ed on the Flags of highest Invention; and
may justly Stile him to be one of the chief of those great Souls of
Numbers. He wrote besides several other things, a Poem of _Bosworth
Field_, and that so Ingeniously, as one thus writes of it.

Could divine _Maro_, hear his Lofty Strain;
He would condemn his Works to fire again.

I shall only give you an Instance of some few lines of his out of the
aforesaid Poem, and so conclude.

Here Valiant _Oxford_, and Fierce _Norfolk_ meet;
And with their Spears, each other rudely greet:
About the Air the shined Pieces play,
Then on their Swords their Noble Hand they lay.
And _Norfolk_ first a Blow directly guides,
To _Oxfords_ Head, which from his Helmet slides
Upon his Arm, and biteing through the Steel,
Inflicts a Wound, which _Vere_ disdains to feel.
But lifts his Faulcheon with a threatning grace,
And hews the Beaver off from _Howards_ Face,
This being done, he with compassion charm'd,
Retires asham'd to strike a Man disarm'd.
But strait a deadly Shaft sent from a Bow,
(Whose Master, though far off, the Duke could know:
Untimely brought this combat to an end,
And pierc'd the Brains of _Richards_ constant Friend.
When _Oxford_ saw him Sink his Noble Soul,
Was full of grief, which made him thus condole.
_Farewel true Knight, to whom no costly Grave
Can give due honour, would my Tears might save
Those streams of Blood, deserving to be Spilt
In better service, had not_ Richard's _guilt
Such heavy weight upon his Fortune laid,
Thy Glorious vertues had his Sins outweigh'd_.

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_Dr. PHILEMON HOLLAND_.

This worthy Doctor, though we find not many Verses of his own
Composing, yet is deservedly placed amongst the Poets; for his numerous
Translations of so many Authors: insomuch that he might be called the
Translator General of his Age; So that those Books alone of his turning
into English, are sufficient to make a Country Gentleman a Competent
Library for Historians. He is thought to have his Birth in
_Warwick-shire_, but more certain to have his Breeding in _Trinity
Colledge_ in _Cambridge_; where he so Profited, that he became Doctor
of Physick: and practised the same in _Coventry_ in his (if so it were)
native Country. Here did he begin and finish the Translation of so many
Authors, that considering their Voluminousness, a Man would think he
had done nothing else; which made o