ss his new subjects in
such a king is something more than praise. Neither was this deemed one
of his excusable pieces. We do not find it in his works.

Young's father had been well acquainted with Lady Anne Wharton, the
first wife of Thomas Wharton, Esq., afterwards Marquis of Wharton; a
lady celebrated for her poetical talents by Burnet and by Waller.

To the Dean of Sarum's visitation sermon, already mentioned, were added
some verses "by that excellent poetess, Mrs. Anne Wharton," upon its
being translated into English, at the instance of Waller by Atwood.
Wharton, after he became ennobled, did not drop the son of his old
friend. In him, during the short time he lived, Young found a patron,
and in his dissolute descendant a friend and a companion. The marquis
died in April, 1715. In the beginning of the next year, the young
marquis set out upon his travels, from which he returned in about a
twelvemonth. The beginning of 1717 carried him to Ireland: where, says
the Biographia, "on the score of his extraordinary qualities, he had the
honour done him of being admitted, though under age, to take his seat in
the House of Lords." With this unhappy character it is not unlikely
that Young went to Ireland. From his letter to Richardson on "Original
Composition," it is clear he was, at some period of his life, in that
country. "I remember," says he, in that letter, speaking of Swift, "as
I and others were taking with him an evening walk, about a mile out of
Dublin, he stopped short; we passed on; but perceiving he did not follow
us, I went back, and found him fixed as a statue, and earnestly gazing
upward at a noble elm, which in its uppermost branches was much withered
and decayed. Pointing at it, he said, 'I shall be like that tree, I
shall die at top.'" Is it not probable, that this visit to Ireland was
paid when he had an opportunity of going thither with his avowed friend
and patron?

From "The Englishman" it appears that a tragedy by Young was in the
theatre so early as 1713. Yet Busiris was not brought upon Drury Lane
stage till 1719. It was inscribed to the Duke of Newcastle, "because the
late instances he had received of his grace's undeserved and uncommon
favour, in an affair of some consequence, foreign to the theatre, had
taken from him the privilege of choosing a patron." The Dedication he
afterwards suppressed.

Busiris was followed in the year 1721 by The Revenge. He dedicated
this famous tragedy to the Duke