Jameson, Anna: Memoirs of the beauties of the Court of Charles the Second, with their portraits: after Sir Peter Lely and other eminent painters$dillustrating the diaries of Pepys, Evelyn, Clarendon and other contemporary writers (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1861)

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a Momus) when he conversed with you, he look’t into your very
thoughts.
“ In the time of the civill warres, Geo. Withers, the poet, begged
Sr> Jo. Denham’s estate of the Parliament, in whose cause he was
a captaine of horse. It (happened) that G. W. was taken
prisoner, and was in danger of his life, having written severely
against the King. S1'- John Denham went to the King, and de-
sired his matie not to hang him: for that whitest G. AV. lived, he
should not be the worst poet in England. Sir John was satyricall
when he had a mind to it.”—Ed.]