the name of several kings of Poland. See History of Poland.

(Matthias Sobiewski), a Polish Jesuit, born in 1597. He was a most excellent poet; and is, says M. Baillet, an exception to the general rule of Aristotle and the other ancients, which teaches us to expect nothing ingenious and delicate from northern climates. His odes, epodes, and epigrams, have been thought not inferior to those of the finest wits of Greece and Rome. Dr Watts has translated one or two of his small pieces, which are added to his Lyric Poems. He died at Warsaw in 1640, aged 43. There have been many editions of his poems, the best of which is that of Paris, 1759.