verse, and was highly in Fa∣vour with Andreas Maurocenus, and Dominicus Molinus for his Exalted Vein in Poetry.

Joannes Versola, a Spaniard, who by King Philip the Second then in England, and Married to our Queen Mary, was sent Embassadour to Rome. The Verses which he took delight to Compose in the interval of his more serious affairs, had the esteem of Learned Men, and

were printed at Panormus in Sicily, un∣der the Title of Epistles.

Ioannes Vrsinus, an Eminent Pro∣fessor of Medicine, which Apollo-like he joyned with Poetry: he described in Elegiac Verse the Prosopopoea or Meta∣phorical Representation of divers Ani∣mals, as also the Diaetetical part of Me∣dicine: besides a little Book of Moral Sentences in Verse, like that of Cato.

Iodocus Badius Ascentius, a Commen∣tatour upon Tully's Offices and Epistles, and Boethius de Consolatione Philosophiae: Erasmus compares him to Budaeus, whom he calls the Ornament of France. More∣over, by a late English Author he is character'd the most famous Philoso∣pher, Rhetorician and Poet of his time.

Iodocus Gallus, a Dr of Theology of Rubeaqua, a Town in Upper Alsatia, and Pastor of the Church of Spire, who besides several Theological Treatises, in Prose, wrote Epigrams in divers kinds of Verse.

Iohn Cleaveland, a Notable High soaring Witty Loyalist of Cambridge, whose Verses in the time of the Civil

War begun to be in great request, both for their Wit and zeal to the King's cause, for which indeed he appear'd the first, if not only, Eminent Cham∣pion in Verse against the Presbyterian Party; but most especially against the Kirck and Scotch Covenant, which he prosecuted with such a Satyrical fury, that the whole Nation fares the worse for it, lying under a most grievous Poetical Censure. In fine, so great a Man hath Cleaveland been in the Esti∣mation of the generality, in regard his Conceits were out of the common road, and Wittily far fetch't, that Grave Men in outward appearance have not spar'd in my hearing to affirm him the best of English Poets, and let them think so still, who ever please, provided it be made no Article of Faith.

S^r John Davis, the Learned and well accomplisht Father of a no less learned and accomplisht Daughter the present Countess Dowager of Huntington: his Poem Nosce teipsum, (besides which and his Orchestra publisht together with it, both the products of his younger years) I remember to have seen from the

hands of the Countess a judicious Me∣taphrase of several of David's Psalms) is said to have made him first known to Queen Elizabeth, and afterwards brought him in favour with King James, under whose auspices addicting himself to the Study of the Common Law of England, he was made the King's First Serjeant, and afterwards his Attorney General in Ireland.

S^r John Denham, late Surveyour of his Majestie's Works; but of a much more ce••ebrated memory by the Fame of what he hath written in Poetry, especially his Coopers Hill, and his Tra∣gedy The Sophi, which having been long since publisht and in general esteem, came forth again a few years since, joyn'd with the rest of his Poetical Works, which together amount to a considera∣ble Volume.

John Donne, a Student in his youn∣ger years in Lincoln's Inne, whither he betook himself from the University of Oxford; but instead of po••ing upon readious Reports, Judgments and Sta∣tute Books, he accomplisht himself with the politer kind of Learning, mo∣derately

enjoy'd the pleasures of the Town, and frequented good Compa∣ny, to which the sharpness of his Wit, and gayety of Fancy, render'd him not a little grateful; in which state of life he compos'd his more brisk and Youthful Poems, which are rather com∣mended for the heighth of Fancy and acutness of conceit, then for the smooth∣ness of the Verse. At last by King James his command, or rather earnest persuasion, setting himself to the study of Theology, and entring into Holy Orders, he was first made Preacher of Lincoln's Inne, afterwards advanc't to be Dean of Pauls: and as of an Emi∣nent Poet he became a much more Eminent Preacher, so he rather impro∣ved then relinquisht his Poetical Fancy; only converting it from human and worldly to Divine and Heavenly sub∣jects.

John Driden, Poet Laureat, and Hi∣storiographer to His present Majesty: with whom such hath been the appro∣bation and acceptance his Poetry hath obtained, especially what he hath writ∣ten of Dramatic, with wonderful suc∣cess

to the Theater Royal, viz. Come∣dies, several abounding with no vulgar wit and ingenuity, as the Maiden Queen, the Wild Gallant, the Mock Astrologer, Marriage a la mode, the Amourous Old Woman, the Assignation: Tyrannic Love, and Amboyna Tragedies; besides Histo∣rical Drama's; viz. the Indian Emperor, and two parts of the Conquests of Granada, in which if he have indulg'd a little too much to the French way of continual Rime and interlarding of Hi∣story with ascititious Love and Honour, I am apt to impute it rather to his complying with the modyfied an gal∣lantish humour of the time, then to his own well examined judgment.

Iohn Fletcher, one of the happy Tri∣nmvirat (the other two being Iohnson and Shakespear) of the Chief Dramatic Poets of our Nation, in the last fore∣going Age, among whom there might be said to be a symmetry of perfection, while each excelled in his peculiar way: Ben. Iohnson in his elaborate pains and knowledge of Authors, Shakespear in his pure vein of wit, and natural Poetic heighth; Fletcher in a courtly Elegance,

and gentile familiarity of style, and withal a wit and invention so over∣flowing, that the luxuriant branches thereof were frequently thought conve∣nient to be lopt off by his almost inse∣parable Companion Francis Beaumont.

Iohn Ford, a Dramatic Writer some years since, of Tragedies and Comedies, in their season I suppose not wholly strangers to the English Stage: His Tragedies The Broken Heart, Loves Sa∣crifice, and 'Tis pitty she's a Whore; his Comedies the Fancies & the Lady's Tryall, he wrote also a Tragy-Comedy Loves Labyrinth, besides the Dramatic History of Perkin Warbec.

S^r John Gowr, a very Famous English Poet in his time, and counted little in∣feriour, if not equal to Chaucer himself; who was his Contemporary, and some say his Scholar and Successor in the Laurel: For Gowr was also both Poet Laureat and Knight. His Cheif Works may be gather'd from his Tomb in St. Mary Overeis Church, where lying bu∣ried, he is represented with his head upon three large Volumes thus inscri∣bed, the first Votum Meditantis; the next

Confessio Amantis, the 3^d Vox clamantis, of which last being printed in the Reign of King Henry the 8^th, the Im∣pression is not yet totally extinguisht: the other two, doubtless, if not printed, are preserved in Public Libraries: For his Confessio Amantis I have seen in a private Library, in a large Folio Ma∣nuscript of Vellam fair written, con∣taining the whole circuit of Natural Philosophy, and the allegories of all the Poeticall Fictions; but that there were other things of his writing ap∣pears by what is extant of him in Chau∣cers publisht Works.

Iohn Hall, a Poetical writer, who ne∣ver having had any great Fame, that ever I heard of, no wonder if now to∣tally forgotten; especially since his Po∣em entitled The Court of Vertue, was publisht no less while ago then the year 1565. Of the same name also flourisht within these 30 years a Bishopric of Dur∣ham Man, who besides his juvenile Po∣ems, memorable only for their airy and youthful wit, improv'd afterwards to a more substantial reputation for what, he has wrote as well in Verse as Profe; but

a Poem he began of great and general expectation among his Friends, had he liv'd to compleat it, would doubtless have very much advanc't and complea∣ted his Fame.

Iohn Harding, a writer recorded in History for one of the Chief of his time; viz. the Reign of K. Edward the 4^th, and claiming his Seat among the Poetical Writers, by his Chronicle in English Verse.

Iohn Hauvise, a Monk of St. Albans, whom living about the Reign of K. Ri∣chard the first, or not long after, Cam∣den quoting him in several places of his remains, reckons among the Chief of English Latin Poets of that Age.

Iohn Hoddesdon, one of the last Age, who with his Sion and Parnassus, makes a shift to croud in among many others, not of the greatest Fame. And so likewise,

Iohn Kennedie, a Scotchman, with his History in Verse of Lycanthropos and Lucilla.

Iohn Lane, a fine old Queen Eliza∣beth Gentleman, who was living within my remembrance, and whose several

Poems, had they not had the ill fate to remain unpublisht, when much better meriting then many that are in print, might possibly have gain'd him a name not much inferiour, if not equal to Drayton, and others of the next rank to Spencer; but they are all to be pro∣duc't in Manuscript, namely his Poetical Vision, his Alarm to the Poets, his Twelve Months, his Guy of Warwic, a Heroic Poem (at least as much as many others that are so Entitled) and lastly his Sup∣plement to Chaucers Squires Tale.

Iohn Leland, an Antiquary of London, who Flourisht in the year 1546; and wrote among many other Volumes se∣veral Books of Epigrams, his Cignea Cantio, a Genethliae of Prince Edward, Naeniae upon the death of S^r Thomas Wiat; and several other things in Verse.

Iohn Lilly, a Writer of several old fashion'd Comedies and Tragedies, which have been printed together in a Volume, and might perhaps when time was, be in very good request, na∣mely Endymion, The Woman in the Moon, Midas, Mother Boniby, Galatea, Sapho &

Phao: Comedies, a Warning for Fair W••men.

••••hn Lydgate, an Augustin Monk of St. Edmunds-Bury, who had the repu∣tation of a person much accomplisht, by his travels into Italy and France; and besides several things of his of polite Argument in Prose, was much esteem'd for what he wrote also in Verse; as his Eglogues, Odes, Satyres, and other Poems.

Iohn Marston, a Tragic and Comic Writer, not of the meanest Ranck a∣mong our English Dramatics. His Co∣medies are the Dutch Curtisan, the Fawn, What you will; His Tragedies An∣tonio and Melida, the Insatiate Countess, besides the Malecontent a Tragy Come∣dy; the Faithful Sheapheard a Pastoral.

Iohn Milton, the Author (not to mention his other Works, both in La∣tin and English, both in strict and so∣lute Oration, by which his Fame is sufficiently known to all the Learned of Europe) of two Heroic Poems, and a Tragedy; namely Paradice lost, Para∣dice Regain'd, and Sampson Agonista; in which how far he hath reviv'd the Ma∣jesty

and true Decornm of Heroic Poesy and Tragedy: it will better become a person less related then my self, to de∣liver his judgement.

John Ogilby, one of the prodigies of our Age, for producing from so late an initiation into Literature, so many large & learned Vol. as well in verse as Prose: in Prose his Volumes of the Atlas, and other Geographical Works, which have gain'd him the Style and Office of his Majestie's Cosmographer; in Verse his Translat. of Homer & Virgil, & which is the chief of all, as Compos'd propria Minerva: his Paraphrase upon Aesop's Fables, which for Ingenuity & Fancy, besides the Invention of new Fables, is generally confess't to have exceeded what ever hath been done before in that kind.

