Martyrs and Traytors, rallied six to six,
Half fled unto Olimpus, half to Styx.
Joyn'd with two Neuters, some Condemn, some Praise,
They hang betwixt the Halters and the Bayes;
For 'twixt Nolls Torment, and Great Charles's Glory,
There, there's the Presbyterian purgatory.
He died (as I am informed) at Colcester, about the Year of our Lord 1670.
JOHN DAUNCEY.
John Dauncey, a true Son of Apollo, and Bacchus; was one who had an Excellent Command of his Pen, a fluent Stile, and quick Invention: nor did any thing come amiss to his undertaking. He wrote a compleat History of the late times; a Chronicle of the Kingdom of Portugal; the English Lovers, a Romance; which for Language and Contrivance, comes not short of either of the best of French or Spanish. He Translated a Tragi Comedy out of French, called Nichomede, equal in English to the French Original; besides several other things, too long to recite. His English Lovers was Commended by divers of sound Judgment; amongst others, Mr. Lewis Griffin, our forementioned Poet, made these verses in commendations of it.