_Styx_.
Joyn'd with two Neuters, some Condemn, some Praise,
They hang betwixt the _Halters_ and the _Bayes_;
For 'twixt _Nolls_ Torment, and Great _Charles's_ Glory,
There, there's the _Presbyterian_ purgatory.

He died (as I am informed) at _Colcester_, about the Year of our Lord
1670.

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_JOHN DAUNCEY_.

_John Dauncey_, a true Son of _Apollo_, and _Bacchus_; was one who had
an Excellent Command of his Pen, a fluent Stile, and quick Invention:
nor did any thing come amiss to his undertaking. He wrote a compleat
History of the late times; a Chronicle of the Kingdom of _Portugal_;
the _English Lovers_, a Romance; which for Language and Contrivance,
comes not short of either of the best of French or Spanish. He
Translated a Tragi Comedy out of French, called _Nichomede_, equal in
English to the French Original; besides several other things, too long
to recite. His _English Lovers_ was Commended by divers of sound
Judgment; amongst others, Mr. _Lewis Griffin_, our forementioned Poet,
made these verses in commendations of it.

Rich Soul of Wit and Language, thy high strains
So plunge and puzzle unrefined brains;
That their Illiterate Spirits do not know,
How much to thy Ingenious Pen they owe,
Should my presumptuous Muse attempt to raise
Trophies to thee, she might as well go blaze
Bright Planets with base Colours, or display
The Worlds Creation in a Puppet-Play.
Let this suffice, what Calumnies may chance,
To blur thy Fame, they spring from Ignorance.

When _Old Orpheus_ drew the Beasts along,
By sweet Rhetorick of his learned Tongue,
'Twas deafness made the Adder sin; and this
Caus'd him, who should have hum'd the Poet, hiss.

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_RICHARD HEAD_.

_Richard Head_, the Noted Author of the _English Rogue_, was a
Ministers Son, born in _Ireland_, whose Father was killed in that
horrid Rebellion in 1641. Whereupon his Mother with this her Son came
into _England_; and he having been trained up in Learning, was by the
help of some Friends, for some little time brought up in the University
of _Oxford_, in the same Colledge wherein his Father had formerly been
a Student. But means falling short, he was taken away from thence, and
bound Apprentice to a Latin Bookseller in _London_; attaining to a good
Proficiency in that Trade. But his Genius being addicted to Poetry, and
having _Venus_