Miscellanea Sacra; or Poems on Divine and Moral Subjects, collected by Mr. Tate.  He also gave the public a great many translations from Ovid, Horace, Juvenal, Virgil.

His song on his Majesty’s birth-day has the following stanza,

  When Kings that make the public good their care
  Advance in dignity and state,
  Their rise no envy can create;
  Their subjects in the princely grandeur share: 
  For, like the sun, the higher they ascend,
  The farther their indulgent beams extend.

  Yet long before our royal sun
  His destin’d course has run,
  We’re bless’d to see a glorious heir,
  That shall the mighty loss repair;
  When he that blazes now shall this low sphere resign
  In a sublimer orb eternally to shine.

  A Cynthia too, adorn’d with every grace
  Of person and of mind;
  And happy in a starry race,
  Of that auspicious kind,
  As joyfully presage,
  No want of royal heirs in any future age.

  Chorus.

  Honour’d with the best of Kings,
  And a set of lovely springs,
  From the royal fountain flowing,
  Lovely streams, and ever growing,
  Happy Britain past expressing,
  Only learn to prize thy blessing.

We shall give some further account of the translation of the Psalms in the life of Dr. Brady.  This author died in the Mint 1716, was interred in St. George’s church, Southwark, and was succeeded in the laurel by Mr. Eusden.

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Sir Samuel Garth.

This gentleman was descended from a good family in Yorkshire; after he had passed through his school education, he was removed to Peter-house in Cambridge, where he is said to have continued till he was created Dr. of Physic July 7, 1691[1].

In 1696 Dr. Garth zealously promoted the erecting the Dispensary, being an apartment, in the college for the relief of the sick poor, by giving them advice gratis, and dispensing medicines to them at low rates.  This work of charity having exposed him, and many other of the most eminent Physicians to the envy and resentment of several persons of the same faculty, as well as Apothecaries, he ridiculed them with peculiar spirit, and vivacity, in his poem called the Dispensary in 6 Cantos; which, though it first stole into the world a little hastily, and incorrect, in the year 1669, yet bore in a few months three impressions, and was afterwards printed several times, with a dedication to Anthony Henley, esquire.  This poem, gained our author great reputation; it is of the burlesque species, and executed with a degree of humour, hardly equal’d, unless in the Rape of the Lock.