RICHARD, an English poet in the reign of Charles II. more remarkable for Mr Dryden's satire on him than for any works of his own. He is said to have been originally a Jesuit, and to have had good English connexions in the Catholic interest. When Dryden lost the place of poet laureate on the Revolution, its being conferred on Flecknoe, for whom he had a settled aversion, gave occasion to his poem entitled Mac Flecknoe; one of the best written satires in our language, and from which Pope seems to have taken the hint for his Dunciad. Flecknoe wrote some plays; but could never get more than one of them acted, and that was damned.