6.  The Tragedy of Philotas, 1611, 8vo. it is dedicated to the Prince, afterwards King Charles I.

This play met with some opposition, because it was reported that the character of Philotas was drawn for the unfortunate earl of Essex, which obliged the author to vindicate himself from this charge, in an apology printed at the end of the play; both this play, and that of Cleopatra, are written after the manner of the ancients, with a chorus between each act.

7.  The History of the Civil Wars between the Houses of York and Lancaster, a Poem in eight books, London, 1604, in 8vo. and 1623, 4to. with his picture before it.

8.  A Funeral Poem on the Death of the Earl of Devonshire, London, 1603, 4to.

9.  A Panegyric Congratulatory, delivered to the King at Burleigh-Harrington in Rutlandshire, 1604 and 1623, 4to.

10.  Epistles to various great Personages in Verse, London, 1601 and 1623, 4to.

11.  The Passion of a Distressed Man, who being on a tempest on the sea, and having in his boat two women (of whom he loved the one who disdained him, and scorned the other who loved him) was, by command of Neptune, to cast out one of them to appease the rage of the tempest, but which was referred to his own choice.  If the reader is curious to know the determination of this man’s choice, it is summed up in the concluding line of the poem.

  She must be cast away, that would not save.

12.  Musophilus, a Defence of Learning; written dialogue-wise, addressed to Sir Fulk Greville.

13.  Various Sonnets to Delia, 57 in number.

14.  An Ode. 15.  A Pastoral. 16.  A Description of Beauty. 17.  To the Angel Spirit of Sir Philip Sidney. 18.  A Defence of Rhime.  All these pieces are published together in two volumes, 12 mo. under the title of the poetical pieces of Mr. Samuel Daniel.

But however well qualified our author’s genius was for poetry, yet Langbain is of opinion that his history is the crown of all his works.  It was printed about the year 1613, and dedicated to Queen Anne.  It reaches from the state of Britain under the Romans, to the beginning of the reign of Richard ii.  His history has received encomiums from various hands, as well as his poetry:  It was continued by John Trusul, with like brevity and candour, but not with equal elegance, ’till the reign of Richard iii.  A.D. 1484.  Mr. Daniel lived respected by men of worth and fashion, he passed through life without tasting many of the vicissitudes of fortune; he seems to have been a second rate genius, and a tolerable versifier; his poetry in some places is tender, but want of fire is his characteristical fault.  He was unhappy in the choice of his subject of a civil war for a poem, which obliged him to descend to minute descriptions, and nothing merely narrative can properly be touched in poetry, which demands flights of the imagination and bold images.

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