diocrity; nor have I found much in them to be praised[1].
With the Wit he seems to have shared the dissoluteness of the times: for some of his compositions are such as he must have reviewed with detestation in his later days, when he published those Sermons which Felton has commended.
Perhaps, like some other foolish young men, he rather talked than lived viciously, in an age when he that would be thought a Wit was afraid to say his prayers; and whatever might have been bad in the first part of his life, was surely condemned and reformed by his better judgement.
In 1683, being then master of arts, and fellow of Trinity College in Cambridge, he wrote a poem on the marriage of the Lady Anne with George Prince of Denmark.
He then took orders; and, being made prebendary of Gloucester, became a proc-
- ↑ They make a part of a volume published by Tonson in 8vo. 1717, containing the poems of the earl of Roscommon, and the duke of Buckingham's essay on poetry; but were first published in Dryden's miscellany, as were most, if not all, of the poems in that collection.H.
