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.

A Brief Supplement of some Persons and Things obmitted in the fore∣going Treatises.

Of the Antients.

A.

ABlavius, a Great Man with Con∣stantine the Great, by whom he was advanc't to the Dignity of Consul, but was slain by his Son, as jealous of his too much power and greatness, and therefore might justly be stil'd, as he was, Pila Fortunae, the Tennis-Ball of For∣tune: His Vein in Epigrammatic Poe∣try appears in two Epigrams, which are extant in Brietius, and the Parisian Col∣lection; the one biting one upon Constan∣tine, notwithstanding he was so great a Favourite; the other upon his Friend Greculus.

Alcinous, a Poet of a uncertain time, but doutless not very ancient, of whom there is only extant in the fore-said collections, one very noble Epigram of Homer and Virgil.

Saint Ambrose, one of the Antient and most venerable Fathers of the Chri∣stian Church, being Bishop of Milan, in the time of Theodosius the Great, whom his Ecclesiastical authority and Censure, drove to a voluntary penance for his Bloody cruelty towards the In∣habitants of Thessalonica: besides his mul∣titude of others Works in Prose, he left divers Inscriptions in Verse in the great Domo of Milan, besides several Hymns, which were anciently sung in the Church.

Antiphanes Caristius, a very antient Greec Comic writer, even Contempo∣rary with Thespis, who Flourisht in the 61^th Olympiad, and therefore diverse from him who in the foregoing Trea∣tise by mistake Sirnamed also Carystius, is said to have been conversant with Alexander the Great; besides whom there were several other Antiphanes's, as is testified by Suidas, the Thebais of Antiphanes Colophonius, is cited by Athenaeus; of Antiphanes, probably By∣santius, (though that Cognomen be but once found) there are 7 Epigrams in the Florilegium of Planudes: and

this some think to be the same, whom Stobaeus quotes very frequently, and Atheneus in no less then 105 Fables. Moreover Plutarch in his Life of Demo∣sthenes alledges the testimony of Anti∣phanes a Poet, concerning Bataulus.

Antiphilus, an Epigrammatic Poet, whose Name is to 27 Epigrams in the Greec Florilegium, and with the Sir∣name Bysantius, if the same, as proba∣bly it is, to eight more in the same Book.

Arabius, Sirnamed Scholasticus, an Epigrammatic Poet, of whom there are 7 Epigrams in the fourth Book of Planudes his Florilegium.

Ariboeus, a Macedonian Poet, not so much known by any thing mentioned of his writings, as by his envy at other Mens writings, which doubtless, was the cause that conspiring with Crateuas, a Thessalonian (Poet also) he compast in a most barbarous manner the death of that incomparable Tragedian Euri∣pides, as hath been already mentioned in Euripides.

Asclepiades and Asmenus; see Julia∣nus, in the foregoing Treatise.

Aulus Septimius Serenus, the reputed Author of a parcel of old Latin Verses upon Janus and Hercules, whereof some fragments are preserv'd in the Parisian Collection of Epigrams and old Poems; whether he were the same with the Ro∣man Emp. Septimius Severus, (who either for these or some other Verses, hath a place among the Poets, supposing Sere∣nus to be mistaken for Severus,) or some other Person, as might be inferr'd from the distinct appellation of Coun∣try; the one being written Falis••us, the other Afer; besides that the Praenomen of this Emperor is agreed upon to have been Lucius, rather then Aulus, as Brietius observes, who nevertheless a∣greeing with Pithoeus, disputes not so much whether this Aulus Septimius were the same with the Emperor, as he concludes the Emp. to have been the Author of a Distich, which is the only part preserv'd of a Poem, which seems to have been written of Country affairs, and not of those Verses of Janus, which he imputes to another Afer, who was a little superior in time to Terentianus Maurus, and therefore much antienter

then the said Emperor, viz. Cajus Se∣ptimius Afer.

Aulus Turpilius; see Turpilius in the foregoing Treatise.

B.

Basilius, one of those Sirnamed Scho∣lastici, or Grammatici aforementioned in Julianus.

Belisarius; see Liberius in the fore∣going Treatise.

Benedictus Paulinus, a Petracoriensian, who writing the Life of St. Martin in 6 Books, and another Poem, is proba∣bly mistaken by Authors of very good account and Authority as Franciscus Ju∣retus, Fortunatus, and Gregory of Tours, for Paulinus the Bishop of Nola, to whom they ascribe those Poems, though Brietius agreeing with Jac. Sirmondus, makes it out very clear, that they were distinct Persons, and that Benedictus was the Author of those Poems.

