Names, Genius, Species, &c. of all Comets.

Tracts teaching how Astrology may be restored from Marinus.

Secret Multiplication of the Effects of the Stars, from Cardan.

Sundry Rules, shewing by what laws the Weather is governed, and how to
discover the Various Alterations of the same.

He also translated from Latin into English the Art of divining by
Lines and Signatures, engraven in the Hand of Man, written by John
Rockman, M.D. Lond. 1652, 8vo.

This is sometimes called Wharton's Chiromancy.

Most of these foregoing treatises were collected and published
together, anno 1683, in 8vo, by John Gadbury; together with select
poems, written and published during the civil wars.

Footnotes:
1. Wood Athen Oxon. v. ii.
2. Wood, ubi supra.

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ANNE KILLEGREW.

This amiable young lady, who has been happy in the praises of Dryden,
was daughter of Dr. Henry Killegrew, master of the Savoy, and one of
the prebendaries of Westminster. She was born in St. Martin's-Lane in
London, a little before the restoration of King Charles II. and was
christened in a private chamber, the offices of the Common prayer not
being then publickly allowed. She gave the earliest discoveries of a
great genius, which being improved by the advantage of a polite
education, she became eminent in the arts of poetry and painting, and
had her life been prolonged, she might probably have excelled most of
the prosession in both[1]. Mr. Dryden is quite lavish in her praise;
and we are assured by other cotemporary writers of good probity, that
he has done no violence to truth in the most heightened strains of his
panegyric: let him be voucher for her skill in poetry.

Art she had none, yet wanted none,
For nature did that art supply,
So rich in treasures of her own,
She might our boasted stores defy;
Such noble vigour did her verse adorn,
That it seem'd borrow'd, where 'twas only born.

That great poet is pleased to attribute to her every poetical
excellence. Speaking of the purity and chastity of her compositions,
he bestows on them this commendation,

Her Arethusian stream remains unsoil'd, }
Unmix'd with foreign filth and undefil'd; }
Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child. }

She was a great proficient in the art of painting, and drew King James
II, and his Queen; which pieces are also highly applaude