The lives of the most famous English poets, or, The honour of Parnassus in a brief essay of the works and writings of above two hundred of them, from the time of K. William the Conqueror to the reign of His present Majesty, King James II / written by William Winstanley, author of The English worthies ...

HƲGH CROMPTON.

HE was born a Gentleman, and bred up a Scholar, but his Father not leaving him Means enough to support the one, and the Times in that Condition, that without Money Learning is little regarded; he therefore betook him to a Gen∣tile Employment, which his Learning had made him capable to do; but the succession of a worse fate disemploying him, as he himself saith in his Epistle to the Reader of his Book, entituled, Pieri∣des, or the Muses Mount, he betook him to his Pen, (that Idleness might not sway) which in time produced a Volume of Poems, which to give you a tast of the briskness of his Muse, I shall instance in a few lines, in one or two of them.

VVhen I remember what mine eyes have seen, And what mine Ears have heard, Concerning Muses too too young and green;

And how they have been jear'd, T' expose my own I am afear'd.

And yet this fear decreases, when I call To my tempestuous mind, How the strong loins of Phoebus Children all, Have faln by Censures mind: And in their road what Rocks they find.

He went over afterwards into Ireland, where he continued for some time; but whether he dyed there or no, I am not certain.