John Philips, the Maternal Nephew and Disciple of an Author of most de∣served Fame late deceas't, being the exactest of Heroic Poets, (if the truth were well examin'd, and it is the opi∣nion of many both Learned and Judi∣cious persons) either of the Ancients or Moderns, either of our own or what

ever Nation else; from whose Education as he hath receiv'd a judicious com∣mand of style both in Prose and Verse, so from his own natural Ingenuity he hath his Vein of Burlesque and facetious Poetry, which produc't the Satyr against Hypocrites, and the Travested Meta∣phrase of two Books of Virgil, besides what is dispeirc't among other things; nevertheless what he hath writ in a se∣rious Vein of Poetry, whereof very little hath yet been made public, is in my opinion, nothing inferior to what he hath done in the other kind.

John Skelton, a jolly English Rimer, and I warrant ye accounted a notable Poet, as Poetry went in those daies, na∣mely King Edward the fourth's Reign, when doubtless good Poets were scarce; for however he had the good fortune to be chosen Poet Laureat: methinks he hath a miserable loos, rambling style, and galloping measure of Verse; so that no wonder he is so utterly forgotten at this present, when so many better Poets of not much later a date, are wholly laid aside. His chief Works, as many as I could collect out of an old

printed Book, but imperfect, are his Philip Sparrow, Speak Parrot, The death of K. Edward the fourth, A Treatise of the Scots, Ware the hawk, The tunning of Ele∣anor Rumpkin; in many of which follow∣ing the humour of the ancientest of our modern Poers, he takes a Poetical li∣bertie of Satyrically gibing at the vices and corruptions of the Clergy.

S^r Iohn Sucking, a witty and elegant Courtier under his late Majesty; his Po∣ems which being few, besides his Dra∣matics Aglaura, Brenoralt & the Goblins, are collected together with his Letters into a Volume, entitled Fragmenta Au∣rea, have a pretty touch of a gentile Spirit, and seem to savour more of the Grape then Lamp, and still keep up their reputation equal with any Writ so long ago; his Plays also still bring au∣dience to the Theater.

Iohn Webster, an Associate with Tho∣mas Decker, in several not wholly to be rejected Plays; viz. Northward Hoe, the Noble Stranger, New trick to cheat the Divel; Westward Hoe, the Weakest goes to the wall, Woman will have her Will, with Samuel Rowly in the Cure for

Cuckolds, a Comedy; besides what he wrote alone, the Divels Law case, a Tragy-Comedy, the White Devil, the Dutches of Malfy, Tragedies.

John Wilson, a late Writer with no bad success of two Comedies, the Cheats and the Projectors; and the Tra∣gedy of Andronicus Commenius.

Jonas ab Elvervelt, an Holsatian, who wrote a Description of the State of that Country, in Elegiac Verse.

Josephus Iscanus, or Joseph of Exeter; the very first (of the Moderns both in time and Fame) of Latin Poets among the English: who accompanying King Richard the first in his Expedition into the Holy Land, had the better advan∣tage to celebrate, as he did, the Acts of that Warlike Prince, in a Poem entitled Antiocheis: He wrote also 6 Books De Bello Trojano, in Heroic Verse; which as Cambden well observes, appears to be no other then that Version of Da∣res Phrygius, into Latin Verse, which hath been generally imputed to Corne∣lius Nepos.

have been equal to his undertaking.

Joshua Sylvester, the English Transla∣tor of Du Bartas his Poem of the six daies work of Creation, by which he is more generally fam'd; (for that Poem hath ever had many great admirers a∣mong us) then by his own Poems com∣monly printed therewith.

Juan de Mena, a Spaniard, whose Poetical Works were printed at Antuerp anno 1552.

Julius Ascanius, a Native of Crenta in the Venetian Territory; a tast of whose Poetical Fancy is extant among other the choise collected works of the most noted Italian Writers of Latin Verse.

Julius Caesar Stella, the Author of a Latin Poem of Heroic title Columbeis.

Justulus, an Eminent Author of Spo∣leto; whose writings are chiefly Poetical, as his Poem of the Culture of Saf∣fron, another of Silk-worms, his Epi∣cedium of Pomponius Laeta, his Musae Phanestres, his Description of the Moun∣tain adjacent to Spoleto, his Poem to Ferdinand of Arragon, and some others.

Josephus Justus, & Julius Caesar, two most celebrated Authors, Son and Fa∣ther, of the Illustrious Family Della Scala of Verona, and therefore gene∣rally known by the Sirname of Scali∣geri; of whom Julius hath the testi∣mony of the Great Thuanus, for a Per∣son unparallell'd by any of his Age, & scarce giving Place to any of the An∣cients, as Josephus is by the same Hi∣storian rankt in the next Place to his Father Julius, whose extant Poems, both Greec and Latin have gain'd him among Learned Men, a particular re∣putation of an excellent Poet; and if in any, doubtless in that very respect above all others, he is to be preferred before his Son Joseph, who, though ac∣counted in the number of Poets also; yet is much more fam'd for what he hath written in Prose: yet as much a Poet as Julius passeth for, his judge∣ment of some of the Poets in his Cri∣tica, might for ought I know, if well examined, bring in some question, whi∣ther if he had undertaken those great Provinces in Poetry, which require the highest judgement, his success would〈1 page missing〉〈1 page missing〉

Justus Lipsius, one of the most Il∣lustrious Antiquarys, Critics and Com∣mentatours of his time in Christendom, by the testimony of Thuanus, Dilherus and Aubertus Miraeus: and though what he hath written in Poetry, is not so much taken notice of, as his Antiquae Lectiones, his Notes upon Tacitus, his Saturnalia, and other fam'd things in Prose; yet to be reckon'd also among the cheif of Belgic Latin Poets, for he was born at Brussells, for his excellent Genius in Latin Verse: he was a con∣stant admirer of Joseph Scaliger, and by him no less belov'd: He was Flourish∣ing beyond the year 1606.

Justus Ricehius, a Native of Gaunt, who for his Varia Carmina, is inserted among the Belgic Writers of Latin Poetry.

L.

LAelius Capilupus, a Mantuan, who had such an artful and igenious way of making Centones, out of his Country-Man Virgil's Verses, that by Learned Men he is judged to have ex∣cell'd Ausonius and Proba Falconia, in that way of writing; he is mentioned Flourishing in the year 1560.

Laevinus Torrentius: see Levinus.

Lambertus, a Benedictine Monk of Liege, who besides his Life of Heriber∣tus Arch-Bishop of Coloign, wrote a Book of Hymns in various kinds of Verse.

Lambertus Danaeus, a Writer of Geo∣graphy in Latin Verse.

Lancinus Curtius, wrote decads of Epigrams, which were printed at Milan by Rochus & Ambrosius de Valle anno 1521.

* 1.4Laurentius Bonicontrius, a Commentator upon the Poet Manilius, his Astronomica, being him∣self both an Astronomer and Poet: his chief Poetic work being his Tractate of

things Natural and Celestial, in Heroic Verse: He was Flourishing an. 1494.

* 1.5 Laurentius Gambarus, a prin∣cipal Favorite of Cardinal A∣lexander Farnese, and that chiefly for his fine with and gentile Spirit in Poetry.

Laurentius Niendalius, the Author of Latin Poems which were printed at Vtrecht an. 1641.

Lazar•• Buonamico, an Italian Poet of Basiana & Paduan Professour 20 years: his most noted things in Poetry are his Epistles in Verse to Vrsinus Velius of Si∣lesia, Donatus Rullus of Venice, Altene∣rius Avogarus of Verona, and several other Eminent Men of Italy and other parts. Within the time of his Profes∣sourship is comprehended the year of our Lord 1553, the mentioned time of his Flourishing.

Leonardo Salviati, an Italian Comic writer, whose Comedy call'd La Spina being particularly taken notice of, was printed at Ferrara an. 1592.

Leonardus Brunus, an Eminent both Philosopher, Historian, Orator, and also Poet of Aretium, and thereupon generally known by the Appellation of Leonardus Aretinus.

Leonardus Pellicanus, the Brother of the most learned Conradus, and had he liv'd, might perhaps have arriv'd some∣what near his perfection, if not equall'd him at least in another kind; for his Genius was Poetical, but he was snatcht away in the flour of his age by an un∣timely death, in the year 1510 at Ru∣beaqua, the place also of his nativity, a Town of Upper Alsatia: however, he left behind him no inconsiderable Fame, by his elaborate Elegy upon the death of the Lady Margaret, the Wife of Philip Count Palatine, and Duke of Bavaria; and his Poem upon the Re∣surrection and Last Judgment, besides Epigrams in various kind of Verse.

Levinus Brechtus, a Friar Minorite of Lovain, who wrote the Lives of di∣vers Illustrious Martyrs, both in Frose and Verse.

Levinus Torrentinus, a Native of Gaunt, highly extoll'd by Meibomius, for his Learning in general; by Sandius for his Notes upon Suetonius and Ho∣race; and by Aubertus Miraeus for his Odes and Lyric Poetry: For his excel∣lent Genius in which he prefers him

next after Horace himself; he was the next Bishop of Antuerp after Franci∣scus Sonnius, & was Flourishing beyond the year 1595.

Lodovic Carlisle, the Author of di∣vers formerly not unesteem'd, and not yet totally forgotten Tragi-Comedies; as the two parts of Arviragus and Fe∣licia; The Passionate Lovers, in 2 parts; Osmond the Great Turk, or the Noble Ser∣vant, a Tragedy.

Lopez de Vega Carpio, the most noted writer among the Spaniards of Come∣dies, and other Dramatic Poems; but more noted for the multitude (for he is exceeding Voluminous) then for the goodness of them, and for his singula∣rity in making but 3 Acts to each Fable or Play. He also wrote a Poem of S^r Francis Drake's Exploits in the West-Indies.

Lorenzo Medici, a Noble Florentine, as his Name imports, whose Poesie Vol∣gari was printed at Venice an. 1554.

Lucas Shepheard, an English Poet of Colchester in Essex, of so much note in Queen Mary's Reign, that he is thought not unworthy of mention by some of our English Historians.

Ludolphus Pithopoeus, a learned and ingenious Hollander; but most parti∣cularly taken notice of among the Belgic Latin Poets, for his singular faculty in Latin in Verse.

Ludovicus Alealmus, a French Poe∣tical writer, having a principal Place among the Latin Versifiers of that Nation.

Ludovico Ariosto, one of the two most celebrated Heroic Poets of Italy; and thereupon Competitor with Torquato Tasso the other: his Poem entitled Or∣lando Furioso, takes its argument from the Expedition of the Emperor Charles the Great against the Saracens in Spain. There are also of his writing several E∣legant Comedies.

Ludovicus Andreas Resendius, an Emi∣nent both Poet, Orator, Theologist and Antiquary.

Ludovico Bigi Vittorio, or Pittorio, a Poet of Ferrara, among whose other Poems, as Hymns, Epitaphs upon the Saints, Satyrs, Elegies, Epigrams, &c. his Hippolyta an Elegant Poem, is most especially noted.

