g Kingdoms.

But to return to Mr. _Brewer_; Besides this _Lingua_, he wrote _Loves
Loadstone_, and _the Countrey-Girl_, Comedies; _the Love-sick King_,
and _Landagartha_, Tragi-Comedies, and _Loves Dominion_, a Pastoral.

* * * * *

_HENRY GLAPTHORN_.

_Henry Glapthorn_ was one well deserving of the _English_, being one of
the chiefest Dramatick Writers of this Age; deservingly commendable not
so much for the quantity as the quality of his Plays; being his
_Hollander_, _Ladies Priviledge_, and _Wit in a Constable_, Comedies;
his _Argalus_ and _Parthenia_, a Pastoral; and _Alberus Wailestein_, a
Tragedy; in which Tragedy these Lines are much commended.

_This Law the Heavens inviolably keep,
Their Justice well may slumber, but ne'er sleep,_

* * * * *

_JOHN DAVIS_ of _Hereford_.

In the writing of this Mans Life, we shall make use of Dr. _Fuller_ in
his _England_'s _Worthies_, who saith, that he was the greatest Master
of the Pen that _England_ in his Age beheld; for,

1. _Fast writing_; so incredible his expedition.

2. _Fair writing_; some minutes consultation being required to
decide whether his Lines were written or printed.

3. _Close writing_; a Mystery which to do well, few attain
unto.

4. _Various writing_; _Secretary, Roman, Court_ and
_Text_.

The Poetical Fiction of _Briareus_ the Giant, who had an hundred hands,
found a Moral in him, who could so cunningly and copiously disguise his
aforesaid elemental hands, that by mixing, he could make them appear an
hundred; and if not so many sorts, so many degrees of writing. He had
also many pretty excursions into Poetry, and could flourish Matters as
well as Letters, with his Fancy as well as with his Pen. Take a taste
of his Abilities in those Verses of his before _Coriat's Crudities_,
being called the _Odcombian Banquet_, wherein the whole Club of Wits in
that Age joyned together, to write Mock-commendatory Verses in
_Praise-dispraise_ of his Book.

_If Art that oft the Learn'd hath stammer'd,
In one Iron Head-piece (yet no Hammer-Lead)
May (joyn'd with Nature) hit Fame on the Cocks-comb,
Then 'tis that Head-piece that is crown'd with_ Odcomb
_For he, hard_ Head (_and_ hard, _sith like a_ Whet-stone)
_It gives_ Wits _edge, and draws them too like_ Jet-stone)
_Is_ Caput Mundi _for a world of School-tricks,
And is not igno