P.

Caelius Lactantius Firmianus, the Chri∣stian Cicero, as he is generally still'd; Di∣sciple

of Arnobius, and Rhetoric Pro∣fessor at Nicomedia: besides his Odoepo∣ricon, which is lost, and his Verses of the Passion & Resurrection, &c. which are extant, and by some ascribed to Fortunatus; his is said to have been the Poem in Description of the Phoenix, which Vossius supposes to have been writ by some Ethnic Author. See also Rhemnius in the foregoing Treatise.

Cajus Abronius Silo; see Abronius in the foregoing Discourse.

Cajus Aurelius Romulus, not the Foun∣der of Rome, no doubt, already men∣tion'd; but some Poetical Writer of what time or place is uncertain, whose Name we find to a Tetrastich Epigram in Gillius his Parisian Collection, entitl'd Epigrammata & Poematia vetera.

Cajus Caecilius Plinius Secundus, hath a Tetrastich Epigram upon Cupid and Bacchus, in Nicolaus Gillius his Parisian sian Collection of Epigrams and old Poems, who if he be the same with that Cajus Plinius, of Novocomo, who was the Son of Plinius Secundus of Ve∣rona: he hath from Brietius the esteem of a most excellent Poet, for only a

Fragment of one Verse, which he quotes of him, viz. Lasciva est nobis pagina, Vita proba, besides that he was the Au∣thor of that so much commended Pane∣gyric to Trajan.

Caius Cassius, a Parmensian of the number of the Antients, but of what time is uncertain; whose name we find to a Description of Orpheus in Verse, in Nicolaus Gillius his Parisian Collection of Epigrams and old Poems.

Cajus Julius Solinus Poly histor, a Grammarian and Naturalist of sufficient note, though of what time, is not de∣termined farther then that he lived be∣neath Alexander Severus, even by Sal∣macius himself that voluminous Exerci∣tator upon his Plinian Epitome, besides which and other things in Prose; he is concluded the Author of a Poem en∣titled Pontica.

Cajus Licinius Calvus, his Verses up∣on Cneus Pompeius, and several of the Caesars, are extant in Gillius his Epi∣grammata & Poematia vetera, printed at Paris an. 1580.

Cajus Silius Italicus; see Silius in Petronius Arbiter in the foregoing Trea∣tise.

Cajus Sulpitius Apollinaris, a Gram∣marian of Carthage, who Flourisht in the Reigns of the Antonini, and was Praeceptor to Helvius Pertinax, who before he attain'd the Empire over Men succeded him in his Empire over Boys in his Grammar School; this Sul∣pitius is mention'd by Julius Capitoli∣nus, and Aulus Gollius, with the Cha∣racter of the Learnedest Man of his time, and that little touch we have of Poetry in his Verses upon Virgil's Ae∣neis, gives the greater sense of the loss of the rest.

Callimachus, besides his extant works already mention'd, is said by Suidas to have written many other Poems, and among the rest one entitled Ibis, an obscure Poem, and full of Satyr against Apollonius, the Author of the Argonau∣tics. Moreover, there is mentioned another Poem of his entitled 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, by the Scholiast of Homer, Priscian, & others: besides which others mention a Poem of his named Hecale.

Cneus Naevius, the most Antient of Latin Comic Writers after Livius An∣dronicus; he was Contemporary wi••h

Scipio Africanus, and died at Vtica, in the 144^th Olympiad, being banisht out of Rome by the Metelli. See Naevius in the foregoing Treatise.

St Columbanus, an Englishman Abbot of Luxovia & Bobia; besides his seve∣ral writings in Prose, there is extant a parcel of his Poetry set forth by Jaco∣bus Sirmondus: he was the Master of St. Gallus, and died about an. D. 514.

Corippus, an African, both Gram∣marian and Poet, who flourishing in the Reign of Justinus, the Second, sung his praises in 4 Books, which he dedi∣cated to the Quaestor Anastatius; besides which Poem, which hath been set forth by Thomas Dempsterus the Scotchman, with laborious and prolix notes, much above what he deserves, in the opinion of many; he is said to have written many other things in Poetry, which have perisht, & among the rest a Poem in praise of the Great Captain Belisa∣rius.

E.

Epictetus, (not the Author doubtless

of the Greec Enchiridion) his name is to two Distichs, in Gillius his Pari∣sian Collection of Epigrams and old Poems.

Epigenes, a Sicyonian, by some affir∣med the first Inventor of Tragedy.

