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OHN HUGHES, the son of a citizen of London, and of Anne Burgess, of an ancient family in Wiltshire, was born at Malborough, July 19, 1677. He was educated at a private school; and through his advances in literature are in the Biographia very ostentatiously displayed, the name of this matter is somewhat ungratefully concealed.

At nineteen he drew the plan of a tragedy; and paraphrased, rather too diffusely, the ode of Horace, which begins Integer Vitæ. To poetry he added the science of musick, in which he seems to have attained considerable skill, together Rh