This monarch was particularly delighted with the poetry of our author,
especially when he had the happiness to wait upon him, in Holland and
Flanders; and he was pleased sometimes to give him arguments to write
upon, and divert the evil hours of their banishment, which now and then,
Sir John tells us, he acquitted himself not much short of his Majesty's
expectation.

In the year 1688 Sir John Denham died, at his office in Whitehall, and
was interred in Westminster-Abbey, near the tombs of Chaucer, Spenser,
and Cowley.

Our author's works are,

1. Cooper's-hill, of which we have already taken some notice.

2. The Destruction of Troy, an Essay on the second book of Virgil's
Æneis, written 1636.

3. On the Earl of Strafford's Trial and Death.

4. On my Lord Crofts's Journey into Poland.

5. On Mr. Thomas Killegrew's return from Venice; and Mr. William
Murrey's from Scotland.

6. To Sir John Mennis, being invited from Calais to Bologne to eat a
pig.

7. Natura Naturata.