Eugenius, (otherwise Evantius) Se∣cundus or Junior, an Eminent Arch-Bishop of Toledo, which seat he held from the year 647 to 657, in the Reign of Receswinthus, a Gothish King of Italy: some things of his in Verse are set forth by Jacobus Sirmondus, toge∣ther with Dracontius, whose Verses he corrected.

Euphorbius, one of those Sirnamed Sholastici or Grammatici, of whom see more in Julianus, in the foregoing Treatise.

Euphorbus Caelius Firmianus Sympho∣sius, mentioned in the foregoing Trea∣tise by the name of Symphonius only, a Poetical writer of an uncertain Age, of whom there are extant Hendecasyl∣lables De Livore, by some attributed to Ausonius, Choriambics De Fortuna, and several Aenigmatical Questions.

Eurialus Moranius, a Poetical wri∣ter

of Asculum, of an uncertain time, and of whom no other account can be given, but that his name is to 4 or 5 pleasant and not unelegant Epi∣grams in Gillius his Parisian Collection of Epigrams and old Poems.

Eusebius, Sirnamed Scholasticus, a Greec, the Author of a Poem entitled Gainia, or of the War against Gaina, the Gothish King, in four Books in Heroic Verse: there is also under the name of Eusebius, (but whether the same may be disputed, for there are several more of the same name,) in the Parisian Col∣lection of Epigrams and Poematia vete∣ra, a Decastich entitled Tumulus Ve∣neris.

Eusthemius, one of the foremention'd 12 Scholastici; of whom see in Julianus in the foregoing Treatise.

F.

Felix, a Benedictin Monk of Crowland, whose Pathetical Description of the bugs of Crowland, in Latin Verse, is quo∣ted by the Learned Cambden.

Floridus, a Mimic writer of an un∣certain

Age, out of whose Fables, there are only extant two Sentences, but those so acute, so much to the purpose, that they excite in the Learned and Cu∣rious the greater desire of all the rest of him.

G.

Getulicus, an old Historian, cited by Suetonius; but of whom there are also several Verses to be found in Probus the Grammarian his Commentary upon Virgil's Georgi••s; also a Testrastich and Hexastich in the third Book of the Gr. Anthology, and Decastich in the 6^th.

Glaucus, an Athenian, whose name is to several Epigrams in the first, third and fourth Books of the Greec Antho∣logy.

H.

Hercius, named to an Hexastich, in the Greec Florilegium.

Herondas, a Comic Poet, out of whose Fable Synergazomeni, a Senary is cited by Athenaeus.

L.

Leo, an Antient Grammarian, cer∣tain Greec Verses of whose writing were seen in Manuscript by Conradus Gesnerus, but the Pentastich in the Greec Florilegium, owns rather another Leo, viz. that Noble Greec Emperor Leo the Sixth, who whether a Poet or not, is certainly fam'd for a Philoso∣pher.

Lucilius, (not the Latin Satyrist) a Greec Epigrammatic Poet, whose name hath a large jurisdiction in the Greec Florilegium.

Lucius Annaeus Florus, the Good Fellow, who plaid so wittily and freely upon the Emperor Hadrian, in that vul∣garly known Epigram Ego nolo Caesar esse, &c. which was as smartly answered by the Emperor; besides which and another neat one upon the growth of of Roses, several Fragments of him are collected by Salmasius, he may upon account of name be without difficulty mistaken for Lucius Julius Florus, the Epimator of the Roman History, who

in some Editions is styl'd Lucius Annaeus Seneca Florus; as on the other side this Poet is written in Gillius his Collection, Julius Florus: but the difference of time makes the clearer distinction, the one appearing to have been Contemporary with the Emperor Adrian, the other, as is generally receiv'd, living about the time of Septimius Severus.

M.

Martinus Sirnamed Dumensis, from the place of which he was Abbot, after∣wards Arch-Bishop of Bracata, of whose Verses collected by Jacobus Sir∣mondus, being indeed but low & heavy, what notice hath been taken may well be judged owing to their antiquity, for he died an. D. 580.

Maximianus, the real Author, as he is computed by Learned Inquirers, of those 6 most obscoene Elegies, which are vulgarly ascribed to Cornelius Gallus; there is also one of the same Name, but whether it be the same Person, is not certainly determin'd, among the twelve Sirnamed Scholastici or Grammatici, of whom see more in Julianus, in the foregoing Treatise.

Minos, not that King of Crete, so famous for his Labyrinth, but the second Tragic writer, as he is delivered, after Theomis.

Modestus, a Name only known by 2 Hexastichs upon Lucretia, in Gillius his Collection of Epigrams and old Poems.

N.