Ludovico Bruno, the commended Au∣thor of a Poem upon the Coronation of Maximilian King of the Romans: he was Flourishing in the year 1494.

Ludovico Celio Calcagnino; see Celio.

Ludovicus Celottus, a French Man, noted for his Latin Tragedies Sapor, Chosroes, Adrian, the Tragical Marriage of Mahomet the Second; besides Hen∣decasyllables upon the Birth of Christ.

Ludovicus Crucius, the Author of several Latin Tragedies and Comedies, which were printed at Leiden anno 1605.

Ludovico Dolce, an Italian Lyric Poet or writer of Sonnets, one of the next Classis after Ottavio Rinuccini, and the rest mentioned with him: with this Ludovico may be ranked Ludovico Lau∣rentio Martelli, Gabriel Chabriera, Gio∣vanni de Casa, Mario Colonna, Agnolo Fi∣renzuola, Cesare Caporale, and Bur∣chiello▪

Ludovico Laurentio Martelli; see above in Ludovico Dolce.

Ludovicus Lazarellus, the Author of a Poetical Dialogue entitled Crater Her∣metis, dedicated to Ferdinand King of

the Romans, and printed at Paris by Henricus Stephanus an. 1505.

Ludovicus Mazurius, a Hollander, not inconsiderable among the Belgic Writers of Latin Poesy.

Ludovico or Luigi Pulci, a pretender by his Morgante to a Seat among the Italian Heroic Poets.

Ludovicus Tribaldus, the Author of a Latin Poem entitled Epenesis Iberica, which was printed at Antuerp an. 1632.

Luigi Alamanni, a Florentine prin∣cipally famous for his Heroic Poem en∣titled Avarchis: he wrote also 4 Books of Agriculture in Blanc Verse, in which kind of writing not only he, but also some others of the most judicious of the Italian Poets, have succeeded well enough, to demonstrate that Rime is not so very essential in the modern Lan∣guages, to the making up of a Verse.

Luigi or Ludovico Tansilli, an Italian Poet, best known by what he hath writ∣ten for the Stage, yet not solely Dra∣matic, there being other things of his writing, of which the chief is his Poem entitled Lagrime di Sancto Pi∣etro.

Luis Galvez, a Poetical Writer of Note among the Spaniards, whose Pa∣stor de Philida. was printed at Madrid anno 1582.

Luke Sheapherd; see Lucas Sh.

M.

MAlens Acidalius, a Writer in La∣tin Poetry of the number of those that are esteem'd of the chief German Writers of that kind.

Maphaeus Barberinus, a great Or∣nament to the Papal Chair, to which he was advanc't by the Name of Vr∣ban the 8^th, by reason of his polite Learning and Elegance; among other Arts and Sciences, in which he had at∣tain'd a great perfection, his extant Poetry hath gain'd him a very Flourish∣ing Fame.

Maphaeus Vegius, a Poet of Lodi, contemporary with Angelus Politianus; among his other Poetical Works, his most noted is his Supplement to Virgil's Aeneis: He is mentioned Flourishing in the year 1403.

Marcellus Palingenius, Sirnam'd Stel∣latus Poeta, the Author of a well known and approv'd Poem entitled Zodiacus Vitae, whose subject is the right Insti∣tution of human Life, Study and Man∣ners, and dedicated to Hercules the Second Duke of Ferrara; it consists of 12 Books, according to the number of the 12 Signs, and each Book accord∣ingly denominated.

Marcus Antonius Antimachus, a Na∣tive of Ferrara, who by his assiduous and choice converse with Greec Authors, made himself so much Master of that Language, that he hath among other things both in Prose and Verse, written 8 Books of Greec Epigrams with the success of no vulgar repute; he out∣liv'd the year 1544.

Marcus Aemilius Portus, the Son of Franciscus a Cretensian, or Native of the Isle of Candie, a Professor of the Greec Tongue; first at Ferrara, next at Orleans; whose Metaphrase of David's Psalms in Greec Verse is taken notice 〈◊〉〈◊〉 by Duport, though with no extraordi∣nary commendation.

Marco Antonio Tibaldeo, a noted Ita∣lian Author of a Poem entitled Tibal∣deo, which was printed at Venice anno 1556.

Marcus Antonius Boba a Cardinal, whom Thuanus having convers't with him at Rome, commends for his Vein in Poetry and his Eloquence, both in speaking and writing.

Marcus Antonius Flaminius, an Ita∣lian, who besides that he was an excel∣lent Philosopher, by his sweet Vein in Latin Poesy, sufficiently appearing in his 2 Books of Carmina or Odes, in∣deared himself to several Eminent Men of his time, and among others to Car∣dinal Reginald Pool, at whose request he made a Version of David's Psalms, in Elegant Latin Verse, which by mistake hath been by some imputed to Joannes Antonius Fl. of Forum Cornelii.

Marcus Antonius Muretus; see An∣tonius.

Marcus Hieronymus Vida, a Noble Poet of Cremona, who was promoted to the Bishoprie of Alba: his works consist chiefly of these following Po∣ems, his Christias or Poem of the Life

and▪ death of Christ, in 6 Books; his three Books De Arte Poetio; his 2 Books of the care and management of Silk-worms; his Description of the Game at Chesse; in one Book; besides Hymns, Odes, Bucolic, Eclogues, &c. He is mentioned by Thuanus among other learned Men, under the year 1566.

Marcus Joannes Croeselius, an Elegiac Writer in two remarkable Books; the first his Encomiums of the most noted Emperors, Kings and Commanders in War from Constantine: the second of Men most Famous for Learning and the Arts.

Marcus Joannes Fracta, a Poet of Verona, chiefly remember'd for his Po∣em entitled Malteis.

Marcus Musurus, a Cretan Writer of Epigrams, whereof those are particu∣larly remember'd which he wrote upon certain Greec Authors, set forth by Ni∣colaus Blastus at Venice an. 1500.

Mario Colonna; see Ludovico Dol••e.

Marius Philelphus, the Son of Fran∣ciscus already mention'd, and Heir of his Father's both Dignity and Fame for he was also both Knight and Poet Lau∣reat.

Martinus Earnerus, his Sylv••••la in va∣rious Latin Verse, not unmention'd by the Registers of the Works of Eminent Men.

Martin LLeu••llin, the not uncom∣mended Writer of a Book of Facetious Poems, which while he was Student of Christ-Church in Oxford, were pu∣blisht by the Title of Man-Miracles; but now more conversant in another of Apollos Faculties the Study and practice of Physic.

Martinus Bovillus, the Author of fu∣neral Elegies, which were printed at Brescia anno 1519.

Martinus Braschius, a German Writer of Latin Poesy, mentioned and quoted among the choice Latin Poets accounted of that Nation.

Martinus Opizius, an Italian of spe∣cial esteem for polite Literature, but especially for what he hath writen in Latin Verse.

Martinus Praetorius, a German of Poe∣tical Fame, chiefly for his Poem of He∣roic Title Austrias.

Martinus Turnemannus, a German, whose Poem entitled Triumphus Mortis,

was printed at Francfurt anno 1624.

Mattheus Argillander, a Writer of Poems, which were printed at Basil by Oporinus.

Mattheus Delius, a German, one of the principal esteem'd Latin Poets of that Nation.

Mattheus Gribaldus, a Commentator upon the Pandects, who also wrote up∣on the Modern Jurisconsults in Verse, allowing to each their several Distich.

Matteo Maria Boiardoi, a Count of Scandiano, whose Orlando Inamorato ranks him among the Italian Heroic Poets.

Matthias Cervus, the Author of a Poem in allusion to his own Name, upon the picture of a Hart; his famous Elegy also upon Philip Melanchthon, is particularly taken notice of.

Matthias Sirnamed from his Country Illyricus, a Greec Professor at Tubing, who set forth Poems also of various subjects.

Matthias Mosnaverus, a Writer of Strasburg, no less fam'd for his learned Epigrams then what he wrote in Prose; he is recorded Flourishing an. 1543.

Matthias Ringmannus Philesius, a na∣tive of Vogesium, the Disciple of Ja∣cobus Wimphelingus, and a writer of both Prose and Verse, particularly Epi∣grammatic.

Matthias Stoius, a Poetical writer of Regiomonte in Prussia, of whose writing I find particularly mentioned his Ele∣giac Poem upon Christs Baptism, and his Eclogue upon the Nuptials of Gaspar Peucerus, and Magdalen the Daughter of Melanchthon.

Mauritius Marganensis, an English-Man, who Flourisht in the year of our Lord 1210, and wrote a Book of Epi∣grams in various Latin Verse.

Mauritius Neoportus, another English writer (though much differing in time, as being of the present Age, and pro∣bably now living) of a late Latin Poem; printed at London, and entitled Votum Carolo Secundo Ang. &c. Regi.

Maximilianus Transylvanus, Max. Vi∣gnacurtius, & Max. Vriensis, a Triad of Maximilians, all Low-Country men of the number of those that have a Name for Latin Verse. The first of Brussels, whose Varia Carmina are pu∣blisht

with the selected Works of diverse others of that Country: the second of Arras, whose 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 in Res Belgas, is of the same publication: the third also of the same society, by his Book of Latin Epigrams.

Maximus Margunius, a Grecian, who at the Dedication of certain Reliques, sav'd by him from shipwrack, to the Public, added also several Copies of his own Verses, written in no unelegant style.

Melchior Acontius, a German, who hath written many things in Verse, a∣mong which is his noted Epithalamium upon the Nuptials of Georgius Sabinus, with Anne the Daughter of Ph. Melanch∣ton, commonly printed with Sabinus his Poems.

Melchior Agri••ola, a writer of Latin Epigrams, whose Sirname is sufficient to gain him reputation, what ever Re∣lation he had to the Great Rodolphus.

Melchior Barlaeus, a writer, thou••h not of equal fame for Poetry with Ga∣spar, yet reckon'd of the number of the chiefly esteem'd writers of the Low-Countries, for Latin Poetry.

Mr Menage; see Aegidius Menagius.

Mercurius Ronzius, a writer of di∣vers Tragedies so wel esteem'd, that Al∣bertus de Eyb in his Margarita Poetica, hath made a collection of Sentences out of them.

Michael Sirnamed Anglicus, but by Nation French, of the Town of Bel∣mont, a Professor of Civil and Canon Law, who yet gave himself a Vacancy to Poetry, and wrote 4 Books of Eclo∣gues to the Bishop of Paris, two to Ludovicus Villerius, besides several Books of various Poems.

Michael Sirnamed The Cornish, Poet, a notable Rimer in Latin Verse, in the time of K. Iohn and Henry the third; out of whose Rhyms for Merry Eng∣land, as Cambden calls them, several passages are quoted by the same Au∣thour in his remains.

