biography
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| (1574–1656)
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| biography:
| Clergyman and writer, born in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, C England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, was Dean of Worcester (1616), Bishop of Exeter (1627–42), and Bishop of Norwich (1642–7). He was a moral philosopher, and also wrote satires. Among his works are Contemplations, Christian Meditations, Episcopacy, and Mundus alter et idem (c.1605, The World Different and the Same). His poetical satires Virgidemiarum (1597–1602, trans A Harvest of Blows) were described by Pope as ‘the best poetry and the truest satire in the English language’. |
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