4 *fke Life of the \

allowed to guess from his Writings, Mrs. KatherinePhilups, of the Female Sex, seems to have been his ;Favourite.* Bat of all the Persons whom he honouredwith his Friendlhip, none was so dearly intimate withhim, as the learned and ingenious Dr. Chetwood. If ]you will be pleased to read that incomparable Copy of j

Verses of His, before the Essay on Translated Verse, you j

will be convinced what a near Alliance there was, bothof Heart and Genius, between those eminent Persons. It jit a great Pity that he does not, for he only can, give usa full Account of his Lordlhip’s Life and Character. His "■Genuine Works are well known, -f and need no Re- tcommendation ; especially, not that borrowed one of jgiving him an Applause due to another, as has been Ilately done, by an ignorant Editor, in ascribing to hisLordlhip Two Poems, The Pressed os Death, by theReverend Mr. Pomfret J ; and, The Prayer of JeremyParaphrased, by Mr Southcot. || I

* He wrote the Prologue to the Tragedy of Pomfe y,Translated by Her from the Freneh of Monsieur Cor-neille ; and another Prologue spoken to the Duke of Yorkat Edinburgh-, upon reviving one of her Plays. HisLordlhip also wrote an Epilogue to Alexander theGreat, when Acted at Dublin. Mrs. Phillips {in aLetter from Dublin, Oct. 19, 1662.) gives him thisCharacter: “ My Lord Rosco.mo.n is a very ingenious4 * Person, of excellent natural Parts, end certainly the“ most hopeful young Nobleman in Ireland .” SeeLetters from Orinda to Poli archus, tamo. Lend.

1729.

f Besides his Poetical Works, {viz. t. His Transla-tio n of Horace 1 Art of Poetry. 2. An Effay on Tran-slated Verse. z. Some small Pieces) his Lordlhip, at theDuke of Ormonde, Request, Translated into French Dr.Sherlock's Case of Al'egiance, ctfc, t68z.

J See Mr. Pomfret's Poems, Printed for E, Curll.

I) Sce Miscellaneous Poems and Translations, Printedfor F. Lintot,