See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

RICHARD See also:

• RICHARD FLECKNOE (c. 1600-1678?)

FLECKNOE (c. 1600-1678?)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English dramatist and poet, the See also:

• OBJECT

object of See also:

• DRYDEN, JOHN (1631-1700)

Dryden's See also:

• SATIRE (Lat. satira, satura; see below)

satire, was probably of English See also:

• BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

birth, although there is no corroboration of the See also:

• SUGGESTION

suggestion of J . See also:

• GILLOW, ROBERT (d. 1773)

Gillow (See also:

• BIBLIOG

Bibliog . Did. of the Eng . Catholics, vol. ii., 1885), that he was a See also:

• NEPHEW

nephew of a Jesuit See also:

• PRIEST (Ger. Priester, Fr. pretre)

priest, See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

William See also:

• FLECKNOE, RICHARD (c. 1600-1678?)

Flecknoe, or more properly Flexney, of See also:

• OXFORD
• OXFORD, EARLS OF
• OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
• OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
• OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
• OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
• OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST

Oxford . The few known facts of his See also:

• LIFE

life are chiefly derived from his Relation of Ten Years' Travels in See also:

• EUROPE

Europe, See also:

• ASIA

Asia, AfJrique and See also:

• AMERICA

America (1655?), consisting of letters written to See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

friends and patrons during his travels . The first of these is dated from See also:

• GHENT (Flem. Gent, Fr. Gand)

Ghent (164o), whither he had fled to See also:

• ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli

escape the troubles of the See also:

• CIVIL

Civil See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War . In See also:

• BRUSSELS (Fr. Bruxelles, Flem. Brussel)

Brussels he met Beatrix de See also:

• COSENZA (anc. Consentia)

Cosenza, wife of See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles IV., See also:

• DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

duke of See also:

• LORRAINE

Lorraine, who sent him to See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome to secure the legalization of her See also:

• MARRIAGE

marriage . There in 1645 See also:

• ANDREW (Gr. 'AvBp4as, manly)
• ANDREW, JOHN ALBION (1818-1867)

Andrew Marvell met him, and described his leanness and his rage for versifying in a witty satire, " Flecknoe, an English Priest at Rome." He was probably, however, not in priest's orders . He then travelled in the See also:

• LEVANT

Levant, and in 1648 crossed the See also:

• ATLANTIC

Atlantic to See also:

• BRAZIL
• BRAZIL, or BRASIL

Brazil, of which See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country he gives a detailed description . On his return to Europe he entered the See also:

• HOUSEHOLD, ROYAL

household of the duchess of Lorraine in Brussels . In 1645 he went back to See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England . His royalist and See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic convictions did not prevent him from See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing a See also:

• BOOK

book in praise of See also:

• OLIVER, ISAAC (c. 1566--1617)
• OLIVER, PETER (1594-1648)

Oliver See also:

• CROMWELL, HENRY (1628-1674)
• CROMWELL, OLIVER (1599-1658)
• CROMWELL, RICHARD (1626–1712)
• CROMWELL, THOMAS, EARL OF

Cromwell, The See also:

• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

Idea of His See also:

• HIGHNESS

Highness Oliver .

(1659), dedicated to See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

Richard Cromwell . This publication was discounted at the restoration by the Heroick Portraits (166o) of Charles IL and others of the See also:

• STUART, ARABELLA (1575-1615)
• STUART, GILBERT (1755-x828)
• STUART, JAMES EWELL BROWN (1833-1864)
• STUART, JOHN
• STUART, MOSES (1780-1852)
• STUART, SIR JOHN, COUNT

Stuart See also:

• FAMILY

family . See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John Dryden used his name as a stalking See also:

• HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)

horse from behind which to assail See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

Thomas See also:

• SHADWELL, THOMAS (c. 1642-1692)

Shadwell in Mac Flecknoe (1682) . The opening lines run:'See also:

• FLEET

FLEET, See also:

• PRISON (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. prehensio, seizure)

PRISON All human things are subject to decay, And,, when See also:

• FATE

fate See also:

• SUMMONS (Fr. semonce, from semonner or semondre, Lat. summonere, summonitio)

summons, monarchs must obey . This Flecknoe found, who, like See also:

• AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)

Augustus, See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young Was called to See also:

• EMPIRE

empire, and had governed See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long; In See also:

• PROSE

prose and See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse was owned, without dispute, Throughout the realms of nonsense, See also:

• ABSOLUTE (Lat. absolvere, to loose, set free)

absolute." Dryden's aversion seems to have been caused by Flecknoe's affectation of contempt for the players and his attacks on the immorality of the English See also:

• STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage . His verse, which hardly deserved his critic's sweeping condemnation, was much of it religious, and was chiefly printed for private circulation . None of his plays was acted except Love's Dominion, announced as a " See also:

• PATTERN

pattern for the reformed stage " (1654), that See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title being altered in 1664 to Love's See also:

• KINGDOM

Kingdom, with a Discourse of the English Stage . He amused himself, however, by adding lists of the actors whom he would have selected for the parts, had the plays been staged . Flecknoe had many connexions among English Catholics, and is said by See also:

• GERARD (c. 1040-1120)
• GERARD (d. I1o8)
• GERARD, ETIENNE MAURICE, COUNT (1773–1852)
• GERARD, FRANCOIS, BARON (1770-1837)
• GERARD, JEAN IGNACE ISIDORE (1803-1847)
• GERARD, JOHN (1545-1612)
• GERARD, or GIRARD, AUDRAN

Gerard Langbaine, to have been better acquainted with the See also:

• NOBILITY

nobility than with the See also:

• MUSES, THE (Gr. Mo6o-at, the thinkers)

muses . He died probably about 1678 . A Discourse of the English Stage, was reprinted in W . C .

See also:

• HAZLITT, WILLIAM (1778-1830)

Hazlitt's English See also:

• DRAMA (literally "action," from Gr. Snail, act or do)

Drama and Stage (See also:

• ROXBURGHE, EARLS AND DUKES OF

Roxburghe Library, 1869) ; See also:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

Robert See also:

• SOUTHEY, ROBERT (1774-1843)

Southey, in his Omniana (1812), protested against the wholesale depreciation of Flecknoe's See also:

• WORKS

works . See also " Richard Flecknoe " (See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig, 1905, in Mi nchener Beitrage zur . . Philologie), by A . Lohr, who has given See also:

• MINUTE
• MINUTE (Lat. minutes, small; minuere, to make less)

minute See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention to his life and works .