ritten after the manner of the ancients, with a chorus
between each act.

7. The History of the Civil Wars between the Houses of York and
Lancaster, a Poem in eight books, London, 1604, in 8vo. and 1623, 4to.
with his picture before it.

8. A Funeral Poem on the Death of the Earl of Devonshire, London,
1603, 4to.

9. A Panegyric Congratulatory, delivered to the King at
Burleigh-Harrington in Rutlandshire, 1604 and 1623, 4to.

10. Epistles to various great Personages in Verse, London, 1601 and
1623, 4to.

11. The Passion of a Distressed Man, who being on a tempest on the
sea, and having in his boat two women (of whom he loved the one who
disdained him, and scorned the other who loved him) was, by command of
Neptune, to cast out one of them to appease the rage of the tempest,
but which was referred to his own choice. If the reader is curious to
know the determination of this man's choice, it is summed up in the
concluding line of the poem.

She must be cast away, that would not save.

12. Musophilus, a Defence of Learning; written dialogue-wise,
addressed to Sir Fulk Greville.

13. Various Sonnets to Delia, 57 in number.

14. An Ode. 15. A Pastoral. 16. A Description of Beauty. 17. To the
Angel Spirit of Sir Philip Sidney. 18. A Defence of Rhime. All these
pieces are published together in two volumes, 12 mo. under the title
of the poetical pieces of Mr. Samuel Daniel.

But however well qualified our author's genius was for poetry, yet
Langbain is of opinion that his history is the crown of all his works.
It was printed about the year 1613, and dedicated to Queen Anne. It
reaches from the state of Britain under the Romans, to the beginning
of the reign of Richard II. His history has received encomiums from
various hands, as well as his poetry: It was continued by John Trusul,
with like brevity and candour, but not with equal elegance, 'till the
reign of Richard III. A.D. 1484. Mr. Daniel lived respected by men of
worth and fashion, he passed through life without tasting many of the
vicissitudes of fortune; he seems to have been a second rate genius,
and a tolerable versifier; his poetry in some places is tender, but
want of fire is his characteristical fault. He was unhappy in the
choice of his subject of a civil war for a poem, which obliged him
to descend to minute descriptions, and nothing merely narrative
can properly be touched in poetry, which demands flights of the
imagination and bold images.