fides feveral other Pieces, A Poem on Bofworth Field, which the following Lines demonftrate to be an admirable Performance.

Here valiant Oxford, and fierce Norfolk meet;
And with their Spears each other rudely greet:
About the Air the fhining Pieces play,

Then on their Swords their Noble Hands they lay.
And Norfolk firft a Blow directly guides,
To Oxford's Head, which from his Helmet flides
Upon his Arm, and biting through the Steel,
Inflicts a Wound, which Vere difdain's to feel.
But lifts his Faulcheon with a threat'ning Grace,
And hews the Beaver off from Howard's Face;
This being done, he with compaffion charm'd
Retires, afham'd to ftrike a Man difarm'd.
But ftrait a deadly Shaft fent from a Bow,
Whofe Mafter, tho' far off, the Duke could know :
Untimely brought this Combat to an end,

And pierc'd the Brains of Richard's conftant Friend.
When Oxford faw him fink, his noble Soul,
Was full of Grief, which made him thus condole.
Farewel, true Knight, to whom no costly Grave
Can give due Honour, would my Tears might fave
Thofe Streams of Blood, deferving to be spilt
In better Service, had not Richard's Guilt
Such heavy Weight upon his Fortune laid,
Thy Glorious Vertues had his Sins outweigh'd.

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FRANCIS BEAUMONT, Gent.

HE Volume of Poems, Printed in the Year, 1653. written by this Great young Man, are for Performances of that time very entertaining, and carry with them a Strength of

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Judgment as well as Wit: I must confefs I was well pleas'd in perufing them very lately, and I doubt not but a particular Account of them will be acceptable to the publick. They are as follow,

I. SALMACIS and HERMAPHRODITUS: Or, the Hermaphrodite. This is taken from Ovid's Me tamorphofes, our Author thus Defcribes the Nymph,

So fair fhe was, of fuch a pleafing, Grace,
So ftrait a Body, and fo fmeet a Face;
So foft a Hand, fo white a lovely Breast,
So fair a Cheek, fo well in all the reft;
That Jupiter would Revel in her Bower,
Were he to caft again, his Golden flower.

II. The Remedy of Love.

III. Elegies on the Lady Markham, &c.
IV. The Charm.

V. The Glance.

VI. The Indifferent.

VII. The Examination of his Mistress.

VIII. To the Mutable Fair.

IX. Of Loving at First Sight.

X. Eternity of Love. Some of thefe finall Picces, are Sonnets, in one of which, is this Stanza.

Like a Ring without a Finger
Or a Bell without a Ringer;
Like a Ship which ne'er is Rig'd
Or a Mine that's never Digg d;
Like a Wound without a Tent,
Or Civet Box which has no Scent;
Fuft fuch as thefe may she be faid
That Lives, ne'er Loves, but dies a Maid.

Mr.

Mr. Beaumont likewife writ a Poem call'd the Honeft Man's Fortune. A Letter to BEN. JOHNSON. and, The Good Fellow; A Song on Ale.

96 96 96 96 96, 96196 96 96 96 96196) (96) (96) The Reverend Dr. JOSEPH BEAUMONT.

HIS Learned Perfon was King's Profeffor of Divinity, and Master of St. Peter's College in Cambridge. He has given the Publick an invaluable Work, intitled, PSYCHE or Loves Mystery, in Twenty Four Cantos: Difplaying the Intercourfe betwixt Chrift and the Soul. Folio.

The Occafion and Design of this celebrated Piece, the Author thus recites in his Preface, "The Tur"bulence of thefe Times having deprived me of "my wonted Accommodations of Study; I delibe"rated, for the avoiding of meer Idleness, what Task "I might fafelieft prefume upon, without the Society of Books and concluded upon Compofing this "Poem. In which I endeavour to reprefent a Soul "led by Divine Grace, and her Guardian Angel, (in

fervent Devotion,) through the difficult Tempta❝tions and Affaults of Luft, of Pride, of Herefy, of "Perfecution, and of Spiritual Dereliction, to a holy

and happy Departure from Temporal Life, to Hea

venly Felicit Difplaying by the way, the Magna"lia Chrifti, his Incarnation and Nativity, his Flight "into Egipt, his Fafting and Temptation, his chief "Miracles, his being Sold and Betrayed, his Inftitu

tion of the Holy Eucharift, his Paffion, his Refurrection and Afcenfion; which were his mighty Tefti"monies of his Love to the Soul. My defire is, That this Book may prompt better Wits to believe, that a Divine Theme is as capable and happy a Subject

The Grand Rebellion.

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"of Poetical Ornament, as any Pagan or Human De"vice whatfoever. Which if I can obtain, and (in"to the Bargain,) Charm my Readers into any true "Degree of Devotion, I fhall be bold to hope that I "have partly reached my propofed Mark, and not "continued meerly Idle.

A Second Edition of this Poem, carefully Corre&ted throughout, by the Author, with the Addition of Four new Cantos never before Printed, was Publifh'd at Cambridge, in the Year 1702. by his Son Charles Beaumont, M. A. Fellow of St. Peter's College, to which Society, he informs us; "his Father " left by Will, all his Latin Works, both Critical "and Polemical, which not having fufficient leifure, "nor Health of Body, to revife and examine, ac "cording to his wonted Modeity, ftrictly forbad "the Printing any of them. To this Edition, the "Reverend Dr. Samuel Woodford, has prefixed a "long and Ingenious Copy of Verfes made in MeCC mory of the Deceas'd Author.

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Sir JOHN BERKENHEA D.

THE ftedfaft Adherence of this Gentleman to the Royal Caufe, procur'd him the Title of the Loyal Poet. And tho' the Reward of his Loyalty was the most fevere Imprifonment, yet his Principles were immoveable, in all Changes of Fortune.

Among his other Pieces, the Poem Intitled MERCURIUS AULICUS, will do him Immortal Honour, which a Writer of that time thus juftly celebrates,

Whilft Lawrel Sprigs, another's Head fhall Crown,
Thou, the whole Grove, may'ft challenge as thy own.

This worthy Patriot liv'd to fee the REST A URATION, and had 'not only that Happiness, but likewife, to be a Spectator of the deferv'd Execution of fome of thofe Rebels who had fo bafely confpir'd to take away his Life, and whom he had fo truly delineated in his admirable Poem above-mention'd.

Sir RICHARD BLACKMORE, Kμt. M.D.

THIS Gentleman, now Living, is Defcended

from a good Family in Dorferfhire, but was börn at Corfham in Wiltshire. He is the Son of Mr. Robert Blackmore, an Atorney at Law, who Educated him firft at a Country School; from whence in the Thirteenth Year of his Age, he was remov'd to Westminster, and in a fhort time after fent to the University of Oxford, and enter'd a Commoner of St. Edmond's Hall; where he continu'd upwards of thirteen Years. He then Travell'd into Italy, and at the University of Padua took his Doctor's Degree in Phyfick; and having feen a great part of France, Germany and the Low Countries, after he had been abroad two years and a half, he return'd to England. Coming to London, he enter'd upon the practice of Phyfick, and not long after, he was chofen Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians by the Charter of King James the fecond. He was fworn Phyfician in Ordinary to King William, in 1697. was honour'd

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