He hath also translated several other Works of _Du Bartus_; namely, _Eden_, the _Deceipt_, the _Furies_, the _Handicrafts_, the _Ark_, _Babylon_, the _Colonies_, the _Columns_, the _Fathers_, _Jonas_, _Urania_, _Triumph of Faith_, _Miracle of Peace_, the _Vocation_, the _Fathers_, the _Daw_, the _Captains_, the _Trophies_, the _Magnificence_, &c. Also a Paradox of _Odes de la Nove_, Baron of _Teligni_, with the Quadrains of _Pibeac_; all which Translations were generally well received: but for his own Works which were bound up with them, they received not so general an approbation; as you may perceive by these Verses; We know thou dost well As a Translator, But where things require A Genius and a Fire, Not kindled before by others pains, As often thou hast wanted Brains. * * * * * Mr. _SAMUEL DANIEL_. Mr. _Daniel_ was born nigh to the Town of _Taunton_ in _Somersetshire_; his Father was a Master of Musick, and his harmonious Mind (saith Dr. _Fuller_) made an impression in his Son's Genius, who proved to be one of the Darlings of the Muses, a most excellent Poet, whose Wings of Fancy displayed the Flags of highest Invention: Carrying in his _Christian_ and _Sirname_ the Names of two holy Prophets; which, as they were Monitors to him, for avoyding Scurrility, so he qualified his Raptures to such a strain, as therein he abhorred all Debauchery and Prophaneness. Nor was he only one of the inspired Train of _Phoebus_, but also a most judicious Historian, witness his Lives of our _English_ Kings since the Conquest, until King _Edward_ the Third, wherein he hath the happiness to reconcile brevity with clearness, qualities of great distance in other Authors; and had he continued to these times, no doubt it had been a Work incomparable: Of which his Undertaking, Dr. _Heylin_ in the Preface to his _Cosmography_, gives this Character, speaking of the chiefest Historians of this Nation; _And to end the Bed-roll_ (says he) _half the Story of this Realm done by Mr._ Daniel, _of which I believe that which himself saith of it in his Epistle to the Reader, that there was never brought together more of the Main_. Which Work is since commendably continued (but not with equal quickness and judgment,) by Mr. _Truffel_. As for his Poems so universally received, the first in esteem is, that Heroical one of the Civil Wars between the two Houses of _York_ and _Lancaster_; of which the elaborate Mr. _Speed_, in his Reign of _Richard_ the Second, thus writes: _The Seeds_ (saith he) _of those fearful Calamities, a flourishing Writer of our Age_ (speaking of Mr. _Daniel_) _willing nearly to have imitated_ Lucan, _as he is indeed called our_ English Lucan, _doth not unfortunately express, tho' he might rather have said he wept them, than sung them; but indeed so to sing them, is to weep them._