"John Ogilby was one, who from a late Initiation into Literature, made such a Progress therein, as might well stile him to be the Prodigy of his time, sending into the world so many large and learned Volumes, as well in Verse as in Prose, as will make posterity much indebted to his Memory."
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William Winstanley, The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687)
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John Ogilby
John Ogilby (17 November 1600 – 4 September 1676) was a Scottish translator, impresario and cartographer.
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