“His picture, which is like him, before his poems, says that he was but twenty-eight years old when he dyed. He was of middle stature and slight strength, brisque round eie, reddish fac’t, and red-nosed (ill liver), his head not very big, his hayre a kind of sand colour, his beard turn’d up naturally, so that he had a brisk and graceful looke. He died a batchelour.”

“He was a man of grave deportment and very comely person: of a fair complexion, with good features and flaxen haire.”

“In person he was of a middle size, though but slightly made, with a winning and graceful carriage, and noble features.”