, the laborious and quaint translator of Du Bartas, was born in 1563,
, the laborious and quaint translator of Du Bartas, was born in 1563, and died September 28, 1618. His death happened at Middleburg in Holland. By what circumstances he was induced, or compelled, to quit his native country we have not discovered;
but John Vicars, his friend, who styles him “the best of
Poets,
” speaks of it as a reproach to his country.