Michael Drayton, Contemporary of Spencer and Sr Philip Sidney, and for Fame and renoun in Poetry, not much inferiour in his time to either: however, he seems somewhat antiquated in the esteem of the more curious of these ti∣mes▪ especially in his Polyalbion, the

old fashion'd kind of Verse whereof, seem somewhat to diminish that respect which was formerly pay'd to the subject as being both pleasant and elaborate, and thereupon thought worthy to be commented upon, by that once walk∣ing Library of our Nation Selden; his Englands, Heroical Epistles are more generally lik't, and to such as love the pretty Chat of Nymphs and Sheap∣herds, his Nymphals and other things of that nature cannot be unpleasant.

Michael Hospitalius, a Famous Chan∣cellor of France under Charles the 9^th til he was removed for opposing the Pa∣risian Massacre; and one of the cele∣brated Latin Poets of that Nation, for his 6 Books of Epistles in Latin Verse, and other Poetical works: from a very ancient Medal of Aristotle, he is con∣cluded to have much resembled that great Philosopher.

Michael Tarchaniota Marullus, a Con∣stantinopolitan Poet, whose Hymns and Epigrams were printed at Fano by Son∣cinus an. 1529.

Michael Toxites, a Rhetian or Grison, who wrote among other things an Ele∣giac Poem, entitled The Complaint of the Goose of the Ingratitude of Man∣kind.

Michael Vander Hagen, an Antuerpian, whose Varia Carmina rank him, with other selected Poets of the Low Coun∣tries.

Miguel Cervantes, a Spaniard, and the Author of that famous Spanish Ro∣mance call'd Don Quixot; besides No∣velles and other things in Prose; and in Verse, what ever besides, a Poem en∣titled Viaje di Parnasso.

Miguel, a Spanish Licentiate, whose Minerva Sacra, is mentioned with other late Poetical pieces of that Nation.

Mr Mole, a French both States Man, for he was President of the Parliament of Paris, and writer of Commended Poems, which were publisht not many years▪ since at Paris.

N.

NAtalis Comes, a Grave and Learned Venetian Historian, though most generally fam'd by his 10 Books of My∣thology, in which he gives a Summary of the Poetical Fables, with an Expli∣cation of all their Allegories, both Mo∣ral and Philosophical, to which is an∣nex't his Poem of Hunting, in Elegant Latin Verse; besides what else he wrote in Poetry.

Nathan Chytraeus, a German, whose Vranoscopia, Geoscopia and other Poeti∣cal pieces of that nature, are taken notice of by Learned Men, among the works of other writers of Latin Poetry, accounted of the Chief of Germany.

Nicodemus Frischlinus, a German writer of nomean account in Poetry, not less then Heroic as his Hebreis im∣ports.

Nicolas Breton, a writer of Pastoral, Sonnets, Canzons and Madrigals, in which kind of writing he keeps com∣pany with several other Contemporary Aemulators of Spencer and Sr Philip

Sidney, in a publisht Collection of se∣lected Odes, of the chief Pastoral Son∣netters, &c. of that Age.

Nicolaus Causinus, a very famous French man, Father Confessour joyntly with Iacobus Sirmondus, to King Lewis the 13^th of France; besides his vulgarly so much admired work The Holy Court, his Book De Eloquentia, his Thesaurus Graecae Poeseos, and other things in Prose, he hath also written in Verse several Tragedies, Solyma, Nebuchadonosor, Theo∣doricus, &c. and other Latin Poems.

Nicolaus Cisnerus Mosbachius, a Poet of the Palatine or Territory of the Prince Palatine of the Rhine; he was in his Prime about the year 1556.

Nicolaus Grudius, the possessour of a principal Place among the Principal Latin Poets of Germany.

Nicolaus Kenton, an old English Poet, that is old in respect of this Age, for he wrote in the Reign of K. Edward the 4^th; and as Poetry then went, was look't upon as a very Famous Man in those times.

Nicolaus Marius Panicianus a Ferra∣rese, whose Poetic writings were both many, and of various subiects.

Nicolaus Querculus, the Author of 2 Books of Moral Hexastichs, printed by Reginaldus Calderius at Paris an. 1552.

Nicolaus Rapinus, a Frenchman, whose Fame in Latin Poetry hath a Place among the Cheif of that Nation.

Nicolaus Reusnerus, a Professor at Ienes, of universal knowledge in all Arts and Sciences, by the testimony of Melchior Adams, in his Life, and Boissardus in his Bibliotheca; and for his felicity in Latin Verse, rankt among the modern Latin Poets accounted of the Prime of Germany: among the rest of his Opera Poetica, his Monarchae is peculiarly mentioned.

Nicolaus Rhedigerus, a German, one of the principal accounted of that Na∣tion for excellence in Latin Poetry.

Nicolaus Rigaltius, a wri••er of An∣notations upon Tertullian, for which he hath a very high commendation from Grotius, in his Epistle to Petrus Putea∣nus; but besides this and several other works in Prose, he hath written suffi∣ciently

in Latin Verse to gain himself the title to a Place among the modern Latin Poets, accounted of the Chief of France: He is also mentioned as a Person of universal Literature by Gas∣sendus, in his Life of Peireskius

Nicolaus Rudingerus, one of the number of those that are esteem'd of the Prime of the German Nation for a happy Vein in Latin Poetry.

Nicolaus Valla, a Roman, who besides his Latin Version of Homers Ilias and Hesiods Opera & Dies, hath also left productions of his own invention, a∣mong which his two Epistles of Rome and Constantinople, each to other reci∣procal.

O.

OCtavius Boldonius, wrote Epigra∣pica or Elogia, in Latin Verse, which were printed at Paris, anno 1660.

Octavius Cleophilus, an Elegant Poet of Fano, a principal Town of Marca A∣nconitana, among whose Poetical works (for he wrote many things both in Prose & Verse) are his Poem entitled Faneis, in 3 Books, and his Book De Coetu Poe∣tarum, in which he gives a brief touch of all the Ancient both Greec and Latin Poets.

Octavius Meninus, a writer of Latin Poesy, among other the Cheif writers of Latin Poesy accounted of the Ita∣lians.

Octavius Rubeus, a Paduan, born in the year 1570, the Son of Iacobus de Ru∣beis, and Hippolyta of the Family of the Scarpi; he wrote the History of Brescia, with good success, and is more∣over reckon'd among the number of Choicest Italians Poets.

Orlando Pescetti, a Tragic writer of Verona.

Otho of Cremona, his Latin Rythms concerning the choice of Simples and Medicinal Ingredients were printed at Francfort anno 1533 by Christianus Ege∣nolphus.

Ottavio Rinuccini, an Italian Lyric Poet or writer of Sonnets, one (gene∣rally so accounted) of the first rank after Petrarch, for Elegancy and sweet∣ness. Of the same Classe with him we may rekon Guido Cavalcanti, Gi∣rolamo Preti, Georgio Gradenico, Bene∣detto Varchi, Speron Sperone, Francesco Maria Molza, Bernardino Rota, and Tasso himself, who was no less happy in his Sonnets then in his Heroic Poems.

P.

PAcificus Maximus Asculanus, an Emi∣nent both Grammarian and Poet, among whose Poetical works his Poem Lucretia in 2 Books, and his Virginia, in as many, were seth forth by Hierony∣mus Soncinus an. 1550. He wrote also 20 Books of Elegies, a Poem to Jo∣annes Salvalius, and an Invective against Angelus Politianus.

Pamphilius Saxus, a Discoverer of his Poetical talent, with divers other Italian writers in Latin Poetry; whose selected works are publisht together.

Parthenius Paravicinus, a Novocom∣mensian, not of the meanest repute of the late Italian writers in Latin Verse.

Pantaleon Candidus, a German Poet of the Chief of those that are fam'd for an Elegant style in Latin Verse.

M^r Paschal, a late French writer of a Poem entitled Le Commerce du Par∣nasse.

Paulus Areolus, an Elegant Poet of Taleacotium, born in the year 1570.

He was preferr'd to the Government of Lugo by Cardinal Antonius Barbe∣rinus.

Paulus Dolscius, a Metaphrast of David's Psalms and Salomon's Book of Wisedom, and thereupon mention'd by Conradus Dinnerus, in his Catalogue of Greek Poets.

Paulus Maccius, an Italian of Prin∣cipal note and fame among the Latin Versifiers of that Nation.

Paulus Marsus, a Poet of Piscinae, who yet writ also in Prose a Comment upon Ovid's Fasti.

Paulus Medius Schedius, a French Poet, who had so a great repute in Italy, that he was made a Citizen of Rome & also a Knight and Count of Padua: be∣sides his Schediasmata Poetica, which were printed at Paris an. 1586, he wrote Epigrams upon all the Cities of Italy.

Paulus Musconius, a writer of Latin Tetrastichs containing a System of Christian Religion,

Paulus Rubigallus, a Hungarian, whose Hodoeporicon or Itinerary Poem, upon his Constantinopolitan journy in Elegiac Verse, was printed at Wirtenberg 1554,

with his Complaint of Pannonia to Ger∣many.

Paulus Baron of Swartzenburg, and Lord of Lunenberg. His Epigrams were printed at Augsburg by Henricus Steiner an. 1583.

Petrus Aegidius, a noted German wri∣ter both in Prose and Verse, of which last kind are his Threnodie upon the Em∣perour Maximilian, his Epitaphes upon several other great Princes, with divers Epigrams.

Petrus Angelius Bargoeus, a Student (after several years travel into far Coun∣tries) in the University at Pisa, where among other studies, he became chiefly proficient in that of Poetry; from whence among other commendable Poems, proceeded his Cynegetics, and Syrias: the mentioned year of his flou∣rishing was 1596.

Petrus Bembus, a Noble Venetian, whose high and well deserved reputa∣tion of a most Learned and Eloquent Person, soon advanc't him to the Pur∣ple; among the rest of whose Poeti∣cal works, for he was also a great Histo∣rian, Philosopher and Philologist, that

which hath obtained the principal fame is his Benaons, a Heroic Poem. He was arriv'd to his Meridian Altitude in the year 1640.

Petrus Bolaneus, his Hymns, his Pa∣negyric in Sapphic Verse upon the Em∣perour Frederic the third, his Funeral Elegy upon Rudolphus Agricola, his Epi∣gram made of the Sentences of Seneca and Plato, and some other Poems, made his fame known by the year 1494.

Petrus Bonommus, an Epigrammatic Poet of Triest, a Town of Friuli, Con∣temporary with the above mentioned Bolaneus.

Petrus Christianus, a Representer in Latin Vers of the late War between the several Princes & States in Europe; but more especially relating to what hath happened in the Low Countries.

Petrus Crinitus, the Author of a Trea∣tise in 5 Books, of the Latin Poets, in which there are contain'd several Frag∣ments of Ancients Poets; whose com∣pleat works are lost, besides which Treatise in Prose, he hath extant two Books of Odes, with other Poems: he surviv'd the year 1505.

Petrus Curtius, the Author of a Poem concerning the Ancient Falisci & Vei∣entes; and another entitled Roma: he was flourishing an. 1526.

