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,1637.WITSRECREATIONS.NOTES.P. 3, 1. i. "Francis Newport?* according to Clarendon, Was "ayoung gentleman of great expectation, and of excellent parts, a Memberof the House of Commons ;" his father, Sir Richard Newport, residednear Shrewsbury, and Was made Baron IseWport of Ercall by KingCharles I.P. 9, 1. 12. "Sir John Suckling" published his Aglaura in 1638with wide margins and a narrow streamlet of type, for which heincurred the ridicule of the Writers in the Musarum ' ' Delicia" Thepiece was, notwithstanding these criticisms, much admired, and obtainedfor the author this poetical compliment."P. 10, 1. i. George Sands or Sandys" Traveller and poet b.;1577, d. 1644, Sandys is pronounced by Dryden to be the best versifierof the last age and Pope :affirmed, in his notes to the "Iliad," that Englishpoetry owed much of its present beauty to his (Sandys') translations.The first edition of his " Metamorphoses Englished'* appeared in 1626."P. to, 1. 10. William Habbington" Poet and historian; b. 1605,His " Castara" poems addressed to his wife, Lady Lucie,.aught er of Lord Powis, appeared in 1634.P." IO, 1. 18. Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher:" The formeried in 1616, the latter 1625. The first of their plays," The WomanHater" appeared in 1607, and the first collected edition edited byames Shirley^-was published in 1647.P." " " II, 1. I. Benjamin Johnson O, fare Ben Jonson!" Born574, d. 1637.P. ii. 1. 6. "George Chapman;" b. 1557, d. 1634; buried in thehurchyard of St. Giles's-in-the-Fields. His monument, designed andrected by his friend Inigo Jones, bore " this inscription: GeorgiusChapmannus, Poeta Homericus, PhilosOphus verus (et si ChristianusPoeta) plusquam Celebris" &c. The first edition of kis translation oflie "Iliad appeared in 1611.P. II, 1. 12." William Shake-spear." 1564-1616.P. "n, 1. 17. Thomas^ Randolph;" b. 1605, d. 1634. He veryarly began to exercise his poetical talents, having, it is said, written