in 1660.

"The Blessed Restoration" he celebrated in an ode with that title, and would seem to have thus established a claim to the king's gratitude and bounty.

But he was mistaken.

Perhaps this led him to write a comedy, entitled _The Cutter of Coleman Street_, in which he severely censured the license and debaucheries of the court: this made the arch-debauchee, the king himself, cold toward the poet, who at once issued _A Complaint_; but neither satire nor complaint helped him to the desired preferment.

He quitted London a disappointed man, and retired to the country, where he died on the 28th of July, 1667.
His poems bear the impress of the age in a remarkable degree.