Soon after her death, her Poems and Translations were collected and published in a volume in folio, to which was added Monsieur Corneille’s Pompey and Horace, Tragedies; with several other Translations out of French, London 1667, with her picture, a good busto, before them, standing on a pedestal, on which is inscribed Orinda; it was printed again at London 1678.  In a collection of Letters published by Mr. Thomas Brown, in 1697, are printed four Letters from Mrs. Philips to the Honourable Berenice.  Many years after her death, were published a volume of excellent Letters from Mrs. Philips to Sir Charles Cotterel with the ensuing title, Letters from Orinda to Polliarchus, 8vo.  London 1705.  Major Pack, in his Essay on Study, inserted in his Miscellanies, gives the following character of these Letters; ’The best Letters I have met with in our English tongue, are those of the celebrated Mrs. Philips to Sir Charles Cotterel; as they are directed all to the same person, so they run all in the same strain, and seem to have been employed in the service of a refined and generous friendship.  In a word, they are such as a woman of spirit and virtue, should write to a courtier of honour, and true gallantry.’  The memory of this ingenious lady has been honoured with many encomiums.  Mr. Thomas Rowe in his epistle to Daphne, pays the following tribute to her fame.

  At last (’twas long indeed!) Orinda came,
  To ages yet to come an ever glorious name;
  To virtuous themes, her well tun’d lyre she strung;
  Of virtuous themes in easy numbers sung. 
  Horace and Pompey in her line appear, }
  With all the worth that Rome did once revere:  }
  Much to Corneille they owe, and much to her. }
  Her thoughts, her numbers, and her fire the same,
  She soar’d as high, and equal’d all his fame. 
  Tho’ France adores the bard, nor envies Greece
  The costly buskins of her Sophocles. 
  More we expected, but untimely death,
  Soon stopt her rising glories with her breath.

More testimonies might be produced in favour of Mrs. Philips, but as her works are generally known, and are an indelible testimony of her merit, we reckon it superfluous.  Besides the poetical abilities of the amiable Orinda, she is said to have been of a generous, charitable disposition, and a friend to all in distress.

As few ladies ever lived more happy in her friends than our poetess, so those friends have done justice to her memory, and celebrated her, when dead, for those virtues they admired, when living.  Mr. Dryden more than once mentions her with honour, and Mr Cowley has written an excellent Ode upon her death.  As this Ode will better shew the high opinion once entertained of Mrs. Philips, than any thing we can say, after giving a specimen of her poetry, we shall conclude with this performance of Cowley’s, which breathes friendship in every line, and speaks an honest mind:  so true is the observation of Pope, upon the supposition that Cowley’s works are falling into oblivion,