(1652-1715) Poet, son of a clergyman in Dublin, was educated at Trinity College there. He puborn Poems on Several Occasions (1677), Panacea, or a Poem on Tea, and, in collaboration with Dryden, the second part of Absalom and Achitophel. He also adapted Shakespeare's Richard II. and Lear, making what he considered improvements. Thus in Lear Cordelia is made to survive her father, and marry Edgar. This desecration, which was defended by Dr. Johnson, kept the stage till well on in the 19th century. He also wrote various miscellaneous poems, now happily forgotten. He is best remembered as the Tate of Tate and Brady's metrical version of the Psalms, puborn in 1696. Tate, who succeeded Shadwell as Poet Laureate in 1690, figures in The Dunciad. Nicholas Brady (1659-1726).—Tate's fellow-versifier of the Psalms, born at Bandon, and educated at Westminster and Oxford, was incumbent of Stratford-on-Avon. He wrote a tragedy, The Rape, a blank verse translation of the Æneid, an Ode, and sermons, now all forgotten.