Pocockio fit valde fimilis. 17", 18", de tubâ, aftro, umbrâ, flammis, rotis, Pocockio non neglecto. Cætera de Chriftianis, Ottomanis, Babyloniis, Arabibus, & graviffimâ agrorum melancholiâ; de Cæfare Flacco * Neftore, & miferando juvenis cujufdam florentiffimi fato, anno ætatis fuæ centefimo præmaturè abrepti. Quæ omnia cum accuratè expenderis, neceffe eft ut Oden hanc meam admirandâ planè varietate conftare fatearis. Subito ad Batavos proficifcor lauro ab illis donandus. Prius vero Pembrochienfes voco ad certamen Poeticum.

Vale.

Illuftriffima tua deofculor crura.

E. SMITH.

* Pro Flacco, animo paulo attentiore, fcripfiffem Marone.

DUKE.

F Mr. RICHARD DUKE I can

find few memorials. He was bred at Weftininfter and Cambridge; and Jacob relates, that he was fome time tutor to the duke of Richmond.

He appears from his writings to have been not ill qualified for poetical compofitions; and being conscious of his powers, when he left the university he enlisted himself among the wits. He was the familiar friend of Otway; and was engaged, among other popular names, in the tranflations of Ovid and Juvenal. In his Review, though unfinished,

finished, are some vigorous lines. His poems are not below mediocrity; nor have I found much in them to be praised,

With the Wit he feems to have fhared the diffoluteness of the times; for fome of his compofitions are fuch as he must have reviewed with deteftation in his later days, when he published those Sermons which Felton has commended.

Perhaps, like fome other foolish young men, he rather talked than lived viciously, in an age when he that would be thought a Wit was afraid to fay his prayers; and whatever might have been bad in the first part of his life, was furely condemned and reformed by his better judgment.

In 1683, being then mafter 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 took orders; and being made prebendary of Gloucefter, became a proctor in

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convocation for that church, and chaplain to Queen Anne,

In 1710, he was prefented by the bishop of Winchester to the wealthy living of Witney in Oxfordshire, which he enjoyed but a few months. On February 10, 1710-11, having returned from an entertainment, he was found dead the next morning. His death is mentioned in Swift's Journal,

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ILLIAM KING was born in London in 1663; the fon of Ezekiel King, a gentleman. He was allied to the family of Clarendon.

From Westminster-fchool, where he was a fcholar on the foundation under the care of Dr. Busby, he was at eighteen elected to Chrift-church, in 1681; where he is faid to have profecuted his ftudies with so much intenseness and activity, that, before he was eight years standing, he had read over, and made remarks upon, twenty-two thousand odd hundred books and manuscripts. The S 2 books