Quo Phoebea cohors facras comitatur ad urnam
  Reliquias, et supremum pia solvit honorem;
  Jamque graves planctus, jamque illaetabile murmur
  Audio Melpomenis late, dum noster Apollo
  Flebilis ante omnes, Sacvillus, tristia ducit
  Agmina Pieridum, Cytharamqueaccommodatodae;
  Ipse ego, dum totidem comitentur funera musae,
  Ipse sequor maestus; bustum venerabile fletu
  Carminibufque struam multis, animumque poetae
  His faltem donis cumulabo, et fungar inani
  Munere.——­

  At te musa mori vetat, O post sata, vel ipsa
  Marmora, cum annorum fuerint rubigine scabra;
  Major eris vivo; tibi scripta perennius aere
  Aut faxo, condent monumentum illustre per orbem,
  Secula cuncta legant, et te mirentur in illis.

JOHAN.  Philips,

1700.  AEtat. 24.  Interioris templi alumnus.

The above were thrown in Dryden’s grave.  We are assured they were never in print before.

[Footnote 1:  Athen.  Oxon.]

[Footnote 2:  He might have added, ’twas unnatural.]

[Footnote 3:  Defence, or the Essay on Dramatic Poetry.]

[Footnote 4:  Original Poems.]

[Footnote 5:  This was written before Mr. Dodsley’s edition of Virgil in English appeared.]

[Footnote 6:  Essay on Criticism.]

[Footnote 7:  Life of Congreve.]

[Footnote 8:  In Millar’s edition of the bishop’s work, we have the following note upon this passage.  ’This (says the editor) must be understood of his performances for the stage; for as to his personal character, there was nothing remarkably vicious in it:  but his plays are, some of them, the fullest of obscenity of any now extant.’]

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Sir Charles Sedley, Bart.

This gentleman, who obtained a great name in the world of gallantry, was son of Sir John Sedley, of Aylesford in Kent.  When our author was about the age of 17, he became a fellow of Wadham college 1656, but he took no degree.  When he quitted the university, he retired into his own country, and neither went to travel nor to the inns of court.  As soon as the restoration was effected, Sir Charles came to London, in order to join in the general jubilee, and then commenced wit, courtier, poet, and gallant.

He was so much applauded in all conversations that he began to be the oracle of the poets; and it was by his judgment every performance was approved or condemned; which made the King jest with him, and tell him, that nature had given him a patent to be Apollo’s viceroy.  Lord Rochester bears testimony to this, when he puts him foremost among the judges of poetry.

  I loath the rabble, tis enough for me,
  If Sedley, Shadwell, Shepherd, Wycherly,
  Godolphin, Butler, Buckhurst, Buckingham,
  And some few more, whom I omit to name,
  Approve my sense, I count their censure same.