Josuah Sylvester

After about three years at school, he appears to have been put to business, and in 1591 the title-page of his Yvry states that he was in the service of the Merchant Adventurers' Company.

[1] He was for a short time a land steward, and in 1606 Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales gave him a small pension as a kind of court poet.

[1] He translated into English heroic couplets the scriptural epic of Guillaume du Bartas.

The ornate style of the original offered no difficulty to Sylvester, who was himself a disciple of the Euphuists and added many adornments of his own invention.

The Sepmaines of Du Bartas appealed most to his English and German co-religionists, and the translation was immensely popular.