May we not look ourselves into a trance,
Teach our fouls parley at our eyes, not glance,
Nor touch the hand, but by foft wringing
there,

Whisper a love that only yes can hear.
Not free a figh, a figh that's there for you,
Dear muft I love you, and not love you too?
Be wife, nice fair; for fooner fhall they trace,
The feather'd choirifters from place to place,
By prints they make in th' air, and fooner fay
By what right line, the laft ftar made its way,
That fled from heaven to earth, than guefs to
know,

How our loves firft did fpring, or how they grow.

The above are as fmooth lines as could be found among our author's works; but in juftice to Suckling, before we give an account of his plays, we fhall tranfcribe one of his letters, when we are perfuaded the reader will join in the opinion already given of his works in general; it is addreffed to his miftrefs, and has fomething in it gay and sprightly.

This verifies the opinion of Mr. Dryden, that love makes a man a rhimfter, if not a poet.

My Dear, Dear!

Think I have kiffed your letter to nothing, and now know not what to anfwer; or that now I am answering, I am kiffing you to nothing, and know not how to go on! For you "muft pardon, I must hate all I fend you here, "becaufe it expreffes nothing in refpect of what "it leaves behind with me. And oh why fhould "I write then? Why should I not come my"felf? Those Tyrants, Bufinefs, Honour, and Ne"ceffity,

ceffity, what have they to do with with you, "and me? Why fhould we not do Love's Com"mands before theirs, whofe Sovereignty is but

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ufurped upon us? Shall we not fmell to Rofes, "caufe others do look on, or gather them be"cause there are Prickles, or fomething that "would hinder us?- Dear I fain would "and know no Hindrance-but what muft come " from you,-and-why fhould any come? "Since 'tis not I but you must be fenfible how "much Time we lofe, it being long fince I was "not myself, but

His dramatic works are,

"Yours."

1. Aglaura, prefented at a private House in Black Fryars. Langbaine fays that it was much prized in his Time; and that the laft A&t is fo altered, that it is at the pleafure of the Actors to make it a Tragedy, or Tragi Comedy.'

2. Brennoralt, or the Difcontented Colonel; a Tragedy, prefented at a private Houfe in BlackFryars by his Majefty's Servants."

3. Sad one, a Tragedy. This Piece was never finished.

4. Goblings, a Tragi-Comedy, prefented at a private Houle in Black-Fryars, by his. Majesty's

Servants.

PETER HAUSTED.

THUS gentleman was born at Oundle in Northamptonshire, and received his education in Queen's ollege, Cambridge. After he had taken his degrees, he entered into holy orders, became curate of Uppingham in Rutlandhire; and according to Wood in his Fafti Oxon. was at length made rector of Hadham in Hertfordshire. Upon the breaking out of the civil wars, he was made chaplain to Spencer Earl of Northampton, to whom he adhered in all his engagements for the Royal Interest, and was with him in the caftle of Banbury in Oxfordshire, when it was vigorously defended against the Parliament's f rces. In that caftle Mr. Wood fays, he concluded his last moments in the year 1645, and was buried within the precincts of it, or elfe in the church belonging to Banbury.

This perfon, whom both Langbaine and Wood account a very ingenious man, and an excellent poet, has written the following pieces :

Rival Friends, a Comedy; acted before the King and Queen when their Majefties paid a Vifit to the Univerfity of Cambridge, upon the 19th of March, 1631; which Mr. Langbaine thus characterizes. "It was cried down by Boys, Fac❝tion, Envy, and confident Ig orance; approved "by the Judicious, and expofed to the Public by "the Author, printed in 4to. Lond 1632. and de"dicated by a copy of Verfes, to the Right Honourable,

"nourable, Right Reverend, Right Worshipful, "or whatever he be, fhall be, or whom he here. "after may call patron. The Play is commend. "ed by a copy of Latin Verfes, and two in English. The Prolog e is a Dialogue between "Venus, Thetis, and Phoebus, fung by two Tre

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bles, and a Bafe. Venus appearing at a Win"dow above, as rifen, calling to Sol, who lay "in Thetis lap, at the Eaft fide of the Stage,

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canopy'd with an Azure Curtain. Our Author, "continues Langbaine, feems to be much of the "Humour of Ben Johnson, whofe greatest Weak"nefs was, that he could not bear Cenfure, and "has fo great a Value for Ben's Writings, that "his Scene between Loveall, Mungrel, and Ham"merfhin, Act 3. Scene 7, is copied from Ben "Johnson's Silent Woman, between True-wit, "Daw, and La-fool, Act 4. Scene 5.

2. Ten Sermons preached upon feveral Sundays, and Saints Days, London 1636, 4to. To which is added an Affize Sermon.

3. Ad Populum, a Lecture to the People, with a Satire againft Sedition, Oxon, 1644, in three Sheets in 4to.

This is a Poem, and the Title of it was given by King Charles I. who feeing it in Manufcript, with the Title of a Sermon to the People, he altered it, and caused it to be called a Lecture, being much delighted with it.

This Author alfo tranflated into English, Hymnus, Tobaci, &c. Lond. 1651, 8vo.

WILLIAM

WILLIAM

DRUMMOND of

HAWTHORNDEN Efq;

gentleman fancotland.

and a poet of no inconfiderable rank. We had at firft fome doubt whether he fell within car defign, as being no Englishman, but upon obferving that Mr. Langbaine has given a place to the earl of Stirling, a man of much inferior note; and that our author, though a Scotchman, wrote extremely pure and elegant English, and his life, that is fruitful of a great many incidents, without further apology, it is here prefented to the reader.

He was born the 13th of November, 1585; his father was Sir John Drummond of Hawthornden, who was Gentleman Ufher to King James VI. but did not enjoy that place long, being in three months after he was raifed to his new dignity, taken away by death *. The family of Drummond in the arcle of antiquity is inferior to none in Scotland, where that kind of diftinction is very much regarded.

The first years of our author's youth were spent at the high school at Edinburgh, where the early promifes of that extraordinary genius, which af terwards appeared in him, became very confpicuous. He was in due time fent to the univerfity of Edinburgh, where after the ordinary stay, he was made Master of Arts. When his course at the univerfity was finished, he did not, like the greatest part of giddy ftudents, give over reading, and vainly imagine they have a fufficient stock

The reader will pleafe to obferve, that I have taken the moft material part, of this account of Mr. Drummond, from a life of him prefixed to a 4to Edition printed at Edinburgh, 1711.

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