LESCAILLE (James), a celebrated Dutch poet
and printer, was born at Geneva. He and his daugh-
ter Catharine Lescaille have excelled all the Dutch
poets. That lady, who was furnished the Sappho of
Holland, and the tenth Muse, died in 1711. A col-
lection of her poems has been printed, in which are
the Tragedies of Geuseric, Wenceslaus, Herod and
Marianne, Hercules and Dejanira, Nicomedes, A-
riadne, Cassandra, &c. James Lescaille her father
deserved the poet's crown, with which the emperor
Leopold honoured him in the year 1603: he died
about the year 1677, aged 67.