The Names of the Poets Mention'd in this Book.
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Robert of Glocester
Richard the Hermit
Joseph of Exeter
Michael Blaunpayn
Matthew Paris
William Ramsey
Alexander Nequam
Alexander Essebie
Robert Baston
Henry Bradshaw
Havillan
Sir John Gower
Geoffrey Chaucer
John Lydgate
John Harding
Robert Fabian
John Skelton
William Lilly
Sir Thomas More
Henry Howard, Earl of Surry
Sir Thomas Wiat
Dr. Christopher Tye
John Leland
Thomas Churchyard
John Higgins
Abraham Fraunce
William Warner
Thomas Tusser
Thomas Stow
Dr. Lodge
Robert Greene
Thomas Nash
Sir Philip Sidney
Sir Fulk Grevil
Mr. Edmund Spenser
Sir John Harrington
John Heywood
Thomas Heywood
George Peel
John Lilly
William Wager
Nicholas Berton
Tho. Kid, Tho. Watson, &c.
Sir Thomas Overbury
Mr. Michael Drayton
Joshua Sylvester
Mr. Samuel Daniel
George Chapman
Robert Baron
Lodowic Carlisle
John Ford
Anthony Brewer
Henry Glapthorn
John Davis of Hereford
Dr. John Donne
Dr. Richard Corbet
Mr. Benjamin Johnson
Fr. Beaumont and Jo. Fletcher
William Shakespeare
Christopher Marlow
Barton Holyday
Cyril Turney
Thomas Middleton
William Rowley
Thomas Deckar
John Marston
Dr. Jasper Main
James Shirley
Philip Massinger
John Webster
William Brown
Thomas Randolph
Sir John Beaumont
Dr. Philemon Holland
Thomas Goffe
Thomas Nabbes
Richard Broome
Robert Chamberlain
William Sampson
George Sandys, Esq;
Sir John Suckling
Mr. William Habington
Mr. Francis Quarles
Mr. Phineas Fletcher
Mr. George Herbert
Mr. Richard Crashaw
Mr. William Cartwright
Sir Aston Cockain
Sir John Davis
Thomas May
Charles Aleyn
George Withers
Robert Herric
John Taylor, Water Poet
Thomas Rawlins
Mr. Thomas Carew
Col. Richard Lovelace
Alexander Broome
Mr. John Cleaveland
Sir John Birkenhead
Dr. Robert Wild
Mr. Abraham Cowley
Mr. Edmond Waller
Sir John Denham
Sir William Davenant
Sir George Wharton
Sir Robert Howard
W. Cavendish of Newcastle
Sir William Killegrew
John Studly
John Tatham
Thomas Jordan
Hugh Crompton
Edmund Prestwich
Pagan Fisher
Edward Shirburn, Esq;
John Quarles
John Milton
John Ogilby
Sir Richard Fanshaw
Earl of Orrery
Thomas Hobbs
Earl of Rochester
Mr. Thomas Flatman
Martin Luellin
Edmond Fairfax
Henry King, Bishop of Chichester
Thomas Manley
Mr. Lewis Griffin
John Dauncey
Richard Head
John Philips
Mr. John Oldham
Mr. John Driden
Mr. Elkinah Settle
Sir George Etheridge
Mr. John Wilson
Mr. Thomas Shadwell
Thomas Stanley, Esq;
Edward Philips
Mr. Thomas Sprat
William Smith
Mr. John Lacey
Mr. William Whicherly
Sir Roger L'Estrange