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"An Elegy on the Death of the Earl of Rochester." "Epistle of Penelope to Ulysses."

Translated from Ovid: and printed by Tonson.

"Verses on the Snuff of a Candle, made in Sickness."

The latter of these has been extracted from Dryden's Miscellany Poems, part i.

"See there the taper's dim and doleful light,
In gloomy waves silently rouls about,

And represents to my dim weary sight
My light of life, almost as near burnt out.

"Ah, health! best part and substance of our joy,
For without thee 't is nothing but a shade;
Why dost thou partially thy self employ,
Whilst thy proud foes as partially invade ?

"What we, who ne'er enjoy, so fondly seek,
Those who possess thee still, almost despise;

To gain immortal glory, raise the weak,

Taught by their former want thy worth to prize.

"Dear, melancholy muse! my constant guide! Charm this coy health back to my fainting heart, Or I'll accuse thee of vain-glorious pride,

And swear thou dost but feign the moving art.

were occasioned by the sight of the 53d chapter of Isaiah turned into verse by lady Wharton.

8 For this elegy her ladyship was complimented by Waller, under the name of Chloris.

"But why do I upbraid thee, gentle muse,
Who for all sorrows mak'st me some amends:
Alas! our sickly minds sometimes abuse

Our best physicians, and our dearest friends."

The following song is added, for its feminine delicacy and tenderness:

"How hardly I conceal'd my tears?
How oft did I complain?

When, many tedious days, my fears

Told me I lov'd in vain.

"But now my joys as wild are grown,
And hard to be conceal'd;
Sorrow may make a silent moan,
But joy will be reveal'd.

"I tell it to the bleating flocks,

To every stream and tree,

And bless the hollow murmuring rocks

For echoing back to me.

"Thus you may see with how much joy

We want, we wish, believe;

'Tis hard such passion to destroy,

But easy to deceive." 9

Mr. Ballard found from the parish-register of Winchinden, that lady Wharton died at Atterbury, on the 29th of October 1685.]

9 From Tooke's Collection of Miscellaneous Poems, 3d edit.

1716.

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ARTHUR ANNESLEY,

EARL OF ANGLESEY,

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WHILE a private young man, was engaged on the side of Charles the first; whose party he quitted early, to embrace that of the parliament by them he was intrusted as commissioner of Ulster, where he performed good service to the Protestant cause. Wood says, he took both the covenant and engagement; but the latter is contradicted.2 It is certain that he seems to have lain by during the reign of Cromwell, and that he was not trusted either by the rump or the army. When the secluded members were restored, he returned to parliament, and was chosen president of the council of state; in which capacity he was active for the Restoration, and was distinguished amongst those who, "coming in at the eleventh hour," received greater wages than men who had lost their all in defending the vineyard. He was made a baron, an earl,

2 Vide his Life in the Biog. Brit.

[In 1661; by the title of lord Annesley, of Newport Pagnel, Bucks. His father had the titles of lord Mountmorris and viscount Valentia in Ireland. Vide Athen. Oxon. vol. ii. p. 789.]

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