And then he declareth how there he found the first part of this Mirrour for Magistrates, which yet took beginning from the time of King _Richard_ the Second; But he knowing many Examples of famous persons before _William_ the Conquerour, which were wholly omitted, he set upon the Work, and beginning from _Brute_, continued it to _Aurelius Bassianus Caracalla_ Emperour of _Rome_, about the year of Christ 209. shewing in his Writings a great deal of Wisdom and Learning. He flourished about the beginning of the Reign of Queen _Elizabeth_. * * * * * _ABRAHAM FRAUNCE_. This _Abraham Fraunce_, a Versifier, about the same time with _John Higgins_, was one who imitated _Latine_ measure in _English_ Verse, writing a Pastoral, called _the Countess of_ Pembroke's _Ivy-church_, and some other things in Hexameter, some also in Hexameter and Pentameter; He also wrote _the Countess of_ Pembroke's _Emanuel_, containing the Nativity, Passion, Burial, and Resurrection of Christ, together with certain Psalms of _David_, all in _English_ Hexameters. Nor was he altogether singular in this way of writing, for Sir _Philip Sidney_ in the Pastoral Interludes of his _Arcadia_, uses not only these, but all other sorts of _Latine_ measure, in which no wonder he is followed by so few, since they neither become the _English_, nor any other modern Language. He began also the Translation of _Heliodorus_ his _AEthiopick_ History, in the same kind of Verse, of which, to give the Reader the better divertisement, we shall present you with a tast. As soon as Sun-beams could once peep out fro the Mountains, And by the dawn of day had somewhat lightned _Olympus_, Men, whose lust was law, whose life was still to be lusting, Whose thriving thieving, convey'd themselves to an hill top, That stretched forward to the _Heracleotica_ entry And mouth of _Nylus_; looking thence down to the main sea For sea-faring men; but seeing none to be sailing, They knew 'twas bootless to be looking there for a booty: So that strait fro the sea they cast their eyes to the sea-shore; Where they saw, that a Ship very strangely without any ship man, Lay then alone at road, with Cables ty'd to the main-land, And yet full fraighted, which they, though far, fro the hill-top, Easily might perceive by the water drawn to the deck-boards, _&c._ His _Ivy-Church_ he dedicated to the _Countess of Pembroke_, in which he much vindicated his manner of writing, as no Verse fitter for it then that; he also dedicated his _Emanuel_ to her, which being but two lines take as followeth: _Mary_ the best Mother sends her best Babe to a _Mary: Lord_ to a _Ladies_ sight, and _Christ_ to a _Christian_. When he died, we cannot find, but suppose it to be about the former part of Queen _Elizabeth's_ Reign. * * * * * _WILLIAM WARNER_.