but at length he Experienced that Pegaffus was a Jade. In the latter part of his Life, he went over into Ireland, where he continued for fome time, but before he left England, he Published a Volume of Poems Intitled,

PIERIDES, Or The Mufes Mount. In thefe Poems, Mr. Winstanley tells us, there appears great Brisknefs, and a good turn of Thought,

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The Reverend Mr. CROXALL,

Young Gentleman now living, whofe Father was Minister of Hampton upon Thames, where he was born. He was Educated at Eton, and from thence Elected to the University of Cambridge, and is now House Chaplain of the Royal Palace of Hampton-Court, The firft Poetical Pieces he Published, were under a fictitious Character, viz.

I. Two Original CANTOS of Spenfer; Being Satires on the Earl of Oxford's Administration.

II. An ODE humbly Infcribed to the King, occafie on'd by his Majefty's moft Aufpicious Succeffion and Arrival. Written in the Stanza and Measure of Spenfer.

got. III. The VISION. A Poem. folio. 1715.

IV. Tranflations from Ov ID's Metamorphofes, viz. The VI. Book, The Story of Nifus and Scylla, The Labyrinth, and Dadalus and Icarus, from the VIII, Book, part of the Fable of Cypariffus, from the X. Book, most part of the XI. Book, and the Funeral of Memnon from the XIII. Book.

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Sir JOHN DAVIS

TTORNEY General to Queen Elizabeth, with whom he was in great Favour, and also her Succeffor King James the Firft. In his Younger Years, he applied himself to the Study of Poetry, 'till he found his Intereft point him another way, and then he took up with the Laborious Studies of the Law. He wrote an Excellent Poem Intitled,

The Original Nature, and Immortality of the Soul. It is written in Alternate Rhime, was first Published in. 1592. and fome Years ago Revived by Mr. Tate, at the defire of the late Earl of Dorfet, to whom he Dedicated it. A Third Edition of it was Printed, 1715.

Mr. Winstanley afcribes to this Gentleman feveral other Poems,(viz.) A Metaphrafe on feveral of David's Pfalms; Nofce Te ipfum ; Ocheftra, &c.

Sir WILLIAM DAWES, Bart. ArchBishop of Tork.

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HIS Reverend Prelate is Defcended from an Ancient and Honourable Family in the County of Effex. He was Educated at Merchant Taylor's School, London; and from thence Elected to St. John's College in Oxford; of which he was after

wards

wards Fellow. He was the Youngest of Four Brothers, all which dying Young, (two of them be-> ing loft in a Sea Engagement) the Title and Estate of the Family fell to him; fo that as foon as he had taken his First Degree in Arts, he Refigned his Fellowship, and left Oxford, but fome time afterwards he entered into Holy Orders. As he is Defcended from a Great and Ancient Family, fo he is the greateft Ornament of it. The Divine, the Gentleman, and the Christian, are happily Centered in his Lordfhip, and fhine with equal Luftre. He is a very Popular and Excellent Preacher; his Piety is Great and Confpicuous; his Charity and Benevolence equalled by few, and his good Nature and Humanity the most extenfive. These great Qualities have defervedly gained him the highest Reputation: and before his Promotion to the Mitre, he was Mafter of Katharine-Hall in Cambridge, Chaplain to the late Queen, and Dean of Bocking. In the Year 1708. he was Confecrated Bishop of Chefter, and in 1713. Tranflated to the Arch-Bishoprick of York. While he was at the University, before he went into Orders, he wrote, The Anatomy of Atheism. A POEM, Dedicated to the Honourable Sir George Darcy, Bart, Printed in the Year 1701, 800. The Defign of this Excellent Piece his Lordship declares in the Preface, is to expofe the Folly of thofe Men who are arrived to that Pitch of Impudence and Profaneness, that they think it a Piece of Wit to deny the Being of a God, and to laugh at that which they cannot argue againft. Such Perfons being well defcribed in the following Lines.

See then our Atheist all the World oppofe,.
And like Drawcanfir make all Men his Foes,
See with what faucy Pride he does pretend,
His wifer Father's Notions to amend,

Huff's

Huffs Plutarch, Plato, Pliny, Seneca,
And bids ev'n Cicero himself give way,
Tells all the World they follow a falfe Light,
And he alone of all Mankind is right.
Thus, like a Madman, who when all alone,
Thinks himself King, and ev'ry Chair a Throne,
Drunk with Conceit and Foolish Impudence,
He prides himself in his abounding Senfe.

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The Reverend Mr. JOHN DIAPER.

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HIS Gentleman joined with Mr. Rowe, in the Translation of Quillet's Callipadia. He was bred at Baliol College, Oxford, and had a fine Poetical Genius. About the Year 1715. he entered into holy Orders, and Died in a Country Curacy, Anno 1717. in the 29th Year of his Age.

Befides the above-mentioned Translation, he has Published the following Poems.

1. NEREIDES: Or, Sea Eclogues, 8vo.

II. DRYADES: Or, The Nymph's Prophecy. Fol. He left behind him in Manufcript, OPPIAN'S Halieutics. The Three first Books Tranflated from the Greek.

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WENTWORTH DILLON, Earl of
Rofcomon.

THIS
HIS Noble Lord was Defcended from a very
Ancient Family, in the Kingdom of Ireland,
He was Son of James Dillon, Earl of Rofcomon, who
was reclaimed from the Superftition of the Romish
Church, by the Learned and Pious Archbishop Usher.
His
His Education extended to all kinds of polite Lite-

rature

ture. He was fome time at Oxford, took the Degrees in Arts, and was nominated to be created Doctor of Law, in the Year 1683. His rare Accomplishments and genteel Behaviour, brought him into the greatest Reputation in the Reign of King Charles the Second, an Age diftinguished for Gallantry and Politeness. He was a Nobleman of uncommon Wit, and what is very much to be admired, but feldom met with, his Wit did not exceed his good Nature. To fpeak of him as a Gentleman and a Poet, would be to enumerate all the good Qualities which the best of either, ever enjoyed. In thefe States, tho' he never courted, yet he had the Applaufe of all the knowing and Judicious Men of his Time. He well merited the Commendations of Mr. Waller, Mr. Dryden, and other famous Wits, which were oftentimes inferior to his Defert. He was Captain of the Band of Penfioners to King Charles the Second, and on the Marriage of James Duke of York, with Jofepha Maria, the Princefs of Modena, he was made Mafter of the Horfe to that Princefs; in both which Places he continued to the time of his Death. He died at his House near St. James's Palace, in the Year 1684. and was interred in Westminster Abbey. His Lordship's Genuine Works are as follow,

I. An Effay on Tranflated Verfe. This excellent Piece is introduced with feveral Copies of Verfes by Mr. Dryden, Dean Chetwood, and others. My Lord feems to have taken the hint of this Poem, from the Duke of Buckingham's Effay on Poetry. His Lordship Concludes with thefe Lines,

O may I live to Hail the Glorious Day,
And fing loud Peans through the crowded Way,

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