The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Volume I. by Theophilus Cibber
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Come Alecto, lend me thy torch To find a Church-yard in a Church-porch; Poverty and poetry his tomb doth enclose, Wherefore good neighbours, be merry in prose. His works according to Winstanley are as follow: The Siege of Leith. A Farewell to the world. A feigned Fancy of the Spider and the Gaul. A doleful Discourse of a Lady and a Knight. The Road into Scotland, by Sir William Drury. Sir Simon Burley's Tragedy. A lamentable Description of the Wars in Flanders in prose, and dedicated to Walsingham secretary of state. A light Bundle of lively Discourses, called Churchyard's Charge 1580, dedicated to his noble patron the Earl of Surry. A Spark of Friendship, a treatise on that writer, address'd to Sir Walter Raleigh. A Description and Discourse on the use of paper, in which he praises a |
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