Mend you your manners first, then teach the rest.
He was one who met with a great many Crosses and Afflictions in his Life; and was (as I am informed) at last cast away at Sea, as he was going to the Isle of Wight.
JOHN PHILLIPS.
John Philips, the Brother of Edward Phillips, the Famous Continuator of Sir Richard Bakers Chronicle; and Author of The New World of English Words. He was also Nephew to the before mention'd John Milton, the Author of Paradice lost, and Paradice Regain'd; so that he might be said to have Poetical Blood run in his Veins. He was Accounted one of the exactest of Heroical Poets either of the Ancients or Moderns, either of our own or what ever other Nation else; having a Judicious command of Style both in Prose and Verse. But his chiefest Vein lay in Burlesque, and facetious Poetry, which produc'd that Ingenious Satyr against Hypocrites.
He also Translated the Fifth and Sixth Books of Virgils Æniedes into English Burlesque; of which that we may give you a Draught of his Method, take these few lines.
While Dido in a Bed of Fire,
A new-found way to cool desire,
Lay wrapt in Smoke, half Cole, half Dido,
Too late repenting Crime Libido,