Dominique Baudier (1561-1613). «Dominicus Baudius, professor of history in the university of Leyden, was a man of general learning but he particularly shone in polite literature. He had a happy vein of poetry; was master of a good Latin style, which, though not of the purest kind, was, in elegance at least, superior to that of most of the moderns. He was some time one of the advocates at the Hague, and afterward admitted an advocate in the parliament of Paris. He was twice in England in this reign, where great respect was paid him by several persons of learning and politeness, especially by Sir Philip Sidney. His excellence as a man of wit and a scholar, may be seen in his 'Letters' and his 'Amours', which strongly mark his character, and his weakness in regard to wine and women. This sometimes brought him into ridiculous distresses, and exposed him to the contempt of such as were every way his inferiors but in point of prudence. He died the 22d of August 1613» (James Granger, A biographical history of England from Egbert the Great to the revolution..., I-VI, London, William Baynes and Son, 18245, vol. I, pp. 358-359).

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