Petrus Labbaeus, a French both ju∣dicious Censurer of the Ancient Poets, and accounted not the meanest himself of Modern Poets; whose Latin Elegies and Epitaphs were printed at Grenoble an. 1664.

Petrus Lindebergius, a German both excellent Historian and Laureated Poet, by the testimony of Olaus Wormius, in his Literatura Danica; and of his own works namely his History of the affai••s of Europe, and his extant Poems.

Petrus Lotichius ••cundus, the most excellent of German Poets, according to the testimony of Thuanus, next after Eobanus Hessus.

Petrus Molinaeus, the Son of that generally Learned French man and fa∣mous Champion of the Protestant cause Peter du Moulin; himself also not un∣learned, as appears by his Latin Poems consisting in 3 parts, Hymns upon the Apostolic Creed, 2 Gemitus Ecclesiae, & 3 Sylva variorum, publisht a few years

since at Cambridge, with the testimony of D^r Gunning, now Bishop of Chiche∣ster, and other Learned Men.

Petrus Paganus, the Author in Latin Heroic Verse of the History of the Triple Combat between the Horatii & Curiatii, the 3 Roman and 3 Alban Brethren.

Petrus Ronsardus, a French Poet of Vendosme, the most to be esteem'd in the judgement of Thuanus, not only of the French, but of all other Poets that have liv'd since the time of Au∣gustus.

Petrus Rossetus, a Parisian whose Poem entitled Christus in 2 Books, as also his Paulus, or the D••scription in Verse of the Apostles Acts, were first printed at Paris by Ascentius and Colmaeus after∣wards at Basil by Oporinus an. 1547.

Petrus Scotus, a native of Strasburg, who wrote Encomiums in Elegiac Verse of St. John Baptist, and St. Chrysostome: and was flourishing an. 1492.

Petrus Scriverius, a Belgian of Har∣lem, both profound Philologist and Antiquary, by the testimony of Box∣hornius in his Theatrum Hollandiae, by

Vossius highly commended for his Com∣ment upon Martial, by others quoted among the Chief of that Country for Latin Poesy.

Petrus Tiara, a Frislander of no less account for Latin Poetry among the Belgic Poets, for his Poem of the An∣cient State of the Friselanders, & ano∣ther of Nobility, and the true Ensigns thereof.

Philippus Gundelius, a Paduan of whose Poetry there are especially re∣membred his 2 noted Eglogues Apol∣lonodia and Callianera, printed at Vien∣na 1518.

Philippus Lonicerus, a German, who hath written Icones Liviani in Latin Verse.

Philip Massinger, a sufficiently fa∣mous and very copious writer, both Comic and Tragic to the English Stage; his Comedies are his Bondman, Empe∣rour of the East, Maid of Honour, New∣way to pay old debts, the Picture, the Bash∣ful Lover, the Renegad••, the Guardian, the Great Duke of Florence: his Trage∣dies the Fatal Dowry, the Duke of Mil∣lain.

Philippus Rubenius, a Kinsman of the most admired Painter Petrus Paulus Rubens, upon whom he wrote Elegies; but of chiefest note are his Apobaterion, and Eucharistic to Justus Lipsius, and his Lachrymae upon his death.

Sr Philip Sidny, the Glory of the English Nation in his time, and Pattern of true Nobility, as equally addicted both to Arts and Arms, though more fortunate in the first; for accompanying his Uncle the Earl of Leicester, sent by Queen Elizabeth General of the English Forces into the Low Countries, he was there unfortunately slain: He was the great English Mecaenas of Vertue, Lear∣ning and Ingenuity, though in his own Writings chiefly if not wholy Poeti∣cal; his Arcadia being a Poem in design, though for the most part in solute Ora∣tion, and his Astrophil and Stella, with other things in Verse, having, if I mistake not, a greater Spirit of Poetry, then to be altogether disesteem'd.

Philippus Porta, the next in the esteem of Thuanus, after Bellaqua, for excel∣lency in French Poesy (though no na∣tive himself) that is the fourth after Ronsard.

Phineas Fletcher, the Brother of George before mentioned, whom he rather exceeds, then comes behind in Poetic fame; for his Purple Island is yet memory, and mentioned by many with sufficient commendation: besides which he wrote a Poem in Latin against the Jesuites, but more enlarged in English.

Pierre Le Moine, late French Writer of a Heroic Poem entitled St. Louis,

Pierius Valarianus, a Belluuensium Writer of a Latin Poem of the culture of Smilax or Ridnybean.

Pompeo Torelli, his Italian Poem Vit∣toria, was printed at Parma an. 1605.

Pompeius Hugonius, wrote a Latin Poem of the Victory of Lepanto, which is publisht with the selected works of several other Italian writers in Latin Poesy.

Porcellius, a Neapolitan, who for his acute Wit; and rather quick and ready then sublime vein in Poetry, was in high favour with Frederik Duke of Vrbin.

Publius Faustus Andrelins, a Poet of Forli, a principal Town of Romania;

the chief of whose Poems are his Ele∣gies upon the two Neapolitan Victo∣ries, and the Captivity of Ludovico Sforza, his 4 Eclogues and his Book of Distichs.

Publius Franciscus Amerinus, his Fu∣neral Poems upon Baptista Platina, are printed with those of other Learned Men, at the end of Platina's works.

Q.

QVintius Aemilianus, a Cimbrian, or Dane, who wrote an Elegant Poem in praise of Love, in opposition to Petrus Hedaeus his Anterotica, also an Epicedium to the Emperor Frideric the third.

Quintus Septimius Florens Christianus, a Frenchman, so great a Master of the Latin and Greec tongues, that for what he wrote in either of them, whither in Prose or Verse, he stands comparable in the opinion of Thuanus, to most of the Ancients, besides what he wrote in both style in his Mother-Tongue: he is recorded Flourishing an. 1586.

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Sr Ralph Freeman, the Author of a Tragedy, which by some is held in great esteem Entitled Imperiale.

Raphael Thorius, a learned French Poet, whose elegant style in Latin Vers, discovers it self in his noted Po∣em entitled Hymnus Tabaci, or Enco∣mium of Tobacco.

Reinhardus Lorichius Hadamarius, a German writer of many elaborate works, among which not least to be re∣garded is his Description in Verse of the luxurious and splendid Feasts of Aha∣suerus and Darius Kings of Persia: he was Flourishing in the year 1542.

Richard Brathwait, the writer of cer∣tain Poems, which coming forth about 30 years since, though of little or no fame in the World, yet not totally pe∣rishing in oblivion have gain'd the for∣tune to be here mentioned.

Remigius Bellaqua, one of the prin∣cipal Poets reputed of France, and by some accounted the third from Ron∣sard, that is by those in whose esteem

Joachimus Bellaius holds the 2^d place: he wrote many things in Latin, but most in the Mother Tongue: he is commonly chronologis'd under the year 1577.

Renatus Rapinus, a French, both Critical Judge of the Poets, as ap∣pears by his Reflections on Aristotle's Treatise of Poetry, and Poet also him self of no obscure fame by his Latin Poem of Horticulture or Gardening, which hath been of late ingeniouly translated by John Evelin, the younger of Says Court by Deptford, following in the trac of fame the footsteps of his Learned Father, sufficiently known by his many both delightful, and to the Pu∣blic most beneficial works.

Richard Brome, a Servant to Ben. John∣son; a Servant suitable to such a Master, and who what with his faithful service and the sympathy of his Genius, was thought worthy his particular commen∣dation in Verse; whatever Instructions he might have from his Master Johnson, he certainly by his own natural parts improved to a great heighth, and at last became not many parasangues infe∣rior to him in fame by divers noted Co∣medies,

as The Antipodes, the Novella, Mock-Marriage, the Covent Garden Wed∣ding, the Mad couple well Match't, the Ambitious Politic, the Court Beggar, the Citty wit; but especially his Nothern Lasse, his Jovial Crew, and his Aspara∣gus Garden.

Richard Corbet, a no less witty Poe∣tiser in his Youth, when his Iter Bore∣ale and other facetious Poems, were the effects of his juvenil fancy, then grave Divine in his Elder years, when his more serious studies advanc't him to the Bi∣shoprie, first of Oxford, then of Nor∣wich.

Richard Crashaw, Fellow first of Pembroke-Hall, afterwards of St. Peters Colledge in Cambridge; a Devout pou∣rer forth of his Divine Raptures and Meditations, in smooth and Pathetic Verse: His Poems consist of 3 parts, the first entitled Steps to the Temple, be∣ing for the most part Epigrams upon several passages of the New Testament; the second part, The Delights of the Muses, or Poem upon several occasions both English and Latin; the third and last part Carmen Deo nostro, being Hymns

and other Sacred Poems, addressed to the Countess of Denbigh, that Reli∣gious solitude and love of a recluse life, which made him spend much of his time, and even lodge many nights un∣der Tertullian's roof of Angels, in St. Mary's Church, drew him at length, turn∣ing Roman Catholick, to betake himself to that so zealously frequented place call'd Our Lady's of Loretto in Italy, where he died.

Sr Richard Fanshaw, heretofore Se∣cretary to his present Majesty, when Prince of Wales, and after his restora∣tion, his Embassador into Spain, where he died. Besides his Translation of Guarini's Pastor Fido into English Verse, and of Spencer's Sheapherds Calender into Latin Verse.

Richard Rablet, and Richard Turner, two Contemporaries (and therefore perhaps worthie of mention for anti∣quities sake) with Drayton, with whose Owl and other old Pieces of Poetry, two small things of theirs, Rablets Cob's Pro∣phesie, and Turner's Nosce te Humours, were publisht, and seem to be but the track of other Poetical works, though now lost and forgotten.

Richard Lovelace, an approv'd both Souldier, Gentleman & Lover, and a fair pretender to the Title of Poet; a Soul∣dier, having Commanded a Regiment in the late King's Army; a Gentleman of a Vicounts Name and Family; a Lover Militant under the Bannor of of Lucasta, the Lady Regent under a Poetical Name of his Poetical endea∣vours; and as to the last of his Qualifi∣fications, besides the acute and not un∣pleasant stile of his Verses, a Man may discern therein sometimes those sparks of a Poetic fire, which had they been the main design, and not Parergon, in some work of Heroic argument, might happily have blaz'd out into the per∣fection of sublime Poesy.

Robertus Aytonus, a Scotch Poet, of whom there is extant a Panegyric to King James in Latin Verse.

Robert Baron, a Dramatic writer, who wrote Don Quixot or the Knight of the Ill-favoured Countenance; a Comedy Gripus, and Hegio a Pastoral. Deorum Dona, Dick Scorner, Destruction of Je∣rusalem, the Marriage of Wit and Science, Masques and Interludes; Myrza, a Tra∣gedy.

Robertus Bodius, a Scotchman, whose Latin Verses have a Place among the works of several Eminent Scotch Poets.

Robert Chamberlain, the Author of a Comedy call'd The Swaggering Dam∣sel, and Sicelides, a Pastoral.

