fubfifted, and this Julian was their fecretary. The poem is to be found in the fixth and laft volume of Miscellanies published by Tonson, with Mr. Dryden's name to it; therefore I have here reprinted it, though I am not of opinion that it was his: it breathes but little of his genius; and befides there is a sarcasm upon him, to which he would never have subscribed, in these two lines: "Lefs art thou help'd by Dryden's bed-rid age; To the Memory of Mr. Oldham. 1683. R. John Oldham, celebrated chiefly for the feverity of his fatires, was fon of a nonconformist minister, who educated him at Oxford, where he took a batchelor's degree. Some verfes of his, that were known in the world before the person of him who wrote them, brought him acquainted with the Earl of Rochefter, the Earl of Dorfet, and Sir Charles Sedley, through whose means he was introduced to the most fhining men of the age, particularly to Dryden. He had to no purpose engaged in the ftudy of phyfic; and the Earl of Kingston would have made him his chaplain; but he declined that offer. He died of the finall-pox in his 30th year, 1683, at the house of that nobleman, who treated him with all the goodness of a friend. On the Death of the Earl of Dundee. The Earl of Dundee was a man of great valour and many virtues. Being firmly attached, though a Proteftant, to the interest of his royal mafter James H. who had abdicated, and was now in Ireland, he affembled a large body of Highlanders, with whom he engaged the army of king William, commanded by general Mackay, at Gillicranky near Dunkeld, and intirely routed them. This victory might have been of very fatal confequences to, the affair of the Prince of Orange at that time, if the gallant Earl had not been killed by a random fhot; in confequence of which his friends and adherents loft all their firmnefs, and retiring before Mackay, who had rallied, could never again be formed into any formidable body. This action happened in 1689, and compleated the ruin of that misguided monarch's affairs in the North. This poem is inferted in the third volume the State Poems, P. 337; not as an original, but a tranflation from the following Latin piece. Epitaphium in Vice-Comitem Dundee. "Ultime Scotorum, potuit, quo fofpite folo, "Te moriente, novos accepit Scotia cives "Tuq; vale noftræ gentis fortiffimæ ductor, To the Memory of Mrs. Anne Killigrew, &c. 1685. This lady was daughter to Dr. Henry Killigrew, master of the Savoy, and a prebendary of Westminster. She died of the small-pox in her twenty-fifth year, on the 16th of June, 1685, being then one of the Dutchess of York's maids of honor. She was a great proficient both in painting and poetry. She drew the pictures of feveral people of the first quality, with fome hiftory-pieces and landscapes. Her poems were collected and printed, after her death, in a thin quarto, with this poem prefixed. And was that Sapho laft, &c. Our author here compliments Mrs. Killigrew, with admitting the doctrine of metempfychofis, and fuppofing the foul that informs her body to be the fame with that of Sapho's, who lived fix hundred years before the birth of Chrift, and was equally renowned for poetry and love. She was called the tenth Mufe. Phaon, whom he loved, treating her with indifference, the jumped into the fea, and was drowned. Though Epictetus with his lamp were there. Lucian tells us, that a pragmatical fool gave 3000 drachma's for Epictetus's lamp, vainly imagining that studying by its light would indue him with fome of its former mafter's wisdom. Epictetus was a ftoick philofopher. Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child. Pope has nearly borrowed this line for his epitaph on Gay: "In wit a man, fimplicity a child." Her happy pencil drew, &c. Her excellence in painting landscapes and portraits is cele brated in this and the enfuing ftanza, as is her drawing King Charles and his Queen. But thus Orinda died. The matchless Orinda, Mrs. Katherine Philips, was author of a book of poems published in folio, and wrote feveral other things. She died alfo of the small-pox in 1664, being only thirty-two years of age. She was a woman of an indifferent appearance; but of great virtue, tafte, and erudition, which endeared her to the first people of the age. The Duke of Ormond, the Earls of Orrery and Rofcommon, Lady Corke, &c. Mr. Dryden, Mr. Cowley, &c. &c. were all her friends. To the Memory of Eleonora Countess of Abingdon. It appears, from the dedication to the Earl of Abingdon, that this poem was written at his Lordship's own defire. The lady whom the poem affects to praife, was one of the coheireffes of Sir Henry Lee of Chichely in Oxfordshire, and fifter to the celebrated Mrs. Anne Wharton, a lady eminent for her