THE

LIVES

OF THE

POETS

OF

GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND,

To the TIME of

DEAN SWIFT.

Compiled from ample Materials scattered in a Variety of Books, and especially from the MS. Notes of the late ingenious Mr. COXETER and others, collected for this Design,

By Mr. CIBBER.

In FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

MDCCLIII.