Nicochares, an Athenian Comic Poet, of whose Fables several are men∣tioned by Suidas and Athenaeus; he is said to have been Contemporary with, and by some judg'd equal to Aristo∣phanes.

Nicocles▪ a Comic Poet, whose Fa∣ble Acarii, is cited by Athenaeus lib. 8.

P.

Palladius Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus, a Latin writer of good note and Anti∣quity (though in what Age he Flou∣risht, is not certainly determined) whose Books of Agriculture are com∣monly publisht with those other An∣tient writers De Re Rustica: and among the rest of his Books, there is one De Insitione Arborum, wholly in Verse,

and that in a style that might render him esteem'd a Poet, though he were not of the Antients.

Phaedrus, a Thracian, who living in the Reign of Augustus (whose Freed∣man he is said to have been) and Tibe∣rius, is applauded for his Version of Aesop's Fables into such Elegant Verse, as savours of the purity of those times.

Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, the most Illustrious of Roman Captains, if at least we suppose him to be that Sci∣pio Africanus, the elder, whose incom∣parable sobriety and incontinence of li••e so well agrees with that only Verse, which is delivered to be extant of his writings, Maxima cunctarum victoria victa voluptas.

Publius Terentius Varro; see Teren∣tius Varro Atracinus, in the foregoing Treatise.

Puppius, an old Latin Poet of whom we only find remaining one Distich, an Epitaph upon Publius Scipio Africanus, in the Epigrammata & Poematia vetera, printed by Gillius at Paris an. 1580.

Q.

Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, a Ro∣man

Patrician, Senator and Consul, Con∣temporary with Boethius, whose Father in Law he was: besides his Epistles and other things in Prose, there are some Fragments of his in Latin Verse, in the above mentioned Collection of Epi∣grams and old Poems.

R.

Rufus, Sirnamed Domesticus, subscri∣bed to an Epigram in the seventh Book of the Greec Anthology.

S.

Samius, a Name subscribed to an Epigram in the third Book of the Greec Anthology, and thought to be the same with Sammius and Ammius, in other places.

Sosicrates, a Comic Poet, whose Diadochae, Cretica and Philadelphi, are cited by Athenaeus; and (if Sosicrates Phanagorites be the same Person) his 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, there is also an Iambic Distich of Sosicrates in Stobaeus his Sermon De Phi∣lantia.

Sulpitius, a Noble Roman, Poet and Orator, who was Tribunus Plebis in the

contention between Cajus Caesar the Aedile, & his Brother Lucius the Praetor: besides what Giraldus mentions of him out of Asconius Pedianus, his choose Heroic Verses & 70 Epigrams, may pro∣bably be judged to be, which bearing his Name were found in a Monastery near Bobio in Italy an. 1494.

Symeon, an antient Greec Presbyter, whose Sermones and Hymns are preser∣ved in the Library at Auspurgh, by the testimony of Conradus Gesner.

T.

Thaletas, a Cretan, or Illyrian, Lyric Poet, whom Suidas delivers to have written before Homer's time: there was also of the same name a Gnossian Rhap∣sodist, who, as the same Suidas testifies, wrote certain Fabulous Stories in Verse.

Thallus, an antient Epigrammatist re∣member'd only by one Hexastich in the second Book of the Greec Florilegium.

Theodoritus, an old Grammarian, of whom there is a Distich in the second Book of the Greec Florilegium.

Theomis, a Contemporary of Orestes,

and said by some to have been the first Deviser of Tragical Melodies.

Timolaus, a Larissaean Rhetorician, who to each Verse of Homer's Iliads in∣serted another of his own, yet keeping the sence entire; the beginning of which Poems is recited by Suidas.

U.

Valerianus, his Lepid, acute and not unelegant Epigram (for such is the com∣mendation given it by, a judicious Au∣thor) upon the death of Cicero, is to be found in Gillius his Collection of Epigrams and and old Poems; together with a Tristich in praise of Hercules, he may probably be taken for the same Person with the Emperor Valerianus, of whom there is said to be a Fragment in the Gregorian Codex.

Vitalis, one of the 12 sirnamed Scho∣lastici, mentioned in Julianus, in the foregoing Treatise.

Vomanus, another of the foremen∣tioned twelve; but moreover peculiar∣ly mentioned and commended for his Verses De Laudibus Hortuli, which are to be found in Gillius his Collection.

X.

Xanthus, a Contemporary and Col∣league of Stosichorus Himeraeus, there are divers of his Verses cited by Aelian lib. 4. of his Varia Historia.

