[From Jonsonus Virbius , the volume of elegies issued after Jonson's death under the editorship of Brian Duppa, dean of Christ Church college, Oxford.]
Richard Sackville, fifth earl of Dorset (1622-1677), sat in the Long Parliament but does not seemed to have been active in the Civil War. He was styled Lord Buckhurst from 1624 until his father's death in 1652. According to John Aubrey he translated Corneille's Le Cid into English. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1665 (DNB).
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If Romulus did promise in the fight
To Iove the Stator, if he held from
flight
His men, a Temple, and perform'd his vow:
Why should not we, learn'd IOHNSON, thee
allow
An Altar at the least? since by Thy aid,
Learning, that would have left us, ha's been stay'd.
The Actions were different: that thing
Requir'd some marke to keep't from perishing;
But letters must bee quite defac'd, before
Thy memory, whose care did them restore.
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