He was also addicted to Arms, as well as Arts, and, as I have been informed, was a Captain in the King's Army, but then Loyalty suffering an Eclipse, he came up to _London_, and continued there till the great Sickness, which swept away of the Pestilence no fewer than 68586 persons, amongst whom this unfortunate Gentleman was one, tho to my knowledge, to prevent it, he might have been kindly welcom to his worthy Kinsman, Mr. _William Holgate_ of _Saffron-Walden_ in _Essex_, but Fate had decreed it otherwise. * * * * * _JOHN MILTON_. _John Milton_ was one, whose natural parts might deservedly give him a place amongst the principal of our English Poets, having written two Heroick Poems and a Tragedy; namely, _Paradice Lost_, _Paradice Regain'd_, and _Sampson Agonista_; But his Fame is gone out like a Candle in a Snuff, and his Memory will always stink, which might have ever lived in honourable Repute, had not he been a notorious Traytor, and most impiously and villanously bely'd that blessed Martyr King _Charles_ the First. * * * * * _JOHN OGILBY_. _John Ogilby_ was one, who from a late Initiation into Literature, made such a Progress therein, as might well stile him to be the Prodigy of his time, sending into the world so many large and learned Volumes, as well in Verse as in Prose, as will make posterity much indebted to his Memory. His Volumes in Prose were his _Atlas_, and other Geographical Works, which gained him the Style and Office of the King's Cosmographer. In Verse his Translations of _Homer_ and _Virgil_, done to the Life, and adorned with most excellent Sculptures; but above all, as composed _Propria_ _Minerva_; his Paraphrase upon _AEsop's_ Fables, which for Ingenuity and Fancy, besides the Invention of new Fables, is generally confest to have exceeded what ever hath been done before in that kind. He also set forth King _Charles_ the Second his Entertainment through _London_, when he went to his Coronation, with most admirable Cuts of the several Pageants as he passed through, and Explanations upon them. And that which added a great grace to his Works, he printed them all on special good Paper, and had them printed on very good Letter. * * * * * Sir _RICHARD FANSHAW_. This worthy Gentleman, one of _Apollo's_ chiefest Sons, was Secretary to King _Charles_ the Second, when Prince of _Wales_, and after his Restoration, his Embassadour to _Spain_, where he died. His Employments were such, as one would think he should have had no time for Poetical Diversions, yet at leisure times he Translated _Guarini's Pastor Fido_ into English Verse, and _Spencer's Shepherds Callendar_ into Latin Verse. * * * * * _ROGER BOILE_, Lord _Broghil_, Earl of _Orrery_.