George Thorn-Drury

“ He married Margaret Mynshull, half-sister of Richard Mynshull, to whom he dedicated ‘Vienna, where in is storied ye valorous atchieuements, famous triumphs, constant loue, greate miseries, and finall happines, of the well-deseruing, truly noble and most valiant kt, Sr Paris of Vienna, and ye most admired amiable Princess the faire Vienna,’ a translation, or rather adaptation, of a romance of Catalonian origin. ”

“ He was in residence at Magdalen College in 1626, but afterwards lived in the family of Sir John Strangwayes, at Abbotsbury in Dorset, where he died, and was buried about 1642. He employed as a pseudonym ‘Don Diego Puede-Ser’ (i.e. James May-be) , and published the following translations from the Spanish: 1. ‘The Rogue, or the Life of Guzman de Alfarache,’ London, 1623 (some copies are dated 1622) ; reprinted, Oxford 1630, London 1634; to this were prefixed commendatory verses by Ben Jonson, William Browne, and others. 2. ”

“ Pecke also published 'An Elegie upon the never satisfactorily deplored Death of that rare Column of Parnassus, Mr. John Cleeveland,' a folio broadside, 1658 (Brit. Mus.) ; 'Parnassi Puerperium,' 8vo, 1659, a collection of epigrams, original and translated from Sir Thomas More and others, upon the title of which he describes himself as the 'Author of that celebrated Elegie upon Cleeveland,' and a congratulatory poem to Charles II, 4to, 1660. ”