Compiled from ample Materials scattered in a Va- 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 46 er HAUCER Pag. 1 Overbury 113 123 Lydgate 23 Sylvester 143 Harding 145 Skelton 27 Harrington Barclay 152 More 32 Beaumont and Fletch- 53 Lodge 167 170 Heywood 66 Greville L. Brooke 173 Ferrars 69 Day 178 Sidney 76 Raleigh 180 Marloe 85 Donne 87 Drayton 225 J. Heywood 106 Fairfax 223 Lilly Ran. 154 164 202 2 1 2 110 Randolph 226 Suckling 229 Haufted 235 Drummond 249 Stirling Earl 252 Hall 268 Crashaw 271 Rowley 277 Nath 282 Ford 286 Middleton 294 300 302 313 320 344 346 347 349 352 من زار THE 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 |