P. [90]. Upon the Poems and Plays of the ever-memorable Mr. William Cartwright.
This was printed, together with verses by Tho. Vaughan and many other writers, in William Cartwright's Comedies, Tragi-comedies, with other Poems, 1651.
P. [94]. An Elegy on the Death of Mr. R. Hall, slain at Pontefract, 1648.
Miss Southall thinks that the subject of this elegy may have been a son of Richard Hall, of High Meadow, in the Forest of Dean, co. Gloucester. These Halls were connected with the Winters, a Breconshire family. Mr. C. H. Firth ingeniously suggests to me that for R. Hall we should read R. Hall[ifax], and points out that a Robert Hallyfax was one of the garrison at the first siege of Pontefract in 1645. He may have been at the second siege also. (R. Holmes, Sieges of Pontefract, p. 20.)
P. [97]. To my learned Friend, Mr. T. Powell, upon his Translation of Malvezzi's "Christian Politician."
The book referred to is The Pourtract of the Politicke Christian-Favourite. By Marquesse Virgilio Malvezzi, 1647. This is a translation of Il Ritratto del Privato Politico Christiano, published at Bologna in 1635. It does not contain Vaughan's verses, and no translator's name is given. The preface of another translation from Malvezzi, the Stoa Triumphans (1651), is, however, signed "T. P."
P. [99]. To my worthy Friend, Master T. Lewes.
Some of the lines in this poem are borrowed from Horace's verses, Ad Thaliarcham (Book I., Ode 9):
"Vides, ut alta stet nive candida
Soracte, nec iam sustineant onus
Sylvae laborantes, geluque
Flumina constiterint acuto?
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Quid sit futurum eras, fuge quaerere;
Quam sors dierum cunque debit; lucro
Appone."
G. G.