Chor. Which are three Tir. By the judges of the dead! Chor. Which are three Three times three Tir. By hell's blue flame! JOHN COLLOP, M. D. His productions were printed by himself, with the arrogant title of "Poesis Redeviva, or POESIE REVIVED." London, 1656, 12mo. How far this rhyming physician promoted the revival of the Muses, will best appear by the following specimen. ON A RETIRED LADY. SPRING of beauty, mine of pleasure, Why so like a miser treasure? Or a richer jewel set In a viler cabinet? Virtue and vice Know but one price; Seem both allied; Ne'er distinguish'd if ne'er tried. The sun's as fair, as bright as you, The wind and rain Him back again In sighs and tears Woo, till smiling he appears, Ceruse nor Stibium can prevail, No art repairs where age makes fail. Then, Euphormia, be not still A prisoner to a fonder will; Nor let's in vain Thus nature blame, 'Cause she confines To barren grounds the richer mines. SIR JOHN MENNIS, AND DR. JAMES SMITH. These gentlemen were joint authors of a 12mo. volume, twice published in 1655 and 1656, under the title of "Musarum "Delicia," from whence the subsequent fanciful little poem is extracted. The former was born in 1598, and died in 1670. Having studied at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, for some years, he became equally remarkable for the versatility of his talents, and the variety of his occupations. We find him successively a militia officer, commander of a troop of horse, captain of a ship, vice admiral, governor of Dover Castle, and chief comptroller of the Navy. Besides being a great traveller, and singularly well versed in marine affairs, and ship building, Wood tells us he was " an honest and stout man, generous and religious, and well skilled in physic " and chymistry." To complete all, he was poetically given, and is said not only to have assisted Suckling in his compositions, but to have ridiculed him and his runaway troop, in a well-known ballad. (Vide Percy, Vol. II. p. 327, 4th edit.) Smith was born about 1604, educated at Christ Church and Lincoln Colleges, in Oxford; afterwards chaplain at sea to H. lord Holland, and domestic chaplain to Tho. lord Cleveland; and amongst other preferments, on his Majesty's return, became canon and chaunter in Exeter cathedral. In 1661 he took the degree of D. D. and died in 1667. In "Wit restored," a miscellany already quoted, many of his pieces are to be met with. KING OBERON'S APPAREL. [From 78 lines.] WHEN the monthly-horned queen Then did the dwarfish fairy elves A rich waistcoat they did bring |