I was promis'd fome Account of the Life and Writings of the Earl of Rofcomon by a Gentleman that was very intimately acquainted with his Lordship and his Writings, and but for that Expectation this Collection had been publish'd fome Time fince. Besides these Poems, he made, in the Year 1682, a Tranflation of Dr. Sherlock's Difcourse of Paffive Obedience into French, at the Defire of the then Duke of Ormond, which is printed in 8vo. As for the Poems of the late Mr. Duke; whatever has not been printed before, I have of his own Hand-Writing, to fatisfy any Perfon that doubts of their being his. The Beginning of the Poem, call'd the Review, he wrote a little after the publishing Mr. Dryden's Abfalom and Achitophel; he was perfuaded to undertake it by Mr. Sheridan, then Secretary to the Duke of York; but Mr. Duke finding Mr. Sheridan defign'd to make use of his Pen to vent his Spleen against feveral Perfons at Court that were of another Party, than that he was engaged in, broke off proceeding in it, and left it as it is now printed. THE THE A Paraphrafe on the 148th Pfalm. Virgil's Sixth Eclogue, Tranflated. Part of the Fifth Scene of the Second Act in The foregoing Scene tranflated into English. 120 An Efay on Poetry. By John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, afterwards Marquess of Nor- The Fifth Elegy of the First Book of Ovid. The Fourth Ode of the Second Book of Horace. 344 The Eighth Ode of the Second Book of Horace. 346 To On the Marriage of George Prince of Denmark, On the Death of King Charles the Second. And To the People of England; A Deteflation of Civil War, from Horace's 7th Epod. To his Friend Mr. Henry Dickinson, on his Tranf lation of Father Simon's Critical Hiftory of To Mr. Dryden, on his Play, call'd, Troilus |