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pig. 7. Natura Naturata. 8. Sarpedon's Speech to Glaucus, in the twelfth book of Homer. 9. Out of an Epigram of Martial. 10. Friendship and Single Life, against Love and Marriage. 11. On Mr. Abraham Cowley's Death and Burial. 12. A Speech against Peace at the Close Committee. 13. To the Five Members of the honourable House of Commons: The humble Petition of the Poets. 14. A Western Wonder. 15. A Second Western Wonder. 16. News from Colchester; or, a proper new Ballad, of certain carnal Passages betwixt a Quaker and a Colt, at Horsley in Essex. 17. A Song. 18. On Mr. John Fletcher's Works. 19. To Sir Richard Fanshaw, on his translation of Pastor Fido. 20. A Dialogue between Sir John Pooley, and Mr. Thomas Killegrew. 21. An occasional Imitation of a modern Author, upon a Game at Chess. 22. The Passion of Dido for AEneas. 23. Of Prudence, of Justice. 24. The Progress of Learning. 25. Cato Major of old Age, a Poem: It is taken from the Latin of Tully, though much alter'd from the original, not only by the change of the stile, but by addition and subtraction. Our author tells us, that intending to translate this piece into prose (where translation ought to be strict) finding the matter very proper for verse, he took the liberty to leave out what was only necessary, to that age and place, and to take or add what was proper to this preset age and occasion, by laying the scene clearer and in fewer words, according to the stile and ear of the times. 26. The Sophy, a Tragedy; the above pieces have been several times printed together, in one volume in 12mo. under the Title of Poems and Translations; with the Sophy, a Tragedy, written by Sir John Denham. Besides these, Wood mentions a Panegyric on his excellency general Monk 1659, in one sheet quarto. Though Denham's name is not to it, it is generally ascribed to him. A Prologue to his majesty, at the first play represented at the Cock-pit in White-hall, being part of that noble entertainment, which their majesties received, November 19, 1660, from his grace the duke of Albemarle. A new Version of the Psalms of David. The True Presbyterian, without Disguise; or, a Character of a Presbyterian's Ways and Actions, London 1680, in half a sheet in folio. In the year 1666 there were printed by stealth, in octavo, certain Poems, intitled Directions to a Painter, in four copies or parts, each dedicated to King Charles the IId. They were very
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