Robert Fleming, an English writer, recorded in History among those that Flourisht in the Reign of King Henry the 6^th; not only for his Dictionary in Greec and Latin, but also for a work, he is said to have writ in Verse, of va∣rious Argument.

Robert Garnier, a French Counsellor of State, and writer of Tragedies.

Robert Sirnam'd of Glocester, a not altogether obscure writer in the Reign of Henry the Third; and seeming to passe for a Poet, in the esteem of Cambden, who quotes divers of his old English Rythms in praise of his na∣tive Country England.

Robert Gomersal, the Author of Lo∣dowic Sforza, a Tragedy, and some o∣ther things of Poetical subject.

Robert Green, one of the Pastoral Sonnet makers of Qu. Elizabeth's time,

Contemporary with D^r Lodge, with whom he was associated in the writing of several Comedies, namely The Laws of Nature, Lady Alimony, Liberality & Prodigality, and a Masque call'd Lu∣minalia; besides which he wrote alone the Comedies of Friar Bacon and Fair Emme.

Robert Heath, the Author of a Book of Poems, which about 20 years ago came forth under the Title of Clara∣stella; the ascribed title of that Cele∣brated Lady, who is suppos'd to have been both the Inspirer and cheif subject of them.

Robert Herric, a writer of Poems of much about the same standing and the same Rank in fame with the last mention'd, though not particularly influenc't by any Nymph or Goddess, except his Maid Pru. That which is chiefly pleasant in these Poems, is now and then a pretty Floury and Pastoral gale of Fancy, a vernal prospect of some Hill, Cave, Rcok, or Fountain; which but for the interruption of other trivial passages might have made up none of the worst Poetic Landskips.

S^r Robert Howard, of the Noble Fa∣mily of the Earls of Berkshire, and Bro∣ther to the present Earl; besides the Dignity of his present Office, as being imploy'd in his Majesties Exchequer, but of the most considerable Fame by what he hath written in Poetry, espe∣cially to the Stage; viz. The Blind Lady, the Surprisal, the Comittie, Comedies; The Great Favourite a Tragedy, Inforc't Marriage a Tragy-Comedy; and The Indian Queen a Dramatic History.

Robert Mead, the Author of two not altogether obscure Comedies. The Combat of Love and Friendship, and the Costly Whore.

Robertus Obricius, a writer of La∣tin Hymns.

D^r Robert Wild, one of the Poetical Cassock, and not of the meanest rank, being in some sort a kind of Anti-Clea∣veland; in regard he stands up in behalf of the Presbyterians as notably as ever Cleaveland did against them: the first thing that recommended him to pu∣blic Fame, was his Iter Boreale, the same in Title, though not in Argu∣ment with that little; but much com∣mended

Poem of Dr Corbet's, before mention'd; this being upon Monk's Journy iuto Scotland, in order to His Majesty's Restoration, and lookt upon for a lofty and conceitful style: his other things are for the most part of a lepid and facetious nature.

Rochus, a Chartreux Monk, men∣tioned in History among other Eminent Men of K. Edw. the Fourth's time.

Sr De Roquigni, the Author of a late French Poem entitled Muse Chre∣stienne.

Rodulphus Agricola, a most Famous writer of Groeningen in Friseland, who among many other works wrote also Epitaphs and other Poems. There were moreover two others of the same name, both Poets; the first Rodolphus Agricola junior, a Poet Laureat, the other of Wassenburg.

Rodolphus Avincatius, his Poems de∣dicated to the Farnesi, were printed at Rome an. 1543.

Rodolphus Avantius, an Italian wri∣ter of Odes or Sonnets.

Rodolphus Gualtherus, a Native of Zurich, in Switzerland, and Pastor

of the Church of Zurich. In Prose he wrote very many things in Heroic verse, The Monomachie, or Single Combat be∣tween David and Goliah, with the Al∣legorical Exposition thereof.

Rodolphus Langius, a German writer, Prebend of Munster, who wrote a Poem of the 3 Magi or Wisemen, another of the Siege of Nuis to the Dean of Colen, besides others of various subjects.

Roger Ascham, a Man of that Emi∣nence for learning, that he was thought worthy to be chosen Preceptor to that most Glorious Princess Queen Eliza∣beth; and though principally fam'd for his Latin Epistles and other things in Prose, yet mentioned with commen∣dation by Balaeus, for Epigrams and other Latin Poems.

Roger Boile, Lord Broghil and Earl of Orery, the Credit of the Irish No∣bility for wit and ingenuous parts, and a smooth stile both in Prose and Verse; in which last he hath written several Dramatic Histories, as Mustapha, Edw. the Third, Henry the Fifth, Tryphon, and that with good success & applause, for the way he writes in, namely the conti∣nual

Riming, and love and honour way of the French.

M^r Rostrou, a French Tragedian censured by Renatus Rapinus, in his Reflections on Aristotle's Treatise of Poetry.

Ruccelaio, an Italian Poet, who wrote in Blank Verse of the Culture of Bees.

S.

Mr Sabliquy, his Muse Dauphine publisht an. 1661.

Salmonius Macrinus, an Ingenious Poet of Laudun, sufficiently known by his 6 Books of Odes, in which he made it his study to imitate Horace, both in the Argument and manner of Verse; but especially Famous for his Lyric Poem entitled Gelonide, which he wrote when weary of a single, he betook himself to a Married Life.

Samuel Daniel, an Author of good note and reputation in King James his Reign; whose History of the 11 first Kings of England from the Norman Con∣quest, though it be of all the rest of his Works most principally sought after and regarded, yet are not his Poetical writings totally forgotten, as namely his Historical Poem of the Civil Wars between the House of York and Lan∣caster, his Letter of Octavia to Antoni∣nus, his Complaint of Rosamund, his Panegyric. &c. and of Dramatic pieces his Tragedy of Philotas, and Cleopatra,

Hymen's Triumph, and the Queens Ar∣cadia a Pastoral.

Samuel Purchas; see William Sla∣tyer.

Samuel Rowly, remember'd by his Comical History, When you see me you know me; and his Tragedy, The Noble Spanish Souldier.

Samuel Woodford, a late commended Translator (if not rather Paraphrast) of David's Psalms; in the Pindaric, vul∣garly so call'd, and other various sorts of Verse.

Scoevola Samarthanus, a Learned Frenchman, who wrote in Latin Verse Elogies upon all the Eminent Men of France, to his time, for Learning and Arts.

Scipio Capycius, the Author of two learned Poems; viz. De Vate Maximo, and De Principiis rerum.

M^r De Scudery, Governour of Nostre-Dome; the most Voluminous and of the most Famous of late French Romancers, or rather Adulterators of true History with Romantic entreagues of Love; yet to say truth, in a style and conduct, much more gentile and polite

then any of the old Romances could boast, & not without a pretty represent∣ing of the heighth of the French Ga∣lantry & conversation: this way of wri∣ting will easily be allow'd to be a sort of Poetry, but there are besides not very long since publisht his Poesies diverses.

Sebastianus Aerichalcus, a Polonian, who describ'd in Heroic Verse, the Af∣fections of the Mind, out of Philip Melanchton's Book De Anima, as also the Solar Eclipse of the year 1546.

Sebastianus Castalio, the fam'd Author of many learned Works, both in Prose and Verse; among those in Prose, the most known are his Sacred Dialogues, as being frequently taught in Grammar Schools: His chief things in Poetry, are his Eclogue Sirillus upon our Sa∣viour's Nativity, his History of the Prophet Jonas, in Latin Heroic Verse, his Life of St. John Baptist, in Heroic Greec Verse, his Version of 40 of Da∣vid's Psalms, and of two of Moses's Songs. He was Flourishing at Basil about the year 1540.

Sebastianus Titio, alias Brant, an Eminent Jurisconsult of Strasburgh,

Professour both of Civil and Canon Law; but his Writings which were very many, were of various subjects, and several of them in Verse; as his Rosary of the B. Virgin, in Sapphics; his Elegy upon the death of the Emperour Fre∣deric, a Book of Epigrams, Divine Satyrs, both in Latin and Vernacular Verse, the Encomiums of several Saints, & an Epithalamium upon the Marriage of King Maximilian, with Blanca Ma∣ria.

M^r Segrais, his Poesies printed at Paris anno 1661.

Sethus Calvisius, a German most learned Historian, Poet, and Musician; whose Opus Chronologicum and other Works, have their deserv'd same: He died at Leipsich, in the 60^th year of his age, an. 1615.

Shakerly Marmion, a not obscure or uncopious Writer of English Comedy, having sufficiently testified his success therein, in his Antiquary, his Holland Leaguer, his Fleir, Fine Companion, & Fair Maid of the Exchange.

Sigismundus Fulginas, Secretary of the Apostolic Chamber, one of the Au∣thors

of those Eminent Funeral Poems upon Platina, which in honour of that Learned Writer, are printed at the end of his works.

Simon Fagellus Villaticus, a Bohemian, whose Poetical Works are his Hymns, Epigrams, Funeral Epitaphs, Distichs, &c.

Simon Lemnius, a German, who be∣sides his Translations of Dionysius Aser and Homer's Odysses, into Latin Verse, hath left from the product of his own Genius, Episodes upon Joachimus Mar∣quese of Brandenburgh and his Lady; 5 Bucolic Eglogues, and 4 Books of Ethics in Verse. He died at Chur in Switzerland of the Pestilence anno 1550.

Simon Ogerius, a Writer of Silvae and other Latin Poems with reputation in∣ferior to few of the Modern Latin Poets.

Simon Sinapius, Pastor of the Church of Lubin in Lnsatia, who wrote a Poem of Christ's Passion, distributed into hours.

Simon Valambertus, a Writer of Epi∣grams and other Poems, which were

printed at Lyons by Paganus, at Paris by Wechelus.

Speron Sperone; see Ottavio Rinuccini.

Saint Amant, one of the Chief in re∣pute of French Poets, out of whom several things being render'd English by a Person of our Nation, no less consi∣derable for Poetry then the other, have for certain lost no advantage.

Stanislaus Niger, a Polonian, whose Encomium of the Poets in Elegiac Verse, was printed at Leipsich on. 1538.

Stephanus Paschasius, a French Wri∣ter, among whose other Works are his Icones, Epigrams and Epitaphs. He was Flourishing in the year of our Lord 1546, and stands in Ludovicus Jacobus his Book De Claris Scriptoribus Cabilio∣nensibus, with a high Character for uni∣versal Learning and Eloquence.

Sylvester Giraldus, a Person of a Noble Family in Cambro-Britannia or Wales, (and therefore commonly Sirnamed Cambrensis) the same House whence the Giraldines of Ireland descended, as Cam∣bden observes, who citing some of his Latin verses, seems to reckon him among the Poets of those former Ages; he

Flourishing in the Reigns of K. John & K. Henry the third: to the first of whom for the esteem his Learning had in those daies, he was made Secretary.

