Excerpt from Hudibras The Biographical Sketch of our poet is a mere fact mento of old materials, for nothing new is howto be dis covered about him. Diligent researches have been made in the parish where he lived and died - Covent Garden - without eliciting any new fact, excepting that the monument erected to his memory has been de stroyed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.