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fifter and heir of Henry Lovel, and daughter of William Lovel, a younger fon of William, Lord Lovel of Tichmerfh, by Alianore daughter and heir of Robert Morley, Lord Morley, who died 21 Henry VIth.* He seems to have paffed his life principally in ftudy and retirement. "A battle, a pageant, an embaffy, a fuperftitious will," fays the lively Lord Orford, speaking of Lord Vaux," compofe the hiftory of most of the great men of that age; but our Peer did. not stop here."+ He wrote and tranflated many books, of which a catalogue may be found in Ant. Wood and others, and was living an aged man, in esteem among the nobility, the latter end of the reign of Henry the VIIIth. His great grandfon Edward Lord Morley, who married Elizabeth, fole daughter and heir of William Stanley, Lord Montegle, had iffue Mary, who by her husband Thomas Habington, of Henlip in Worcestershire, was mother of William Habington the poet hereafter-mentioned, and was supposed to have been the person who wrote to her brother William, Lord Morley and Montegle, the letter, advising him to forbear coming to the Parliament that Seffion, because thofe who fhould fit there, would receive a terrible

*Dugd. Bar. II. p. 27, 307. † Royal and Noble Authors, I. p. 83.

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blow, and yet not fee who did hurt them: which led to the discovery of the plot.*

JOHN HEYWOO D.

"There was of this name in King Henry "the Eighth's reign an Epigrammatist, who, "faith the author of the Art of English Poetry, "for the mirth and quickness of his conceits, "more than any good learning was in him, << came to be well benefited by the king."

JOHN HEYWOOD was born in London, and educated at Oxford. His largest and most laboured performance is the "Spider and the Fly," 1556. Perhaps, fays Warton, there never was fo dull, fo tedious, and trifling an apologue: without fancy, meaning, or moral. Our Author's Epigrams, and the poem of "Proverbs,” were in high vogue, and had numerous editions within the year 1598. He was a great favourite of Q. Mary, on whom he often attended, even to the time of her deathbed, and being inflexibly attached to the Ca

* See Dugd. Bar. ut fupra, and Nash's Worcestershire, Art. Henlip.

tholic caufe, left the nation on her decease, and fettled at Mechlin in Brabant, which gives an opportunity for the acrimony of A. Wood to remark the wonder it raifed in many, that a poet fhould become an exile for his religion. He died at Mechlin about 1565.*

Befides these writers, Warton records ANDREW BORDE; a whimsical phyfician, from whofe facetious mode of practising arose the name and character of MERRY ANDREW and whofe life may be feen in the Athenæ, I. p. 73; JOHN BALE, the biographer; Brian Annefley, yeoman of the wine cellar to Hen.' VIII. about 1520; and tranflator into Englifh Rhymes, of a celebrated French poem, called "The City of Dames;" ANDREW CHERTSEY, a tranflator from the French; WILFORD HOLME, a gentleman of Huntingdonshire, author of "The Fall and Evil Succefs of Rebellion," 1537; CHARLES BANSLEY, a rhyming fatyrift, 1540; CHRISTOPHER GOODWIN, author of the "Mayden's Dreme," 1542; RICHARD FEYLDE, author of "The Treatife of the Lover and Jaye;" and WILLIAM BLOME

* A. Wood's Ath. I. p. 150. Warton, III. p. 96.

† Of Lee, in Kent. His fon Nicolas was ferjeant of the cellar to Q. Eliz. and died 1593. And his other fon Brian died 1604. See Thorpe's, R g. Roff. 815. Hafted's Kent, I. p. 66, 73. Lodge's Irish Peerage, IV. p. 107.

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FIELD, a native of Bury, and monk of the abbey there, and a dealer in the fanaticisms of chemistry.

To this reign Mr. Warton affigns "The Tournament of Tottenham," and fupposed to have been written by GILBERT PILKINGTON.

To the fame period he afcribes The original Ballad of " The Notbrowne Maid," which Prior has beautifully paraphrafed.+ And he adds, that it is highly probable that the metrical romances of "Richard Cuer de Lyon," "Guy Earl of Warwick," and " Syr Bevys of Southampton," were modernized in this reign from more antient and fimple narrations. In the year 1521, Wynkin de Worde printed a set of Christmas Carols: thefe were feftal chansons or enlivening the merriments of the Christmas celebrity, and not such religious fongs, as are current at this day with the common people under the fame title, and which were fubftituted by thofe enemies of innocent and useful mirth, the puritans.§

*Warton, III. p. 85. † Ibid. p. 135. ‡Ibid. p. 141. § Iblá. P. 142, 143.

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JOHN HOPKINS.

"Thomas Sternhold, an affociate with John "Hopkins, in one of the worst of many bad "Tranflations of the pfalms of David: yet in "regard, as first made choice of, they have "hitherto obtained to be the only pfalms fung "in all parochial churches, (it hath long hear"tily been wifhed a better choice were made) "he hath therefore perhaps been thought wor

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thy to be mentioned among the poets that "flourished in Q. Mary's, and the beginning "of Q. Elizabeth's reign.

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THOMAS STERNHOLD was educated at Ox ford, and removing to the Court of Henry the VIIIth, was made Groom of the Robes to him, and when that king died, had a legacy in his will of 100 marks. He continued in that office under Edw. VIth, and was then in fome esteem in the Court for his poetry. But being a rigid

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