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The Life of
Ambition is a miſtreſs few enjoy!
Falſe to our hopes, and to our wiſhes coy;
The bold ſhe bafflles, and defeats the ſtrong;
And all are ruined who purſue her long;
Yet ſo bewitching are her fatal charms,
We think it heav’n to die within her arms.
Falſe to our hopes, and to our wiſhes coy;
The bold ſhe bafflles, and defeats the ſtrong;
And all are ruined who purſue her long;
Yet ſo bewitching are her fatal charms,
We think it heav’n to die within her arms.
Major Pack obliged the world with ſome Memoirs of the Life of Mr. Wycherley, which are prefixed to Theobald’s edition of that author. Mr. Jacob mentions a piece of his which he ſaw in MS. entitled Religion and Philoſophy, which, ſays he, with his other works, demonſtrate the author to be a polite writer, and a man of wit and gallantry.
This amiable gentleman died at Aberdeen in Scotland, in the month of September 1728, colonel Montague’s regiment, in which he was then a major, being quartered there.
Sir
