Malevole.. You o'er-joy'd fpirits, wipe your long wet eyes. [To Pietro and Aurelia. Hence with this man: [Kicks out Mendozo] an eagle takes, not flies. You to your vows: [To Pietro and Aurelia.] and thou unto 83 the fuburbs: You to my worst friend I would hardly give t thou to my heart, The rest of idle actors idly part; [To Maquerelle. [To Biliofo. [To Cello and the Captain. And as for me, I here affume my right, With which I hope all's pleas'd: to all goodnight. [To Maria. [Cornets flourish. Exeunt omnes. 3 the suburbs:] Where in most countries the stews aré situated. An T An imperfect ODE, being but one Stave, Spoken by the PROLOGUE. O wreft each hurtlefs thought to private fenfe, Immodeft cenfure now grows wild, All over-running. Let innocence be neʼer jo chaßte, She is defil'd At once teach all old freedom of a pen, Which fill muft write of fools, whilft writes of men. EPI EPILOGU E. YOUR modeft filence, full of beedy fiillness, Makes me thus fpeak: a voluntary illness Is merely fenfelefs, but unwilling error; Rivers take names from founts where they begin. 84 The flighter brakes of our reformed mufe; Receive this piece, which hope nor fear yet daunteth : He that knows most, knows most how much he wanteth. 84 The flighter brakes of our reformed mufe;] I fuppofe by this expreffion is meant the uncultivated parts of our performance; brakes (i. e. fern) commonly grow in ground that is never till'd, or broken up. S. GEORGE CHAPMAN Wome time in the gall, 1 the County of Hertford, fome time in the year 1557After being well grounded in fchool-learning, he was sent to the Univerfity, but whether to Oxford or Cambridge was unknown to Anthony Wood, who declares himself certain he refided some time at the former 2, where he was observed to be most excellent in the Latin and Greek tongues, but not in Logic or Philofophy, which may be prefumed to be the reafon he took no degree there. He appears to have been a man of a very refpectable character, being countenanced and patronized by feveral eminent perfons, particularly Sir Thomas Walfyngham and his fon, and by Prince Henry, fon of James the First. Wood imagines, that he was a fworn fervant either to James the First or his Queen, and fays he was highly valued, but not fo much as Ben Jonfon. The fame writer 3 adds, that "he was a perfon of most reverend afpect, religious and 66 temperate qualities, rarely meeting in a poet." And another 4, that he was much reforted to latterly by young per"fons of parts as a poetical Chronicle; but was very choice "whom he admitted to him, and preferved in his own person "the dignity of Poetry, which he compared to a flower of "the fun which difdains to open its leaves to the eye of a fmoaking taper." After living to the age of 77 years, he died on the 12th day of May, 1634, in the parish of St. Giles in the Fields, and was buried on the South-fide of the Church-yard there. His friend Inigo Jones erected a monument to his memory near the place of his interment. Chapman is a writer who obtained much applause in his time, and was greatly praised by his contemporaries. His Tranflation of Homer acquired him a confiderable degree of › William Browne (Britannia's Pastorals, b. II.) speaks of him as, "The learned fhepheard of faire Hitching-bill.' This may, however, only allude to his refiding there; and Wood fuppofes him of a Kentish family. 2 Athenæ Oxonienfes, vol. I. p. 592. 3 Ibid. 4 Oldys, in his MS. Notes on Langbaine. It seems to be a quotation, but the writer is not named, |