ncient Greek and Latin, as of the choicest of modern
Poets, both _Italian_, _French_, and _Spanish_; and in what he hath
elegantly and judiciously Translated either of the former or latter; in
the Translating of which he hath discovered a more pure Poetical Fancy,
than many others can justly pretend to in their Original Works. Nor was
his Genius confined only to Poetry, his Version of those Books of
_Manilius_, which relate meerly to Astronomy, is a very Noble Work,
being set forth with most exact Notes, and other learned and proper
Illustrations. Besides many other genuine Pieces which he wrote.

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_JOHN QUARLES_.

_John Quarles_, Son to _Francis Quarles_, Esq; may be said to be born a
Poet, and that his Father's Genius was infused into him; nor was he
less Loyal in his Principles to his Prince, writing besides several
other Works, an Elegy on the Lord _Capell_, and _A Curse against the
Enemies of Peace_; of which I remember those were the two last lines.

That all the world may hear them hiss and cry,
Who loves no peace, in peace shall never die.

He was also addicted to Arms, as well as Arts, and, as I have been
informed, was a Captain in the King's Army, but then Loyalty suffering
an Eclipse, he came up to _London_, and continued there till the great
Sickness, which swept away of the Pestilence no fewer than 68586
persons, amongst whom this unfortunate Gentleman was one, tho to my
knowledge, to prevent it, he might have been kindly welcom to his
worthy Kinsman, Mr. _William Holgate_ of _Saffron-Walden_ in _Essex_,
but Fate had decreed it otherwise.

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_JOHN MILTON_.

_John Milton_ was one, whose natural parts might deservedly give him a
place amongst the principal of our English Poets, having written two
Heroick Poems and a Tragedy; namely, _Paradice Lost_, _Paradice
Regain'd_, and _Sampson Agonista_; But his Fame is gone out like a
Candle in a Snuff, and his Memory will always stink, which might have
ever lived in honourable Repute, had not he been a notorious Traytor,
and most impiously and villanously bely'd that blessed Martyr King
_Charles_ the First.

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_JOHN OGILBY_.

_John Ogilby_ was one, who from a late Initiation into Literature, made
such a Progress therein, as might well stile him to be the Prodigy of
his time, sending into the world so many la