Constantinople after Constantine. Sir William Killegrew's plays have
been applauded by men very eminent in poetry, particularly Mr. Waller,
who addresses a copy of verses to him upon his altering Pandora from a
tragedy into a comedy, because not approved on the stage.

Sir William has also a little poem extant, which was set to music by Mr.
Henry Lawes, a man in the highest reputation of any of his profession in
his time. Mr. Wood says, that after our author had retired from court in
his declining age, he wrote

The Artless Midnight Thoughts of a Gentleman at Court; who for many
years built on sand, which every blast of cross fortune has defaced;
but now he has laid new foundations, on the rock of his salvation,
&c. London 1684. It is dedicated to King Charles II. and besides 233
thoughts in it, there are some small pieces of poetry.

Midnight and Daily thoughts in verse and prose, Lond. 1694, with
commendatory verses before it, by H. Briket. He died 1693, and was
buried in Westminster Abbey.


[Footnote 1: Wood, Athen. Oxon. vol. 2.]

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Sir ROBERT HOWARD.

This gentleman was a younger son of Thomas earl of Berkshire, by
Elizabeth his wife, one of the daughters and coheirs of William lord