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Rh The poems of Andrelinus, which are chiefly in Latin, are inserted in the first tome of the "Deliciæ poetarum Italorum." Mr. de la Monnoie tells us, "that Andrelinus, when he was but twenty-two years old, received the crown of laurel. That his love-verses, divided into four books, intituled "Livia," from the name of his mistress, were esteemed to fine by the Roman Academy, that they adjudged the prize of the Latin elegy to the author. It is upon this account, that when he printed his "Livia," in Livia," in quarto, at Paris, in 1490, and his three books of " Elegies" tour years after, in the fane city, he took upon him the title of poeta laureatus, to which he added that of poeta regius et regineus, as he was poet to Charles VIII. Lewis XII. and queen Anne IV. The distichs of Faustus (continues the same author) are not above two hundred, and consequently but a very finall part of his poems, since, besides the four books of Love, and three books of Miscellaneous Elegies, there are twelve Eclogues of his printed in octavo, in 1549, in the collection of thirty-eight bucolic poets, published by Oporinus." The death of Andrelinus is placed under the year 1518. The letters which he wrote in proverbs have been thought worth a new edition at Helmstadt in 1662, according to that of Cologn of 1509. The manner of life of this author was not very exemplary; yet he was so fortunate,

says Erasmus, that though he took the liberty of raillying the divines, he was never brought into trouble about it.

ANDREWS (LANCELOT), an eminent English divine, bishop of Winchester in the reigns of James I. and Charles I. born in London, in 1565. He had the rudiments of his education in the Coopers free-school at Radcliffe, and was

afterwards sent to Merchant-taylors: here he made a great proficiency in the learned languages; and Dr. Waits, residentiary of St. Paul's and archdeacon of Middlesex, who had lately founded some scholarships at Pembroke hall in Cambridge, sent him to that college for the first of his exhibitions. After he had taken the degree of bachelor of arts, he was chosen fellow of the college: when he became master of arts, he applied himself to the study of divinity; and being chosen catechist in the college, he read a lecture on the Ten Commandments every Saturday and Sunday, to which great numbers out of the other colleges of the university, and even out of the country, resorted as to a divinity lecture. His reputation encreasing daily, he began to be taken notice of by fir Francis Walsingham, secretary of state to queen sidenote