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The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687)

Chapter 180: ERRATA.
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The work compiles brief biographies, bibliographical notes, and excerpts for a wide range of English poets spanning the medieval period to the late seventeenth century. Entries vary in length and method: some reproduce earlier catalogues, while others include original quotations, publication details, and the compiler's judgments about merit. The arrangement is roughly chronological and aims to guide readers through evolving reputations, textual sources, and issues of attribution. An introduction discusses the compiler's sources and methods, and the whole reads as an early popular survey intended for both curious readers and collectors.

Collections In Defence of the King.
Tolleration Discussed.
Relapsed Apostate.
Apology for Protestants.
Richard against Baxter.
Tyranny and Popery.
Growth of Knavery.
Reformed Catholique.
Free-born Subjects.
The Case Put.
Seasonable Memorials.
Answer to the Appeal.
No Papist.
The Shammer Shamm'd.
Account Cleared.
Reformation Reformed.
Dissenters Sayings in Two Parts.
Notes on Colledge.
Citizen and Bumkin in Two Parts.
Further Discovery of the Plot.
Discovery on Discovery.
Narrative of the Plot.
Zekiel and Ephraim.
Appeal to the King and Parliament.
Papist in Masquerade.
Answer to the Second Character of a Popish Successor.

These Twenty Six, with divers others, he writ in Quarto; Besides which he wrote divers others, viz.

The History of the Plot, in Folio.
Quevedo's Visions Englished, Octavo.
Erasmus's Coloquies Eng.. Oct.
Seneca's Morals, Oct.
Cicero's Offices in English.
The Guide to Eternity, in Twelves.
Five Love Letters from a Nun to a Cave, &c.
The Holy Cheat.
Caveat to the Cavaliers.
Plea for the Caveat and the Author.

Besides his indefatigable pains taken in writing the Observator, a Work, which for Vindicating the Royal Interest, and undeceiving the People, considering the corruption of the Times, of as great use and behoof as may be, mens minds having been before so poysoned by Fanatical Principles, that it is almost an Herculean Work to reduce them again by Reason, or as we may more properly say, to Reason. Of which useful Work he hath done already Two large Volumes, and a Third almost compleated, his Pen being never weary in Service of his Country.

But should I go about to enumerate all the Works of this worthy Gentleman, I should run my self into an irrecoverable Labyrinth. Nor is he less happy in his Verse than Prose, which for Elegancy of Language, and quickness of Invention, deservedly entitles him to the honour of a Poet; and therefore I shall forbear to write more of him, since what I can do upon that account, comes infinitely far short of his deservings.

FINIS.


ERRATA.

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besides several other literal mistakes which I would desire the Reader to Correct with his Pen.