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THeodericus Gresemundus, a Native of Spire, out of whose Poem De Historia violatae Crucis, printed at Strasburg by Renatus Bek, several Ver∣ses are quoted by Wimphelingus in his Adolescentia.

Theodorus Beza, a Famous French Theologist, and a great Champion of the Reformed Religion; as he was a Person generally learned, so particu∣larly he was not a stranger to Poetry, having with good success written Epi∣grams and other Latin Poems, which were printed at Paris; besides a Tra∣gedy entitled Sacrificium Abrahae, prin∣ted at Lyons: he was Flourishing at Lausanna beyond the year 1555.

Theodorus Geza, a celebrated Writer of Thessalonica, particularly a great Master in the Latin & Greec Tongues, and not the least to be esteem'd

among the rest of his Works: for his Book of Latin Epigrams upon the most remarkable passages of Sacred Scri∣pture. He deceas't in the year of our Lord 1478.

Theodorus Reysman, a German taken notice of for his Congratulatory upon the Arrival of the Emperor Charles the Fifth into Germany.

Theophile, a late Writer of French Poems, which have obtain'd a general fame and esteem.

Theophilus Folengus, a Mantuan, both Philosopher and Poet of very high re∣pute.

Th. Campion, a Writer of no extraor∣dinary same; but who hath the honour to be nam'd by Cambden with Spencer, Sidny, Drayton, and other the Chief of our English Poets.

Thomas Carew, one of the Gentlemen of the Bed-Chamber to his late Maje∣sty K. Charles the First; he was reckon'd among the Chiefest of his time for de∣licacy of wit and Poetic Fancy, by the strength of which his extant Poems still maintain their fame amidst the Cu∣rious of the present Age.

Thomas Churchyard; see William War∣ner.

Thomas Collins, his Tears of Love, or Cupid's Progress, publisht anno 1615; since the materials of it have been pre∣serv'd from the injury of time, by be∣ing bound up with other small Poetical Pieces, much of the same Stamp and standing; it will seem but an accident of good fortune, if the Name also be preserv'd.

Thomas Craigius, one of the Muster Roll of Scotch Latin Poets, whose works are collected in a Book, call'd Deliciae Poetarum Scotorum.

Thomas Deckar, a High flier in wit, even against Ben. Johnson himself in his Comedy call'd The Vntrussing of the humorous Poet; besides which he wrote many others, as The Wonder of a Kingdom, the Honest Whore, in 2 parts; Fortunatus; the Whore of Babylon; If this ben't a good Play, the Devils in't. See also John Webster.

Thomas Dempsterus, an ample Com∣mentator upon the Grammarian Corip∣pus his Poem in praise of Justin the Se∣cond, himself also a Latin Vesifier

among the Scotch Poets, in the above mentioned Collection.

S^r Thomas Eliot; a Person of note in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth, and of whose Writing there is a learned Treatise of Government, which hath been in prin∣cipal esteem: moreover, what he hath writ in Poetry is also mention'd with singular commendation.

Th. Flatman, a Gentleman once of the Middle-Temple, equally ingenuous in the two noble Faculties of Painting and Poetry, as by the several choice Pieces that have been seen of his Pourtraying and Limning, & by his Book of Poems, very lately come forth, may appear.

Thomas Goff, the Author of the Cou∣rageous Turk, Selimus, Orestes, Trage∣dies; The Careless Sheapherdess, a Tragi-Comedy; and Cupid's Whirligig, a Co∣medy.

Thomas Heywood, a great Benefactor no doubt to the Red bull, and the other common Theaters, that flourisht in those times, with many but vulgar Comedies, as the Brasen Age, the Eng••ish Tra∣vellers, the first and second part of Edward the Fourth, Fortune by Land

and Sea; the 4 London Prentices, the Fair Maid of the West first and second part; the Golden Age, the Wise Woman of Hog∣sden, The Iron Age in 2 parts; the Royal King and Loyal Subject, &c.

Thomas Hobbs, of Malmsbury, a Person of the more consideration for what he hath either judged, or writ in Poe∣try; by how much the more his writ∣ings in Prose, have made work for so many Opposers: his Latin Poem De Mirabilibus Pexi, want, not commenda∣tion, and he seems to have wisely con∣sulted for his quiet at last, after having travail'd through so many Volumes of profounder Argument, in giving him∣self a vacancy to the Muse, especially where Invention is no otherwise exer∣cised then in rendring the Inventions of others, which he doubts not to have done more truly then any of those that went before him in the same subject; from his Preface to which work I should choose rather to collect his judg∣ment of Poetry, then from his Preface to Davenants Gondibert, where no wonder if Complement and Friendly Complyance doe a little bias and over∣sway judgment.

Thomas Kid▪ a writer that seems to have been of pretty good esteem for Versifying in former times, being quot∣ed among some of the more fam'd Po∣ets, as Spencer, Drayton, Daniel, Lodge, &c. with whom he was either Contem∣porary, or not much later: there is par∣ticularly remember'd his Tragedy Cor∣nelia.

Thomas Killigrow, one of the Gentle∣man of the Bed-Chamber to his pre∣sent Majesty; and besides the general esteem of his Lepid Vein of wit in con∣versation, the Author of divers Co∣medies, Tragedies and Tragi-Come∣dies, publisht together in a Volume, and therefore not needing to be parti∣cularis'd.

Thomas Linacer, an Eminent Gram∣marian, who Flourisht in the Reign of K. Henry the 8^th; and who Verfifying on several subjects, had the repute also in those daies of no mean Poet.

Thomas Lodge, a Doctor of Physic, who Flourisht in Qu. Elizabeth's Reign, and was one of the writers of those pretty old Pastoral Songs and Madri∣gals, which were very much the strain of those times.

Tho. Manly, one of the croud of Po∣tical writers, of the late King's time; he wrote among other things the Hi∣story of Job in Verse.

Tho. May, the vulgarly admir'd Tran∣slator of Lucan into English Verse; but here cheifly to be mention'd for what he hath written propria Minerva, as his Supplement of Lucan in Latin Verse; his History of Henry the Second in English Verse, besides what he wrote of Dramatic, as his Tragedies of An∣tigone, Cleopatra, and Agrippina; the Heir, a Tragi-Comedy; the Old Couple, and the Old Wives Tale, Comedies, and the History of Orlando Furioso: as for his History of the late Civil Wars of England, though it were written in Prose, yet he is thought to have vented therein the speen of a Malecontented Poet; for having been frustrated in his Expectation of being the Queen's Poet, for which he stood Candidate with Sir William Davenant, who was prferr'd before him.

Thomas Metellanus; the Author of a small parcel of Latin Poetry, which is to be found in a collection of the works

of divers of the Chiefest, so accounted, of the Scotch Latin Poets.

Tho. Middleton, a copious Writer for the English Stage, Contemporary with Johnson and Fletcher, though not of e∣qual repute, and yet on the other side not altogether contemptible, especially in many of his Plays: his Comedies were Blurt M^r Constable, the Chast Maid in Cheapside, More diffemblers then Women, the Game at Chesse; A mad World my Masters, Michaelmas Term; the Phoenix, A Trick to catch the old ones: His Tra∣gedies The Mayor of Queenborough, be∣sides what he wrote associated with W. Rowly.

Thomas Moravius, a Scotchman, the Author of a Latin Poem entitled Nau∣pactias, or the Description of the battel of Lepanto, in Heroic Verse.

Sir Thomas More, a great credit and ornament, in his time, of the English Nation, and with whom the learnedest Forraigners of that Age were proud to have correspodence; for his wit and ex∣cellent parts, he was chosen Speaker of the House of Commons, and after∣wards

advanced to be Lord Chancellour of England by K. Henry the 8^•h: how∣ever he fell unfortunately a victim to the displeasure of that Prince. His Vtopia, though not written in Verse, yet in regard of the great Fancy and Invention thereof, may well pass for a Poem; besides his Latin Epigrams, which have receiv'd a general esteem a∣mong Learned Men.

Thomas Nabbes, a Writer (for the most part Comical) to the English Stage in the Reign of K. Charles the First: the Comedies, he wrote are The Bride, Covent Garden, Totnamcourt, Woman hater arraign'd his Tragedies, The Vnfortu∣nate Mother, and the Tragedy of King Charles the First; besides two Masques Microcosmus, and The Spring's Glory.

Thomas Nash, one of those that may serve to fill up the Catalogue of English Dramaties Writers: his mention'd Co∣medies are Summers Last Will and Te∣stament, and See me and see me not.

Thomas Naogeorgus, or by the vulgar app••llation Kirchmayor, a German Wri∣ter native of Straubing, a Town of Lower-Bavaria; his works were for the

most part Poetical, namely 6 Tragedies, an Epitome of the Canons of the Church in Heroic Verse; as also 5 Books of Sa∣cred Agriculture, in the same kind of Verse, with some other things.

Thomas Newton, the Author of three Tragedies; Thebais, the first and second parts of Tamerlane, the Great Scythian Emperour.

Thomas Preston, the Author of Cam∣bises King of Persia, a Tragi-Comedy.

Thomas Randol, one of the most pre∣gnant young Wits of his time, flourish∣ing in the University of Cambridge; the quick conceit and clear Poetic Fancy di∣scover'd in his extant Poems, seem'd to promise something extraordinary from him, had not his indulgence to the too liberal converse with the multi∣tude of his applauders drawn him to such an immoderate way of living, as in all probability shortned his dayes; besides his two Comedies Amintas, and the Muses Looking-Glass, and the Inter∣lude Aristippus, printed with his other works: there are attributed to him, a Comedy called Hey for honesty; & down for knavery; and The Jealous Lovers, a Tragedy.

Tho. Rawlins, the cheif Graver of the Mint to King Charles the first, and also to his present Majesty, till the year 1670, in which died: he was indeed a more excellent Artist then Poet; yet his Tragedy called The Rebellion hath been acted not without good applause.

Thomas Read, a Scotchman, whose happy Vein in Latin Verse renders him not unworthy to be remember'd among the Learned Men and Poets of that Nation.

Thomas Seghetius, another Scotch Poet, chiefly known by his Meletemata Hypogeia, in Latin Verse.

Thomas Shadwel, a noted Dramatic Writer of the present Age; happy espe∣cially in several witty and ingeuuous Comedies; The Humorist, the Sullen Lovers, Epsom Wells; besides his Royal Sheapherdess▪ a Pastoral Tragi-Comedy; and his Tragedy of Psyche, or rather Tragical Opera, as vying with the Ope∣ra's of Italy; in the pomp of Scenes, Machinry and Musical performance.

Thomas Sprat, the commended Au∣thor, for his smooth and judicious style, of the History of the Royal Society;

and in Verse a very much applauded, though little Poem entitled The Plague of Athens.

Thomas Stanly, of Cumberlo Green in Hertfordshire; a Gentleman both well deserving of the Common-wealth of Learning in general, by his other writ∣ings, his Lives of the Philosophers, and his Learned Edition of Aeschylus; and also particularly honoured for his smooth Air and gentile Spirit in Poe∣try; which appears not only in his own Genuine Poems, but also from what he hath so well translated out of an∣cient Greec, and modern Italian Spa∣nish and French Poets, as to make his own.

