THE L I VES OF THE Ρ Ο Ε Τ S OF GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, To the TIME of DEAN SW I FT. riety of Books, and especially from the MS. By Mr. CIB B E R. VOL. I. LONDON: St. Paul's Church-Yard, MDCCLIII. C Langland 120 25 Daniel 149 30 Decker er HAUCER Pag. 1 Overbury 113 18 Marsten Gower 20 Shakespear 123 Lydgate 23 Sylvester 143 Harding 145 Skelton 27 Harrington Barclay 152 More 32 Beaumont and FletchSurry Earl Wyat Sackville 167 Churchyard 170 Heywood 66 Greville L. Brooke 173 Ferrars 69 Day 178 Sidney 76 Raleigh 180 Marloe 85 Donne Green 87 Drayton Spenser 91 Corbet 225 J. Heywood 106 Fairfax 223 Lilly Ran. 154 164 46 202 2 1 2 110 A 2 T has been observed that men of eminence in all ages, and distinguished for the same excellence, have generally had something in their lives fiEmilar to each other. The place of Homer's nativity, has not been mare variously conjectur'd, or his parents more differently afligned, than our author's. Leland, that learned antiquarian, who lived nearest to Chaucer's time, of all those who have wrote his lise, was commissioned by king Henry VIII, to search all the libraries, and religious houses in England, wherein those Archives were preserved, before their destruction was produced by the Re. formation, or Polydore Virgil had consumei fuch rurious pieces as would have contradicted his B fa |