Let his shrill trumpet with its silver blast,
Of fair Eclecta, and her spousal bed,
Be the sweet pipe and smooth encomiast :-

But my green muse, hiding her younger head,
Under old Camus' flaggy banks, that spread
Their willow locks abroad, and all the day
With their own wat'ry shadows wanton play;
Dares not these high amours, and love-sick songs assay.

Impotent words; weak lines; that strive in vain,
In vain alas! to tell so heavenly sight!

So heavenly sight, as none can greater feign,
Feign what he can, that seems of greatest might!
Could any yet compare with infinite?

Infinite sure those joys !-my words but light:
Light as the palace where he dwells,-O then how bright!

END OF THE FIRST VOLUME.

Printed by G. Wood, High Street, Canterbury.

KENTISH POETS.

A Series of Writers in English Poetry, Natives of or Residents in the County of Kent; with Specimens of their Compositions, and some Account of their Lives and Writings.

BY R. FREEMAN.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL 2.

"In Kent and Christendom

Among the Muses."

(SIR THOS. WYATT.)

CANTERBURY :

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY G. WOOD, AND MAY BE HAD OF MESSRS. LONGMAN, HURST, AND CO. PATERNOSTER RÓW, LONDON; AND OF ALL OTHER BOOKSELLERS.

LEONARD DIGGES.

BORN ABOUT 1590.-DIED 1635.

All we know of Leonard Digges is, that he was the younger son of Thomas Digges, the mathematician, and brother of the more celebrated Sir Dudley Digges. Of the family, which has been long settled in Kent, and formerly possessed very large property in that county, some account may be found by turning over the pages of Hasted's history.

It does not appear that Leonard Digges ever published any original composition,-the only work that bears his name which we have been able to procure, is a Translation from the Spanish, with the following title:-

Gerardo the unfortunate Spaniard, or a Pattern for Lascivious Lovers. Containing several strange miseries of loose affection. Written by an ingenious Spanish Gentleman, Don Goncalo de Cespides, and Meneces, in the time of his five years imprisonment. Originally in Spanish, and made English by L. D.London: Printed for Ed. Blount. 1622."

The Dedication to the Noble Brothers, William Earl of Pembroke, and, Philip Earl of Montgomery, nephews to Sir Philip Sidney, follows:

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