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NOTICE OF THE AUTHOR.

ANDREW MARVELL was a native of Kingstonupon-Hull,* where he was born November 15, 1620. His father, of the same name, was master of the grammar school, and lecturer of Trinity Church in that town. He is described by Fuller and Echard as "facetious," so that his son's wit, it would appear, was hereditary. He is also said to have displayed considerable eloquence in the pulpit; and even to have excelled in that kind of oratory which would seem at first sight least allied to a mirthful temperament-we mean the pathetic. The conjunction, however, of wit and sensibility, has been found in a far greater number of instances than would at first sight be imagined, as we might easily prove by examples, if this were the place for it: nor would it be difficult to give the rationale of the fact. Both, at all events, are amongst the most general, though far from universal accompaniments of genius.

So all the biographers; but a writer in "Notes and Queries," says that he was born at Winstead in Holderness, where his baptismal register is still extant.

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