Xenocrates, and Xenocritus, two Epi∣grammatic Poets; the first remember'd by a Tetrastich in the fourth Book, the second by an Octostich in the 3^d Book, of the Greec Anthology.

Z.

Zelotas, a Name preserved by only 2 Epigrams in the Greec Florilegium.

Zenobius, a Grammarian, besides whose Distich in the fourth Book of the Gr. Flor. there are Verses of him ci∣ted in the Greec Cornucopia of Varinus Phavorinus Camers.

Zonas, another Pillar of the Gr. Floril. named to a Octostich in the first Book, & two Hexastichs in the sixth.

Zosimus, a Thasian Epigrammatist, but of whom there are only extant 2 Hexa∣stichs in the first and sixth Book of the Greec Florilegium.

Of the Moderns.

A.

ADrianus Scholasticus, an Antuerpi∣an, whose Varia Carmina are prin∣ted with the selected Latin Poems of divers other not obscure Writers of the Low-Countries.

Adrianus Scorelius, his Elegies are publisht with the selected Works of other Belgic Writers of Latin Po∣etry.

Annibal Caro, noted for his Rime or Sonnets equal with several other Itali∣an Writers of that kind.

Alexander Necham, Prior of Ciren∣cester, the Learnedest English-man of of his Age, which was the Reign of King John: in the opinion of Balaeus, who also particularly honours him with the Appellation of a famous Philoso∣pher, Theologist, Rhetorician & Poet; and among the rest of his works, men∣tions his Carmina diversa.

Allain Chartier, Secretary to King

Lewis the Eleventh of France, by whose Queen the Lady Anne of Brittain, he was so admir'd for his Poetry, that as she passed by one day to her Lodging, and saw him leaning on a tables end a sleep, she stoopt down to kiss him, with this expression in the hearing of many (as the Anonymous Author of the Art of English Poetry testifies) We may not of Princely Curtesy passe by, and not honour with a kiss the Mouth from whence so many sweet Ditties and golden Poems have issued.

Antonius Schonhovius; see Florentius, in the foregoing Treatise of the Mo∣derns.

Antonius Thylesius, wr. a Latin Poem Cyclops & Galathea.

Arnulph of Lysieux, a French Poet, taken notice of by Cambden for his La∣tin Epitaph, upon King Henry the First of England.

B.

Benedictus Arias Montanus, that Lear∣ned Spaniard, famous for his Edition of a Polyglot Bible, which neverthe∣••ess is far surpass't by that set forth a∣bout 12 years since, much to the credit

of our Nation, by Doctor Walton, the first Bishop of Chester, since his Maje∣stie's Restauration: There is also men∣tion'd of his writing a Book of Latin Hymns.

Benedetto del Vva, a not obscure Per∣son among the Italian Lyric writers, or Sonnetiers.

Bernardino Tomitano, another of the same order and Quality: as likewise,

C.

Camillo Peregrino.

Caesar Delphinus, remember'd by his Maxias, a Poem in Latin Heroic Verse.

Camillo Porcetti, his Venetia Diffesa, is mentioned among the late Heroic Poems of Italy.

Charles Aleyn, wrote in English Verse the Life of K. Henry the 7^th, with the Battel of Bosworth; also the Battels of Cressy and Poictiers.

Charles Fitz-Geoffry, a Poetical wri∣ter of Queen Elizabeth's Reign, of some esteem formerly, I judge, by that Colle∣ction of choice flowers & Descriptions, as well out of his, as the works of se∣veral others, the most renowned Poets of our Nation, collected above 60 years ago.

Charles Middleton, another of the same time, or there about, of the same concernment, in the forementioned Collection.

Claudius Espencaeus, a French-Man, whose Latin Poem Heroides is the chief∣ly mentioned of his Poetical works.

Cornelius Boius, his Raptus Benjami∣tarum, Rhodope, E tumulo Thalamus, and Venus orta Mari, are publisht in a Volume together with Jacobus Catzius his Patriarcha Bigamus, and several little Poems of Gaspar Barlaeus, not mention∣ed in the foregoing Treatise of the Mo∣derns; as his Pharmaceutria and Damon, or the Nuptials of Cyrus and Aspatia, in 2 Books: his Cynismus, or the Nu∣ptials of Crates the Theban Philosopher, with Hipparcha; his Rhadamanthus, or Poem of the Rape of the 2 Messenian Virgins Tryphosa and Jocasta; his Virgo Androphorus, his Amphitryo Tolosanus, and his Faces Sacrae, or Paraphrase of the Song of Salomon.

D.

