5. A View of some Exceptions made against the Discourse of the Infallibility of the Church of Rome, printed at Oxford, 1646, 410. He assisted Mr. Chillingworth in his book of the Religion of the Protestants, &c. This particular we learn from Bishop Barlow in his Genuine Remains, who says, that when Mr. Chillingworth undertook the defence of Dr. Pottus's book against the Jesuit, he was almost continually at Tew with my Lord, examining the reasons of both parties pro and con; and their invalidity and consequence; where Mr. Chillingworth had the benefit of my Lord's company, and of his good library. We shall present our readers with a specimen of his lordship's poetry, in a copy of verses addressed to Grotius on his Christus Patiens, a tragedy, translated by Mr. Sandys. To the AUTHOR. Our age's wonder, by thy birth, the fame, Of Belgia, by thy banishment, the shame; Who to more knowledge younger didst arrive Than forward Glaucias, yet art still alive, Whose matters oft (for suddenly you grew, To equal and pass those, and need no new) To see how soon, how far thy wit could reach, Sat down to wonder, when they came to teach. Oft then would Scaliger contented be To leave to mend all times, to polish thee. And of that pains, effect did higher boast, Than had he gain'd all that his fathers lost. When thy Capella read---------------------- That King of critics stood amaz'd to see A work so like his own set forth by thee. [Footnote 1: Wood's Athen. Oxon. vol. i. col. 586.] [Footnote 2: Clarendon's History, &c.] [Footnote 3: Ibid.] [Footnote 4: Clarendon, ubi supra.] [Footnote 5: Memoirs, &c. by Welwood, edit 1718. 12mo. p. 90--92.] [Footnote 6: Historical Collections, p. 11. vol. 2. p. 1342.] * * * * * Sir JOHN SUCKLING Lived in the reign of King Charles I. and was son of Sir John Suckling, comptroller of the houshold to that monarch. He was born at Witham, in the county of Middlesex, 1613, with a remarkable circumstance of his mother's going eleven months with him, which naturalists look upon as portending a hardy and vigorous constitution. A strange circumstance is related of him, in his early years, in a life prefixed to his works. He spoke Latin, says the author, at five years old, and wrote it at nine; if either of these circumstances is true, it would seem as if he had learned Latin from his nurse, nor ever heard any other language, so that it was native to him; but to speak Latin at five, in consequence of study, is almost impossible.