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See also:BROME, See also:ALEXANDER (162o-1666) , See also:English poet, was by profession an See also:attorney, and was the author of many drinking songs and of satirical verses in favour of the Royalists and against the Rump. He published in 1661 Songs and other Poems, containing songs on various subjects, followed by a See also:series of See also:political songs; See also:ballads, epistles, elegies and epitaphs; epigrams and See also:translations. Izaak See also:Walton wrote an See also:introductory See also:eclogue for this See also:volume in praise of the writer, and his gaiety and wit won for him the See also:title of the " English See also:Anacreon " in See also:Edward See also:Phillips's Theatrum Poetarum. Brome published in 1666 a See also:translation of See also:Horace by himself and others, and was the author of a See also:comedy entitled The Cunning Lovers (1654). He also edited two volumes of See also:Richard Brome's plays.
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