And what mine Ears have heard,
Concerning Muses 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.

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_EDMUND PRESTWICH_.

_Edmund Prestwich_, was one who deservedly cometh in as a Member of the
Noble Society of Poets, being the Author of an ingenious Comedy called
the _Hectors_, or _False Challenge_; as also _Hippolytus_ a Tragedy;
what ever he might have written besides, which may not have come to my
knowledge.

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_PAGAN FISHER_.

_Paganus Piscator_, vulgarly _Fisher_, was a notable Undertaker in
Latin Verse, and had well deserved of his Country, had not lucre of
Gain and private Ambition over-swayed his Pen, to favour successful
Rebellion. He wrote in Latin his _Marston-Moor; A Gratulatory Ode of
Peace_; Englished afterwards by _Thomas Manley_, and other Latin
pieces, besides English ones, not a few, which (as we said) might have
been meriting, had not those worldly Considerations over-swayed the
Dictates of his own Conscience. But this his temporizing with the
Times, preferred him to be Poet Laureat (if that were any Preferment)
to that notorious Traytor _Oliver Cromwell_; to whom being Usurper, if
his Muse did homage, it must be considered (saith Mr. _Phillips_) that
Poets in all times have been inclinable to ingratiate themselves with
the highest in Power, by what Title so ever.

However it was, I have heard him often confess his Unhappiness therein:
and imparted to me a design he had, of committing to memory the
Monuments of the several Churches in _London_ and _Westminster_; not
only those mentioned by _Stow_ and _Weaver_, but also those who have
been erected since, which might have been of great use to Posterity,
had it been done before the great Conflagration of the Fire, thereby
preserving many Monuments, endangered since to be lost, but Death
interposing hindred him of his Design.

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_EDWARD SHIRBURN_, Esq;

_Edward Shirburn_ (saith a learned Author) was intimately knowing as
well of the a