Romulus, Pompey, Otho,
Tarquin the Elder,Cato, Vitellius,
Servius Tullus, Cæsar,Vespasian,
Brutus, Cicero, Titus,
The Gracchi, Antony, Domitian,
Marius, Augustus, Nerva,
Sylla, Tiberius, Trajan,
Crassus, Caligula, Antoninus,
Scipio, Claudius, Marcus Aurelius,
Hannibal, Nero, Diocletian,
Pyrrhus, Galba, Constantine the Great
&c. &c. &c.

Printed for R. Griffiths, in Paul's Church-Yard.

[1]

THE

LIVES

OF THE

POETS

Anthony Brewer,

A poet who flourished in the reign of Charles I. but of whose birth and life we can recover no particulars. He was highly esteemed by some wits in that reign, as appears from a Poem called Steps to Parnassus, which pays him the following well turned compliment.

[2] Let Brewer take his artful pen in hand,
Attending muses will obey command,
Invoke the aid of Shakespear's sleeping clay,
And strike from utter darkness new born day.