Dan Elingham, a Benedictin Monk of Linton, about the time of K. Henry the Third, taken notice by the Learned

Cambden, among the Latin Rythmers of that time: his Verses upon John Baptist, painted in a White-Fryars weed, at the White-Fryars Church in Notting∣ham, being quoted by the said Author.

Dionysius Petavius, a learned French Jesuite, chiefly famous for his most ex∣act Chronology, entitled Rationarium temporis; but mentioned also with commendation by Dr Duport, for his Version of David's Psalms into Greec Verse; besides a Book of Latin Poems.

E.

Edw. Dier, a Poetical Writer, who seems formerly to have been in good esteem, being rank't with some of the most noted Poets of Qu. Elizabeth's time; and a contributer with the chief of them, out of his writings to the above mentioned Collection: and with him we may perhaps not unfitly rank, John Markham, Henry Constable, Thomas Achelly, John Weever, George Tur∣bervile, besides Lodge, Green, Gascoign and others, that have been already men∣tioned.

Edw. Ferris, a writer for the most part to the Stage in K. Henry the 8^th's

time in Tragedy, and sometimes Co∣medy or Interlude, with much skill & magnificence in his Meeter, & wherein, saith the Author of the Art of English Poesy, he gave the King so much good Recreation, as he had thereby many good rewards.

Erasmus Michael Laetus, remember'd by his Margaretica, in Latin Heroic Verse.

F.

Francis Davison's Poetical Rhapso∣die, dedicated to W. Earl of Pembroke, Lord Steward of the Houshold to his late Majesty King Charles the First, ap∣pears to have been in those daies not ill received, since it endured four Im∣pressions.

Francis Hubart, a writer of much about the same time, though scarce with the same success, of the History of Joseph in English Verse.

Franciscus Maurus, known by a La∣tin Poem of Heroic title Franciscias, in 13 Books.

Franciscus Sweertius, his Varia Car∣mina are among the selected works of other Belgic writers in Latin Poetry; as likewise,

Franciscus Thorius Bellio, his Varia Carmina.

Fridericus Hofmannus, Con-Rector of the Colledge of Elbing; his Epi∣grammatum Poeticum Colludium, or Lu∣suum. Epigr. Centuriae, was printed at Amsterdam an. 1665.

G.

Gandolpho Porrino, his Rime rank him with some others of the noted Sonnetiers of Italy.

Gaspar Barlaeus; see Cornelius Boius.

Gaspar Schetus Corvinus, an Antuer∣pian, whose Varia are publisht with the selected works of other Belgic writers in Latin Poetry.

Gaulfrid, one of the oldest of our Modern Poets, for he was Contempo∣rary with Joseph of Exeter: he is men∣tioned by Chaucer in his Description of Chaunticleer the Cock's being carried away by Reynard the Fox, with great Veneration, for his Elegy upon King Richard the First, out of which being in a more judicious Latin strain then was the usual custom of those times, di∣vers Verses are quoted by the Learned Cambden in his Remains.

Georgius Gallus Chrudimenus; see Gal∣lus Chrudimenus, in the foregoing Trea∣tise of the Moderns.

Giovan Battista Guarini; see Battista Guarini, in the foregoing Treatise of the Moderns.

Giovan Battista Attendolo, Giovanni Guidaccione, Giovan Moccarello, Giovanni Salzilli, a Roman, Girolamo Bartolomei, Girolamo Mentouato, and Girolamo Volpe, a Knot of Italian Poetisers, chiefly in their Lyric way of Sonnets, Canzonets, &c. only Bartolomei is chiefly mention∣ed for Tragedy.

Godfry, Prior of Winchester, an Epi∣grammatist in the Reign of King Henry the First, very much admired by Camb∣den, who in his Remains takes pleasure to quote severall of his Epigrams, and commends Winchester likewise for a Nur∣sery of Men excelling in the Poetical Fa∣culty, adding that the very Genius loci doth seem Poetical.

Godofridus Mylandius wrote Latin Idyls and Odes.

Gulielmus Apulensis wrote in Latin Verse 5 Books of the Affairs of the Nor∣mans in Italy.

H.

Henry of Aurench, a Frenchman, Poet to Philip the Second of France, whom nevertheless our Michael, the Merry Cornish Poet, makes bold to play upon in his old Latin Drolling Rhythmes.

Henry Bell, a Collector of the Cu∣stoms under King Henry the Fourth, out of whose Satyr in Latin Verse a∣gainst the Exchequer Officers of that time; several passages are quoted by Cambden.

Henry Constable; see Edw. Dier.

