s what we write to the dull sweets of rhime. }
Once more, hail and farewel: Farewel thou young,
But ah! too short, Marcellus of our tongue;
Thy brows with ivy, and with laurels bound,
But fate, and gloomy night encompass thee around.

Footnote:
1. Life of Mr. Oldham, prefixed to his works, vol. i. edit. Lond.
1722.

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(DILLON) (WENTWORTH) Earl of ROSCOMMON,

This nobleman was born in Ireland during the lieutenancy of the earl
of Strafford, in the reign of King Charles I. Lord Strafford was his
godfather, and named him by his own surname. He passed some of his
first years in his native country, till the earl of Strafford
imagining, when the rebellion first broke out, that his father who had
been converted by archbishop Usher to the Protestant religion, would
be exposed to great danger, and be unable to protect his family, sent
for his godson, and placed him at his own seat in Yorkshire, under the
tuition, of Dr. Hall, afterwards bishop of Norwich; by whom he was
instructed in Latin, and without learning the common rules of grammar,
which he could never retain in his memory, he attained to write in
that language with classical elegance and propriety, and with so much
ease, that he chose it to correspond with those friends who had
learning sufficient to support the commerce. When the earl of
Strafford was prosecuted, lord Roscommon went to Caen in Normandy, by
the advice of bishop Usher, to continue his studies under Bochart,
where he is said to have had an extraordinary impulse of his father's
death, which is related by Mr. Aubrey in his miscellany, 'Our author
then a boy of about ten years of age, one day was as it were madly
extravagant, in playing, getting over the tables, boards, &c. He was
wont to be sober enough. They who observed him said, God grant this
proves no ill luck to him. In the heat of this extravagant fit, he
cries out my father is dead. A fortnight after news came from Ireland,
that his father was dead. This account I had from Mr. Knowles who was
his governor, and then with him, since secretary to the earl of
Strafford; and I have heard his Lordship's relations confirm the
same.'

The ingenious author of lord Roscommon's life, publish'd in the
Gentleman's Magazine for the month of May, 1748, has the following
remarks on the above relation of Aubrey's.

'The present age is very little inclined to favour