by that Prince with a Gold Medal and Chain, and was likewife Knighted by him. Upon Queen Anne's Acceffion to the Throne, he was appoint. ed one of her Phyfician's, and continued fo for fome time. Sir Richard is an Excellent Phyfician, and a good Poet: A Man of great Learning, good Manners, and extenfive Humanity, he has oblig'd the World with the following Pieces.

I. Prince ARTHUR. An Heroick Poem, in Ten Books. Folio, printed firft 1695. afterwards in Duodecimo, 1715.

II. King ARTHUR. An Heroick Poem, in Twelve Books. Fol. Printed 1697. This Poem is Corrected and Revised for another Impreffion,

III. A Paraphrafe on Joe, and the Songs of MOSES, DEBORAH, &c. Fol. firft printed 1700. afterwards in Duodecimo, 1716,

IV. A Satire upon Wit. Folio, 1700. This Piece made a great noife, and rouz'd the spleen of the Modern Writers.

V. A Hymn to the Light of the World, with the CARTONS of RAPHAEL URGIN. Fol. Printed in the Year 1703.

VI. ELIZA. An Heroick Poem, in Ten Books. Folia, 1705. This Picce is likewife Corrected and Revis'd for another Impreffion.

VII. Advice to the Poets. A Poem on the Duke of Marlborough's Victories. Fol. 1706. VIII. The Kit-Cats, A Poem. Fol. 1708. IX. Inftructions to VANDERBANK

the Advice to the Poets. Fol. 1709.

A Sequel to

X. The Nature of Man. A Poem, in Three Books, Svo, 171 1.

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XI. CRET

XI. CREATION, A Philofophical Poem. Demonftrating the Existence and Providence of a God, in Seven Books, 8vo. First printed 1712. and printed twice fince in Duodecimo.

Mr. Dennis fpeaking of this Piece, fays, "We have lately been Entertain'd and Inftructed by an "Admirable Philofophical Poem, which has e"quall'd that of Lucretius, in the Beauty of it's Ver"fification, and infinitely furpafs'd it, in the Solididity and Strength of it's Reasoning.

XII. Effays upon feveral Subjects. in Two Volumes, 8vo. Printed in 1716 and 1717. In the Year 1718 was printed, A Collection of Poems on various Subjects. Containing all the fmall Pieces above-mention'd, with feveral never before Publish'd, viz. 1. CREMES. A Satire, written in the late Reign. 2. The Story of Don CARLOS Prince of Spain. 3. An Ode to the Creator. 4. A Hymn to the Sacred Spirit. 5. On Repentance. 6. On Retirement, &c. Sir Richard has now by him in Manufcript, ready for the Prefs.

I. ELFRED. An Heroick Poem in Twelve Books. II. A New Verfion of the PSALM S.

Mr. MICHAEL BLAUNPAIN.

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Gentleman born in Cornwal, who for the Defence of his Native Country was Styl'd the Cornish Poet. He was fome time at Oxford, but going into France, he Compleated his Studies at Paris. Camden often quotes him in his Remains, which fhews he was a Perfon of no inconfiderable Fame;

and when Cornwal was traduc'd by Henry of Normandy, chief Poet to King Henry the Third,as a contemptable and unprofitable Country, he answer'd him in a Latin Poem wherein are thefe Lines, which I give you as a Specimen of his Works.

Non opus eft ut opus numere quibus eft opulenta,
Et per quas inopes fuftentat non ope lenta,
Pifcibus& Stanno nufquam tam fertilis ora.

And he Concludes with this Exhortation to his Countrymen,

Quid nos deterret? Si firmiter in pede ftemus,
Fraus in nos fuperat, nihil eft quod non fuperemus.

All of them thus Tranflated.

We need not number up her wealthy ftore,
Wherewith this helpful Land relieves her poor,
No Sea fo full of Fish, of Tin, no fhore.

What fhould us fright, if firmly we do ftand?
Bar Fraud, and then no Force can us command,

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Mr. WILLIAM BOWLES,

HIS Gentleman was Fellow of King's College, in Cambridge, where he wrote the following Poems and Tranflations.

I. A Poem on the Death of King CHARLES the Second.

II. Phar

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II. PHARMACEUTRIA, or the Inchantress. From Theocritus.

III. The Reapers. The Tenth Idyllium of Theocritus.

IV. The Complaint of ARIADNE. Out of Catullus.

HIS Poet Mr. Winstanly tells us, flourish'd ac

Tcording to fome Accounts, about the Year

1346. And by others, not 'till above a Century after. He was born in the City of Chester, and bred a Benedictine Monk, in the Monastery of St. Werburg. Bale gives him great Commendation, and Speaking of that Age, fays, He was the Diamond in the Ring. He wrote a Poem call'd,

The Life of St. Werburg; efteem'd an Excellent Chronicle, tho' he follow'd therein thofe Authors who think it the greatest Glory of a Nation to fetch their Original from Times out of Mind.

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Mr. NICHOLAS BRETON.

Writer of Paftoral-Sonnets, and Madrigals, in which kind of Poefie we may easily con- . clude he excell'd; his Works being collected with thofe of feveral other Contemporary Emulators of

X Vive Miscellany Poems. 1684. Page 242.

Spenfer

Spenfer and Sir Philip Sidney, in a Volume of Odes of the chief Sonneteers of that Age. He wrote alfo the two following Poems.

1. Wits private Wealth.

II. The Courtier and the Countryman. In this laft, fpeaking of Vertue, he has thefe Lines:

There is a fecret few do know,

And doth in fpecial places grow,

A rich Man's Praife, a poor Man's Wealth,
A weak Man's Strength, a fick Man's Health,
A Lady's Beauty, a Lord's Blifs,

A matchless Jewel where it is;

And makes, where it is truly seen,

A Gracious King, and Glorious Queen.

Mr. ALEXANDER BROOME.

UTHOR of most of the Songs which on the

A fide of the Royalifts, came forth during the

time of the Rump, and Oliver's Ufurpation. He wrote in a Jovial Strain, and his performances were often Sung by the Sons of Mirth and Bacchus. One of his Songs begins thus:

Come, come, let us Drink,
'Tis in vain for to Think,
Like Fools on Grief or Sadness;

Let our Money now fly,
And our Sorrows fhall die,
All Worldly Care is Madness.

Jom Bernes

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