Henry, Arch-Deacon of Huntingdon, one of the most noted, and by Polydore and Leland most commended of the Scriptores Angl. but besides his 8 Books De Regibus Anglorum, and other things in History, he is said to have extoll'd to the Skies, and that in elegant Verse, in the opinion of Balaeus, King Alfred and his Daughter Ethelfleda, with other Great Persons of that time: he wrote also Odes, Epistles, and other things in Verse.

Henry of Winchester, an old Latin Versifier, quoted by Cambden, among

the English Poetical Writers of former Ages.

Hermannus Blasius wrote a Latin Poem Arethusa.

Hercole Bentivoglio, a noted Person among the Italian Writers of Sonnets, and other Lyric Poetry.

Hildebert, Bishop of Main, and afterwards Arch-Bishop of Tours; a borderer between the Antients & Mo∣derns, for he flourisht about the year of our Lord 1090: his Exposition up•• the Office of the Masse in Latin Verse, is by some commended for Elegancy of style: he wrote also Hymns and Ora∣tions, in several sort of Verse, and is thought to be that old Epigrammatist, as Cambden calls him, out of whom he cites a parcel of Latin Verses, in praise of England.

Hugh Holland, a Poetical Writer, thought worthy by some to be mentio∣ned with Spencer, Sidny and other, the Chief of English Poets; with whom nevertheless he must needs be confess't inferior, both in Poetic ••ame ad Merit.

Hugh, Arch-Deacon of York, one whom I find mentioned among the Old

English Versifiers, and the rather to be taken notice of for Antiquities sake.

I.

Jacobus Gaddius, an Italian, noted for what he writ as well in Latin, as Vernacular Poetry.

Jacobus Sluperius, a Flandrian, of the Town of Hersel, whose Varia are pu∣blisht with the collected works of other Belgic Writers of Latin Poetry.

D^r James Duport, Master of Mag∣dalen Colledge in Cambridge, in which University he was for many years (most worthily in respect of his exquisite per∣fection therein) Professor of the Greec Tongue; and for Greec Verse how not inferior to the Chief of the Mo∣derns? his so well esteemed Metaphra∣ses of Davids's Psalms, Job, Ecclesiastes, and the Canticles, sufficiently testifie.

Joannes Callius, a Latin Hymnogra∣pher of Erford.

Joannes Sirnamed from his Order Canonicus, an Englishman, the Author (among other works) of a Book of Latin Poems, as Balaeus testifies, in the Reign of K. Henry the Third.

Joannes Garisolius, a late German Writer of a well approved style, in Latin Poetry.

Joannes Peckam, a Franciscan in the Reign of King Edw. the First; among whose many other works Balaeus makes mention of his Carmina diversa.

Sir John Harrington, no less noted for his Book of Witty Epigrams, then his judicious Translation of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso.

John Heywood, an old fashioned Dramatic writer, as appears by the title of his Interludes; viz. The Play of Love, the Play of the Weather, the Play between Johan and his Wife, and the Play between the Pardoner and the Fryar, the Curate and his Neighbour, the Play of Gentleness and Nobility, in two parts; besides two Comedies the Pinner of Wakefeild, and Philotas Scotch. There was of this Name in King Henry the Eighth's Reign an Epigrammatist, who, saith the Author of the Art of English Poetry, for the mirth & quickness of his conceits, more than any good Learn∣ing was in him, came to be well benefited by the King.

John Lacy; one of the best and most applauded of our English Actors, in this present Age; but whose wit not wholly confin'd to Action, hath also pro∣duc't two ingenuous Comical P••eces, viz. Monsieur Ragou, and the Dumb Lady.

John Markham; see Edw. Dier.

John de Mehunes, a French Poet, out of whom Chaucer is said to have bor∣rowed his Troilus and Cressida, and some other of his Poems.

John Skelton, the Poet Laureat men∣tioned in the foregoing Treatise of the Moderns, lived in the time of King Henry the Eighth; and for his Satyrical Invectives against Cardinal Woolsy, was forc't to fly to Sanctuary at Westminster, where in a years time he died, either of grief or ill usage.

John Weever; see Edw. Dier.

M.

Marco Antonio Giraldi, Marco Barto∣lomeo Gottifredi, Marco Lamberti, Marco Paulo Antonio Ciocca, a Quaternion of Italian Sonnetiers.

Marco Girolamo Fracastorio, was e••ual∣ly happy in Vernacular▪ and Latin Poe∣try.

See Hieronymus Fracastorius, in the foregoing Treatise of the Moderns.

Monsieur Moliere, the pleasantest of French Comedians, for smart Comic wit and Mirth; and to whom our English Stage hath within a few years been not a little beholding.