Thomas Sternhold, an Associate with John Hopkins, in one of the worst of of many bad Translations the Psalms of David: yet in regard, as first made choise of, they have hitherto obtain'd to be the only Psalms sung in all Pa∣rochial Churches (it hath been long heartily wisht a better choice were made) he hath therefore per∣haps been thought worthy to be men∣tioned among the Poets that Flou∣risht

in Qu. Mary's, and the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's Rein.

Thomas Storer, one of the Writers of Queen Elizabeth's time, of those Pa∣storal Airs and Madrigals, of which we have a Collection in a Book called England's Helicon.

Thomas Thomasinus, a Vene••ian, who studying at Padua, grew Eminent in Philosophy, Logic and Poetry.

Thomas Watson, a Contemporary imi∣tator of Sir Philip Sidny, together with Bartholmew Young, Doctor Lodge, and several others, in that Pastoral strain of Poetry, in Sonnets and Madrigals, al∣ready mention'd.

Sir Thomas Wi••t, of Allington-Castle, in Kent; a Person of great esteem and reputation in the Reign of King Henry the Eighth; with whom for his honesty and singular parts; he was in high Fa∣vour; which nevertheless he had like to have lost about the Buisiness of Anne Bullein, had not his prudence brought him safely off. For his Translation of David's Psalms into English Meeter, & other Poetical Writings, Leland for∣bears not to compare him to Dante and

Petrarch; being sent Embassador from K. Henry to the Emperour Charles the Fifth, then in Spain; he died of the Pestilence in the West Country, before he could take shipping an. 1541.

Tobias Guthberlingius, a Hassian, Native of Crusbon, and Governor of the Colledge of Leovardia; where his Latin Poems were printed an. 1667.

Torquato Tasso, the Prince of Italian Heroic Poets, born at Bergamo, the Son of Bernardo Tasso, and Portia de Rubeis: His chief Poems are Gerusalem∣me Liberata, Rinaldo, Sette Giornate, Gerusalemme Conquistata, Torrismondo, a Tragedy; Amintas, a Pastoral, elegant∣ly translated into English by John Rey∣nolds: he wrote also judicious Discour∣ses in Prose.

Sieur Du Tristan his Amours printed anno 1662

V.

VAlentinus Boltzius, a German Wri∣ter, native of Rubeaqua, who wrote in Verse the Combat between David & Goliah; the History of Sampson; the Tragedy of Susanna; the Comedy of the 7 Liberal Arts, and several others.

Valentinus Pacaeus, a Writer of La∣tin Idyls and Epigrams.

Victor Geselinus, a Writer of Latin Hymns.

Victorinus Anxiginus Scuthius, the Author of a Poem entitled The Triumph of Christ's Resurrection, written in Ele∣giac Verse.

Vidus Faber Pibracius, a French Gen∣tleman, whose Learning and excellent abilities advanc't him to be President of the Parliament of Paris; besides his general knowledg in the Arts and Sci∣ences, his Felicity in French Poesy, had been sufficient to recommend him to Posterity, he was flourishing in the year 1584.

Vincentio Guidorci, his Rime Varie were printed at Padua an. 1634.

Vincentius Barsius, a Carmelite of Mantua, whose Alba Labyrinthus was printed at Parma an. 1515. His Silva & Elegies at Bononia an. 1524.

Vincentius Contarenus, a Venetian, not obscure writer in Latin Poetry.

Vincenzo Martelli, a noted Man a∣mong the Italian writers of Rime or Sonnets.

Vitus Amerbachius, a German Wri∣ter of diverse learned Commentaries & other works in Prose, besides what he wrote in Verse, namely Epigrams and other various Poems, which were print∣ed by Oporinus at Basil an. 1550.

W.

WAlter de Mapes, Arch-Deacon of Oxford, a Latin Rimer in the Reign of K. Henry the Second, and may well be call'd a Pot Poet, for he shews his singular love to good Liquor, in a parcell of Latin Riming Verses, quoted by Cambden.

William Alabaster, a considerable Poet so accounted, in the time he Flou∣risht, which was under Qu. Elizabeth, the Chief Transactions, of whose Reign he began to describe in a Latin Poem entitled Elisaeis, which he left unfinisht.

William Brown, the Author of a Poem entitled Britains Pastorals; which though not of the sublimest strain, yet for a subject of that nature, amorous and rural, containing matter not unplea∣sant to the Reader.

William Bosworth, the Bringer forth of a small Poem, which was printed somewhat above 20 years since, under the title of the Chast and lost Lovers, or the History of Arcadius & Sepha; which from the very brink of oblivion,

nor had the loss been very great, hath accidentally met with the good for∣tune to be here remember'd.

William Cartwright, Student of Christ-Church in Oxford, where he liv'd in fame & reputation, for his singular parts and Ingenuity; but most especially his excelling Vein in Poetry, which pro∣duc't a Volume of Poems, which were publisht not long after his death; and among the rest his Tragedie, The Royal Slave hath been in principal esteem.

William Cavendish, the present Duke of New-Castle, and the first advanc't from Earl to that Title, for his eminent Service to his late and present Majesty: a Person accomplisht according to the Nobility of his Birth and Quality, that is, equally addicted both to Arts and Arms, and particularly a friend to the Muses; for besides his splendid Trea∣tise of the Art of Horse-manship, in which his experience was no less then his delight, he wrote two ingenuous Comedies, The Variety, and the Country Captain.

Sir William Davenant, a very large sharer in the Poetic Fame of the present Age, of which he was a surviving over∣hearer, till within these few years, and of no less a memory for the future, for the great fluency of his wit and Fancy; especially for what he wrote for the English Stage, of which having layd the Foundation before by his Musical Dramas, when the usual Plays were not suffer'd to be acted, he was the first revi∣ver & improver by painted Scenes; after his Majesty's Restauration, erecting a new Company of Actors, under the Pa∣tronage of the Duke of York; his works since his death have been fairly pu∣blisht in a large Volume, consisting of many Comedies, which need not be enumerated, as being printed alto∣gether, with several Tragedies, Inter∣ludes, Historical Drama's; his Poem entitled Madagascar, a Farrago of his Juvenile, & other Miscellaneous Peices, and the Crown of all his Gondibert, the best of Heroic Poems, either Ancient or Modern, in the judgement of Mr Hobs▪ a Learned Man indeed, but in some other of his opinions, suppos'd to have

been prov'd fallible by those that have taken him in hand.

William Drummond of Hawthornden, a Scotch Gentleman of considerable note and esteem, Flourishing in K. James his Reign; who imitating the Italian manner of Versifying, vented his A∣mours in Sonnets, Canzonets and Ma∣drigals, and to my thinking, in a style sufficiently smooth and delightful; and therefore why so utterly disregarded, and layd aside at present, I leave to the more curious palats in Poetry.

William Gray, an Elegant writer (if we may rely upon the testimony of Ba∣laeus) of several things in English Verse, in the Reigns of King Edw. the Sixth and Qu. Mary.

William Habington, the Author of Poems, which came forth above twenty years since, under the Title of Castara, (the feign'd Name, no doubt, of that human Goddess that inspir'd them) but better known by his History of the Reign of King Edward the Fourth; in which also he hath a style sufficiently florid, and perhaps better becoming a Poetical than Historical subject; in respect of

his Poems however they are now almost forgotten, he may be rank't in my opi∣nion with those that deserve neither the highest, nor the lowest Seat in the Thea∣ter of Fame.

William Hammond, one of the for∣gotten Poem writers of the last Age.

William Hemings, the Author of a well known Tragedy called The Fatal Contract.

William Lilly, of Odiham in Ha••t shire, a Grammarian of great note in the Reign of K. Henry the Eighth, and first School Master of Paul's School; who besides his Lat. Grammar, the oracle of Free-Schools of England, and other Grammatical works, is said by Balaeus to have written Epigrams and other Poetry of various subjects, in various Latin Verse.

William Rowly, an Associate with Middleton, in the writing of several Co∣medies and Tragi-Comedies; as The Spanish Gipsies, the Old Law, the Fair Quarrel, the Widow, besides what he wrote alone, as The Woman never vext, and the Match at Midnight, All's lost by Lush, a Tragedy, and joyn'd with

Webster, as the Thracian wonder, & A Cure for a Cuckold.

William Sampson, a Tragic writer, who wrote alone the Vow-Breaker and Valiant Scot; with Marsham, the Tragedy of Herod and Antipater; & How to choose a good Wife from a bad, a Tragi-Comedy.

William Shakespear, the Glory of the English Stage; whose nativity at Stratford upon Avon, is the highest ho∣nour that Town can boast of: from an Actor of Tragedies and Comedies, he became a Maker; and such a Maker, that though some others may perhaps pre∣tend to a more exact Decorum and oeco∣nomie, especially in Tragedy, never any express't a more lofty and Tragic heighth; never any represented nature more purely to the life, and where the polishments of Art are most wanting, as probably his Learning was not extraor∣dinary, he pleaseth with a certain wild and native Elegance; and in all his Writings hath an unvulgar style, as well in his Venus and Adonis, his Rape of Lucrece and other various Poems, as in his Dramatics.

William Slatyer, Compiler of the

History of England, from the beginning to the Reign of King James, by the Title of Palae-Albion; but whether in Latin or English, I cannot certainly determine; for the Work, though of little Fame, is in both, and the one seems to have been done by Slatyer, the other by Samuel Purchas.

William Smith, the Author of a Tra∣gedy entitled Hieronymo, as also The Hector of Germany.

William Wager, the Authour of that Old Interlude, called Tom Tiler and his Wife; he wrote also two Comedies The Tryal of Chivalry, and The longer thou livest, the more fool thou art.

William Warner, a good honest plain Writer of Moral Rules and Precepts, in that old fashion'd kind of seven footed Verse which yet sometimes is in use, though in different manner, that is to say, divided into two: he may be rekoned with several other Writers of the same time, i. e. Queen Elizabeth's Reign; who though inferiour to Sidny, Spencer, Drayton and Daniel, yet have been thought by some not unworthy to be remember'd and quoted, namely

George Gascoign, Th. Hudson, John Mark∣ham, Thomas Achely, John Weever, Ch. Middleton, George Turbervile, Henry Constable, Sir Edw. Dyer, Thomas Church∣yard, Charles Fits-Geoffy.

Wolfangus Loriseca, a Writer of La∣tin Verse, Equal with those that are ac∣counted of the Chief Modern Latin Poets of Germany.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Tot sibi sunt, Virgo, dotes, quot sideracoelo.
• * 1.2

  Jos. Scali∣ger, Douza, Selden, &c.
• * 1.3

  Giovan∣ni Battista Pigna.
• * 1.4

  Lorenzo Bonicontri.
• * 1.5

  Lorenzo Gambaro.