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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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