variety of human wants. Such books, therefore, may be considered as
showing the world under a false appearance, and, so far as they
obtain credit from the young and unexperienced, as misleading
expectation, and misguiding practice.

Of his nobler and more weighty performances, the greater part is
panegyrical: for of praise he was very lavish, as is observed by
his imitator, Lord Lansdowne:


No satyr stalks within the hallow'd ground,
But queens and heroines, kings and gods abound;
Glory and arms and love are all the sound.


In the first poem, on the danger of the prince on the coast of
Spain, there is a puerile and ridiculous mention of Arion at the
beginning; and the last paragraph, on the cable, is in part
ridiculously mean, and in part ridiculously tumid. The poem,
however, is such as may be justly praised, without much allowance
for the state of our poetry and language at that time.

The two next poems are upon the king's behaviour at the death of
Buckingham, and upon his Navy.

He has, in the first, used the pagan deities with great propriety:


'Twas want of such a precedent as this
Made the old heathens frame their gods amiss.