N.

Nicholas Lord Vaux, a Poetical Wri∣ter among the Nobility, in the Reign of King Henry the Eighth; whose Com∣mendation, saith the Author of the Art of English Poesy, lyeth chiefly in the faci∣lity of his Meeter, and the aptness of his Descriptions, such as he takes upon him to make, namely in sundry of his Songs, wherein he sheweth the conunterfeit action very lively and pleasantly.

Nicolaus Stopius, a Fleming of the town of Alost; whose Varia are publisht with the selected works of other No∣ted Belgic Writers in Latin Poetry.

P.

Paganus Piscator, vulgarly Fisher, a Notable undertaker in Latin Verse, by his Marston Moor & other Latin Pieces, besides English ones not a few, which however meriting (that we shall not

stand now to examin) he must not be forgotten, that was retained Poet Lau∣reat to so Notorious a Man as Oliver Cromwell, to whom being usurper, if his Muse did homage, it must be considered that Poets in all times have been incli∣nable to ingratiate themselves with the highest in power by what title soever.

Petronio Barbati da Poligno, a Sonnet writer among many others of the Ita∣lian Lyrics; neither of the brightest nor obscurest fame.

R.

Richard Barnfeild, one of the same Rank in Poetry with Doctor Lodge, Robert Green, Nicholas Breton, and other Contemporaries already men∣tion'd in the foregoing Treatise of the Moderns.

Robertus Baston, a Carmelite of a Noble Family in Yorkshire, who had so great a fame in Poetry, that K. Edw. the First, in his Scotish Expedition, pitcht upon him to be the Celebrator of his Heroic Acts; when being taken prisoner by the Scots, he was forc't by torments to change his Note, and represent all things to the advantage of Robert Bruce,

who then laid claim to the Kingdom of Scotland. Besides his Poem De Bello Strivilensi; there were publisht of his writing a book of Tragedies, with other Poems of various subject.

T.

Theophilus Hogersius, a Latin Ver∣sifier among the Chief of Scotland for Latin Poetry.

Thomas Achelly; see Edw. Dier.

Thomas, Lord Buckhurst, in King Henry the Eighth's time, is esteem'd by the Author of the Art of English Poe∣try, equal with Edward Ferris, another Tragic writer already mentioned; of both whom he saith, For such doings as I have seen of theirs, they deserve the price.

Thomas Charnock, his Breviary of Natural Philosophy in English Verse, is publisht together with Tho. Nortons's Ordinal of Alchimy, John Dastins's dream, Bloomfeild's Blossoms, Abraham Andrew's Hunting of the green Lyon, G. Reply's Compound of A'chymy, and other col∣lected works of the choicest of our old Poetisers in the Mysteries of Chy∣mical Philosophy, by my honoured

Freind Mr Ashmole, a Learned and most industrious Inquirer into all the Curio∣sities of Antiquity, in his Book entitled Theatrum Chymicum Britannicum.

Thomas Ocleave, a very famous Eng∣lish Poet in his time, which was the Reign of King Henry the Fourth and Henry the Fifth; to which last he De∣dicated his Government of a Prince, the chiefly remember'd of what he writ in Poetry, and so much the more famous he is by being remember'd to have been the Disciple of the most fam'd Chaucer.

W.

Sir Walter Raleigh, a Person both sufficiently known in History, and by his History of the World, and seems also by the Character given him by the forementioned Author of the Art of English Poetry, to have express't him∣self more a Poet then the little we have extant of his Poetry, seems to import: For ditty and Amorous Ode, saith he, I find Sir Walter Raleigh's Vein most lofty, insolent and passionate.

William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, Lord Steward of the Houshold to his late Majesty King Charles the First; not

only a great favourer of Learned and Ingenious Men, but also of a Poetical Genious himself, as he discovers by those Amorous & not unelegant Airs; which having been many years known by the Musical numbers of H. Laws, and N. Laneer, were publisht under his Name in the year 1660; and that (as a great testimony of his Genuine title to them) with the both approbation and desire of Caeciliana Coun••ess Dowager of Devon∣shire, as Doctor Donne takes notice in an Epistle to her before these Poems, to many of which also are printed the answers of Sir Benjamin Ruddyer, by way of Repartee.

William Leighton Dedicated to King James a Poetical Peice, entitled Vertue Triumphant, or Lively Description of the four Vertues Cardinal, which came forth an. 1603.

William Wicherly, a Gentleman of the Inner Temple, the Author of two witty Comedies, Love in a Wood, and the Gentleman Dancing Master.