addresses a copy of verses to Grotius, occasioned by his Christus Patiens, in which he introduces Mr. Sandys, and says of him, that he had seen as much as Grotius had read; he bestows upon him like wife the epithet of a fine gentleman, and observes, that though he had travelled to foreign countries to read life, and acquire knowledge, yet he was worthy, like another Livy, of having men of eminence from every country come to visit him.  From the quotation here given, it will be seen that Sandys was a smooth versifier, and Dryden in his preface to his translation of Virgil, positively says, that had Mr. Sandys gone before him in the whole translation, he would by no means have attempted it after him.

In the translation of his Christus Patiens, in the chorus of Act iii.

Jesus speaks.

  Daughters of Solyma, no more
  My wrongs thus passionately deplore. 
  These tears for future sorrows keep,
  Wives for yourselves, and children weep;
  That horrid day will shortly come,
  When you shall bless the barren womb,
  And breast that never infant fed;
  Then shall you with the mountain’s head
  Would from this trembling basis slide,
  And all in tombs of ruin hide.

In his translation of Ovid, the verses on Fame are thus englished.

  And now the work is ended which Jove’s rage,
  Nor fire, nor sword, shall raise, nor eating age. 
  Come when it will, my death’s uncertain hour,
  Which only o’er my body bath a power: 
  Yet shall my better part transcend the sky,
  And my immortal name shall never die: 
  For wheresoe’er the Roman Eagles spread
  Their conqu’ring wings, I shall of all be read. 
  And if we Prophets can presages give,
  I in my fame eternally shall live.

[Footnote 1:  Athen.  Oxon. p. 46. vol. ii.]

[Footnote 2:  Wood, ubi supra.]

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Cary Lucius, Lord Viscount Falkland,

The son of Henry, lord viscount Falkland, was born at Burford in Oxfordshire, about the year 1610[1].  For some years he received his education in Ireland, where his father carried him when he was appointed Lord Deputy of that kingdom in 1622; he had his academical learning in Trinity College in Dublin, and in St. John’s College, Cambridge.  Clarendon relates, “that before he came to be twenty years of age, he was master of a noble fortune, which descended to him by the gift of a grandfather, without passing through his father or mother, who were both alive; shortly after that, and before he was of age, being in his inclination a great lover of the military life, he went into the low countries in order to procure a command, and to give himself up to it, but was diverted from it by the compleat inactivity of that summer.”  He returned to England, and applied himself to a severe course of study; first to polite literature and poetry, in which he made several successful attempts.  In a very short time he became perfectly master of the Greek tongue; accurately read all the Greek historians, and before he was twenty three years of age, he had perused all the Greek and Latin Fathers.