TRANSLATION of the Ingenious Abbé Dɛ learned and curious Performance; wherein the In this Work many new Lights are caft upon Printed for R. GRIFFITHS, in Peul's Church-Yard. ANTHONY BREWER, POET who flourished in the reign of Charles I. but of whofe birth and life we can recover no particu lars. He was highly eftéemed by fome wits in that reign, as appears from a Poem called Steps to Parnaffus, which pays him the following well turned compliment. VOL. II. No. 6. B Let Let Brewer take his artful pen in hand, Mr. Winftanley, and after him Chetwood, has attributed a play to our author called Lingua, or the Contention of the Tongue and the Five. Senfes for Superiority, a Comedy, acted at Cambridge, 1606; but Mr. Langbaine is of opinion, that neither that, Love's Loadftone, Landagartha, or Love's Dominion, as Winstanley and Philips affirm, are his; Landagartha being written by Henry Burnel, efquire, and Love's Dominion by Flecknoe. In the Comedy called Lingua, there is a circumftance which Chetwood mentions, too curious to be omitted here. When this play was acted at Cambridge, Oliver Cromwel performed the part of Tactus, which he felt fo warmly, that it first fired his ambition, and, from the poffeffion of an imaginary crown, he ftretched his views to a real one; to accomplish which, he was content to wade through a fea of blood, and, as Mr. Gray beautifully expreffes it, fhut the Gates of Mercy on Mankind; the fpeech with which he is faid to have been fo affected, is the following, Rofes, and bays, pack hence! this crown and My brows, and body, circles and invests; Mr. |