read; he bestows upon him like
wife the epithet of a fine gentleman, and observes, that though he had
travelled to foreign countries to read life, and acquire knowledge,
yet he was worthy, like another Livy, of having men of eminence from
every country come to visit him. From the quotation here given, it
will be seen that Sandys was a smooth versifier, and Dryden in his
preface to his translation of Virgil, positively says, that had Mr.
Sandys gone before him in the whole translation, he would by no means
have attempted it after him.

In the translation of his Christus Patiens, in the chorus of Act III.

JESUS speaks.

Daughters of Solyma, no more
My wrongs thus passionately deplore.
These tears for future sorrows keep,
Wives for yourselves, and children weep;
That horrid day will shortly come,
When you shall bless the barren womb,
And breast that never infant fed;
Then shall you with the mountain's head
Would from this trembling basis slide,
And all in tombs of ruin hide.

In his translation of Ovid, the verses on Fame are thus englished.

And now the work is ended which Jove's rage,
Nor fire, nor sword, shall raise, nor eating age.
Come when it will, my death's uncertain hour,
Which only o'er my body bath a power:
Yet shall my better part transcend the sky,
And my immortal name shall never die:
For wheresoe'er the Roman Eagles spread
Their conqu'ring wings, I shall of all be read.
And if we Prophets can presages give,
I in my fame eternally shall live.

[Footnote 1: Athen. Oxon. p. 46. vol. ii.]

[Footnote 2: Wood, ubi supra.]

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CARY LUCIUS, Lord Viscount FALKLAND,

The son of Henry, lord viscount Falkland, was born at Burford in
Oxfordshire, about the year 1610[1]. For some years he received
his education in Ireland, where his father carried him when he was
appointed Lord Deputy of that kingdom in 1622; he had his academical
learning in Trinity College in Dublin, and in St. John's College,
Cambridge. Clarendon relates, "that before he came to be twenty years
of age, he was master of a noble fortune, which descended to him by
the gift of a grandfather, without passing through his father or
mother, who were both alive; shortly after that, and before he was of
age, being in his inclination a great lover of the military life, he
went into the low countries in order to procure a command, and to give
himself up to it, bu