This monarch was particularly delighted with the poetry of our author, especially when he had the happiness to wait upon him, in Holland and Flanders; and he was pleased sometimes to give him arguments to write upon, and divert the evil hours of their banishment, which now and then, Sir John tells us, he acquitted himself not much short of his Majesty's expectation. In the year 1688 Sir John Denham died, at his office in Whitehall, and was interred in Westminster-Abbey, near the tombs of Chaucer, Spenser, and Cowley. Our author's works are, 1. Cooper's-hill, of which we have already taken some notice. 2. The Destruction of Troy, an Essay on the second book of Virgil's Æneis, written 1636. 3. On the Earl of Strafford's Trial and Death. 4. On my Lord Crofts's Journey into Poland. 5. On Mr. Thomas Killegrew's return from Venice; and Mr. William Murrey's from Scotland. 6. To Sir John Mennis, being invited from Calais to Bologne to eat a pig. 7. Natura Naturata. 8. Sarpedon's Speech to Glaucus, in the twelfth book of Homer. 9. Out of an Epigram of Martial. 10. Friendship and Single Life, against Love and Marriage. 11. On Mr. Abraham Cowley's Death and Burial. 12. A Speech against Peace at the Close Committee. 13. To the Five Members of the honourable House of Commons: The humble Petition of the Poets. 14. A Western Wonder. 15. A Second Western Wonder. 16. News from Colchester; or, a proper new Ballad, of certain carnal Passages betwixt a Quaker and a Colt, at Horsley in Essex. 17. A Song. 18. On Mr. John Fletcher's Works. 19. To Sir Richard Fanshaw, on his translation of Pastor Fido. 20. A Dialogue between Sir John Pooley, and Mr. Thomas Killegrew. 21. An occasional Imitation of a modern Author, upon a Game at Chess. 22. The Passion of Dido for Æneas. 23. Of Prudence, of Justice. 24. The Progress of Learning. 25. Cato Major of old Age, a Poem: It is taken from the Latin of Tully, though much alter'd from the original, not only by the change of the stile, but by addition and subtraction. Our author tells us, that intending to translate this piece into prose (where translation ought to be strict) finding the matter very proper for verse, he took the liberty to leave out what was only necessary, to that age and place, and to take or add what was proper to this preset age and occasion, by laying the scene clearer and in fewer words, according to the stile and ear of the times. 26. The Sophy, a Tragedy; the above pieces have been several times printed together, in one volume in 12mo. under the Title of Poems and Translations; with the Sophy, a Tragedy, written by Sir John Denham.