THE LIVE S OF THE POETS O F GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, To the TIME of DEAN SWIFT. Compiled from ample Materials fcattered in a Va- By Mr. CIB B E R. In FOUR VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: Printed for R. GRIFFITHS, at the Dunciad in MDCCLIII, LIVE S CLangland Gower Lydgate Harding Barclay More VOLUME I. Surry Earl Wyat HAUCER Pag. 1 Sackville Churchyard Heywood Ferrars Contains the Sidney Marloe Green Spenfer O F Overbury 23 Sylvefter 91 106 Fairfax 110 113 120 25 Daniel 149 27 Harrington Decker 152 32 Beaumont and Fletch-· 46 er 53 Lodge 55 Davies 170 66 Greville L. Brooke 173 69 Day 76 Raleigh 85 Donne 87 Drayton Corbet 123 143 145 154 164 167 178 180 202 212 220 223 Ran THE LIVES OF THE POET S. The SECOND EDITION. GEOFFRY CHAUCER. T has been obferved that men of eminence in all ages, and diftinguished for the fame excellence, have generally had fomething in their lives fimilar to each other. The place of Homer's nativity, has not been more varioufly conjectur'd, or his parents more differently afligned, than our author's. Leland, that learned antiquarian, who lived reareft to Chaucer's time, of all thofe who have wrote his life, was commiffioned by king Henry VIII, to fearch all the libraries, and religious houfes in England, wherein thofe Archives were preferved, before their deftruction was produced by the Reformation, or Polydore Virgil had confumed fuch curious pieces as would have contradicted his B fa |
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