_Thomas Stanley_ Esquire, of _Cumberlo Green_ in _Hartfordshire_; a
general Scholar, one well known both in Philosophy, History, and
Poetry. Witness his learned Edition of _AEschylus_, and his lives of the
Philosophers; But for that which we take the most notice of him here,
his smooth Air and gentile Spirit in Poetry; which appears not only in
his own Genuine Poems, but also from what he hath so well Translated
out of Ancient Greek, and Modern Italian, Spanish, and French Poets; So
that we may well conclude him to be both the Glory and Admiration of
his time.

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_EDWARD PHILLIPS_.

_Edward Phillips_ Brother to _John Phillips_ aforesaid, the Judicious
Continuator of Sir _Richard Bakers_ Chronicle; which will make his name
Famous to Posterity, no less than his Genuine Poems upon several
occasions, in which he comes not far short of his Spritely Brother.

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Mr. _THOMAS SPRAT_.

Mr. _Thomas Sprat_, whose judicious History of the _Royal Society_, for
the Smoothness of the Stile, and exactness of the Method, deserveth
high Commendations; He hath also writ in Verse a very applauded, tho
little Poem, entitled _The Plague of_ Athens.

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_WILLIAM SMITH_.

_William Smith_ the Author of a Tragedy entituled _Hieronymo_; as also
_The Hector of Germany_.

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Mr. _JOHN LACEY_.

Mr. _John Lacy_, one of the noted'st Wits of these Times, who as
_William Shakespeare_ and _Christopher Marlow_ before him, rose from an
Actor to be an Author to the Stage, having written two ingenious
Comical Pieces, _viz._ _Monsieur Ragou_, and _the Dumb Lady_.

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Mr. _WILLIAM WHICHERLY_.

Mr. _William Whicherly_, a Gentleman of the Inner _Temple_, who besides
his other learned Works, hath contributed largely to the Stage, in his
Comedies of _Love in a Wood_, _The Gentleman Dancing-Master_, _The
Country Wife_, &c.

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Sir _ROGER L'ESTRANGE_.

And so we have reckoned up all the most Eminent Poets which have come
to our knowledge, craving pardon for those we have omitted. We shall
conclude all with Sir _Roger L'Strange_, one whose Pen was never idle
in asserting the Royal Cause, as well before the King's Restoration,
against his open Enemies, as since t