rge and learned Volumes, as
well in Verse as in Prose, as will make posterity much indebted to his
Memory. His Volumes in Prose were his _Atlas_, and other Geographical
Works, which gained him the Style and Office of the King's
Cosmographer. In Verse his Translations of _Homer_ and _Virgil_, done
to the Life, and adorned with most excellent Sculptures; but above all,
as composed _Propria_ _Minerva_; his Paraphrase upon _AEsop's_ Fables,
which for Ingenuity and Fancy, besides the Invention of new Fables, is
generally confest to have exceeded what ever hath been done before in
that kind. He also set forth King _Charles_ the Second his
Entertainment through _London_, when he went to his Coronation, with
most admirable Cuts of the several Pageants as he passed through, and
Explanations upon them. And that which added a great grace to his
Works, he printed them all on special good Paper, and had them printed
on very good Letter.

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Sir _RICHARD FANSHAW_.

This worthy Gentleman, one of _Apollo's_ chiefest Sons, was Secretary
to King _Charles_ the Second, when Prince of _Wales_, and after his
Restoration, his Embassadour to _Spain_, where he died. His Employments
were such, as one would think he should have had no time for Poetical
Diversions, yet at leisure times he Translated _Guarini's Pastor Fido_
into English Verse, and _Spencer's Shepherds Callendar_ into Latin
Verse.

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_ROGER BOILE_, Lord _Broghil_,
Earl of _Orrery_.

This Noble Person, the credit of the _Irish_ Nobility for Wit and
ingenious Parts, and who had the command of a smooth Stile, both in
Prose and Verse; in which last he hath written several Dramatick
Histories, as _Mustapha_, _Edward_ the Third, _Henry_ the Fifth, and
_Tryphon_, all of them with good success and applause, as writing after
the French way of Rhyme, now of late very much in Fashion.

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_THOMAS HOBBS_ of _Malmsbury_.

This noted Person, who gave occasion for so many Pens to band against
him, is of the more consideration, for what he hath either judged or
writ in Poetry; but his _Leviathan_, which he wrote in Prose, caused
the Pen of a no less than a learned Bishop to write against him. He
wrote a Preface to _Davenant's Gondibert_, where no wonder if
Complement and friendly Compliance do a little byass and over-sway
Judgment. His Latin Poem