poetical genius, whom Mr. Waller has celebrated in an elegant copy of verses. Anchifes look'd not with fo pleas'd a face. When Æneas defcended to the Elyfian fhades, he found his venerable father thus engaged: "At pater Anchifes." See the fixth book of the Eneid, v. But when dilated organs let in day. 679 Children are born blind, and enjoy but little advantage from light till they are five or fix days old. On a Lady who died at Bath. This Lady is interred in the Abbey-church. The epitaph is on a white marble stone fixed in the wall, together with this infcription: "Here lies the body of Mary, third daughter of Richard Frampton of Moreton in Dorfetfhire, Efq; and of "Jane his wife, fole daughter of Sir Francis Coffington of Founthill in Wilts, who was born January 1, 1676, and died "after feven weeks illnefs on the 6th of September, 1698. "This monument was erected by Catharine Frampton, her "fecond fifter and exccutrix, in teftimony of her grief, affection, " and gratitude.' ODES, SONGS, &c. On the young Statefmen. Written in 1680. Clarendon had law and fenfe, We have fpoken fufficiently of the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Danby, and of Bennet Lord Arlington, in the preceding volume. Lord Clifford was a man of an enterprifing genius, rendered the more dangerous by the talent of eloquence and spirit of intrigue, which he poffeffed. He had lively parts; and though fon to a clergyman, whofe fortune was indeed confined, he is faid to have become a convert to the church of Rome fome time before the restoration, yet he got into the house of commons. Clarendon did not much like him, and therefore he clofed with his lordship's enemies. He was made lord treasurer, through the intereft of Villiers Duke of Buckingham and his party, and was a zealous declaimer in the popish intereft. It was this that ruined him in 1673; so that he was soon after disgraced, through the policy and cunning of Shaftesbury, whom he had ftrenuously oppofed. Clarendon, Clifford, Bennet, and Danby, were now all out of employment, and the first of them dead. The whole management of public affairs was vested in Sunderland, Godolphin, Lory. Lord Sunderland, Sydney Godolphin, and Mr. Laurence Hyde. Lord Sunderland, this year fecretary of state, joined Effex and Hallifax in oppofing the bill of exclufion, and declaring for limitations; though he afterwards voted for the former, and was therefore removed. He was a man of intrigue and capacity, afterwards became a Roman catholic; and was prime minister to King James II. He is fuppofed to have used religion only as a pretence to forward, for his own intereft, the defigns of the Prince of Orange, with whom, at the revolution, he was very intimate, and in high favour. Sydney Godolphin was a Cornish man of a good family, who, from being one of the King's pages, had raised himself to the first offices at court. He talked little, was clear in his judgment, feldom loft his temper, had few foes, and, though virtuous and religious, is faid to have been fond of play and women. These two joining in every thing with Laurence Hyde, afterwards Earl of Rochefter, here called Lory, were at this time esteemed to be only in the fecret of managing the King's affairs; and were, fays Echard, looked on actually and folely as the miniftry. The fatire of this piece is very fevere, and very juft; for never was king under greater perplexities than Charles II. this year, in which his parliament opposed him in every thing, and his new minifters had fcarcely the courage to ftand by him: in fhort, he may be faid to have been furrounded by foes, without power, friends, or money. The Fair Stranger. This fong is a compliment to the Dutchefs of Portsmouth on her first coming to England. It was never before printed with our author's works. PROLOGUES and EPILOGUES. Prologue Spoken the first day of the King's house acting after the fire. This prologue should certainly be the first of our author's writing, by the title of it; for the fire happened in 1666, and we find nothing of this kind done by him afterwards till 1674. Befides, had the fire here meant been any other than that terrible one which happened to the city, it would have been more particularly diftinguifhed; but, in my opinion, the conjecture is abfolutely confirmed by thefe lines: 66 -blind unmanner'd zealots "Think that fire a judgment on the stage, Prologue to the University of Oxford. 1674. Several gentlemen, who had adhered to their principles of loyalty during the ufurpation of Cromwell, and the exile of the royal family, being left unprovided for at the restoration, they applied themselves to different occupations for a livelihood: among them was Mr. Hart, the fpeaker of this prologue, who had ferved |