1. SMECTYMNUUS. Or, The Club-Divines. II. RUPERTISMUS. In Praise of Prince Rupert. III. Elegy on Dr. Laud Arch-Bishop of Canterbury. In these two laft, he fhewed his Excellency at Panegyrick.

IV. The mixt Affembly.

V. The London Diurnal.
VI. The Committee Man.
VII. The Rebel Scot.

VIII. The Scots Apoftacy. In thefe Five Poems, he defcribed Rebellion in fuch lively Colours, that Mr. Winstanley tells us, he ftruck each Traytor to a Palenefs, beyond that of any Loyal Corps that had bied by them.

IX. The King's Difguife; A Prophetical Poem on the Sufferings of the Royal Martyr.

X. The Hermaphrodite. An Excellent Poem, inferted by mistake among Mr. Randolph's Warks.

In a Copy of Verfes Printed before Mr. Cleveland's Poems, there are thefe Lines in his Praife.

Cleveland again his facred Head does raife,
Even in the Duft Crown'd with Immortal Bays,
Again with Verfes Arm'd that once did fright
Lycambe's Daughters from the hated Light;
Sets his bold Foot on Reformation's Neck,
And Triumphs o'er the vanquish'd Monster Smec:
That Hydra whofe proud Heads did fo increafe,
That it deferv'd no lefs an Hercules.
This, this is he, who in Poetick Rage,
With Scorpions lafh'd the Madness of the Age.

And his fevere Diftich upon the Scotch, will ne ver be forgotten,

Had Cain been Scot, God had revers'd his Doom,
Not fent him wand'ring, but confin'd him Home.

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Sfiftant-Mafter of the Grammar-School of Chrift's Hofpital, where he was himself Educated, and from whence he was Elected to Tri-: nity College in Cambridge, and took the Degree of Mafter of Arts there. He was a Man of found Learning, ready Wit, and good Humour, and his Obfervations upon Virgil, fhew that he was well acquainted with that Poet. He died at London, in the Year 1713. And lies Interred in the Cloyster of Chrift's Hofpital. Befides a Collection of Poems, Published by himself, in Octavo, 1700. He has writ the following Pieces.

I. The Female Reign. An Ode, Alluding to the Fourteenth Ode of the Fourth Book of Horace. This piece fets forth the Happiness of England in the beginning of the Reign of Queen Anne, and comes clofer to the fineft Tranfitions and Returns of Pindar to the Subject, than any Poem I have feen in our Language.

II. The Millers-Tale, from Chaucer; Infcribed to Nicholas Rowe, Efq; 8vo. 1712.

III. The Moufe-Trap. A Poem, made English from Mr. Holdsworth's Latin Original.

IV. The Oak and the Briar., A Tale.

He likewife joined with Mr. Rowe in the Tranglation of Quillet's Callipadia; and affifted Mr. Ozell in the Tranflation of Boileau's Lutrin, &c.

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Dr. RICHARD CORBET, Bishop of

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Perfon of fingular Wit, and an eloquent Preacher He was born at Ewel in Surrey; and being thence fent to the University of Oxford, he from a Student, became Dean of Christ Church College, then Bishop of Oxford, and afterwards upon the Translation of Bishop White to Ely, He was Elected to the Bishoprick of Norwich, 1632. He was a Famous Poet in his Youth, and one of those Celebrated Perfons who with Ben Johnson, Sir John Harrington, Dr. Donne, Mr. Drayton and others, wrote Mock Commendatory Verfes, on Tom. Coriat's Crudities. He likewife wrote, amongst other Poems,

1. Iter Boreale. A facetious Piece, much commended, and which fufficiently fhewed the Effects of his Juvenile Fancy. Dr. Wild wrote a Poem likewife under this Title, upon General Monk's March out of Scotland, in order to his Majefties Restoration.

H. A Poem. On the Death of the Earl of Dorfet. III. An Elegy on the Lord WILLIAM HOWARD, of Effingham, 1615. He died at Norwich, after ha ving been Bishop of that See, but three years, and lies Interred in the Cathedral there, with the following Infcription on his Grave Stone.

RICHARDUS CORBET, Theologia Doctor, Ecclefia Cathedralis Chrifti Oxonienfis Primum Alumnus, Inde Decanus, exinde Epifcopus, illinc huc Tranflatus, Et hinc in Cœlum, Jul. 28. Ann. 1635.

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Mr. RICHARD CRASHAW.

Divine Poet of the laft Age. He was Educated at Cambridge, and was firft Fellow of Pembroke-Hall, in that Univerfity, and afterwards of St. Peter's College. He delighted in Religious Solitude, and was a Lover of a Reclufe Life, which occafioned him to employ much of his Time, and to Lodge many Nights under Tertullian's Roof of Angels, in St. Mary's Church in Cambridge. At length he turned Roman Catholick, and Travelled into Italy, where at the fo Zealously frequented Place, the Chappel of our Lady of Lorretto, he spent the remainder of his Life in Divine Contemplation. His Poems confift of Three Parts.

1. Steps to the Temple, being for the moft part Epigrams upon feveral Paffages of the New Tefta

ment.

II. The Delights of the Mufes, or Poeins upon feveral Occafions, both English and Latin, which fhew the Author to be of a very pregnant Fancy.

III. Carmen de noftro, being Hymns and other Sacred Poems, Dedicated to the Countess of Denbeigh.

Mr. THOMAS CREECH.

HIS Learned Clergyman was born near Shirburn in Dorfetfaire, and bred up at the Free School in that Town under Mr. Curgaiven, a Mari

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of Eminent Character, to whom in Gratitude he Inftribes one of the Idylliums of Theocritus, that he Tranflated: But his Parents Circumftances not being fufficient to fupport him in a Liberal Education, his Difpofition and Capacity for Learning, raifed him a Patron in Colonel Strangeways, whofe Generofity fupplied that Defect. This Gentleman fent him to Wadham College in Oxford, where he was admitted a Scholar on the Foundation, and Publishing his Tranflation of Lucretius, when very Young, the great Reputation he gained by that Per formance, Recommended him to All-Souls College, where he was Elected Fellow. He was a Man of Excellent Parts, found Judgment, and perfectly Master of the Greek and Latin Languages; but naturally of a Morofe Temper, and too apt to defpife the Understandings and Performances of others. This made him lefs efteemed than his great Merit deferved: And his Refentments on this Account, frequently engaged him in thofe Heats and Difputes which in the end proved fatal to him. He was prefented by the College to the Living of Welling in Hertfordshire, but before he left Oxford, (the Caufe unknown) he unfortunately made away himself in the Year 1701.

Befides his Translations of Lucretius, Theocritus and Horace, he has done fome of Virgil's Eclogues, and Juvenal's Satires.

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Mr. HUGH CROMPTON,

Gentleman well Educated, tho' but of a fmall Fortune; in the Reign of King Charles the Firft. His Neceffities obliged him to Commence Author, by which he fubfifted very well for a time,

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