s's soldiers, with the duke of Berwick at their head.

We shall give a specimen of his lordship's poetry from a speech in
Altemira, in a scene between Altemira and her lover.

ALTEM. I can forgive you all my Lycidor,
But leaving me, and leaving me for war,
For that, so little argument I find,
My reason makes the fault look more unkind.

LYCIDOR. You see my griefs such deep impressions give,
I'd better die than thus afflicted live.
Yet to those sorrows under which I groan,
Can you still think it fit to add your own?

ALTEM. 'Tis only you, have your own troubles wrought,
For they alas! are not impos'd but sought;
Did you but credit what you still profess,
That I alone can make your happiness:
You would not your obedience now decline,
But end by paying it, your griefs and mine.

Footnotes:
1. Earl of Cork's True Remembrance.
2. Morrice's Memoirs of E. Orrery, chap. 6.
3. Memoirs of the Earl of Orrery, p. 36.
4. Carte's Life of the Duke of Ormond.
5. Memoirs of the Interregnum, p. 133.
6. Cox's History of Ireland, vol. 2. part 2d. p. 16.
7. Thurloe's State Papers.
8. Morrice's Memoirs chap. 5.
9. Budgel's Memoirs of the family of the Boyles.
10. Collin's peerage, vol. iv. p. 26.
11. Love's Memoirs of the Earl of Orrery.
12. Memoirs of the Earl of Orrery.

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RICHARD HEAD

Was the son of a minister in Ireland, who being killed in the
rebellion there in 1641, amongst the many thousands who suffered in
that deplorable massacre, our author's mother came with her son into
England, and he having, says Winstanley, been trained up in learning,
was by the help of some friends educated at Oxford, in the same
college where his father formerly had been a student; but as his
circumstances were mean, he was taken away from thence, and bound
apprentice to a bookseller in London, but his genius being addicted to
poetry, before his time was expired, he wrote a piece called Venus
Cabinet unlocked; and afterwards he married and set up for himself, in
which condition, he did not long continue, for being addicted to
gaming, he ruined his affairs. In this distress he went over to
Ireland, and composed his Hic & Ubique, a noted comedy; and which
gained him some reputation. He then returned to England, reprinted his
comedy, and dedi