Manners of the Court.

Invective against William Lyle the Grammarian.

Epitaphs on Kings, Princes, and Nobles,

Collin Clout.

Poetical Fancies and Satires.

Verses on the Death of Arthur Prince of Wales.

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ALEXANDER BARCLAY.

He was an author of some eminence and merit, tho' there are few things
preserved concerning him, and he has been neglected by almost all the
biographers of the poets. That excellent writer Mrs. Cooper seems to
have a pretty high opinion of his abilities; it is certain that he
very considerably refined the language, and his verses are much
smoother than those of Harding, who wrote but a few years before him.
He stiles himself Priest, and Chaplain in the College of St. Mary,
Otory, in the county of Devon, and afterwards Monk of Ely. His
principal work is a translation of a satirical piece, written
originally in high Dutch, and entitled the Ship of Fools: It exposes
the characters, vices, and follies of all degrees of men, and tho'
much inferior in its execution to the Canterbury Tales, has yet