knew

nerous Friend to him, than that Me-
cænas of all Learned and Witty Men,
Charles Lord Buckhurst, the late Earl
of Dorfet and Middlefex; who be-
ing himself an excellent Poet,
how to fet a juft Value upon the Ingeni-
ous Performances of others, and has
often taken care privately to relieve and
Supply the Neceffities of those, whose
Modefty would endeavour to conceal
them; of which our Author was a fignal
Inftance, as feveral others have been, who
are now living. In fine, the Integrity of
his Life, the Acuteness of his Wit,
and Eafinefs of his Converfation, bad
render'd him moft acceptable to all Men ;
yet be prudently avoided multiplicity of
Acquaintance, and wifely chofe fuch only
whom his difcerning Fudgment could
diftinguish (as Mr. Cowley expreffeth it)

From the Great Vulgar or the Small.

And he baving thus liv'd to a good Old Age, Admir'd by all,though perfonally known to few, he departed this Life

in the Year 1680, and was buryed at theCharge of his good Friend Mr. L--vil of the T-le, in the Yard belonging to the Church of St Paul's Covent-Garden, at the Weft-end of the faid Yard, on the North-fide under the Wall of the faid Church, and under that Wall, which parts the Yard from the Common Highway And fince he has no Monument yet fet up for him, give me leave to borrow his Epitaph from that of Michael Drayton the Poet, as the Author of Mr Cowley's bas partly done before me:

And though no Monument can claim
To be the Treafurer of thy Name;
This Work, which ne'er will die, fhall be
An Everlafting Monument to thee.

The Characters of this Poem are for the moft part obvious, even to the meanest Pretenders to Learning or Hiftory; nor can fearce any one be fo Ignorant, as not to know, that the chief Design thereof, is a Satyr against those Incendiaries of Church and State, who in the late Rebel

lion, under Pretence of Religion, Murthered the best of Kings, to Introduce the worst of Governments; deftroy'd the best of Churches, that Hypocrifie, Novelty and Nonfenfe, might be predominant amongst us, and overthrow our wholfome Laws and Conftitutions, to make way for their Bleffed Anarchy and Confufion,. which at laft ended in Tyranny. But fince, according to the Proverb, None are fo Blind, as they that will not See; fo those who are not refolv'd to be invinceably Ignorant, I refer, for their farther Satisfaction, to the Hiftories of Mr. Fowlis of Presbytery, Mr. Walker of Independancy; but more especially to that Incomparable Hiftory lately Published, wrote by Edward late Earl of Clarendon, which are fufficient to fatisfie any unbiafs'd Perfon, that his general Characters are not fictitious: and I could heartily wish, thefe Times were fo reformed, that they were not applicable to fome even now living. However there being feveral particular Perfons reflected on,

which are not commonly known, and fome old Stories and uncouth Words, which want Explication, we have thought fit to do that Right to their Memories, and for the better Information of the lefs learned Readers, to explain them in fome Additional Annotions,at the Endof this and the Second Part.

How often the Imitation of this Foem has been attempted,and with how little Succefs, I leave the Readers to judge; in the Year (63) there came out a Spurious Book, called, The Second Part of Hudibras, which is reflected upon by our Author, under the Character of Whacum, towards the latter end of his Second Part: Afterwards came out the Dutch and Scotch Hudibras, Butler's Ghoft, the Occafional Hypocrite, and fome others of the fame Nature, which compar'd with this, (Virgil Travefty excepted deferve only to be condemn'd, ad Ficum & Piperem; or if you pleafe, to more bafe aud fervile Offices.

Some vain Attempts have been likewife made to tranflate fome Parts of it into Latin, but how far they fall short of that Spi

rit of the Englifait, Ileave the meaneft Capacity that understands them, to judge. The following Snilies I have heard were done by the Learned Dr. Harmar, once Greek Profeffur at Oxon.

So Learned Taliacotius from, &c.

Sic adfcititios natos de clune torofi
Vectoris, do&à fouit Taliacotius Arte:
Qui potuêre pasem durando æquare Parentem
At poftquam fato Clunis computruit, ipfum
Una fympathicum cæpit tabefcere Roftrum,

So Wind in th' Hypocondres pent, &c.

Sic Hypochondriacis inclufa meatibus Aura
Definet in crepitum, fi fertur prona per alvum,
Sed fi fumma petat, montifque invaferit arcem
Divinus furor eft, & confcia Flamma futuri.

So Lawyers, left the Bear Defendant, &c.

Sic Legum myftæ, nè forfan Pax foret, Urfam
Inter furantem fefe, Actoremque Moloffum;
Faucibus injiciunt clavos dentifque refigunt,
Luctantefq; canes coxis, femorîfq; revellunt.
Errores juitafque moras obtendere certis,

Judiciumq; prius revocare ut prorfus iniquum.
Tandem poft aliquod breve refpiramen utrinq;,
Ut pugnas iterent, crebris hortatibus urgent.
Eja! agite ô cives, iterumq; in prælia tradunt.

There are fome Verses, which for Reafon of State, eafie to be guess'd at, were

thought