large journey, being an accomplished gentleman, as being matter of feveral languages, of affluent ⚫ and ready difcourfe, and excellent comportment.' He had alfo a poetical fancy, and a zealous inclination to all literature, which made his compa.. ny acceptable to the moft virtuous men, and scholars of his time. He also wrote a Paraphrafe on the Pfalms of David, and upon the Hymns difperfed throughout the Old and New Teftament, London, 1636, reprinted there in folio 1638, with other things under this title.

Paraphrafe on the Divine Poems, on Job, Pfalms of David, Ecclefiaftes, Lamentations of Jeremiah, and Songs collected out of the Old and New Teftament. This Paraphrafe on David's Pfalms was one of the books that Charles I. delighted fo much to read in as he did in Herbert's Divine Poems, Dr. Hammond's Works, and Hooker's Ecclefiaftical Polity, while he was a prifoner in the Isle of Wight ||

Paraphrafe on the Divine Poems, viz. on the Pfalms of David, on Ecclefiaftes, and on the Song of Solomon, London, 1637. Some, if not all of the Pfalms of David, had vocal compofitions fet to them by William and Henry Lawes, with a thorough bafs, for an Organ, in four large books or volumes in 4to. Our author alfo tranflated into English Ovid's Metamorphofes, London, 162. Virgil's first book of Eneis printed with the former. Mr. Dryden in his preface to fome of his tranflations of Ovid's Metamorphofes, calls him the best verfifier of the laft age.

Chrift's Paffion, written in Latin by the famous Hugo Grotius, and tranflated by our author, to which he also added notes; this fubject had been

Wood, ubi fupra,

handled

handled before in Greek, by that venerable perfon, Apollinarius of Laodicea, bishop of Hierapolis, but this of Grotius, in Sandys's opinion, tranfcends all on this argument; this piece was reprinted with figures in 8vo. London, 1688. Concerning our author but few incidents are known, he is celebrated by cotemporary and fubfequent wits, as a very confiderable poet, and all have agreed to bestow upon him the character of a pious worthy man. He died in the year 1643, at the houfe of his nephew Mr. Wiat at Boxley Abbey in Kent, in the chancel of which parish church he is buried, though without a monument, only as Wood fays with the following, which stands in the common register belonging to this church.

Georgius Sandys, Poetarum Anglorum fui fæculi Princeps, fepultus fuit Martii 7° ftilo Anglico. Anno Dom. 1643. It would be injurious to the memory of Sandys, to difmifs his life without informing the reader that the worthy author flood high in the opinion of that moft accomplished young nobleman the lord viscount Falkland, by whom to be praised, is the highest compliment that can be paid to merit; his lordship addreffes a copy of verfes to Grotius, occafioned by his Chriftus Patiens, in which he introduces Mr. Sandys, and fays of him, that he had feen as much as Grotius had read; he beftows upon him likewife the epithet of a fine gentleman, and obferves, that though he had travelled to foreign countries to read life, and acquire knowledge, yet he was worthy, like another Livy, of having men of eminence from every country come to vifit him. From the quotation here given, it will be feen that Sandys was a smooth verfifier, and Dryden in his preface to his tranflation of Virgil, pofitively fays, that had Mr. Sandys gone before him in the whole

tranflation,

tranflation, he would by no means have attempted

it after him.

In the tranflation of his Chriftus Patiens, in the chorus of A& III.

JESUS speaks.

Daughters of Solyma, no more
My wrongs thus paffionately deplore.
Thefe tears for future forrows keep,
Wives for yourselves, and children weep;
That horrid day will fhortly come,
When you shall bless the barren womb,
And breaft that never infant fed;
Then fhall you wish the mountain's head
Would from this trembling bafis flide,
And all in tombs of ruin hide.

In his tranflation of Ovid, the verfes on Fame are thus englished.

And now the work is ended which Jove's rage,
Nor fire, nor fword, fhall raife, nor eating age,
Come when it will, my death's uncertain hour,
Which only o'er my body bath a power:
Yet fhall my better part tranfcend the sky,
And my immortal name fhall never die :
For wherefoe'er the Roman Eagles spread
Their conqu'ring wings, I fhall of all be read.
And if we Prophets can prefages give,
I in my fame eternally fhall live.

CARY

བྱ་ ་ ་ ་

CARY LUCIUS, Lord Viscount
FALKLAND,

THE

HE fon of Henry, lord viscount Falkland, was born at Burford in Oxfordshire, about the year 1610 *. For fome years he received his education in Ireland, where his father carried him when he was appointed Lord Deputy of that kingdom in 1622; he had his academical learning in Trinity College in Dublin, and in St. John's College, Cambridge. Clarendon relates,

that before he came to be twenty years of "age, he was mafter of a noble fortune, which "defcended to him by the gift of a grandfather, "without paffing through his father or mother, "who were both alive; fhortly after that, and be"fore he was of age, being in his inclination a "great lover of the military life, he went into "the low countries in order to procure a com"mand, and to give himself up to it, but was "diverted from it by the compleat inactivity of "that fummer." He returned to England, and applied himself to a fevere course of study; first to polite literature and poetry, in which he made feveral fuccefsful attempts. In a very short time he became perfectly mafter of the Greek tongue; accurately read all the Greek hiftorians, and before he was twenty three years of age, he had perufed all the Greek and Latin Fathers.

About the time of his father's death, in 1633, he was made one of the Gentlemen of his Ma

* Wool's Athen. Oxon. vol. i. col. 586.

jefty's

jefty's Privy Chamber, notwithstanding which he frequently retired to Oxford, to enjoy the converfation of learned and ingenious men. In 1639 he was engaged in an expedition against the Scots, and though he received fome difappointment in a command of a troop of horfe, of which he had a promife, he went à volunteer with the earl of Effex *.

In 1640 he was chofen a Member of the House of Commons, for Newport in the Ifle of Wight, in the Parliament which began at Westminster the 13th of April in the fame year, and from the debates, fays Clarendon, which were managed with all imaginable gravity and fobriety, he ⚫ contracted fuch a reverence for Parliaments, that he thought it abfolutely impoffible they ever could produce mifchief or inconvenience to the nation, or that the kingdom could be tolerably happy in the intermiffion of them, and from the unhappy and unfeasonable diffolution of the Parliament he harboured fome prejudice to the ⚫ court.'

In 1641, John, lord Finch, Keeper of the Great Seal, was impeached by lord Falkland, in the name of the House of Commons, and his lordfhip, fays Clarendon, managed that profecution with great vigour and fharpnefs, as alfo against the earl of Strafford, contrary to his natural gentleness of temper, but in both thefe cafes he was misled by the authority of thofe whom he believed understood the laws perfectly, of which he himself was utterly ignorant ||.'

He had contracted an averfion towards Archbishop Laud, and fome other bishops, which inclined. him to concur in the first bill to take away the votes of the bishops in the Houfe of Lords. The reafon of his

Clarendon's Hiftory, &c.

|| Ibid.

preju.