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The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets

by William Winstanley

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Sir Richard Fanshaw

This worthy Gentleman, one of Apollo’s chiefest Sons, was Secretary to King Charles the Second, when Prince of Wales, and after his Restoration, his Embassadour to Spain, where he died. His Employments were such, as one would think he should have had no time for Poetical Diversions, yet at leisure times he Translated Guarini’s Pastor Fido into English Verse, and Spencer’s Shepherds Callendar into Latin Verse.

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