Peacham, Henry: The compleat gentleman : fashioning him absolute in the most necessary and commendable qualities, concerning mind, or body, that may be required in a person of honor. To which is added the gentlemans exercise or, an exquisite practise, as well for drawing all manner of beasts, as for making colours, to be used in painting, limming, &c (London, 1661)

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Of Tcetry.
distorted besidethe intent of the Divine Endker.
His Tragedies are lofty,the style pure,his Epigram*
not to be mended, save here and there ( according to
his Genius) too broad and bitter.
But let us look behind, and we shall sind one En-
glish-bred ( whose glory and worth, although Ct»ert
suppofta doloso) is inferiour neither to Buchanan, or any
of the Antients; and so much the more to be valued,
by how much the brighter he appeared out of the fogs
pf Barbarism and ignorance i his time? that is,Josefk
of Exceter, who lived under Hnry the second,and Fz-
chardtheiirst ? who wrote that /ingular and lately
Poem of the Trojan War, af. er the History of Dares
Thrygius, which the Germans have printed under the
name of Cornelius Nepos. He died at Bourdeanx in
France, where he was Archbishop, where his Monu-
ment is yet to be seen.
After him,ail that longtraft of ignorance, until the
dayesof Henry the 8th, (which time Erasmus calleth
the Golden Age os learning, in regard ©f so many fa-
moussy learned men, it produeed,more than ever her«-
tosore)ssouri(hed Sir Thomas Moor,sometime L, Chan-
cellor of England: a man of most rich ^nd pleasant in-
vention : his Verse ssuent,nothing harsh,constrained or
obseure, wholly composed of conceit, and inoffenfive
mirth,that heseemeth<zz£ lepores suisfenatus.How witti-
ly doth he play upon the Arch-cuckold Sabinustfcoff at
Frenchisied Lalus,and Hervey a French cowardly Cap-
tain, beaten at the Sea by our Englilh, and his Ship
burncdjyet his vistory& valour,co theEnglissi disgraee,
proclaimed by Brixius a German Foetaster'i'What can be
more lofty than his gratulatory Verse to King Henry
upon his Coronation day 5 more witty than that Epi-
gram upon the name os Nicolaus an ignorant Physician,
that had been the death of thousandsj and Abyngdons
Epitaph > more sweet than that Ne&ar Epistle of his,
to his daughters Margaret, Elizabeth, and Cicely s
But as these ingenious exejrcifes bewrayed in